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July 24, 2006
Boeing Confirms And Extends UGS' Teamcenter
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UGS Corp. announced that Boeing, the world's leading aerospace company, following an extensive year-long evaluation, named Teamcenter, UGS' digital lifecycle management solution as its enterprise Data Management system for future Commercial Airplanes and Integrated Defense Systems programs. Boeing's JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) Program, which successfully migrated all product data from multiple legacy systems to Teamcenter, is the first to implement the new system.
Boeing chose Teamcenter as its enterprise Data Management system because it needed an open, scalable platform that can be leveraged across the company and globally. A standard platform across programs allows Boeing to enhance collaboration and more effectively manage work loads, as well as human resources, within and between programs.
"Boeing and UGS have enjoyed a long working relationship, and we are pleased to expand our relationship to enhance our global capabilities," said Dave Fennell, a Boeing vice president of Information Technology, who is responsible for the companywide design and support of PLM systems. "The broad use of Teamcenter with 30,000 users at Commercial Airplanes on our DCAC/MRM implementation and success on our JDAM program have shown the benefits of Teamcenter's open platform and scalability, and reinforces our decision to make Teamcenter Boeing's enterprise Data Management system going forward."
Boeing will continue to implement Teamcenter on upcoming projects and programs, including at the Boeing Satellite Design Center in El Segundo, Calif., where teams are working to implement a standard environment, and where, by the end of 2007, it will be used for all relevant satellite program data; and the F/A-18E/F, F-15, T-45 and AV8-B programs, as well as other future programs.
"UGS is proud to work closely with world-class organizations like Boeing and to have Teamcenter selected as the enterprise Data Management system for all new Boeing programs," said Tony Affuso, chairman, CEO and president, UGS. "It is always gratifying to help customers meet their challenging business objectives. Teamcenter's open platform enables companies to leverage their global presence to enhance process excellence and productivity through consolidation and collaboration."
UGS Teamcenter powers innovation and productivity by connecting people and processes with knowledge. Teamcenter's comprehensive portfolio of proven digital lifecycle management solutions is built on an open PLM foundation. Teamcenter is the winner of the IndustryWeek Technology of the Year Award for 2005.
UGS software, used extensively by top 15 Aerospace & Defense OEMs, has accrued more experience in Aerospace & Defense in mission-critical operations than any other comparable PLM product. With 2.3 million licenses and more than one million man-years of experience in delivering mission-critical operations on an unparallel scale, UGS is now the de facto provider of product lifecycle management and facilitator of enterprise transformation for the aerospace and defense industry.
Commentary
by Jeffrey Rowe, Editor
Boy, did this announcement get a lot of reader interest, not to mention raising a more than a few hackles this week. We got challenged as to the accuracy of this announcement, so we followed up on it and confirmed that is was indeed accurate. Because it involves a vendor and a customer, it had to be approved as accurate by both parties before being disseminated, and to the best of our knowledge, based on conversations with both parties, we found everything stated essentially to be true.
in 1997, and there appears to be no active effort afoot to replace these seats with CATIA - again, at this time.
and collaborative EDM platform for all of their products, both commercial and military, and across the entirety of their extensive global risk-partnership and supplier network. It is clear that Boeing understands the complexity and issues involved in first designing and then integrating the building of a product on a large and globally disparate scale; and that they need an EDM system, such as Teamcenter, that will meet their requirements on this scale. The current Teamcenter implementation at Boeing represents one of the largest PLM implementations in the world and this decision would expand that footprint."
UGS' Teamcenter is managing product data (such as bills of material, etc.) at the enterprise level. As far as we can tell, Dassault's ENOVIA is managing the CAD data coming from CATIA, where CAD data is a subset of an overall PLM data scheme. Teamcenter sits on top of ENOVIA and ENOVIA feeds the CATIA data to Teamcenter, where it and tons of other product data is managed and distributed throughout the Boeing enterprise.
Although any software company would like to be the exclusive vendor for a company the magnitude of Boeing, in most cases, it just isn't feasible. Ultimately, it's the customer who decides what is best for its operations and bottom line, and that's just what Boeing has done in this instance.
The Week's Top 5
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enhanced power of 64-bit. As a part of the design and manufacturing process, TMC requires huge amounts of data to support detailed and complex product designs and is faced with having to create and review large product models more accurately and quickly. TMC first deployed CATIA V5R16 with 64-bit in its technical and production engineering department in May, with plans to expand the deployment in a phased approach. As a result of the 64-bit environment, large assembly data can now be processed. In addition, Dassault Systemes and Microsoft worked together to provide a mechanism that helps ensure 32-bit Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros would run in the 64-bit environment.
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-- Jeff Rowe, MCADCafe.com Contributing Editor.
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