🧑🏻💻 Teamcenter Copilot
Teamcenter Copilot ⬆️ engineering productivity
The way we search for and interact with information is changing — and so is Teamcenter.
Introducing Teamcenter Copilot – the next evolution of Teamcenter AI Chat. The copilot brings together the power of generative AI and the depth of your Teamcenter-managed data to help you work smarter, faster and more intuitively.
Built directly into Teamcenter, the copilot provides secure and intelligent context-aware assistance. It combines document intelligence, BOM exploration, and conversational search into an intuitive, natural language interface. It’s designed to help you quickly find answers, extract insights, and automate routine tasks – improving your overall engineering productivity.
Whether you’re analyzing a dense specification, navigating a complex product structure, or searching across hundreds of documents, the copilot delivers grounded, traceable answers that are tailored to your organization’s data and workflows.
Key Capabilities
🧠 AI-Powered Knowledge Bases
The new copilot allows you to transform your Teamcenter-managed files into intelligent knowledge stores. You can create custom knowledge bases focused on specific topics – such as product lines, programs, or domains – and scope them to include only the most relevant documents. This ensures that the copilot’s responses are focused, accurate, and tailored to your unique terminology and use cases.
💬 Chat with Collections of Documents or Individual Files
Whether you’re working with a single document or an entire repository, the copilot enables you to ask questions in plain language and receive contextualized answers. Every response is grounded in your data and traceable to source files, giving you confidence in the accuracy and relevance of the information.
📄 Perform Complex Document Analysis
The copilot can extract exactly what you need from long, dense documents – such as key requirements, safety notes, or performance specifications. You can ask it to summarize content or format results in a specific way (e.g., tables, bullet points, or paragraphs), making it easy to copy and share insights in Teamcenter discussions or reports.
🧩 Search and Explore BOMs Using Natural Language
The copilot brings conversational intelligence to your bill of materials. You can navigate and filter 3D product structures, generate a working context of your BOM, and automate the creation of worksets – all through natural language prompts. This dramatically simplifies tasks like preparing for design reviews.
Teamcenter Copilot can index text-based data from a variety of formats, including Microsoft Office apps (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Office, Access, Visio), PDF, ePub, TXT, RTF, HTML, XML, and more. It’s also able to extract text embedded in image files such as TIF, GIF and JPEG, as well as structured information from Siemens proprietary file types such as NX and SolidEdge drawings (.prt, .dwg), Teamcenter requirements, and Teamcenter requirement specifications. The copilot also supports integration with custom extractors for custom file types.
What makes this copilot different?
The Teamcenter copilot isn’t just another AI assistant – it’s a purpose-built, enterprise-grade solution designed to meet the unique demands of engineering and manufacturing organizations. Here’s what sets it apart:
🔐 Grounded in Your Data
Unlike generic AI chatbots that rely on their training data for their knowledge, our copilot is grounded in your Teamcenter-managed data. This ensures that every response is accurate, relevant, and traceable to your organization’s source of truth. Whether you’re querying a document, exploring a BOM, or analyzing a specification, the copilot’s answers are always backed by your own data.
🔄 Continuously Updated
Your data is constantly evolving – and so is the copilot. It automatically synchronizes with your Teamcenter data, ensuring that its knowledge base reflects the most current information. This means you’re always working with up-to-date insights, without needing to manually refresh or reindex content.
🔗 Embedded in Teamcenter
The copilot is not a bolt-on tool. It’s embedded directly into the Teamcenter user experience, providing seamless access to GenAI capabilities where you already work. This tight integration ensures consistency, security, and ease of use – no context switching required.
⚙️ Customizable to Your Needs
Every organization is different. That’s why the copilot is designed to be highly configurable. You can define custom knowledge bases, tailor the scope of data the copilot can access, and even choose from multiple AI stacks to align with your IT strategy. Whether you’re focused on regulatory compliance, product development, or service documentation, the copilot can be adapted to your specific use cases.
📈 Scalable for the Enterprise
Built on a scalable architecture, the copilot can handle large volumes of data and users without compromising performance. Whether you’re a global OEM managing millions of files or a fast-growing startup scaling your operations, the copilot grows with you.
🛡️ Secure by Design
Security is a cornerstone of the Teamcenter platform, and the copilot is no exception. It enforces your existing access management policies and integrates with your established security protocols. The copilot keeps your data within your own environment, ensuring that intellectual property and sensitive information remains secure and under your control. You maintain full control over what data is exposed to the AI.
Flexibility in deployment
Teamcenter Copilot uses the latest IT technologies, including advanced pre-trained large language models and vector database systems. We realize that organizations have varying preferences for how they leverage these technologies – some prefer turn-key deployment while others want to customize their own architectures and use specific models – so the copilot offers flexibility in how you deploy.
With the Teamcenter 2506 release, the copilot supports on-prem and on-customer-cloud deployment configurations via Microsoft Azure AI (using the GPT 4o LLM) and AWS Bedrock (using the Claude 3.5 LLM). These turn-key deployment options make it fast and easy for you to get started with Teamcenter Copilot, and working with these established Hyperscalers, ensures high standards for reliability, security, and data privacy.
The copilot also supports a fully on-prem deployment with the Llama 3.3 LLM. We’ll continue to certify more LLMs based on customer feedback and give you more options in the future.
Work smarter and faster with your copilot
The recent wave of AI advancements is making possible remarkable new capabilities in Teamcenter that will create significant value for our customers. The copilot starts you on this journey by helping you to get more value from one of your most significant assets – your data. Contact us today to learn more about how your organization can benefit from the copilot and how to get started.
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