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Benefits across the board – for employees and customers
What are the advantages of using Teamcenter? Streamlined work-
flows, no more reduplicated processes and even faster solutions.
And something that wasn’t a primary objective but may just be
Teamcenter’s greatest benefit: a feeling of belonging that keeps on
growing, transcending national and cultural boundaries. Every day,
all around the world, employees at CE and many other Industry
Sector units are experiencing how Teamcenter improves collabora-
tion among women and men with different skills, knowhow and
qualifications – and enables them to get to know one another bet-
ter. Jayne Beck values diverse teams for yet another reason: “Our
customers, like our employees, come from a wide range of cultural
backgrounds. All around the globe, we have colleagues who are
especially good at putting themselves in our customers’ shoes. And
their knowledge and insights equip us to develop better products
and solutions.”
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Helmut Staufer brings in the responsible product manager, and they come
to the conclusion that it would make good business sense to produce and
certify the pushbutton for the U.S. market. Staufer then gives the green
light for production to begin.
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Jayne Beck uses product data and D views to virtually install the push-
button in the control cabinet. Once the customer’s order confirmation has
been received, Beck uses Teamcenter to order prototypes from Suzhou for
U.S. safety certification testing, which she assigns to the Siemens test lab
in Tucker.
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Xu Huihui was already testing software for
Siemens when he was a student at Yancheng
Institute of Technology. After earning a bache-
lor’s degree in mechanical design, manufac-
ture and automation, he joined Siemens in
Suzhou in . Following various assign-
ments in the field of IT, Xu is currently work-
ing in development. His experience here is
that Teamcenter is very easy to learn and
is substantially improving international col-
laboration.
Suzhou, China
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 ()
Xu Huihui, Development (left)