New Release of Teamcenter for MRO Significantly Enhances Service Data Management and Service Event Management
Leaner MRO operations are the goal of many service organizations. Some of the world’s leading manufacturers and service organizations are realizing the benefits of Lean today with Teamcenter® for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO).
With the latest release of Teamcenter for MRO, expanded functionality and usability enhancements have been designed to address specific customer needs and produce immediate customer value. With Teamcenter, customers can establish a Service Data Management environment for managing all product (asset) knowledge from concept through end of life, including the products’ operational life based on configurations of engineered and delivered products.
For original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), this environment permits a link from product configurations and operating information back to product development and manufacturing to improve product quality and customer support. For service organizations, such as owner/operators or third party service providers, the Service Data Management capability establishes a single source of asset definition and knowledge management that improves MRO planning, execution and working capital utilization thereby increasing service productivity and quality.
Service Event Management (SEM), a specific capability for managing the outsourcing of MRO activities in the service value chain, permits OEMs and service integrators to capture MRO activities performed by others, such as service work, asset configuration changes, and utilization tracking. As a result OEMs and service integrators can capitalize on the capabilities and economics of the service value chain, while maintaining accurate definitions and knowledge of the assets. This accurate configuration management knowledge is the key to efficient service operations and product improvements.
The latest release also includes enhancements to Teamcenter’s Maintenance Planning and Execution and Materials Management modules to help service organizations achieve leaner MRO operations.
As one of the fastest growing products within the Teamcenter portfolio, Teamcenter for MRO is gaining great momentum with manufacturers that need to support and service complex products requiring a major capital investment, such as aircraft, weapon systems, and ships. New industries such as power generation, shipping, plants, infrastructure, medical devices, transportation, and others all face the same challenges as aerospace and defense in terms of keeping expensive assets operational without over-investing in support resources and remaining compliant with safety and regulatory issues.
For example, UGS recently announced that Military Air Solutions, a business group of BAE Systems, selected Teamcenter software as its enterprise knowledge management technology for specific aircraft platforms within its group. (Read the press release.) As stated in that announcement, “Teamcenter will serve as the foundation for Military Air Solutions’ maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) solution and will manage all of the product configurations for an individual aircraft – from design to disposal. It will also serve as a virtual knowledge manager, seamlessly integrating the data and functions associated with aircraft engineering and post-delivery service and support.”
The latest release of Teamcenter for MRO continues to fulfill UGS’ vision to deliver a knowledge- and configuration-driven set of applications to enable enterprises. For more information about Teamcenter for MRO solutions, contact your UGS account representative or visit the Teamcenter for MRO site on ugs.com.
