PLM World Blog

Teamcenter clients - Rich, Thin and Mobile??

Richard Meagher — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:59:18 +0000

For nearly four months I have become very attached to my Blackberry since I bought it as part of my Verizon upgrade. One of the features I found very useful is the web access where I can get the New York Times, the weather and even Google maps. Granted the viewing area is small and not easy on [...]

Siemens PLM Listens to its Customers at Siemens PLM Connection 2008.

Tom Both — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:30:18 +0000

One of the great benefits of attending a Siemens PLM Connection Event is the networking that goes on between end users as well as the ability to discuss features and or issues with Siemens PLM management, product managers, and developers . At these events users can make a difference in the way the [...]

PLM World Board Members make trip to PLM Europe – Siemens PLM Connection Europe 2008

Tom Both — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:36:00 +0000

In an effort to share user group conference best practices Mike Marston, PLM World Treasure and myself Tom Both - PLM World Technical Director were invited to attend Siemens PLM Connection Europe 2008. This year the conference is in Paris France, at one of the Disney Hotels. Yes, I know there are plus’s and minuses [...]

2008 Conference Closes with a Raffle to Fund Student Scholarships

Jim Vosler — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:28:47 +0000

New this year at our conference was a Closing Event…a chance for attendees to see each other one last time and for a great cause: our new Student Scholarship Fund. During the week, raffle tickets were sold for a chance to win some great prizes, supplied by Siemens PLM, Partners and even User Companies. Many [...]

Teamcenter Preferences Configuration Assistant

Richard Meagher — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:41:47 +0000

David Geisler - Siemens PLM - Teamcenter Track Day 4 - Preference Configuration Assistant Another utiltity announced by David Geisler of Siemens PLM in the Teamcenter Track for download from GTAC is the Teamcenter Preferences Configuration Assistant. It is designed to manage Teamcenter Preference Settings by taking a snapshot of your current configuration and comparing it [...]

Multi-Site Assistant Now Available for Download

Richard Meagher — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:26:55 +0000

David Geisler - Siemens PLM - Teamcenter Track Day 4 - Multi-Site Assistant David Geisler announced that a new tool for consolidating Teamcenter multi-site databases, MSA - Multi-Site Assistant is now avialable for download from GTAC Consolidating multi-site architecture can help reduce administrative and infrastructure costs, but if multisite has been in use for a long time, it [...]

MS Office integration with Teamcenter 8

Neel Venkataraman — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:55:10 +0000

Want to access your Teamcenter inbox to perform your worlkflow tasks from within MS Outlook? Have needs to be connected to Teamcenter when you arein MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Word, etc - for creating a report or document on Teamcenter data? Create an item revision from within MS applications? For this and more….Look forward to MS office integration [...]

Business Modeler

Neel Venkataraman — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:50:03 +0000

There have been many presentations both from Siemens PLM and user companies on how the Business modeler can be effectively used to configure your application for Business processes and requirements. BMIDE helps scalability, quick upgrades, efficient deployments and provides means to organize your configuration templates. The good news is the scale is tipping towards configuration using [...]

Teamcenter Track Day 3 - Overview

Richard Meagher — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:59:49 +0000

PLM Program Management Office and Centers of Expertise at Emerson (PMO and COe) presented by Bob Christenson and Tom Arant of IBM - Emerson is St. Louis Based - $20.1 Billion Sales in 2006 137,000 Employees 274 Locations Worldwide 60 Divisions Diversified Product portfolio: Examples - Numatics, Fisher Controls, Ink Sink Erator RIDGID tools Developing a standard, repeatable and predictable approach to [...]

NX for Mac OS X - next release in question

Richard Meagher — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:27:00 +0000

Mac OS X version of next NX release remains in limbo since Microsoft has dropped VBA from the latest Mac OS X version of Office. NX is not commercially viable without built-in spreadsheet support since Excel VBAs are needed to enable spreadsheets in NX. Microsoft has recently told Siemens it doesn’t plan to add VBA to [...]