Develop your next battery with Teamcenter X

Did you know that the demand for batteries is set to outpace supply by over 50% before 2030?

The intensity of the battery development race means only the fastest, most agile manufacturers will cross the finish line. McKinsey analysts predict there’s room for just 15 global suppliers in the rapidly consolidating battery market, which means engineering teams are under unprecedented pressure to accelerate innovation while maintaining quality, safety, and cost targets.

For engineering managers at battery cell and pack manufacturers, the challenge is clear: how do you coordinate cross-domain teams, from materials scientists and thermal engineers to software developers and quality specialists, to deliver next-generation batteries faster than your competitors?

Traditional development approaches that rely on siloed workflows and disconnected data systems simply can’t keep pace. When your cell design team makes a critical change to thermal management specifications, does your pack engineering team know about it in real time? Can your manufacturing engineers access the latest design data to plan production processes before physical prototypes arrive?

The answer lies in establishing a single source of truth that connects all engineering disciplines throughout the battery development lifecycle. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) serves as the digital thread backbone that enables engineering managers to break down silos, accelerate collaboration, and maintain complete traceability from initial chemistry development through production ramp-up.

With a comprehensive PLM solution, your teams gain a 360° view of battery data—requirements, design changes, simulation results, quality metrics, and manufacturing constraints—all accessible in a battery-specific collaborative environment.

This isn’t just about managing files and documents. It’s about enabling the kind of seamless, real-time collaboration that shortens development cycles, reduces costly late-stage design changes, and ensures your battery products meet performance, safety, and manufacturability goals the first time.

As battery chemistries grow more complex and validation requirements become more stringent, the manufacturers who leverage PLM as their digital foundation will be the ones who secure their position as industry leaders.

In such a highly competitive market, it is vital for battery companies to go to market with outstanding products that have been thoroughly tested to avoid safety, recall and liability concerns.

Take control of battery development complexity with SaaS PLM

Many battery manufacturers are realizing the benefits of PLM solutions to enable them to manage product-related processes and information across various domains. Managing all your CAD designs, organizing documents, automating key processes, and visualizing your products in a single environment is becoming the standard.

It is now possible to realize that vision with the added benefits of cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS), allowing companies to quickly address today’s complex challenges with proven best-practice PLM solutions that drive growth and accelerate product development. With Siemens SaaS PLM solution, Teamcenter X, companies can benefit from a cloud offering that gets you up and running from day one. The solution features an easy and accessible user experience, helping you to onboard teams quickly and improve time-to-value.

Architected for the cloud, Teamcenter X provides all stakeholders instant access to current requirements, specifications, and feedback in real-time, wherever they are based. With web-based access and no installation, it enables them to work from any device, at home, in the office or on the shop floor. The cloud-based SaaS solution also provides greater flexibility than on-premises PLM.

With no perpetual license to purchase, you have the flexibility to test new functionalities and add new users as required to scale up or down to meet your changing business needs.

With SaaS PLM you can boost IT resiliency to better support your high-performance teams. Break down organizational silos thanks to a secure, project-based environment that brings teams together, enabling them to collaborate more effectively, and gain a 360º view of projects with continuous traceability to ensure compliance, and on-time delivery of high-quality, sustainable products. Take advantage of Teamcenter X’s cloud-based solutions, to improve business continuity and efficiency with streamlined processes and preconfigured best-practice workflows.

Teamcenter X = full functionality PLM + benefits of the cloud

✔ Gain fast PLM access for all stakeholders, anytime, anywhere

✔ Reduce the cost of ownership with predictable operational expenses and minimal IT infrastructure

✔ Accelerate product design by leveraging existing knowledge to support design re-use, manage change and speed cycle time

✔ Streamline product development and manufacturing processes with internal and external stakeholders

✔ Create a multi-domain bill of materials (BOM) to visualize your entire product

Shift the IT burden with SaaS PLM

With Teamcenter X, Siemens is responsible for data security and managing your backup data. By partnering with Siemens, you‘ll gain a PLM environment built on enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure. You can rely on Siemens, and our cloud partner, to lower your risk of cyberattacks and IP theft by ensuring you have the latest security features and protections.

And, with the latest security features, also come the latest PLM capabilities and productivity-enhancing features. Updates are automatically installed, with no IT downtime potentially delaying product development.

Today, remote work has become the norm, creating the need for a solution that enables you to securely connect everyone, wherever they work. Teamcenter X eliminates the need to provide a virtual private network (VPN) for remote workers and collaborators. Stakeholders require only internet access to participate, new users can be invited quickly and easily and are only given access to the areas of the product development process that are necessary for their tasks, improving security.

Shifting the IT burden is more than enabling remote work. With Teamcenter X, Siemens takes on the responsibility of managing hardware, infrastructure, deployment, software updates and troubleshooting, meaning you can invest your IT resources in driving business and developing the products of the future.