The Teamcenter product lifecycle management suite being demonstrated here by Plano, Texas-headquartered Siemens PLM Software (Hall 3, Stand C6) has played a crucial role in the Sukhoi SSJ-100 Superjet’s progress from concept to its recent first flight, said Tim Nichols, the company’s managing director of aerospace global marketing.
Siemens developed Teamcenter initially to complement the computer aided design (CAD) systems that started to evolve in the early 1990s and accelerated the development of complex products, Nichols said. “It is the engineering change management and collaboration management engine that drives the design of airframes, aero-engine and most of the major product systems today,” he added.
In fact, Teamcenter is used in varying forms by nearly every OEM, said Nichols.
Boeing uses it to manage the product structure of every aircraft that goes through its production system, for example.
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