Boeing goes for UGS’ PLM for its enterprise data management
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Boeing is to use UGS’ Teamcenter PLM (product lifecycle management) software as its enterprise data management system for its future commercial airplanes and integrated defence systems programmes.
The company made its announcement yesterday at the Farnborough Air Show. It follows an extensive year-long evaluation, and Boeing’s JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) Program, which successfully migrated all product data from multiple legacy systems to Teamcenter, is the first to implement the new system.
Boeing says it needed an open, scalable platform that could be used across sites and programmes globally – enabling it to move closer to the goal of ‘design anywhere, build anywhere’. The monolith now expects to enhance engineering and manufacturing collaboration and to improve work load and human resources management within and between programmes.
“Boeing and UGS have enjoyed a long working relationship, and we are pleased to expand our relationship to enhance our global capabilities,” said Dave Fennell, Boeing vice president of IT, who is responsible for company-wide design and support of PLM systems.
“The broad use of Teamcenter with 30,000 users at Commercial Airplanes on our DCAC/MRM implementation and success on our JDAM program have shown the benefits of Teamcenter’s open platform and scalability, and reinforces our decision to make Teamcenter Boeing’s enterprise data management system going forward.”
Boeing will continue to implement Teamcenter on upcoming projects and programmes, including at the Boeing Satellite Design Centre in El Segundo, California, where teams are working to implement a standard environment, and where, by the end of 2007, the UGS system will be used for all satellite programme data and the F/A-18E/F, F-15, T-45 and AV8-B programmes.
