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News Release from: Siemens PLM Software | Subject: Teamcenter Community
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 October 2003
Teamcenter Community launch
Ground-breaking product lifecycle collaboration capability extends the reach of PLM through Microsoft Office and Windows environments
EDS PLM Solutions today launched Teamcenter Community, the latest addition to its world-leading Teamcenter product lifecycle management (PLM) portfolio, introducing a new paradigm for enterprise-wide collaboration Teamcenter Community is a collaboration environment based on the Microsoft platform extending the reach of Teamcenter's product lifecycle collaboration capabilities to users throughout the entire extended enterprise and enhancing team performance
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 13 Dec 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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EDS PLM Solutions developed Teamcenter Community with Microsoft technologies to extend PLM to every user's desktop through the common Windows- and Office-based environment.
Users gain access to the PLM environment without leaving their native Microsoft work environment, allowing more people throughout the extended enterprise, including partners and suppliers, to better participate in product lifecycle processes.
Extending PLM to every desktop reduces time and eliminates many of the errors associated with incomplete communication or a simple lack of available information.
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Teamcenter Community extends Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, a part of the Microsoft Office System, with PLM-specific enhancements to satisfy the collaboration requirements of enterprise teams engaged in product lifecycle processes.
"We are pleased with EDS PLM Solutions' ongoing support of the Microsoft platform given their leadership in the PLM market," said Charles Johnson, worldwide managing director, manufacturing industry solutions group at Microsoft.
"Teamcenter Community is continuing to evolve with the Microsoft platform as it introduces more features, extending the benefits of our products and technologies to the PLM user community." Extending visual product collaboration.
Teamcenter Community delivers a comprehensive visual product collaboration environment that supports complex information as it evolves through the product lifecycle.
Teamcenter Community enables all enterprise participants to access, visualize, collaborate and conference around detailed product information like computer-aided design (CAD) models and drawings, traditionally locked up in engineering systems.
This results in product teams being able to identify issues discovered during design reviews that can subsequently be tracked, routed, acted upon and resolved by project management.
"Another definite winner for those that have not yet tried it is visualization.
EDS' Teamcenter Community.
is the best in class here," stated AMR Research in an in-depth study of the PLM market published on Sept.
30, 2003, entitled "CAD Versus ERP Versus PDM: How Best to Anchor a PLM Strategy?" Teamcenter Community is IT friendly, allowing companies to quickly deploy a collaboration environment that leverages their existing IT strategy and investments.
Product designers, project managers and manufacturing engineers within a company and across its supply chain can collaborate in real-time with Teamcenter Community's collaboration services, including calendars, schedules, workflow, virtual meeting sites, instant messaging and virtual conferencing.
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