Small- and mid-size manufacturing organizations face increasing demands to deliver new products to market faster and with best-in-class quality.Teamcenter® Express software delivers a preconfigured and easy-to-deploycollaborative product data management (cPDM) solution that enables thesedemands to be met by providing a single source of engineering data,together with highly efficient engineering task and process management.

Teamcenter ExpressThe fast track to cPDM

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Introducing Teamcenter Express

Business challenges

Today’s market leaders competeon the basis of:

• Time-to-market

• Product cost

• Innovative content

To succeed in today’s economy,you have to outperform yourcompetitors at several levels.

But how do you accomplish this when the product lifecyclefor planning, designing, manu-facturing and supporting yourproduct offerings is morecomplex than ever?

How do you optimize yourproduct lifecycle when yourorganization may include yourown geographically dispersedoperations, as well as thediverse operations of yoursuppliers, business allies and trusted customers? Byimproving your new productdevelopment, manufacturingplanning and collaborationcapabilities.

UGS believes that all stages of your product lifecycle are key to the success of yourproduct portfolio.

To optimize these lifecyclestages, UGS providesTeamcenter Express – the best-in-class collaborativeproduct data management (cPDM) solution for engineeringtask and process management.

Teamcenter Express enablesyou to:

• Decrease the time yourengineers spend searching for data

• Implement a single source ofshared data and commonprocesses across differentdepartments

• Provide better visibility toyour product development,manufacturing planning andengineering change processes

• Perform design reviews withboth internal staff and externalcustomers and suppliersconsistently and efficiently

• Increase your re-use ofcommon parts

In essence Teamcenter Expressenables you to transform yourproduct development andmanufacturing planning lifecyclesfrom unconnected processesthat are limited by isolatedinformation silos to anintegrated product lifecycleprocess that meets the needs of today’s dynamicmanufacturing environment.

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Who is Teamcenter Express designed for?

Teamcenter Express addresses the needs of small- and mid-size manufacturing organizations where you:

• Are experiencing a rapid explosion of engineering data

• Need to improve the efficiency of your design,manufacturing planning and engineering change processes

• Are migrating from a 2D to a 3D CAD environment

• Use NX™software, Solid Edge® software or non-UGS CADsystems including Pro/E, Catia, SolidWorks, Inventor orAutoCAD

• Need to maximize your re-use of proven components

• Need more efficient collaboration between departmentsand with external suppliers and customers

• Need a more reliable method for transferring data to your ERP system

• Use Microsoft Windows and associated Microsoft productsfor a common user environment

• Have limited IT and training resources

• Need a growth path for advanced capabilities – scalabilitywith built-in data protection

• Are concerned about the cost of implementing andmaintaining a cPDM system

What benefits can I expect from implementing Teamcenter Express?

Organizations using Teamcenter Express benefit from:

• Rapid deployment of a full-featured cPDM solution that provides a single source of engineering data

• Securing your corporate design data while facilitating access byauthorized personnel

• Faster, more efficient and more consistent new productdevelopment process

• Increasing design re-use, facilitated by a powerful and flexible search capability

• A more successful move from 2D to 3D CAD

• Streamlining your design-through-manufacturing processes withelectronic workflows for development release, product release and engineering change orders

• Error reduction through managed design review processes acrossmultiple departments and with external suppliers and customers

• Elimination of mistake-prone manual transfer of data tomanufacturing and ERP

• Low total cost of ownership

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Capabilities

Teamcenter Express core capabilities

Capabilities Benefits

Complete search and retrieval Enables users to quickly locate part and product information that appears in both graphic and textual formats

Managed check-in/check-out Protects the integrity of your engineering product information by “locking out” work in progress

Revision/version control Manages information changes in your dynamic environment

Comprehensive document Manages documents, specifications and other nongraphic assets management

Friendly part/assembly Enables you to build and configure hierarchical product structures that are “intuitively” controlled configuration management

Multi-CAD support Enables data from multiple CAD systems to be integrated into a single product structure

Manufacturing data Enables manufacturing data and processes to be integrated into the cPDM environment management leading to a reduction in scrap and rework

Industry best-practice Manages work in progress by leveraging best-practice industry workflows for design release workflow processes and engineering change

Embedded visualization Enables users to dynamically view 2D and 3D virtual products and documents

Engineering change Enables engineering change processes to be followed more consistently and efficientlymanagement

Design review support Provides a managed environment for conducting design reviews across multiple departments and with external suppliers and customers

Advanced security Protects your mission-critical product information by applying best-practice access control

Multi-site capability Enables you to perform knowledge sharing in a distributed multi-site environment

The robust capabilities of Teamcenter Express enable your engineeringteams to maximize the efficiency of the product development andsupporting engineering processes. These capabilities enable you todeliver new and more innovative products faster than your competitionand participate in supply chains, while minimizing your costs andimproving the productivity of your organization.

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Low cost of ownership and rapid deployment

Teamcenter Express delivers low cost of ownership by means of:

• Accelerated time to value from a comprehensive cPDM solution. Key functionality required by mid-sizecompanies such as product structure management, BOM creation and editing and workflow process management is included in Teamcenter Express.

• Minimal IT resources for initial implementation and ongoing maintenance.Teamcenter Express is built on Microsoft standards such as Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2005.

• Fast learning curve with minimal training. TeamcenterExpress includes specially developed process-oriented training materials that show users how to complete typical work processes in the most efficient manner.

• Preconfigured industry best-practice workflows.Workflows for the key design release and engineering change order processes are preconfigured in Teamcenter Express.

Rapid deployment of your cPDM system is achieved through:

• Easy software installation. Teamcenter Express has a specially designed installation procedure that includes automaticcreation of a Teamcenter SQL database instance preconfigured to industry best practices. The Teamcenter Express webapplication, file vaults, full text search capability, administratorclient and license server are all installed in a single session.

• Preconfigured cPDM environment. A cPDM environmentincluding user groups, user roles, standard searches, workflowprocesses, standard reports, dataset types, dataset forms, BOMformats and lists of values is delivered during installation.

• Easy-to-use administration tools for customer-specificconfiguration. A comprehensive set of administration tools are included that enable the system administrator to configure the Teamcenter Express cPDM environment to meet customer-specific requirements.

Teamcenter Express has been carefully designed to meetthe requirements that mid-size manufacturing organizationshave for low total cost of ownership and ease andspeed of implementation.

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Additional features of Teamcenter Express

Multi-CAD supportMid-size companies typically need to manage data in multiple CADformats. Teamcenter Express has an excellent multi-CAD capabilityincluding integrations with the most commonly used CAD systems andthe ability to integrate data from multiple CAD into a single productstructure that can be viewed and managed as a complete assembly.

Preconfigured industry best-practice workflowsIndustry best-practice workflows for design release and engineeringchange orders are built in to Teamcenter Express. This enables users to quickly implement electronic design release and changeprocesses that will significantly increase the efficiency of the engineering department.

Product configuration and BOM creationTeamcenter Express includes the Product Structure Editor module thatautomatically creates product structures from CAD assemblies, allowsthe user to manipulate the product structure and enables BOMreports to be created.

Best-in-class visualizationTeamcenter Express incorporates Teamcenter Visualization for best-in-class 2D and 3D document viewing, markup and analysis.

Design review supportTeamcenter Express includes unique design review capabilities thatenable users to create a design review package containing documentsand CAD files and send this package for review and markup byexternal users using the freely downloadable XpresReview tool.

Manufacturing data managementTeamcenter Express has available preconfigured integrations with NX CAM and NX CAM Express that enable manufacturing data such as NC toolpath files, setup information and tool libraries to bemanaged alongside the related design data. This enables a single sourceof design-through-manufacturing data to be provided resulting in faster new product introduction while minimizing the possibility ofscrap and rework.

ERP integrationTeamcenter Express has available preconfigured integrations withmarket-leading ERP systems including Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP andNAV, and SAP.

Multi-site optionTeamcenter Express has available a proven multi-site option enablingdata to be replicated between geographically dispersed sites.

The Teamcenter advantage

Teamcenter Express is a configuration of Teamcenter Engineering and a key component of the Teamcenter product line. Teamcenter isthe world’s most widely deployed PLM system, and is backed by UGS’leadership in delivery. Users of Teamcenter Express can easily expandthe scope of their cPDM implementation by taking advantage ofTeamcenter’s comprehensive portfolio of applications and its provenscalability in terms of performance and global implementation.

Teamcenter advantage Why it matters

Market-leading platform Teamcenter is the world’s market-leading platform for delivering PLM. Its marketplace success ensures for PLM deployments your company that the promise of PLM and the ability to deliver proven results has been validated in

real-world, full-production solutions.

Comprehensive portfolio Teamcenter delivers a portfolio of applications that can integrate your product lifecycle phases,of lifecycle solutions participants and product knowledge into a collaborative environment that you can leverage to solve

multiple business issues.

Leadership in delivery Teamcenter is backed by UGS’ leadership in delivery. UGS has deployed Teamcenter solutions to more than 2 million users worldwide, the largest customer base of any PLM offering.

Open PLM foundation Teamcenter solutions are delivered on an open PLM foundation that future-proofs your company’s investment and facilitates vendor independence.

For more information on the Teamcenter portfolio go to www.ugs.com/teamcenter

Don’t let the opportunity to transform your process of innovationpass you by! Contact your UGS sales representative or authorizedreseller now for more information about Teamcenter Express – the world’s first multi-CAD collaborative product developmentmanagement solution optimized for the requirements of mid-size companies.

About UGS

UGS is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services

with nearly 4 million licensed seats and 46,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in

Plano, Texas, UGS’ vision is to enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate

through Global Innovation Networks to deliver world-class products and services while leveraging

UGS’ open enterprise solutions, fulfilling the mission of enabling them to transform their process

of innovation. For more information on UGS products and services, visit www.ugs.com.

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