Simplify collaboration between your design engineers, suppliers, and all design review stakeholders with a seamless integration between CoLab’s DES and Siemens Teamcenter PLM. Keep your design files in order using Siemens Teamcenter and share them with CoLab to support a collaborative design review with authorized reviewers. After reviewing, make necessary changes to the design file in your CAD system, save them in Siemens Teamcenter, and share them with CoLab for further review.
Start by setting up a secure CoLab workspace in the cloud. Then share 3D CAD models, drawings, BOMs, and product manufacturing information from TeamCenter to the CoLab folder with individuals outside of Teamcenter PLM in a secure manner. No more worries about sending files through emails or having information in a hundred different places. Just share files easily and safely in your web browser.
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With CoLab, you can share CAD files with anyone without compromising access to the source files. In addition, you can avoid giving sensitive CAD files to your suppliers every time you require a quote. You control the permissions, so you always know how and where the data is being shared.
CoLab engineers will work with a person from your IT department to create an installer to share files securely from Siemens TeamCenter to a CoLab workspace. CoLab works with you during setup, installation to a test server, validation of file sharing, and installation on a production server to ensure a smooth and secure integration. The result: Your team maintains a secure "system of record" in the Siemens Teamcenter PLM, while offering a collaborative "system of engagement" on CoLab to improve the design review process.
Stop wasting time searching for the right file or accidentally using outdated versions. CoLab's integration with Siemens Teamcenter lets you share files directly from Siemens Teamcenter to CoLab in the cloud. Feel confident that everyone on your team is using the latest versions, even when making changes. This helps maintain quality and accuracy throughout the process and prevents mistakes from reaching production.
The installation itself takes 15-30 minutes.
Yes, we offer automatic installation as well as custom installation options.
The CoLab integration is a stand alone integration with PDMLink only, and separate from the other products in your ecosystem (e.g. ProjectLink, PartsLink, MPMLink, CreoView Client). The integration simply creates the ability to share a file to CoLab using the action context menu and right click context menu in PDMLink. Many of our customers using the integration have customizations in their Windchill and our integration does not affect these customizations. We give you the ability to manually manage the context menu modification if necessary.
You can share 3D models, drawings, Bills of Materials including metadata, and product manufacturing information.
Standard windchill utilities are used to accommodate the CoLab integration. This requires minimal adjustment to your existing Windchill setup.
Most teams spend 30 minutes preparing setup information for CoLab, 30 minutes installing the integration on a test Windchill server, and 30 minutes installing the integration on their production server. The amount of time spent on testing and validation is up to you.Maintenance requires minimal effort. Minor updates to Windchill are tested by CoLab, and should require no update to the CoLab integration. Major Windchill upgrades will require a reinstallation of the CoLab integration.
Yes, it can be installed on both at the same time.
In order to share information from Windchill to CoLab:
To learn more about how we keep your data secure, visit our security page.
The CoLab Windchill integration is installed on your Windchill server. Users must authenticate with CoLab in order to use the integration. The integration shares file data and metadata (CAD Documents, PDFs, WTPart Attributes, etc) with the CoLab application via a secure REST API. Data shared from Windchill is securely saved in CoLab’s AWS cloud environment.
An administrator would simply need to run the installer again and select the Uninstall option, then restart the Windchill server. This should only take about 15-30 minutes.
A typical integration follows the following structure:
The actual installation takes 15-30 minutes. Usually our customers want to go through a staged approach where they install in a sandbox environment, then QA, then Production. We sometimes encounter environment or configuration specific issues that need to be investigated and addressed as we work through that process. Typically we see 10-20 hours of involvement from IT teams across a period of several weeks, depending on their internal process and level of testing and validation required.
The CoLab integration is a standalone integration with Teamcenter Server and Teamcenter Rich Client only, and separate from the other products in your ecosystem (e.g. Active Workspace, NX, etc). The integration simply creates the ability to share a file - or collection of files - to CoLab using the right click context menu in Teamcenter. Many of our customers using the integration have customizations in their Teamcenter environment, and our integration does not affect these customizations. CoLab gives you the ability to manually manage the context menu modification if necessary.
You can share 3D models (parts and assemblies, both native NX and standard formats such as JT), as well as drawings in PDF format if a PDF representation exists.
Teamcenter Environment Manager (TEM) is used to install the server-side integration. This requires no adjustment to your existing Teamcenter setup. The client-side installation is just a jar in the RAC installation and running the standard Teamcenter utility to register it.
Yes, it can be installed on both at the same time.
In order to share information from Teamcenter to CoLab:
To learn more about how we keep your data secure, visit our security page.
The CoLab Windchill integration is installed on your Windchill server. Users must authenticate with CoLab in order to use the integration. The integration shares file data and metadata (CAD Documents, PDFs, WTPart Attributes, etc) with the CoLab application via a secure REST API. Data shared from Windchill is securely saved in CoLab’s AWS cloud environment.
The CoLab Teamcenter Integration currently supports Teamcenter Rich Client (RAC). Active Workspace support is planned for H1 2024. It is important to note that CoLab is a cloud-based application that can be accessed via a web-browser, and that the Integration is not necessary for end users to access the CoLab platform. CoLab's Teamcenter integration simply facilitates easier sharing of CAD data from your Teamcenter environment to CoLab.
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A typical integration follows the following structure: