Thank you! Yes I am aware of the extensive functionality of Teamcenter, and will update myself on the more recent extensions.

Our AKM approach to single and collaborative workspaces is based on fine-grained visual modeling, allowing workplace configuration and maming models executable. Thus closing the gap between design and execution. This supports any application in any type of organization, and gives ICT control to the project users.

Best regards,
Frank

My name is Nik Pakvasa. I work for Siemens PLM Software and part of Teamcenter team.

I want to thank you for the excellent article.

Your discussion here is more targeted to PLM software for Process industries but your ideas are relevant to PLM software in general. You are probably not familiar with Siemens PLM’s Teamcenter software. Teamcenter is targeted to Automative, Macinery, High-tech, Aero, CPG, Medical, Transportation, Retail and Energy.

We have taken huge stride with Teamcenter in unified architecture. We created unified PLM solution. For example, we have integrated Portfolio Management with Program & Project Management and Requirement Management. Requirements Management is integrated with global Engineering Process Management and so is Program & Project Management. All of 14 solutions are supported by enterprise knowledge management, workflow, change management and visualization application.
Just as you described in the last section – Dynamic Monitoring & Execution, we can monitor plans against actual project status, we can see ECO in the context of project tasks, schedule, cost, resources, and you can drill down to details from these charts.

I have just give you a brief over view of Teamcenter unified.

Have we solved all the problems and requirements you have outlined above. NO. For example, there is lot more work required in the ‘fuzzy’ front-end. We have done an excellent job of managing structured information but haven’t tackled unstructured data as good as we would have liked. We have made Teamcenter easy to use and navigate, we have made lot of progress on navigation of large assembly. As always there is always more we need to do.

Once again thank you for excellent article.

You can find more information about Teamcenter at our website or you can contact me directly.
http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/teamcenter/index.shtml