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“If we see the market is moving a particular way, or we see an opportunity to sell enhancements to our installed products, we can react quickly,” notes Stone. Speed and agility are critical to success. This way we can maintain common products, whilst giving the flexibility our customers require.” The extra performance comes from the new geometry of key components, aerofoil changes for example, whilst maintaining common items, such as casings. We can take the existing design data, re-use it and adapt key components to move into that new market. “When enhancing existing products and when developing new ones, we don’t need to re-engineer the entire product. “The use of Teamcenter has helped us to respond to market changes and new opportunities,” says Stone. Our plants in Brazil, China, India and the Czech Republic are also about to be given access to the same set of data for manufacturing purposes.”Įngaging new opportunities with speed and agility We have engineers here in Lincoln seamlessly working with the Swedish Teamcenter database seated in Sweden, with Swedish engineers seamlessly working with the database seated in Lincoln. “Teamcenter allows users to work concurrently on an assembly. “Concurrent engineering is far better and easier to achieve in a database-driven system, such as Teamcenter, compared with a file- and folder-based system,” says Stone. Of particular importance is the ability to work simultaneously across sites worldwide. If it wasn’t for the database approach engaged by Teamcenter, designing such upgrades would be really time-consuming, as we’d have to go through all the folders and files looking for any changes.”

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“Buy one of our turbines today and you’ll still be using it in 25 years, and we may be called on to modify or upgrade it at any time.” He points out, “To do that, we’ll need all the original data, which is why any data that existed purely on paper has been migrated into Teamcenter. “The lifecycle of our products is very long,” says Stone. Manufacturing can then take its data directly from Teamcenter, with complete confidence that the data is accurate, up-to-date and at the right release.”Įffective concurrent engineering across sites The Teamcenter BOM data is then transferred to the BOM in SAP, our enterprise system. Stone adds, “Teamcenter enables our engineers to securely access all information related to the product definition, and it automatically generates bills of materials (BOMs). Engineers can be in different locations on this site, but they still work as teams, not as compartmentalized departments.” Most engineers are using NX CAD and some are using NX CAM, but they are all using Teamcenter to acquire the source data. Stone describes the process: “Our engineers work in product teams that create and manage the design of our products.

Each product contains roughly 150,000 individual components, every single one of which has a 3D CAD representation created with NX™.”Ī team-based approach drives design. Explaining the current situation, Stone notes, “We deliver four platform sizes from our Lincoln facility, SGT-100, SGT-200, SGT-300 and SGT-400, but each could be built in a number of different configurations to meet customer requirements.

Stone and his colleagues in IT assumed responsibility for it in 2007, and there are now more than 150 active Teamcenter users in Lincoln, with up to 60 of them accessing Teamcenter concurrently. Teamcenter had been used at the Lincoln facility to manage both computer-aided design (CAD) data and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) data for more than five years, prior to the site being acquired by Siemens. The unified architecture of Teamcenter allows us to address this.” To do this, we need all the design data for every element of those solutions – gas, steam, oil turbines, pumps, compressors, generators, mechanical drives – even though those items may originate at another site.” Stone adds, “This presents us with the challenge of taking a whole set of different businesses in various locations and with differing histories, but in related and complementary activities, and making them work as one integrated whole. Rob Stone, Senior IT Engineer, explains, “We will be working together globally across multiple sites throughout the Oil and Gas Division as we move from selling products – gas turbines – to selling complete energy solutions. Featuring a complete service-oriented architecture (SOA), easy-to-use interface and comprehensive end-to-end PLM solution set, the use of Teamcenter gives Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery greater power to meet customer needs and to deliver new and enhanced products and solutions to new and existing markets faster than ever before. Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Teamcenter is the world’s most widely used product lifecycle management (PLM) system.

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