CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
14 March 2006
Product News
UGS Announces Teamcenter Environmental Compliance Solution, Enabling Best Practice in Design for Regulatory Compliance
UGS Corp. announced a new Teamcenter® software solution that enables manufacturers subject to environmental regulations to significantly increase product compliance and reduce failure rates by building compliance considerations early into the design phase of their products. The new environmental compliance solution is part of UGS'® set of compliance management offerings found in Teamcenter.
New Teamcenter offering enhances robust regulatory compliance solution
In order to further help its customers realize significant business benefits, UGS is adding the new environmental compliance offering to its Teamcenter portfolio. New capabilities include end-to-end collection, management and reporting of environmental compliance and material content information enabling product makers to specifically comply with the End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV), Restriction on the Use of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) and Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directives.
"Regulatory compliance is becoming one of the biggest challenges to our business model," said Randall Ledford, CTO, Emerson Electric Co. "Now even our legal staff is involved in product development like never before because we have to make certain we are designing compliance into the early stages of product development."
Teamcenter's environmental compliance solution enables product developers to capture detailed material and substance data that pertains to each of the components provided by the product's various suppliers. This data is captured in the form of product requirements. Once the material and substance data is captured by Teamcenter, product developers can relate this data to a hierarchical model that fully defines a part in terms of its underlying substances, material composition, technical materials, part composition and environmental part data.
The Teamcenter environmental compliance solution was developed through a partnership with Synapsis Technology, Inc., the provider of Product Lifecycle Intelligence(T) products and services. The solution is "Powered by EMARS(T)" software, Synapsis' industry proven system for environmental compliance management. Synapsis provides supply chain and high-tech-electronics industry-specific knowledge and software add-ons that complement the capabilities of Teamcenter.
Teamcenter - a complete regulatory compliance solution
Through its ability to capture enterprise knowledge and enable process management, Teamcenter empowers users to support a wide variety of regulatory compliance requirements in their daily tasks including financial and product records management and archiving, and document and records retention management. Through its broad scope of compliance management capabilities, Teamcenter enables customers to facilitate design-for-compliance initiatives, provide product developers with rapid visibility to all compliant and non-compliant components, integrate compliance management capabilities into current business processes and further leverage their existing investment in Teamcenter technology.
"Companies have had to make the big transition to using a formal system to meet regulatory compliance initiatives," said Steve Bashada, vice president of Teamcenter applications, UGS. "Previously, compliance data was on a server somewhere or on some desktop application, but today the stakes are so high that the accuracy of the data needs to be assured and organizations need to have a solid audit trail. As a result, companies are investing in formal systems like Teamcenter to establish an enterprise-class, secure environment to manage compliance processes and information."
Become a member of the CIMdata PLM Community to receive your daily PLM news and much more.
Tell us what you think of the CIMdata Newsletter. Send your feedback.
CIMdata is committed to your privacy. Your personal information will never be sold or shared outside of CIMdata without your express permission.