Teamcenter X

Manufacturing enterprises face growing challenges as products become more personalized, complex, and interconnected. This drives the need for smarter product development environments, responsive production, and end-to-end lifecycle management. Many existing PLM solutions fail to meet these demands due to outdated architecture and limited implementation across the enterprise. To address evolving business complexities, manufacturers need modern, flexible PLM platforms that support multi-domain requirements and drive digital transformation.

Effectively supporting today’s complex, heterogeneous, extended enterprise value chains, requires a modern PLM solution built on an open, flexible, adaptable, scalable architecture designed to evolve and grow as a company’s needs change.
Teamcenter X is a significant evolution of Teamcenter. It incorporates the defining characteristics of a modern PLM solution. On an infrastructure level, leveraging cloud services including multitenancy and microservices are basic requirements. Key capabilities include a comprehensive variant configurator to manage complex products and product families, broad and deep capabilities to enable multi-BOM, multi-CAD, and the ability to define an end-to-end digital thread as well as a comprehensive digital twin. All are critical for business process improvement and optimization.

Modern Cloud Platform: Teamcenter X is a fully functional, future-ready, SaaS solution for companies of all sizes, across industries. Teamcenter X leverages multitenant industrial components, such as authentication and file storage microservices, from the Siemens’ Mendix low-code application development platform. It is a cloud implementation that supports instant on PLM with strong security, grows on demand, and is maintained and updated by Siemens.

Cloud services used by Teamcenter X are built to scale and size as needed, and are used for critical PLM components, for example, Teamcenter X uses the AWS RDS cloud database service. This cloud architecture enables Teamcenter X to scale to any required size while continuing to deliver the always-available, fast performance demanded by today’s users, with the big benefit of always being up to date.

Instant-On and Grows as Needed:Teamcenter X provides instant-on PLM, simplified solutions packaged with best practices, ease of onboarding users quickly, and the ability to grow an enterprise’s PLM environment when ready. With the SaaS delivery, Siemens drives the deployment of Teamcenter X, taking care of all software and hardware requirements, operations, maintenance, and upgrades. Customers have access to training and Siemens’ consultation to ensure users have everything they need to get up and running quickly.

Siemens offers functional and domain-specific packaged solutions for Teamcenter X that incorporate best practices based on years of industry experience. These solutions contain preconfigured capabilities, such as workflows and CAD integrations that are intended to simplify PLM processes, without taking away the ability to address complex scenarios. Teamcenter X is positioned for growth. At any time, customers can opt to add-in more Teamcenter business and engineering solutions (e.g., Product Configurator, Capital Asset Lifecycle Management, and Requirements Management) to fit new or evolving functional needs.

Additionally, Teamcenter X can be personalized by working with Siemens and using Mendix to rapidly create company-unique composite applications across their extended enterprise. This enables a company, for example, to maintain a tailored interoperable, highly accessible, open ecosystem of applications and models connected to a comprehensive digital twin.

Comprehensive Digital Twin: Teamcenter X supports a comprehensive digital twin by managing electrical, mechanical, and software components in a single, multi-domain Bill of Materials across all the functional modules that are part of the Teamcenter suite. It is also designed to enable companies to create and maintain a comprehensive digital twin that encompasses product development, manufacturing, and service operations using Siemens tools or other best of breed applications via its open ecosystem and integration capabilities.

Evolve at Customer’s Pace: It is important to note that Teamcenter X is Teamcenter—all the modern advancements made for Teamcenter X are made for all Teamcenter customers, on-premises and on-cloud. Also, on-premises/cloud hybrid environments can be configured so customers can migrate to the cloud and/or add new Teamcenter X functional modules at their own pace.