{"id":20285,"date":"2025-09-25T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/?p=20285"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:03:55","slug":"teamcenter-x-cut-development-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/teamcenter-x-cut-development-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamcenter X: Unlocking innovation at Lightera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How Lightera cut project timelines by 25%<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In the dynamic global telecommunications market, companies face relentless pressure to innovate faster and with greater precision. Lightera, a leader in manufacturing advanced network infrastructure and telecommunications solutions, understands this demand all too well. The company knew that to stay competitive, it needed to streamline its product development processes and drive faster innovation. This is where Teamcenter X,<\/a> a part of the Siemens Xcelerator business platform, became an indispensable tool, enabling Lightera to cut development time by 25%<\/strong> and significantly optimize operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lightera is a leader in advanced solutions for network infrastructure and telecommunications<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Formerly known as Furukawa Electric LatAm, Lightera LatAm S.A. has united with its Japanese and U.S. counterparts under the Lightera brand, leveraging global expertise to deliver a world-class optical solutions portfolio. Lightera’s mission is clear: to identify, select, and develop products that exceed diverse customer expectations. With headquarters in Paran\u00e1, Brazil, and a focus on cable and connectivity advisor products, Lightera is at the forefront of technological innovation, manufacturing telecommunications solutions that support critical network infrastructures worldwide<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overcoming barricades to innovation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite its success, Lightera confronted several significant challenges. First, capturing accurate product history was difficult, hindering decision-making and product development optimization. The decentralized management approach led to operations lacking a unified methodology. These hurdles slowed down the development process, affecting the speed to market of new products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lightera leadership recognized that digitally transforming their processes was imperative. It required restructuring how products were documented, eliminating redundant systems, and establishing transparency in project decision history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest technical challenges were mainly related to documentation, to organize the documentation well and ensure accurate history so that, in the future, we can revisit it and understand past decisions.<\/p>Xavier Chiron, Global Portfolio Manager at Lightera<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Teamcenter X accelerates product development<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After a thorough Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) selection process, Lightera chose Teamcenter X<\/a> for its strong reputation and excellent capabilities in document management, scheduling, reporting, and analytics. Siemens supported Lightera with workshops to demonstrate the technology and assisted throughout the selection and integration process, guiding them from feature selection to implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cloud-based PLM<\/a> solution from Siemens provided several strategic advantages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n