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Introduction
Product Data management
CATIA team PDM
CATIA Integration
SmarTeam
File Management
Customization Tools
Advantages and Disadvantages
Conclusion
Open question
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Introduction
• Efficient product development.
• Documents should be organized.
• For better Product Development Result
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Product Data Management
• Tool to manage data and Product Development process.
• Stores large data.
• Interlinking the departments.
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What is CATIA team PDM ?
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Subset of a PDM-system called SmarTeam, developed by
SmarTeam Corporation Ltd.
• For controlling.
• Facilitates data management.
- Data access and navigation
- Maintains information integrity in case of modifications
- Allows teamwork
- Re-working is avoided.
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CATIA Integration
 Integration between
CATIA and SmarTeam.
- Saved in SmarTeam
database
- Mapping data.
 Enhanced usability
- Preview of a document
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Easy to search
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• Manages documents
Easy search and query mechanism
Enrich products information.
• Manages the product structure
Navigation through linked documents
Logical links: Documents, projects…
• Manages data modifications
Automatic tracking of revisions with history:
major and minor revisions
Allows and secures team work
•Offers a highly secured environment
Secure Vault and User Security Settings.
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SmarTeam
• Manages more types of product data.
• Other add-on modules use together with Team PDM are
 SmarFlow
 SmarBOM
 SmarWeb etc…
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File Management
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Controls documents
Revision state of Documents will be known.
So easy to modify any information.
Different Document states in Team PDM are
* Check In
* Check Out
* Release
* New-Release
* Obsolete
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Life Cycle Option Selected
Resultant Status
Description
Click Register
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Click Check In
Checked In
Once document is placed in
the vault cannot be
launched into CATIA V5.
Click Check Out
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Click New Release
Being Modified
To modify the data, it
should be launched into
CATIA V5
Click Release to Transfer
Released
After development is
completed, the document
is saved in the vault of
released documents.
Click Obsolete to transfer a
document to the Obsolete
status.
Obsolete
The document can be
accessed by user,but
cannot be modified.
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The Life-cycle flow of documents in Team PDM
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• Revision management
• Assembly
management
• Drawings
• User Maintenance
• Viewer
• Search Tool
• Export/Import of Data
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Customization Tools
• Smart Wizard
Can define own data model and specific
requirements of companies.
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Advantages
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Very good CATIA integration.
Easy to work with assemblies.
Good security.
Good Lifecycle Management.
Powerful search tool.
User-friendly interface.
Easy to create drawings.
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Disadvantages
• No solution for variant management.
• Unnecessarily many administration options if only used as a file manager
for CATIA files.
• Confusing with all add-on modules. It is hard to know how to combine
them in order to get the right configuration
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Conclusion
• A PDM-system is a powerful tool for file and revision management.
• Maintenance Should be balanced.
• Flexible and User-Friendly with good CATIA Integration
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Open question
Does CATIA Team PDM provide enough functionality
to cover all requirements ?
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REFERENCES
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[1] CIMdata; Product Data Management: The Definition, An Introduction to
Concepts, Benefits and Terminology, Fourth Edition, 1997.
[2] Wesikko, Mikael; Product Data Management in Distributed and Large Scale,
1998.
[3] CIMdata; Product Lifecycle Management, Empowering the Future of Business,
2002.
[4] Williams, Christopher S; What is Product Data Management and Why should I
Care, http://www.pdmic.com/articles/whatspdm.html
[5] Dahlström, Henrik; Val av PDM-stöd för Unigraphics-användare, Examensarbete
[6] SmarTeam Administrator’s Guide, SmarTeam Corporation Ltd., 2001.
[7] SmarTeam User Course, SmarTeam Corporation Ltd., 2003.
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SOURCE
• http://www.catia.com.pl/tutorial/z2/catia_tea
m_pdm.pdf
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATIA#History
• http://www.cce.de/produkte/catia
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