🌟 Streamline design with Teamcenter | new electronics library

New electronics library management improves cross-domain design collaboration

With the increasing complexity of modern products where electronic content is a key component, collaboration across engineering domains has never been more essential. Sharing electronic components across the entire product definition ensures consistency and accuracy in design, manufacturing and production. As announced in our What’s new in Teamcenter 2406 blog, we’re excited to provide a closer look at how Teamcenter introduces a consistent representation of electronic components across electronic (Xpedition), mechanical (NX) and Teamcenter domains, ensuring that all relevant information is captured in one place.

🌐 Unified representation for all components

In Teamcenter 2406, you can now view a unified representation of the same part 3D model across all domains. This includes:

• All possible layout orientations – so you can see how components fit across designs in different disciplines
• Comprehensive component information – including datasheets, operating conditions, package details and more
• Consistent manufacturing and supplier details – ensuring accurate specifications across teams

This capability ensures that the electronic, mechanical and product lifecycle management (PLM) teams are all working from a single, synchronized source of truth.

⚙️ Enhanced collaboration between domains

Teamcenter plays a pivotal role in coordinating and managing design collaboration between tools like Xpedition (for ECAD) and NX (for MCAD). As the design evolves to meet product requirements, Teamcenter ensures that all components are synchronized across domains. This coordination solves a common challenge for engineers: ensuring that electronic and mechanical designs align perfectly.

By integrating electronic library management into PLM, Teamcenter eliminates the silos that often exist between different engineering domains. This seamless integration is critical in reducing errors and improving product quality.

📚 A trusted electronics library for your team

One of the standout features of this new capability is the enterprise-wide trusted electronics library. Managed under Teamcenter’s control, this library becomes the single source of truth for all component information, including:

• ECAD and schematic designs
• MCAD models
• Related data such as datasheets, lifecycle statuses and approved supplier lists

This library also integrates with standard PLM processes, such as:

• Change management – ensuring updates are accurately tracked and implemented
• Workflows – streamlining approval processes for new components
• Variation and configuration management – so the product’s configuration remains accurate down to the smallest detail

With this library, your engineers no longer need to manage multiple disjointed component libraries. Instead, they can confidently rely on a single enterprise-wide solution.

🚀 Addressing real-world challenges

Let’s take a closer look at how this solution addresses common challenges faced by organizations:

1. Component configuration issues
   • Engineers often struggle with version mismatches, such as using a component designed to stand upright when it needs to lay flat on the board. Teamcenter solves these issues by maintaining accurate, detailed information about each component’s configurations and orientations.
2. Design baseline tracking
   • Teamcenter ensures that trusted electronics design baselines are accurately recorded and easily accessible. This prevents costly errors and ensures compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.
3. Cross-domain collaboration
   • By breaking down silos between ECAD and MCAD teams, Teamcenter makes it easier to orchestrate collaboration across disciplines. This reduces miscommunication and streamlines the overall design process.

💡 Benefits of Teamcenter’s new electronics library

To summarize, here are the key benefits of this new capability:

• Conveniently access a single trusted electronics part library integrated into your mechanical part management system
• Solve customer electronics component configuration issues with accurate up-to-date information
• Accurately track trusted electronics design baselines ensuring compliance and reducing risk
• Confidently orchestrate cross-domain design collaboration improving efficiency and reducing errors

🌟 Why choose Teamcenter?

Teamcenter is the world’s most widely used PLM software trusted by organizations worldwide to manage complex product lifecycles. With the new electronics library management capabilities introduced in Teamcenter 2406, you can streamline collaboration, reduce errors and accelerate innovation.

Get started quickly with Teamcenter X for fast SaaS delivery and experience the benefits of a fully integrated cloud-based PLM solution.

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