Siemens Healthineers connects the PLM digital thread with Teamcenter
📘 Case study: Siemens Healthineers is transforming healthcare with PLM digital thread
Siemens Healthineers is a global leader in healthcare innovation, delivering advanced solutions in diagnostic and therapeutic imaging, lab diagnostics, molecular medicine, digital health, and enterprise services.
As part of the Siemens family, their digital transformation strategy naturally aligns with the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio — an open digital business platform designed to accelerate innovation across industries.
At the center of their product development is Teamcenter — Siemens product lifecycle management (PLM) software that serves as the digital thread backbone connecting data, tools, and teams across domains.
With Teamcenter, Siemens Healthineers is streamlining development, enhancing cross-functional collaboration and ensuring compliance in a highly regulated industry.
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Watch how Siemens Healthineers is using Siemens Xcelerator and Teamcenter PLM to transform development in this short video:
⚠️ Challenge
To deliver cutting-edge healthcare systems and diagnostic solutions, Siemens Healthineers needed a way to:
- Manage multidisciplinary development across mechanical, electrical, software and systems engineering
- Enable real-time collaboration between global teams and suppliers
- Maintain full traceability for regulatory compliance
- Accelerate delivery cycles without compromising quality
Siloed legacy systems made it difficult to maintain consistency, visibility, and speed. They needed a single source of truth that could scale with their product and process complexity.
✅ Solution
Siemens Healthineers implemented Teamcenter PLM as their PLM digital thread — the connected backbone that manages product data and processes throughout the lifecycle.
By integrating with Siemens Xcelerator tools such as Teamcenter, integrated with tools like NX™, Simcenter™, and Polarion™, allows engineering teams to:
- Manage development across mechanical, electrical, software, and systems engineering domains
- Enable real-time collaboration with global teams and suppliers
- Ensure traceability for regulatory compliance
- Accelerate delivery without compromising quality
📊 Results
Since implementing Teamcenter, Siemens Healthineers has achieved measurable gains across product development and compliance:
🔗 Improved collaboration across domains
Engineering teams now work from a common digital thread, reducing handoff errors and ensuring ensuring all stakeholders are aligned with the latest data.
⚡ Faster product development
Automated workflows and integrated tools streamline engineering processes, reducing time to market.
📋 Simplified regulatory compliance
With full traceability and built-in audit support, Teamcenter helps meet stringent healthcare and medical device regulations.
🌐 Scalable infrastructure
Teamcenter supports thousands of users globally and adapts to evolving product and business needs.
Teamcenter is our PLM backbone — the underlying data lake where we connect the dots of the digital threads.
That’s the strength of Teamcenter: having the same parts and items in one place as a single source of truth, while providing the tailored views that each engineer and stakeholder needs.
— Filipp Rosinski, Head of Integrated Process & Tool Landscape, Siemens Healthineers
🔍 Why it matters
In healthcare, innovation must be fast, secure and compliant. Siemens Healthineers shows how a connected PLM digital thread helps balance all three.
In a field where lives are on the line, faster innovation can’t come at the expense of safety or compliance.
By adopting Teamcenter and Siemens Xcelerator, they’ve enabled cross-domain engineering, improved transparency and built a scalable, cloud-ready foundation for continuous innovation.
🌟 The future is connected
Siemens Healthineers shows what’s possible when a forward-thinking organization embraces the power of a connected PLM digital thread.
With Teamcenter, they’re turning complexity into clarity, improving collaboration across every domain, and accelerating healthcare innovation that saves lives.
At Siemens, we’re proud to power this transformation—one digital thread at a time.
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