SolidWorks PLM Integration

SolidWorks’ integration with Teamcenter® product lifecycle management (PLM) software boosts productivity by giving your design and manufacturing teams access to a safe, single source of product and process data. Its scalability-optimized functionality enables geographically dispersed design resources and the extended supply chain to connect to a single database over a wide area network in an effective manner.

By using Teamcenter PLM, you can identify and access SolidWorks components, assemblies, and drawings fast, saving you time spent looking for, sharing, and reusing the appropriate design information. To guarantee that everyone is working with the most recent design information, structured workflow and change management methods are used. When Teamcenter is integrated into your native SolidWorks environment, you have access to a comprehensive range of PLM tools to better improve your design-through-manufacturing processes. This goes beyond the conventional workgroup-based CAD data management.

Drag-and-drop access to your Solidworks models is made possible by Teamcenter PLM for Solidworks, which offers simple access to product data from within your MCAD session. This enables you to work in a collaborative design environment. With the help of Teamcenter software’s Active Workspace, you can quickly search for and securely access designs, manage data revisions, create product configurations, start organised workflow and change processes, and do all of this in a single or multi-site deployment.

Structured workflows and change procedures must be implemented throughout the whole organisation if product delivery and quality goals are to be consistently met. To start, carry out, evaluate, and approve product modifications or requests for new parts, you can construct workflows with Teamcenter PLM for SolidWorks. As part of these organised procedures, you can automatically route the required alerts. You may fulfil delivery objectives and guarantee complete product quality by using organised workflows, problem tracking, and coordinated change management procedures.

To ensure they are constantly working with the most recent reference models, SolidWorks design engineers who are working on a shared assembly as a team need to be aware of when modifications are made by others. This is made simple by the Teamcenter connection for SolidWorks’ user-friendly notification and update functionality. With this function, you can typically update your local workspace and in-session assembly model to the most recent versions and revisions with a single mouse click.

The Teamcenter Integration for SolidWorks delivers a robust collection of utilities to handle typical collaboration and reuse scenarios, going beyond simple MCAD vaulting. The exchange of design data with outside partners is made easier by bulk import and export tools, which may be automated with the use of instruction files. Using a wizard-based tool, it is possible to copy SolidWorks assemblies, with or without their drawings, and to automatically eliminate models based on user-definable criteria.

To meet a variety of corporate demands, Teamcenter offers multiple deployment choices. By utilising a wide range of apps, you may increase the value of your Teamcenter solution thanks to its demonstrated scalability. For small and medium-sized businesses looking for a growth route to PLM, Teamcenter Rapid Start offers a preconfigured PDM deployment option that handles design data as well as regular activities and procedures. This makes it a great entry point into the Teamcenter product family.