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Siemens Teamcenter : Should You Consider Simple Change Management ?

Siemens Teamcenter Change Management Benefits.

Siemens Teamcenter offers one of the best and most comprehensive change management capabilities in the business, no matter your organizational change management strategy. Engineering change management is one of the foundational building blocks of any PLM solution.

Using CMII certified change process, Teamcenter customers get the benefits of leveraging industry-standard best practices to track, process, report, and audit changes. Engineering changes can impact product characteristics, result in expensive tooling changes, delay program timelines, and even disrupt production activities if not handled carefully. Hence a formal, multi-step change process is much needed
when handling high-impact engineering changes, and Teamcenter fully supports this with the necessary rigor.

Common Engineering Change Management Questions

  • What if the change is simple, but you need to track it?
  • What if you need to inform stakeholders of the minimal change?
  • What if the clock is ticking, and you need to process the change and get it out the door quickly?

While there is no right or wrong answer to the above questions, it starts pointing us to a more fundamental question – Should all changes be treated equally? I hope the answer is a resounding NO.

Look at the picture below and guess which of these changes would require the rigor and discipline of a formal change process versus ones that you would consider to be a simple change.

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If you answered 1 and 3 require a formal change while 2 and 4 are candidates for simple change, you are correct. So, if changes come in different shapes and sizes, shouldn’t the change processes follow suit?

Introducing… Simple Change in Teamcenter

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Siemens Teamcenter : Improve Accuracy and Productivity with Simple Change

Simple change is ideal when you want to quickly yet formally track and process a change with minimal participants. It leverages the strengths of our core change management capabilities while simplifying them to quickly and efficiently process simple changes.

If this sounds like something you can use to streamline your business processes and improve your productivity, please reach out to your sales contact to learn more about this capability.

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Posted on Author PDS Admin Categories Design, Siemens Nx

Siemens NX Validation tools: To Ensure CAD Quality What’s New

Siemens NX Validation tools have always made sure that part quality and initiatives remain perfect and without error. With the introduction of a few new tools we’ve extended the capabilities you know and love with our validation tools.

The problems associated with drawing and CAD model validation can be broken into three broad areas—productivity, quality (product and CAD model), and process management.

 NX can similarly validate requirements stored outside the CAD design in Excel spreadsheets or XML files. We refer to this capability as Requirements-Driven Design Validation, or RDDV.

Siemens NX Validation Improvements:

  • Quality Dashboard for Check-Mate
  • NX/Open checkers improvements
  • Provide availability of HD3D objects for diagramming applications

Please read on to find out more and be sure to check out our video demonstration on these updates.

Quality Dashboard

Siemens NX Validation

The new quality dashboard for check-mate replaces the Java Qdashboard. This is an on premise tool providing the ability to quickly summarize checker results and display them in a variety of graphs and charts,

What’s included?

  • Out of the box summary reports
  • Ability to create custom reports
  • Results per part file or checker
  • Very fast search and population of data

NX/Open support added for Check-Mate Checkers

Check-mate checkers can be created using NX/Open in all supported coding languages.

Siemens NX Validation

What’s included?

•Custom Checkers can be written with all major Check-Mate functions: Set Up, Customize, Execute, Documentation, Save Results, Smart checking and batch mode
•All checker results are available in HD3D and can be saved into Teamcenter

HD3D Visual Tag Support for Diagramming Tools

HD3D framework enables assigning pointers to tags which provide visual cues indicating important information. This information is available and can be browsed.

What’s included?

•Made this capability available to diagramming applications such as: P&ID Designer, and Automation designer
•Allows these applications to convey and persist results providing users with better information about their design thus leading to improved quality and reduced time spent doing manual reviews

Video Demonstration:

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Nx updates
Posted on Author PDS Admin Categories Design, Latest Siemens Updates

NX Drafting and Layout Performance maximization with these new updates

NX Drafting

NX Drafting provides a comprehensive set of tools to produce and maintain engineering drawings which comply to major national and international drafting standards.

•A single source of dimensional and tolerance information
•Fully associative annotations
•More efficient downstream processes

What we’ll cover in this blog with NX Drafting:
Modernizing text entry for usability and familiarity with widely-used Microsoft Office functionality and workflows.
•Dynamic Text Editor
•Note General Context Tab
•Text Shortcut Toolbar
•Embedded Annotations
•Origin Alignment

NX Layout

An easy-to-use 2D conceptual design solution which helps you leverage a familiar 2D environment with dedicated support tools.

•2D Migration
•2D Design and Layout
•Associative 2D to 3D capabilities

What we’ll cover in this blog with NX Layout:
•Improved area fills in shapes for better performance and downstream reuse
•Improved large layout performance with 2D active sets

NX Drafting

Improve efficiency by defining the default origin alignment

Definition is now done in “Preferences” or “Customer Defaults”

Origin alignment block:
•More than the note command, all annotation commands are supported
•Origin alignment, stacking, and positioning of dimensions and annotations
•Origin alignment and positioning of tables
•Anchor point alignment for all text

A more natural and productive text entry with familiar interaction

Dynamic Text Editor
•Enter the text without tags in the text Input box and identical text appears instantly in the graphics window.

Shortcut Toolbar
•Quick access to common text formatting features:
•Color and font controls
•Symbol Palette •Expressions options
•“Precision” MB3 option for decimal places 
•“Replace” MB3 option to change existing

Improved efficiency with context tab and embedded annotations

Context tab:
On create or edit of a note, the Note General context tab gives access to:
•Common text formatting options •Insert and export text to or from an external text file
•Text alignment and other common settings

Embedded annotations:
•Replaces the symbols block from the note command
•Add feature control frames, datum feature symbols, and custom symbols
•Launches annotation specific UI to build desired annotation to embed into the note
•Quickly add attributes and expressions

Click for a demonstration on the above

NX Layout

Better performance and downstream reuse with improved area fills

Previously, area fills were generated from very small crosshatch patterns.

Changed to a true solid area fill:

•Smaller file size, more responsive, and better performance

Maximize performance of larger, complex layouts

Identify relevant curves for finding relations between other 2D components or sketch geometry.

2D active sets:
•Relation finding is a key feature of the new sketcher
•Active sets are stored in the definition of the 2D component and flows down to all instances
•De-emphasizes the 2D Component curves that are not a part of the active set

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Posted on Author PDS Admin Categories Design

Electronic Manufacturers and its future. Why innovate now?

Electronic manufacturers face constant pressure to reinvent or evolve their manufacturing capabilities. Because they know that by leveraging the latest technology, you improve operations, ultimately making you a better producer. But how do you do this without skyrocketing costs or sacrificing product quality and time to market?

Is the digital twin the way forward?

Digital twins have already proved successful in addressing the challenges that most electronics manufacturers, particularly contract manufacturers, face daily: changing products, high mix low volume, shrinking profit margins, and drastic time reductions from new product introduction (NPI) to delivery.

The digital twin and simulation

The digital twin is a virtual representation of a product or production system, and one of the major components of a comprehensive digital twin is simulation. And being able to simulate your manufacturing environment is a critical component of any smart manufacturing strategy. It’s another way for manufacturers to plan, not just by trial-and-error, but by simulating their production and understanding where there may be risks and opportunities for efficiencies. Overall, it leads to higher quality production results in less time. They also benefit from predicting equipment performance anomalies that have led to significant savings on scheduled repairs, maintenance cost reductions, and the virtual elimination of breakdowns.

How do manufacturers drive utilization and performance KPIs higher?

The answer is to use a comprehensive digital twin to simulate and predict set-up and material replenishment demand and run various methods to determine the effect of staffing availability on performance. As a result, simulation with a comprehensive digital twin will increase utilization and performance and increase margins.

Design your new or reconfigured lines in 3D

Leverage 3D modeling for your latest production layout and communicate your intent clearly with a broader range of stakeholders. Use the digital twin to test the implications of equipment reconfiguration virtually. By providing accurate installation information to your maintenance team, you avoid delays in starting production.

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