CMI – CATIA Teamcenter

Integration
Product Overview
T-Systems PLM Applications
CMI – CATIA Teamcenter Integration
CATIA – PLM Integration Solutions

CATIA to Teamcenter Unified Integration CATIA to Tc Enterprise Integration

▪ CMI RII – Rich Client embedded ▪ CMI – Classic Client (CATIA V4 and V5)
(CATIA V4, V5 and V6)

CMI PLM
DMU - Functionality CATIA to PDM Integration Solutions
▪ CMI - Tc Visualization Integration ▪ SAM - Step Assembly Manager
▪ COM/FOX CATIA - JT Translator (CATIA V4 and V5)
▪ CMI RII – Embedded Tc ▪ PDM Workbench
Visualization Suite Product Suite
Supplier Integration
▪ CMI Reconnect Functionality Standard Part Management
▪ CMI Import / Export Functionality ▪ CMI – CATALOG Management
▪ CMI CITRIX Integration ▪ CMI Standard Part Functionality

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T-Systems’ Teamcenter CATIA Integration
CATIA Teamcenter Integration – Overview
• Product since 1995
• Teamcenter as global PDM system
• Integration of CATIA V4 / V5 and Teamcenter
• Assembly functionality in CATIA V4
• Integration of bill of material and geometry data
• Wide range of customization possibilities
Teamcenter Enterprise • www.cmi-support.com CATIA V4 CATIA V4
Teamcenter CATIA V5

CATIA V6 CATIA V6

CMI

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T-Systems PLM Solutions
Our Partners

Siemens PLM Software Dassault Systèmes

• Development Partnership • CAA V5 Gold Partner

• Reseller Agreement for CMI • DS V6 apps Community Partner
• Service Agreement • Service and Integration Agreement
• JT Open Partner

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CMI – CATIA Teamcenter Integration
Customer Extract

T-Systems Business Unit PLM / CMI – CATIA Teamcenter Integration - Product Overview
CMI – CATIA Teamcenter Integration
Customer Reference Project @
Services for Lockheed Martin
• Integration of CATIA V4, CATIA V5, Delmia and Teamcenter
• CMI standard product customization
• Various levels of consulting and support
(onsite consulting / coaching/ specification / implementation /
training / development / roll-out & UHD)

Locations PDM Project Applications

• US (development) • JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) project • CATIA V4
• worldwide partner/ • about 3,000 CAD / 9,000 PDM • CATIA V5
supplier integration seats
• Teamcenter
• 390 floating CMI licenses
• More than 740 CMI licenses in the
JSF consortium

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Customer Reference Project @
Services for BAE Systems Aerostructures
• Providing the CATIA V4/V5 –
Teamcenter Integration CMI
• CATIA V4/V5 migration consulting
• CATIA V5 process consulting
• Teamcenter customization

Locations and Projects PDM Project Installation Base

• Warton, UK • Migration CATIA V4 to V5 • 5 airplane projects
• Preston, UK • Migration from VPM to Teamcenter • about 400 CAD seats
• JSF, MAS • CMI CATIA V4/V5 integration • about 2,000 PDM seats
• Eurofighter Consortium • Training
• Regional Aircraft

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Customer Reference Project @
Services for TATA
• CMI standard product customization
• Onsite Workshops
• Multi-Quantity and CATALOG support
• LINUX Server support
• CMI RII Teamcenter Unified CATIA Integration
Locations PDM Project Applications
• TATA Motors in Pune, India • Project name : PDM2 • CATIA V5
• TATA European Technology Centre • 864 floating CMI licenses • Teamcenter Enterprise /
• DAEWOO, Korea • over 2,500 PDM seats Teamcenter
• Trilix, Italy • Teamcenter Visualization

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CMI Functionality - Added Value
Knowledge Management Knowledge Management
▪ Management of design tables (Design Table, CATIA Catalog)
Specific Integrations Specific Integrations
▪ CMI Archive to package specific data (Analysis, Process, Electrical)
DMU in configuration context
Configured DMU
▪ Neighborhood and volume based search

CMI functional scope

▪ Global cache management (CGR file control)
Design In Context Design In Context
▪ Product variant and configuration management
▪ Identification Assembly Management
Assembly/ Part Management
▪ Product structure creation/ modification Part Management
▪ BOM synchronization

Concurrent Engineering
Document Management
▪ User access and life cycle control

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CMI Core Functionality
• Support of CATIA local and released caching, file transfer caching • CATIA Property/ TC Attribute Mapping
• Register / Create of parts, documents and CATIA files • “CMI Workbench”-mode in CATIA
• Bounding Box Creation and position matrices management • Non-BOM CAD data management: Auxiliary
• Bi-directional object identification: Highlight, CMI Info, Check In/Out CATIA file support
Dialog • CATIA V4 Integration with assembly
• Drawings: CATDrawings, CATDrawing links, drawing frames management

• CMI Archive (Black Box) • CATIA Catalog support

• CATIA Design Table • V4/V5 mixed data structures

• Inertia information • Support of alternate shape representations

(JT, CGR, V4)
• Flexible part management: Alternate Shape Representations
• Occurrence dependent CAD data: Modified on Assembly
• Configurable Node Behavior for CATIA Component support
• Read & Re-Read
• Update & Synchronize

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Benefits of the T-Systems CATIA Teamcenter Integration Product

01 02 03
Saving time and Risk mitigation Access to broader PLM
money • Vendor independence to market expertise
• T-Systems’ CATIA- ensure customer • Merging the internal
integration comes with requirements come first. knowledge of Siemens
established use cases • The Teamcenter CATIA PLM and Dassault
from more than 40 integration certified by Systèmes products.
small-size to big-size / Dassault Systèmes. • T-Systems can leverage its
global acting customers. Know-How of different
• Strong partnership with
• Provides unfiltered and Dassault Systèmes and PDM / CAD systems.
direct access to the Siemens PLM. (Teamcenter, Matrix /
CATIA integration ENOVIA, Windchill,
• Bullet proven over years
provider. SmarTeam, CATIA, NX,
in customer productive
etc.)
environment.
• PLM consultancy,
customizing and core
development in a nutshell.
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Flexibility and Robustness as the Basis for Success

Flexibility
• T-Systems as the producer of the CATIA integration can react flexible and provide fast response to customer requests.
• Direct and fast implementation of customer specific design processes.
• Short and direct communication channel.
• Customer specific releases on demand.
Robustness
• Stable communication between Teamcenter and CATIA.
• High Performance.
• Easy going handling of huge data.
• „On-the-fly“ repair of inconsistencies in CATIA, e.g., UUID conflicts.
• Ensures consistency of the transfer of CATIA structures to Teamcenter.
• Complete functionality is proven in production.
• No CATIA data loss if the Teamcenter Client hangs up.

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Examples for Powerful Functionality (1)

High performance load management

• Support of the CATIA load option: „Do not activate default shapes on open“
• Support of the CATIA local Cache Management
• Get Original Geometry functionality
• Explicit transfer and load of CATParts for selected CATIA nodes
• Load into CATIA session → Visualization Mode → Design Mode
• Expand for Visualization for lightweight load of reference and surrounding structures
• Complete substructures are represented by a single CATPart or CGR
• Load product structures without attached CAD Data to CATIA
• Use of template CATProducts or temporary/embedded structures
• On-the-fly creation of CATProducts

Reconnect and Import-/Export functionality

• For interactive data exchange with partners and reintegration of off-line data
• Mapping of original OEM attributes at Import and Export
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Examples for Powerful Functionality (2)

DMU
• Global Caching concept based on the CATIA Released Cache feature:
• Teamcenter serves CATIA with CGR files for lightweight loading.
• Cache-less DMU functionality with Volume/Neighborhood search
• Bounding boxes are provided by the integration
Catalog Management
• CATIA Catalogs managed in Teamcenter
• Catalogs can be used to manage standard parts, template structures, drawing frames, CATScripts, …
Configurable Node Behavior
• Use and support of CATIA Components to manage Standard Parts, external reference geometry, …
• Any kind of CATIA structure can be managed in Teamcenter: Piping, electrical data
• The integration classifies and detects Components, ignores, jumps over, stops at …
Customizing model to implement customer specific PLM logic
• Allows to customize the integration to support specific business logic.
Context menus in CATIA V5 tree for easy recognition and easy to use
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Examples for Powerful Functionality (3)

Management of different types of geometry data

• Auxiliary geometry: models that are not reflected as Items in a product structure
• Mod On concept
• management of diverging representations and positions in product structures
• geometry management controlled by assembly instantiation
• Alternative geometries (e.g. envelope curves, light weight CATParts)
Integrated JT-Support
• Content of the integrated JT-Viewer is used to control the content of the CATIA session
Virtual Workbench and Add Temporary
• Allows to compare different versions of a product structure in one single CATIA Window
CATProcess and CATAnalysis support
• Comes with defined use case descriptions
CMI Archive for drastically load reduction in PDM and easy use of non-product structure data
• Zip and package whole CATIA structures in a single Dataset

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Services around CMI

Product Projects
Product development Consulting
• New Software Releases • CAD / PDM processes
• Maintenance • Specification of requirements
• Bug fixing • Definition of pilot program
• Migration
• Performance

Support Implementation services

• Installation • Customer specific requirements
• 1st and 2nd level Support • Configuration and Customization
• Workshops, Customization, • Additional tools
Introduction, Training, ... • Operating

T-Systems Business Unit PLM / CMI – CATIA Teamcenter Integration - Product Overview