Siemens PLM Software Announces Version 5.0 of Teamcenter Express cPDM

By DE Editors

Siemens PLM Software has announced Version 5.0 of Teamcenter Express software. Teamcenter Express is the collaborative product data management (cPDM) component of the Velocity Series portfolio, Siemens PLM Software’s family of modular, yet integrated solutions addressing the PLM mid-market. This latest release provides key enhancements designed to improve the productivity of small and medium size businesses (SMBs), thus reducing the time needed for completing design-through-manufacturing projects.

“The release of Teamcenter Express Version 5 on the latest Teamcenter platform adds a well-rounded set of new productivity improvements to this comprehensive cPDm solution for SMBs,” said Peter A. Bilello, vice president, CIMdata. “The enhancements in Version 5, such as the comprehensive integration with Microsoft Office and the new cost analysis tools for both products and projects, should further enable small- and mid-size manufacturing organizations to deliver their design projects to manufacturing on time and on budget while improving their own cost management.”

Teamcenter Express Version 5 delivers an updated user interface with new Lifecycle Viewer and Structure Manager modules that consolidate and simplify visualization and product structure management tasks. New cost analysis tools are also available for both products and projects, enabling costs to be calculated from the initial concept design through release to manufacturing, resulting in improved cost control and profitability.

Version 5 also delivers an improved user interface and expanded capabilities for integration with Microsoft Office 2007. While working in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook, users can browse and search the Teamcenter Express database, add new documents to this single source of data, and review and approve cPDM workflow tasks that have been assigned to them. More users working from a single source of product data results in less errors and more consistent completion of everyday tasks.

Several enhancements to the optional project scheduling module are also delivered with Version 5. This includes the ability to view multiple project schedules in a single window.

Teamcenter Express Version 5.0 is built on Teamcenter 8 and delivers scalability to the unified architecture of this latest release of Teamcenter. Version 5.0 is also now available on Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

For more information, visit Siemens PLM Software.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.