CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
25 January 2008
Implementation Investments
Assembly Equipment Specialist teamtechnik Implements Forward-Looking IT Strategy
teamtechnik GmbH, with headquarters in Freiberg/Neckar, is a fast-growing, internationally reputed company specialized on turn-key solutions for assembly and testing equipment. The group has re-organized its IT architecture, now employing CIM DATABASE as a multi-site, multi-CAD and multi-lingual PDM/PLM system, interfacing with the also newly installed PSIPENTA ERP software. Strategic demand is an encompassing process support. In consequence, the scope of the new, highly integrated PDM/ERP application far surpasses the functions of the former systems for CAD data management and workflow processing: with CIM DATABASE, teamtechnik now commands a company-wide data-hub controlling data, documents, processes and projects, focused on product design and the virtual products.
For teamtechnik, CIM DATABASE organizes the safe filing and handling of data and documents that are generated by the CAD applications SolidWorks and ME10 as well as Microsoft Office. Via the PSIPENTA interface, order proceedings are automatically generated as projects within the PDM system, parts and BOMs reconciled with ERP data. teamtechnik also employs CIM DATABASE's Engineering Change Management to precisely communicate engineering change and document equipment history. Information dissemination is – whenever applicable – event-triggered and automated. Authorized work results together with all documentation are filed in the digital archive, available company-wide for further reference or extensive plots. In a second stage, it is planned to integrate the E-CAD application EPLAN, monitoring all documents generated within product design by CIM DATABASE.
teamtechnik is a turn-key contractor of production technology and flexible, automated assembly equipment for the automotive, medical and photovoltaic industries. Be it testing equipment for car gearbox assemblies or eye-lens production units: common denominator for the group's products is the modularity of its mechanical, measurement, control and test engineering equipment and software that enables customers to smoothly respond to demands such as changes in automation level, production batch variations, engineering or production changes. More than 140 CAD/CAE seats with world-wide 350 employees on sites in Europe, Asia, North and South America testify the high degree of specialization and minimal vertical integration. "Our key competence lies with the design of tailored customer solutions", says Harald Kurz, head of teamtechnik's IT department. "To optimally support our product design, our systems benchmark favoured CIM DATABASE's best-in-class concept as a strategic, integrative platform for engineering demands".
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