Use of WAVE and Teamcenter
Use of WAVE and Teamcenter
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I spotted on another post that some users had problems with WAVE when running under Teamcenter. What sort of issues are being seen? We have noticed a few times when UG behaves differently running native and under Teamcenter.
An example: I suddenly lost the ability to create UDFs under Teamcenter: no system changes, no upgrades, just stopped working. UGS (on site) flummoxed. Took a point release and it started working again. Happened to several other users, not all at the same time.
An example: I suddenly lost the ability to create UDFs under Teamcenter: no system changes, no upgrades, just stopped working. UGS (on site) flummoxed. Took a point release and it started working again. Happened to several other users, not all at the same time.





RE: Use of WAVE and Teamcenter
Apart from that, we have found plenty of weird things happening to us since we changed to Teamcenter environment. We could exchange some oddities if you like!!
RE: Use of WAVE and Teamcenter
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RE: Use of WAVE and Teamcenter
Anyway, we have been trying to implement Teamcenter for about two years, and is not yet running properly.
It is easy to say, but the most important thing is to know what you really want to get out of Teamcenter and them put the right questions to the UGS people. I wish I could give you a list, but I don´t feel capable. However I can tell you a couple of things we did wrong. That always help.
1. Create a multidisciplinary team from the beginning to study the implementation.Everybody must be involved!!
2. Consider implementing step by step and think that you might not need everything UGS offers from the first day!!
3. Make sure the boss takes it as a priority. At some point you will need to stop doing your job for a while and dedicate to put everything in good "order". She/he might not take it well.
4. Using Teamcenter is not so straight forward as it seems. Make sure you get from the begining a proper training and operation manual. The most important thing is to know what you must never do!!
An example of weird things. Depending on the way you use the "save us" command you could find that Teamcenter doesn't create some atributes properly. You might find you have a component in a revision "C" while in your drawing part list what appears is a revision "A", or a different part name....
Nice, isn`t it?
RE: Use of WAVE and Teamcenter
That could be Teamcenter related but not necessarily a bug. Teamcenter has as a part of its admin package an area called "The Business Modeler" Thats where you set business rules pertaining to how Teamcenter handles New and Legacy data when certain actions are applied such as doing a Save As. Check with your local UGS rep. You also need to ensure the proper ACL's are in place.
Best Regards,
Jay
RE: Use of WAVE and Teamcenter
If we got Teamcenter is because we knew we needed some PDM tool if we wanted to be capable of managing all the information. I do think we are better with than without, but is getting far too long to start it out, and we didn't really need all they sold us. Many of the problems, however, I think are "home made", that is why I insisted on getting everybody seriously involved.
About the problems with the atributes it has been reported and now is a PR, which means, I think, it is a bug in the program, but maybe just in our version(V9.0.0.4). We will be updating it soon.
RE: Use of WAVE and Teamcenter
I would highly recommend you upgrade to Tceng v9.1.2.10
There were a number of fixes. Its a very stable version, and the upgrade is simple. Its basically just an xcopy.
It has PLMXML and Multi-site fixes as well. As far as vaulting data, we vault all types of dataset types.
AutoCad. Word, Excel, Cadra, Pcad, Visio, Corel, PDF, Zip.
I think any PDM system has its problem set, but UGS is pretty good about helping you solve problems with Teamcenter.
Jay
RE: Use of WAVE and Teamcenter
UGS people told us the same than you, that many of the problems we have could be easely solved just by doing that!!
See you around in the forum!!