Siemens IT Solutions and Services, and Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, have unveiled an integrated Teamcenter software based PLM content management offering.
The companies said that the new integrated service offering – PLM Driven Content Management – developed for the manufacturing industry sector will help customers to better support technical publications writing in development, service or after-sales business.
It helps customers capture and organise information for both internal use and external publishing; and allows individual companies and entire supply chains to capture information – from the onset of product design all the way through to multi-media updates to publications for commercially available products.
The Teamcenter PLM based offering also allows authors and engineers to stay in sync during each step in the product development process, by capturing and archiving information on each specification change.
It then manages documents and technical publications, created in each stage of the product design lifecycle and publishes it for almost any purpose and in almost any format without recreating it — including 3-D.
Teamcenter content management can manage multiple languages, control the process of translation and lowers risk considerably.
Furthermore, if a change is made in one element of the publication, it will automatically update that change throughout the entirety of the content.
The offering allows splitting large documents into logical segments which enables writers to reuse documentation without re-creation.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services vice president Ed Shinouskis said that the offering, built on Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter, creates incredible efficiencies in both the design and the publication processes.
"It captures each and every step in the lifecycle of the product and automates and archives all of that valuable information for easy retrieval and downstream publishing," Shinouskis said.
