eds - teamcenter product management brochure

8/7/2019 EDS - Teamcenter Product Management Brochure

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Teamcenter Product ManagementLeveraging Product Knowledge to Maximize Collaboration Across Your Value Chain

Product L i fecyc le Management So lut ions www.eds.c


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Table of ContentsIntroducing Teamcenter Product Management 3

Value of Your Product Knowledge 3

Key Advantages 4

Delivering Bottom Line Results 6

Teamcenter Solution Suite 7

In todays digital economy, companies that offer

discretely manufactured products have to competein demanding marketplaces. Customers want and

expect the timely delivery of quality products that

reflect innovative features and affordable price tags.

How is your company going to establish market

leadership in this kind of highly competitive setting?

EDS believes the answer lies in the ability of your

extended value chain to collaboratein bringing your

products to market and continuing their support

across entire product lifecycles.

Everyone in your extended enterprise has to

actively collaborate to ensure the success of your

product offerings. New players have to join yourvalue chain. New sources of product knowledge

have to be added to your companys intellectual

capital. New voices have to be reflected in your

product decisions. New processes have to be built

to accelerate your take-to-market schedules and

minimize your product realization costs.


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Introducing TeamcenterProduct ManagementTo address these objectives, EDS offers Teamcenter

Product Management the worlds most powerful

web-native system for enabling all of the participantsin your extended value chain to manage, share,

and leverage product knowledge across your prod-

uct lifecycle.

Teamcenter Product Management is part of

Teamcenter the worlds market-leading system for

performing product lifecycle management (PLM)

on a collaborative basis.

Simply put, product lifecycle managementis the abili-

ty of extended enterprises comprised of dispersed

users and diverse data types to effectively plan, exe-

cute, monitor, and optimize all of the stages in a

product lifecycle.Teamcenter Product Management works in

conjunction with a web-native infrastructure that

enables you to capture your enterprises dispersed

product information and manage it in a controlled

repository.

Teamcenter Product Management provides the

following solutions to enable you to turn your cap-

tured product information into a product-centric

context and leverage this product knowledge for

decision support and process automation.

Parts and Document Managementis a web-native

solution that captures your enterprises dis-

persed product information as parts and

documents. Once you define these parts and

documents within a hierarchical product struc-

ture, you can re-use this product knowledge

across your product lifecycles.

Rapid Change Managementis a web-native solu-

tion that establishes a single-stage change

process you can use to initiate, administer,

review/approve, and execute product change

on a collaborative basis.

Extended Enterpriseis a web-native knowledge

user interface that exposes your enterprises

parts, documents, and product changes to your

users from focused, job-oriented perspectives.

Value of Your ProductKnowledgeTeamcenter Product Management provides your

value chain with real-time, immediate access to a

single source of product knowledge that is capable

of supporting your entire product lifecycle.

By capturing diverse product information that is

physically scattered across your value chains data

sources and turning it into product knowledge,

Teamcenter Product Management enables you to:

Align your product content with targeted mar-

ket requirements.

Provide all of the participants in your product

lifecycles with the same set of product defini-

tions and design assumptions.

Base your product decisions on the lessons you

have learned by analyzing and evaluating your

product knowledge.

Create new techniques and new methodolo-

gies by drawing best practices from your

accumulated product knowledge.

Perform your take-to-market tasks in parallel

follow-the-sun processes, instead of relying on

time-consuming serial sequences.

Eliminate the misunderstandings and rework

that often plague new product initiatives.

Consistently and repeatedly manage productchange across your product lifecycles.


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Key Advantages

Teamcenter Product Managements smart user interfaces make

it easy for people inside and outside of your company to partici-

pate in your value chain. Roles-based interfaces present entitled

users with selected pieces of product knowledge that match their

assigned responsibilities. Knowledge users can request the product

information they need to perform their jobs without having to

understand the underlying details of your web-native infrastruc-

ture. Teamcenter Product Management provides both push and

pull capabilities to allow all of the participants in your value chain

to react more quickly to your business needs and compress your

time-to-market. Users can quickly and easily locate information

created by other value-chain participants and view it in a product-

centric context. In addition, Teamcenter Product Management

can automatically notify users when design changes occur, when

they need to participate in a decision-making process, or when

they have to execute a particular work task.

Teamcenter Product Management enables you to establish

standardized business processes that maximize your value chains

ability to collaborate across your product lifecycle. You implement

consistent and repeatable processes that reflect your best practices

and optimize the productivity of all of the people in your extended

value chain. Teamcenter Product Management protects the securi-

ty of your collaborative environment while minimizing thedisruption that can impact your processes when personnel or

user roles change. Your managers can leverage Teamcenter Prod-

uct Managements real-time status tracking, verification, and

auditing capabilities to quantitatively measure the efficiency of

your automated processes.

Teamcenter Product Management provides a series of web-native

out-of-the-box solutions, including Parts and Document Manage-

ment, Rapid Change Management, and Extended Enterprise.

EDS has built customer-proven best practices into these solutions

to reduce your time to value and maximize your return on invest-

ment. These best practices enable you to rapidly get your user

communities up and running with little or no customization. They

help ensure the user acceptance you need to make your solutions

a real-world success. They reduce the risk you would incur if you

had to develop this software from scratch.

Value-Chain Collaboration

Workflow Automation

Out-of-the-Box Solutions

Teamcenter Product Management delivers state-of-the-market advantages that are unsurpassed in terms of

their ability to optimize your product knowledge and apply it to your strategic business initiatives.

State-of-the-Market Advantages


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You can easily configure Teamcenter Product Management to meet

your enterprises business needs. Web-native configuration allowsyou to vary the interactive screens that comprise Teamcenter Prod-

uct Managements user interfaces and add new screens to these

interfaces at your discretion. Dynamic interface configuration lets

you vary what product information each user is allowed to see and

how the user is permitted to interact with this information. Prede-

fined system preferences determine the style of the web pages that

are displayed for individual users. Teamcenter Product Manage-

ments configuration capabilities are easy to administer. They can

be quickly learned by the same people who manage the web facili-

ties you already have in place.

Users can access Teamcenter Product Management at anytimefrom anywhere. Users can employ virtually any kind of web-accessi-

ble device including mobile laptops, personal data assistants, and

wireless phones. All of your value-chain participants can access the

same base of product knowledge using familiar web browsers,

regardless of where they reside or what viewing devices they employ.

Users access Teamcenter Product Management through an indus-

try-standard allied-partner security model. This model enforces

legal boundaries between the integrated product information

you extract from different sources in your value chain. The model

protects your product information by controlling user access on

the basis of security clearances and entitlements granted to individ-

ual users, user roles, teams, groups, and projects. Teamcenter

Product Management supports the standard HTTPS protocol to

protect the delivery of web-based product information across fire-

wall boundaries.

Ease of Configuration

Universal On-Demand Access

Standards-Based Security


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In todays competitive landscape, your value chain

needs to outperform your competitors and their

allied partners across the entire product lifecycle.

You and your allies have to bring your productsto market faster than your competitors. Your supply

chain has to integrate parts and components into

your products more efficiently than their suppliers.

Your support groups have to maintain and service

your products better than their support groups.

Teamcenter Product Management enables you

to create the collaborative business models you

need to establish these competitive advantages.

Teamcenter Product Management lets you

designyour products anywhere, using the skills

of your own organizations, as well as the tal-

ents of external development houses. Teamcenter Product Management enables

you to buildyour products anywhere, leverag-

ing parts provided by in-house sources as well

as parts procured from outside suppliers.

Teamcenter Product Management allows

you to maintain, support, and continueyour

product from anywhere, drawing services

from organizations that are best equipped to

satisfy your customer base regardless of their

physical residence.

Teamcenter Product Management does this byaugmenting your product knowledge with intellec-

tual capital youve never had access to before.

Teamcenter Product Management injects this

knowledge into your take-to-market processes. It

makes certain these intellectual assets are able to

deliver tangible business results.

Teamcenter Product Management opens your

product knowledge to remote users, nomadic work-

ers, and your manufacturing shop floor. It delivers

your product knowledge to individuals, teams, pro-

ject managers, downstream participants in your

product lifecycle, and allied partners who previouslycould not collaborate this closely with you.

Teamcenter Product Management sees to it that

the right product information is delivered to the

right people at the right time.

Keeping these concepts in mind, Teamcenter

Product Management delivers strategic advantages

that directly translate into bottom line results.

Delivering Bottom Line Results

Compresses your product lifecycle by enabling all your value chain participants to engage in the earliest

stages of product design/development

Provides your web environment with a product-centric framework.

Draws on the experience of your suppliers and trusted customers.

Facilitates the re-use of designs, parts, documents, and other types of product information created by

you and your allied partners.

Enables your value chain to communicate faster and react more quickly to rising business opportunities.

Minimizes design rework.

Enables you to rapidly execute your take-to-market tasks in an extended value chain.

Enables you to execute more take-to-market tasks in parallel.

Informs users who participate in your value chain about their task-related dependencies.

Involves downstream players in your early design stages.

Addresses identified design issues on a proactive basis.

Informs your value chain about your business assumptions.

Provides your value chain with aligned product definitions, product requirements, delivery timelines,

and enterprise business rules.

Bottom-Line Advantages


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About EDS

EDS, the leading global services company, provides strategy, imple-

mentation and hosting for clients managing the business and tech-

nology complexities of the digital economy. EDS brings together

the worlds best technologies to address critical client business

imperatives. It helps clients eliminate boundaries, collaborate innew ways, establish their customers trust and continuously seek

improvement. EDS, with its management consulting subsidiary,

A.T. Kearney, serves the worlds leading companies and govern-

ments in 58 countries. EDS reported revenues of $19.2 billion

in 2000. The companys stock is traded on the New York Stock

Exchange (NYSE: EDS) and the London Stock Exchange. Learn

more at www.eds.com.

About product lifecycle management solutions

EDS is the market leader in product lifecycle management

(PLM), providing solutions to the global 1000. Product lifecycle

management enables all the people who participate in a

manufacturer's product lifecycle to work in concert to develop,deliver and support best-in-class products. As the only single-

source provider of PLM software and services, EDS can transform

the product lifecycle process into true competitive advantage,

delivering leadership improvements in product innovation,

quality, time to market and end-customer value.

Americas

13690 Riverport Drive

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USA

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United Kingdom

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Asia-Pacific

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EDS, Unigraphics, Parasolid, Solid Edge, and Femap are registered marks, the EDS logo is a registered service mark, Experteam is a service mark, andTeamcenter and Imageware are trademarks of Electronic Data Systems Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered marks oftheir respective owners. EDS is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of its people. Copyright 2001 Electronic Data Systems CorporationAll rights reserved. 11/2001

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Technica l Br ief www.eds.com

It is no longer enough for you to outperform your

direct competitors on a one-to-one basis. In todays

digital economy, you have to manage your product

lifecycles in close collaboration with your entire

value chain.

What is Extended Enterprise?

TeamcenterTM Product Management empowers your

value chain by providing a web-native knowledge

user interface called Extended Enterprise. This

interface enables users to consume and actively

employ product knowledge that is created by

your value chains information authors and con-

trolled/managed by a Teamcenter repository.

Extended Enterprise lets knowledge users lever-

age conventional web browsers to:

Search and locate product information that

is dispersed across your collaborative

Teamcenter environment.

Participate in workflow-driven change

processes.

Business value

In todays digital economy, you have to marshal the

talents and product knowledge of your companys

own diverse and widely dispersed organizations

and combine these resources with the skills, exper-

tise, and perspectives provided by your suppliers,

business partners, and trusted customers.

Extended Enterprises product-centric user inter-

face lets knowledge users quickly navigate and

search through the highly diverse product informa-

tion that resides throughout your web environment.The interface leverages predefined business

rules and user roles to deliver focused product

information to individual users based on their need-

to-know, job-related responsibilities, and

security-related entitlements.

The competitive advantage

Extended Enterprises product-centric user

interface makes it easy for people both inside and

outside of your company to participate in your

value chain. Knowledge users are able to obtain

the product information they need to perform

job-related tasks without having to understand

the underlying details of your collaborative

environment.

Users can quickly and easily locate product

information created by other value-chain partici-

pants and view it in a business context thats

tailored to their job functions and experiences.

Users can be notified automatically when design

changes occur, when their participation in a deci-

sion-making process is required, or when they need

to execute a particular work task.

Extended Enterprises universal on-demand

access enables knowledge users to request and view

product information at anytime from anywhere.

Users can employ virtually any kind of web-acces-sible device including mobile laptops, personal

data assistants, and wireless phones.

Extended Enterprise takes advantage of Team-

center Product Managements extensive security

provisions. Users access product information

retained in your environments repository through

an industry-standard, allied-partner security model.

This model enforces legal boundaries between

the product information you extract from different

sources in your value chain. The model also pro-

tects your repositorys information by controlling

user access on the basis of security clearances andentitlements that relate to individual users, user

roles, teams, groups and projects.

Teamcenter Product Management:

Extended Enterprise

Collaborating with your value chain across your product lifecycles

Benef its

Enables value chainsto share same productknowledge and businessassumptions.

Lets you concentrate in-house resources on fun-tions you do best.

Enables you to assignother tasks to alliedpartners.

Reflects voice-of-customerin product decisions.

Ensures value chainis using most currentproduct data.

Enables value chain tocommunicate faster.

Disseminates productchanges systematically.

Allows new partners torapidly join value chain.

Accelerates productdevelopment.

Engages downstreamplayers in early designstages.

Minimizes rework.

Proactively identifiesdesign problems.

Features

Enables users to leverageyour wealth of productdata.

Provides seamless viewsto product requirements,definitions, changes,timelines, rules, anddependencies.

Exposes users to focusedproduct knowledgesecurely.

Leverages user roles andproject authorizations.

Provides highly flexibleuser search andnavigation.

Enables users toreview/approve productchanges.


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Technica l Br ief Questions & Answers

Teamcenter Product Managements

support of the standard HTTPS protocol

enables your collaborative environment to

protect the delivery of web-based product

information across firewall boundaries.What enterprise tier platforms

are supported?

IBM AIX

SGI IRIX

HP HP-UX

Sun SOLARIS

Microsoft Windows NT/2000

What web application servers

are supported?

BEA WebLogic

IBM WebSphere

What databases are supported?

Oracle

Microsoft SQL Server

What web browsers are

supported?

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Netscape Navigator

Contact

PLM Solutions

Americas

800-498-5351

Europe

44-1276-705151

Asia-Pacific

852-2230-3333

www.eds.com

Knowledge users employ the Extended

Enterprise interface to locate product

information created by authors who

employ the following Teamcenter Product

Management solutions:

Parts and Document Management

Rapid Change Management

Users locate product information

by specifying part numbers, part/product

attributes, and document-related content

strings. They can also use hierarchical

product structures to navigate the

relationships that exist among your

products parts/components. This allows

knowledge users to quickly find the prod-

uct information they need to perform

their jobs efficiently.

Extended Enterprise enables users to

participate in workflow-driven processes.

You establish business rules and assign

user roles for given processes. These

processes automatically notify selected

users when specific types of events occur

(e.g., when changes are made to particular

documents or part designs).

You can tailor your Extended Enterprise

solution to enable entitled knowledge users

to view, markup, route, and print product

information that appears in universally

viewable format.

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A closer look at Extended Enterprise

Introducing Teamcenter Product Management

Teamcenter Product Management provides the following web-native solutions to enableinformation authors and knowledge users to work with an enterprises dispersed productinformation through a controlled repository.

Parts and Document Management captures your enterprises dispersed product infor-mation as parts and documents. Once you define these parts and documents within ahierarchical product structure, you can re-use this product knowledge across yourproduct lifecycle.

Rapid Change Management establishes a single-stage change process that you canleverage to initiate, administer, review/approve, and execute product change on acollaborative basis.

Extended Enterprise exposes your enterprises parts, documents, and product changesto your value chains knowledge users from focused, job-oriented perspectives.

EDS, Unigraphics, Parasolid, Solid Edge, and Femap are registered marks, the EDS logo is a registered service mark, Experteam is a service mark, and

Teamcenter and Imageware are trademarks of Electronic Data Systems Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered marks of

their respective owners. EDS is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of its people. Copyright 2001 Electronic Data Systems Corporation.

All rights reserved. 11/ 2001



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How is your company going to establish market

leadership in todays highly competitive

digital economy?

EDS believes the answer lies in your ability to

take advantage of your companys most valuable

business asset your product knowledge.

To enable you to identify, capture, control, and

optimize your intellectual capital in its most tangi-

ble and valuable form, EDS offers TeamcenterTM

Product Management the worlds most powerful

system for managing product knowledge.

What is Parts and Document

Management?

All Teamcenter Product Management implementa-

tions start with Parts and Document Management

a web-native solution that enables you to transform

your enterprises isolated pieces of product infor-

mation into tangible product knowledge.

Parts and Document Management allows you to

structure your product knowledge into a businesscontext that identifies the parts and documents you

can access, manage, change, and share across your

product lifecycles.

Business value

Parts and Document Management allows you to:

Provide a single point of access to your enter-

prises widely dispersed and highly diverse

product information.

Transform these otherwise isolated informa-

tion assets into reusable product structure

definitions. Inject your product knowledge into workflow

processes you can use to expedite your

product lifecycles.

Provide view and markup capabilities to the

knowledge users who collaborate in your

work flow processes.


Parts and Document Management enables you to

establish a single source of product knowledge that

your enterprises user communities can access on a

universal basis. Users can issue a single request

via their web browsers to find and access the most

recent product information that is available across

your enterprise.

This single source of product knowledge allowsthousands of knowledge users to share your product

knowledge even when its underlying data was cre-

ated by thousands of authors employing scores of

different application systems.

EDS has built customer-proven best practices

into Parts and Document Management to enable

you to quickly define your products in terms of their

hierarchical parts and related documents. These best

practices accelerate your solutions time-to-value

and increase your return on investment.

Parts and Document Management is seamlessly

integrated with Microsoft Office. Informationauthors who use Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and

Excel can check documents in and out of Parts and

Document Management by using pull-down menus

embedded within their Microsoft Office applica-

tions. Your information authors do not need to leave

their MS/Office applications or learn anything

about Teamcenter to enter product documents into

your enterprise repository.

Parts and Document Management takes advan-

tage of Teamcenter Product Managements exten-

sive security provisions. Your captured product

information is retained in a controlled repository

that leverages an industry-standard, allied-partner

security model.


Parts and Document ManagementTurning dispersed information into reusable product knowledge

Benef its

Provides your web envi-ronment with a product-centric business context.

Enables you to aligndesign content withmarket requirements.

Minimizes misundestand-ings/rework that oftenplague new productinitiatives.

Enables you to base yourproduct decisions onlessons learned.

Allows you to executeyour take-to-marketprocesses in highly effi-cient parallel sequencesrather than serial

sequences.

Features

Enables you to establisha single source of web-based product knowledge.

Deployable out-of-the-box.

Manages parts/documentsin hierarchical productstructures.

Seamlessly integratesMS/Office.

Accommodates standardauthoring templates.

Allows you to implementproduct-centric workflows.

Provides versatile checkin/check out.

Supports universal docu-ment viewing, markup,routing, and printing.

Provides extensive securityprotections.


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What enterprise tier platforms

are supported?

IBM AIX

SGI IRIX

HP HP-UX

Sun SOLARIS



are supported?

BEA WebLogic

IBM WebSphere


Oracle



supported?


Netscape Navigator

Contact

PLM Solutions

Americas

800-498-5351

Europe

44-1276-705151

Asia-Pacific

852-2230-3333

www.eds.com

Parts and Document Management provides

the following major functional capabilities.

Document/Data Management. Parts and

Document Management enables you to

manage your enterprises product informa-

tion through a controlled repository. Users

release documents and product data ini-

tially created under dispersed application

systems by registering this information in

Teamcenter Product Management and

making it available for enterprise access.

Check-in, check-out, and version con-

trols reflect continuing changes made by

your enterprises information authors

while systematically providing up-to-dateand accurate product information to your

knowledge users whenever they request it.

Product Structure Definition. Parts and


establish hierarchical product structures

that provide a product-centric business

context for the information you manage.

Typically, you start by defining a hierarchy

of business objects that pertain to a given

product. For example, you could create

a product structure comprised of compo-

nents, parts, sub-assemblies, andassemblies that are associated with an

overall product.

Once this product structure is in place,

you can define the logical relationships

that exist between specific pieces of prod-

uct information (such as documents,

drawings, validation models, and test

results) and the elements in the product

structure that they describe. Parts and Doc-

ument Management is adept at allowing

you to establish one-to-many, many-to-

one, and many-to-many relationships

among your product information.

Workflow-Driven Processes. Parts and


establish repeatable workflows that reflect

your companys product-related business

rules and decision-making processes.

These workflows allow all of the peoplewho have a stake in product realization to

participate in the creation, review, and

approval of your product information.

You establish user roles to determine

who is entitled to participate in your work-

flow processes and what product infor-

mation they are authorized to access. You

incorporate business rules into these work-

flows so product information can be

routed, reviewed, and approved in accor-

dance with your companys existing

policies and procedures. Teamcenter Prod-uct Managements tracking and auditing

capabilities provide complete histories for

the processes you implement.

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A closer look at Parts and Document Management



Parts and Document Management captures your enterprises dispersed product infor-mation as parts and documents. Once you define these parts and documents within ahierarchical product structure, you can re-use this product knowledge across your

product lifecycle.









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Many leading companies believe they can thrive in

todays dynamic markets by continually improving

their products at a pace that outperforms their busi-

ness rivals.

What is Rapid Change Management?

Teamcenter Product Management provides a web-

native solution called Rapid Change Management

that enables you to continuously improve your prod-

ucts across an entire lifecycle in a consistent and

repeatable manner.

Rapid Change Management allows you to insti-

tute a single-stage change process to accelerate your

take-to-market cycles. It enables you to initiate,

administer, review/approve, and execute product

changes through a single change request.

Business value

By applying Rapid Change Managements best

practices and automated processes, your company

will be able to accelerate its take-to-market clock-

speed and introduce strategic product innovations

faster than your competition.

Rapid Change Management enables you to

understand the business implications associated

with introducing new products and improving

their content.

Rapid Change Management automates the

review processes associated with planning proposed

product change. It expedites the fine-grain imple-

mentation of approved changes. It tracks the exe-

cution of your change-related tasks and enables you

to roll these results into auditable change histories.


Rapid Change Management facilitates integrated

product change. This allows you to replace the

piecemeal systems that you currently maintain

to support product change with a single solution.

Your integrated solution enables you to consoli-

date your costs, streamline your change process,

minimize your change-related rework, and coordi-

nate the change tasks performed across your

extended enterprise.

EDS incorporates customer-proven best prac-

tices into Rapid Change Management. These best

practices provide an out-of-the-box solution that

accelerates your time-to-value and maximizes

the return on your investment. The solutions best

practices enable you to create, administer, and

manage closed loop processes that account for

changes in design intent and trace all dependencies

and decisions.

You can leverage Rapid Change Managements

closed loop model, real-time tracking, and detailed

metrics to ensure the accuracy of your change

packages and enhance their visibility. This combi-

nation of capabilities allows you to make certain

that all of the work tasks associated with yourproduct changes are actually performed and that

they conform to your companys standards and

business rules.

Rapid Change Management enables you to

take advantage ofroles-basedchange processes to

ensure that the right people in your extended

enterprise make decisions or perform assigned

work tasks on a timely basis. The solutions roles-

based capabilities automatically present change

implementers with a user interface that matches

their assigned change tasks.

Rapid Change Management is seamlessly inte-grated with all of the solutions that comprise

Teamcenter Product Management. Your change

solution is able to take advantage of the product

structure definitions you establish under Parts and


Rapid Change ManagementAccelerating product change on a consistent and repeatable basis

Benef its

Enables you to improveyour products faster thanyour competition.

Enables you to betterrespond to marketplacedynamics.

Expedites simple productchange.

Integrates your valuechain into your changeprocesses.

Enables you to understandthe business case that jus-tifies a proposed change.

Allows you to evaluate thetask-related impact ofproposed changes.

Ensures adherence tocorporate standards andbusiness rules.

Enables you to establishcontinual improvementloops for your changeprocesses.

Features

Enables product changeto be managed, planned,executed, and tracked ona fine-grain basis.

Facilitates a single-stagechange process.

Leverages one changeitem the change request for your entire changeprocess.

Incorporates a businesscase, impact analysis,implementation plan, relat-ed items, and task assign-ments in a single changerequest.

Utilizes streamlined workbreakdown structures.

Dynamically presentschange participants with asmart user interface.

Supports fast-track review/approval.

Automatically distributesyour change requests.

Provides real-time statustracking, verification,and auditing.


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Document Management. This enables

you to:

Evaluate the impact of individual

product changes.

Create streamlined work breakdown

structures that you can inject into

your implementation plan.

Audit the execution and completion

of assigned work tasks.

Notify users when assigned change

tasks need to be expedited.

Provide a complete history of

product changes executed during

the product lifecycle.

Track both planned and actual impacts

to the product information associated

with your proposed changes.

What enterprise tier platforms

are supported?

IBM AIX

SGI IRIX

HP HP-UX

Sun SOLARIS



are supported?

BEA WebLogic

IBM WebSphere


Oracle



supported?


Netscape Navigator

Contact

PLM Solutions

Americas

800-498-5351

Europe

44-1276-705151

Asia-Pacific

852-2230-3333

www.eds.com

Users initiate Rapid Change Management

by creating a change request that incorpo-

rates the business case for adopting the

product change along with a proposed

implementation plan.The change request identifies the

impacts of the proposed product change.

These impacts describe what documents

and designs have to be changed to support

the improvement in question.

Users can include a streamlined work

breakdown structure in the change request.

This breakdown structure consists of a

single set of work tasks that have to be

executed to complete the specified change.

Approval of the change request autho-

rizes work to begin on the execution ofspecific product changes. Fast-track

review/approval is supported as an option.

This enables empowered change analysts

to approve the change request without

going through a change review board.

Once the change request is approved,

the change request is forwarded along

with its approved implementation plan to

appropriate change implementers. Change

analysts can monitor the progress of givenproduct changes by examining the status of

individual tasks and determining whether

or not they have been closed.

During the execution of a given product

change, Rapid Change Management

enables you to update appropriate incorpo-

ration dates or units of the change without

disrupting the integrity of your change

package or imposing a further review.

When all tasks associated with a product

change have been closed, change adminis-

ters can double check the implementationof the change and generate reports con-

taining appropriate metrics before closing

the change request in question.

A closer look at Rapid Change Management



Parts and Document Management captures your enterprises dispersed product infor-mation as parts and documents. Once you define these parts and documents within a

hierarchical product structure, you can re-use this product knowledge across yourproduct lifecycle.








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