Siemens PLM Software Launches New Products

Siemens PLM Software has announced a set of new and enhanced software tools aimed at boosting productivity for the global manufacturing industry. The company has simultaneously launched the latest versions of both Teamcenter software and Tecnomatix software, its comprehensive suite of digital manufacturing solutions. “In today’s difficult global economic climate it is more important than ever for product producing companies to elevate and optimize their overall productivity,”  observes Chuck Grindstaff, executive vice president of Products and Chief Technology Officer, Siemens PLM Software.

With the launch of Teamcenter 8 Siemens PLM Software is delivering a variety of new features and modules aimed at driving productivity throughout the product lifecycle. Teamcenter serves as the single source of product and process knowledge for companies all over the world and in virtually every manufacturing industry. It delivers individual productivity by providing each user with an intuitive way to easily access product information and collaborate from anywhere in the world, inside the tools and processes they use every day without additional software or training. It delivers application productivity with its constantly expanding suite of end-to-end PLM applications targeting every aspect of the product lifecycle, including new applications for content and document management with advanced Microsoft Office 2007 integration, along with Formula, Package and Brand Management. It includes new industry solutions for aerospace and defense, CPG, and medical devices along with hundreds of updates across other solution areas. All are designed to enable more people to do more with the data already managed in Teamcenter. It also delivers IT productivity with its unmatched scalability, open service-oriented architecture (SOA) and newly announced support for IBM’s DB2 information manager and several other IBM middleware products.

The Tecnomatix suite of digital manufacturing software solutions is designed to help factories produce products with the least amount of resource, time and effort while maintaining the highest level of product quality. Tecnomatix 9 helps improve planning productivity with integrated planning solutions that supply instant access to the latest product data while supporting capture, standardization and re-use of qualified manufacturing best practices. It drives manufacturing productivity in a variety of areas, including the optimization and commissioning of robots and automation equipment, manual workplace configuration to achieve output and safety objectives, efficient placement of factory equipment and material flow optimization.