Siemens Steps Up Search & 3D Data Sharing

Siemens PLM Software has come out with a new module intended to make it more intuitive and easy to find product-related data stored not only in its Teamcenter PLM system, but in other systems, as well.

The new addition to Siemens' Teamcenter portfolio is Active Workspace, a highly visual, interactive environment that functions somewhere between a stepped up search tool and a portal that is highly tailored to the kinds of tasks an individual performs in their daily work routine. Used as part of PLM, not as a replacement for PLM, Active Workspace is designed to enable users, be they engineers or others in the product development value chain, to find and easily access intelligent 3D information in order to make better informed decisions while helping cut through some of the complexity that defines most current categories of products.

Here's how Siemens PLM Software CEO Chuck Grindstaff described the need for Active Workspace:

Active Workspace is a central part of Siemens PLM Software's High Definition PLM (HD-PLM) vision, a three-pronged strategy predicated on helping users make better decisions around product design. The first peg of HD PLM is intelligently integrated information, or the idea of knowing what the semantic relationships between information is. Put into a real-world context, that would mean if you were working on the CAD geometry for a particular part and you changed the dimensions, the new geometry would automatically be rerouted to the folks responsible for requirements so they could validate and check the functional requirement against the parameters of the new model, Bill Lewis, Siemens PLM Software's marketing manager, told us.