cenitspin The PLM Software Solution cenitspin: Simple, Intuitive and User-Friendly PLM DESKTOP
www.cenit.com/cenitspin Everything at a Glance with the PLM Desktop The easy-to-operate PLM software cenitspin ensures within a single network a strong collaboration between all the participants involved in the product development process. From the user perspective, modern PLM software solutions can be highly complex affairs, and for this reason the potential of these solutions is often not fully exploited. The new PLM software solution cenitspin relies on simplicity and clarity to achieve maximum efficiency. The full-range PLM system can be operated intuitively via a user-friendly interface and is simple and easily understood. cenitspin combines the most frequently used engineering functions and functionalities in a single software. This preconfigured PLM solution was developed in close collaboration by reputable manufacturing enterprises in order to fulfill their concrete needs during the development process, in innovation management, and in enterprise-wide collaboration. cenitspin builds on the foundation of the ENOVIA architecture of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform by Dassault Systèmes and thus guarantees maximum investment security and scalability. For the openness of the 3DEXPERIENCE, Dassault Systèmes expressly declares as a goal in its Codex of PLM Openness. The centerpiece of the software is the PLM Desktop, which quickly and easily offers the user maximum transparency regarding all relevant information on the development process. At a glance, the user can recognize the current tasks, the underlying project planning, as well as the components and product structures involved. Each interaction works clearly and intuitively, with just a few clicks. The PLM Desktop offers the user an efficient control tool for product development across the entire product lifecycle. As a pre-configured PLM solution, cenitspin unifies the best practices of the manufacturing industry regarding the following challenges: Project management Parts list management Business process management Document management Multi-CAD data management (CATIA V5/V6, NX, SolidWorks, AutoCAD) Risk management Knowledge management Data security concepts ERP integration (e.g. SAP)
cenitspin enables the management of complex, collaborative projects. Work packages as well as tasks are easily planned and allocated to project phases and milestones, including required resources. The sequence of activities can be planned over time and the critical path becomes well predictable within the interactive GANTT chart. Each project member gets his individual dashboard that clearly summarizes and prioritizes all relevant tasks. Such work overview can also be displayed in user-specific GANTT charts to highlight the execution sequence of all allocated tasks. Project Requirements management supports development teams in formalizing and tracking product characteristics as well as their subsequent validation. cenitspin provides users with a powerful, integrated, yet easy to use tool to define product requirements and keep track on them. Product managers define all relevant criteria, such as performance, ergonomics, contracts, standards and laws, manufacturability, serviceability, etc. to define verifiable objectives for the product. One of the strengths of cenitspin is the way in which requirements and test scenarios are linked together. This simplifies and accelerates acceptance and approval procedures considerably and represents the central knowledge repository for product development. Requirements Creating and maintaining BOM structures within cenitspin works really effortless. The ability to reuse existing components, to extract BOMs from CAD structures, to copy existing nomenclature or compare two BOM structures accelerates the development of new products significantly. Configuration management capabilities and integration with ERP systems ensure a most efficient and consistent BOM management. BOM The PLM solution cenitspin supports the modeling of business processes that improve collaboration between stakeholders and ensure reproducible, automated workflows. Any kind of business processes can be implemented in cenitspin with their own workflows and associated data. Business process workflows are also used to generate the task list for user dashboards and to prioritize tasks. For typical engineering processes, such as change management (ECR / ECO), document release, problem management, etc. predefined best-practice workflows are shipped within the standard. Thanks to the configuration tool they can be easily adapted to company-specific processes. Business Process
www.cenit.com/cenitspin Document Using the collaborative platform cenitspin as the central tool for product development simplifies the creation of new product specifications as well as their modification. All documentation involved in the development process is directly linked to the centralized product master. Any document is quickly identified and instantly accessible, any change is considerably simplified. The whole organization obtains up-to-date information. Thanks to the PLM Desktop in cenitspin and is thus immediately informed about all changes that are made or planned. CAD Data The usual CAD systems are managed with cenitspin, such as CATIA V5+V6, NX, SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD etc. through the utilization of a consistent multi-cad data management based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. These long-time approved CAD integrations include comprehensive data management capabilities and furthermore offer a neutral CAD data visualization for everyone inside and outside the company. The innovative capability CAD to BOM automates the tedious and error-prone BOM creation and ensures best correspondence between BOM nomenclature and CAD data. Risk The entire organization relies on cenitspin to manage all activities related to the product development. Then, the integrated risk management helps in bringing together all relevant information and issues arising, in order to continuously monitor progress, identify risks, secure project milestones and initiate appropriate readjustments. For this purpose project managers have powerful monitoring tools such as EBOM-GANTT REPORT and PROJECT-GANTT REPORT which provide a whole new perspective on the product and the project activities in order to analyze at a glance the progress of development projects. Knowledge cenitspin includes a comprehensive toolset, among others for requirements management, product management, project management, document management, risk management and business process management. It is therefore the central knowledge repository and the main source of information for the company. Most valuable gets this knowledge library due to the structuring and linkage of all knowledge-building blocks, the easy reuse of the entire experience and the seamless cooperation of all stakeholders. PLM DESKTOP
System Configuration cenitspin is a pre-configured PLM solution, highly customizable and scalable. The configuration tool of cenitspin supports a parameter-driven datamodel. Due to its business process-oriented user interface any configuration task requires no specific programming skills to adopt the PLM solution to company s specific needs. This agile implementation methodology greatly accelerates the productive introduction and operation of cenitspin and leads to reduced total cost of ownership. Confidentiality In cenitspin all data is subject to security rules that determine which access rights each user may have to specific data sets, depending on his security context. This on one hand ensures for secure and granular access control and on the other hand reduces expenditure for the administration of individual user rights in case of changing responsibilities. ERP Integration The cenitspin ERP integration framework supports enterprisewide business processes by building an information bridge between product development and the downstream corporate functions such as materials management, production planning and purchasing. Advantages of cenitspin Simple and intuitive operations Clear presentation on the PLM Desktop High user acceptance through pre-configured processes Fast, agile introduction, thanks to generic data model and a simple system configuration instead of programming Attractive Total Cost of Ownership Collaboration and networking between all stakeholders in the product development process Efficient product lifecycle management due to reduced complexity Maximum information transparency Thanks to the flexible and open architecture of ENOVIA any kind of corporate data can be transmitted bidirectionally between cenitspin and the ERP system.
www.cenit.com/cenitspin CENIT AG We are a financially independent IT software and consulting firm for business processes in the manufacturing industry and for financial service providers. Since our establishment in 1988, we have developed into a leading software and consulting firm. We are represented around the world at 16 locations, in 6 countries, on 3 continents with 700 employees. Our customers appreciate us as their trusted partner for the continuous optimization of business processes in the areas of Product Lifecycle (PLM) and Enterprise Information (EIM). CENIT AG is a public company headquartered in Stuttgart listed on the Prime Standard of the German Stock Exchange. Contact CENIT AG Industrie Street 52-54 70565 Stuttgart Germany Tel.: +49 711 7825-30 Fax.: +49 711 7825-4000 E-Mail: plm.backoffice@cenit.de PLM DESKTOP