{"id":2508,"date":"2008-11-11T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Timken-Takes-On-Complexity\/ba-p\/333836"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:20:52","slug":"timken-takes-on-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/timken-takes-on-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"Timken Takes On Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Tom Stimson, vp of Business Process Advancement for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timken.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Timken<\/A>, thought he was getting into a more simplified business when he started at Timken. He had worked at Robert Bosch and GKN and saw the complexities inherent in automotive and aerospace.<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/11\/timken2b.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2289\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/11\/timken2b.jpg\" alt=\"timken2b\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>But bearing product development is very complex. And Timken does much more than bearings. They are one of the last remaining independent steel businesses left in the U.S.<BR \/><BR \/>The company spends $60M on research at technology facilities around the world. A disperse organization coupled with Timken&#8217;s legacy &#8211; 107 years and counting &#8211; creates an engineering workload growth that is complex to manage.<BR \/><BR \/>Tom&#8217;s presentation highlighted how managing knowledge of key workers is also critical. He noted Timken has 7 different PDM systems, 8 different drawing repositories and tons of configurations depending on product type and location. Yet only two employees could really understand the whole process.<BR \/><BR \/>Now Timken is leveraging a streamlined PLM platform to manage this knowledge transfer along with four key business drivers:<BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>optimize resources<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>reduce time to market<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>improve quality<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>increase innovation<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/><\/P><DIV id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:f515fd7e-3747-48ea-aafb-93a5ffc78dcc\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/plmexec08\">plmexec08<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/siemens_plm\">siemens_plm<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/plm\">plm<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/timken\">timken<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/configuration_management\">configuration_management<\/A><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Stimson, vp of Business Process Advancement for Timken, thought he was getting into a more simplified business when he started at Timken. He had worked at Robert Bosch and GKN and saw the complex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}