CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
23 April 2009
Product News
New Siemens PLM Software Solution Ensures Product Compatibility Across U.S. Department of Defense
Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division announced a new capability in its Teamcenter® software portfolio that will help ensure compatibility across all products supplied to any branch of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Developed in conjunction with Siemens Government Services (SGS) the new functionality supports the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF), an architectural standard which mandates that all products delivered to the DoD include common architecture documentation for evaluation as part of the product development process.
“Today’s announcement will enable the U.S. military and its contractors to efficiently incorporate a common architecture into their products at the earliest phase of the development process,” said Steve Bashada, vice president of Teamcenter Applications, Siemens PLM Software. “Using an intelligent diagramming environment, Teamcenter provides modeling tools that understand connections between elements. As a result, a common product architecture is built-in and documented throughout the development process, and product compatibility among all branches of the military is ensured.”
Providing an “intelligent” link to product design
Due to a number of interoperability problems among various branches of the military services, congress passed the Clinger-Cohen Act which requires product architecture be considered and reviewed as a part of defense acquisitions. Subsequently, the DoDAF was established and includes a number of standard deliverables that describe the operations, system and data architecture of a product.
Initially this demand was filled by a variety of 2D diagramming tools which create good visual images but without an “intelligent” link to the product design. The DoDAF template for Teamcenter integrates a state-of-the-art diagramming environment with an intelligent database that supports not only the capture and delivery of DoDAF information but also the intelligence of the relationships – creating a multi-user decision support system for use by the services.
This new Teamcenter functionality is available immediately.
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