UGS Integrates the Shop Floor with Product Lifecycle Management

September 26, 2006

Tecnomatix Production Management software bridges the gap between product design and production processes, enabling manufacturers to facilitate lean manufacturing and implement continuous process improvement.

ARCwire -- UGS Corp., a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, announced Tecnomatix Production Management portfolio, a family of leading manufacturing shop-floor applications and the industry's first software solution to integrate production management with a company's overall PLM process. Tecnomatix Production Management effectively expands the value of PLM by bridging the gaps between product design and production processes, enabling manufacturers to accelerate product launches, streamline regulatory compliance, facilitate lean manufacturing, and implement continuous process improvement.

Production Management is part of UGS' Tecnomatix suite of digital manufacturing solutions and includes the following products:

Tecnomatix FactoryLink for shop-floor connectivity (SCADA/HMI)
Tecnomatix MES (formerly Xfactory) for production monitoring and control
Tecnomatix Production Management Portal for manufacturing event reporting and shop-floor intelligence.