Steinbeis Transfer Center Computer Applications in Engineering

Competent consulting builds a foundation for successful implementation. Our portfolio therefore ranges from advisory services to implementation/adaptation of PLM components. We also offer you a comprehensive portfolio of staff training and CPD services. This makes us the ideal people to turn to, not just for small and medium-sized enterprises, but also for major companies.

• Consulting
• Implementation and customized adaptation
• Training and continuing professional development

Consulting:

• Strategy and process consulting
  • PLM information flow analysis and assessment of potential
  • Development of business strategies for PLM and virtual factories
  • Detailed planning of PLM technology concepts
  • PLM project management
• Operational planning of information management in the product development process
  • Lifecycle design - planning of operational information development
  • Semantic design - planning of modular product structures
  • Integration design - integration of specialist functions and sites

Implementation and customized adaptation:

• Implementation support with the introduction of
  • PLM, PDM, and technical information systems (e.g. Teamcenter implementation)
  • PLM cost accounting
  • Requirement management and systems engineering
  • CAD, CAM, CAE, CNC simulation
  • Virtual factories and virtual commissioning with Process/Simulate and Teamcenter
• Customer-specific adaptation programming for Teamcenter, NX, and CATIA
  • Software design and programming of customer-specific software
  • Development of PLM clients, modules, and interfaces
  • Post-processor programming and drafting of virtual machine tools
  • Development of tools for safeguarding data quality

Training and continuing professional development:

• Methods training and management courses
  • Certified PLM Principal (SHB), Shaolin Temple for PLM – training run by experts for other experts
  • PLM – overview (introduction to the common terminology and topics of PLM)
  • Industry 4.0 – overview (introduction to the common terminology and topics of smart production)
  • The product development process: from requirements to the final product
  • PLM – industry processes (incl. production management, manufacturing, assembly, cost accounting in order processing, supplier connections)
• Technical training
  • CAD/CAM/CAE-related training and education on the following systems: NX, Creo, CATIA
  • Teamcenter fundamental training
  • Digital factories - Process Designer/Process Simulate
  • Mechatronic Concept Designer

• CAD and PLM: worldwide user support for an automotive supplier
• Analysis of structuring methods applied to product hierarchies and crystallization into examples of best practice for the different types of customers of a leading PLM supplier
• Software development for mass import of NX native data in Teamcenter taking company-specific standards into account
• Support with the introduction of a Teamcenter UA-based process planning system for mapping assembly and virtual safeguards
• Support with the introduction of a multi-domain PLM strategy involving Teamcenter UA for a producer of white goods
• Mapping of costs and project tracking for a southern German automotive producer based on digital factories
• Software development for the mass import of NX native data in Teamcenter taking company-specific standards into account for CAD structures and naming conventions, including validity checks and output protocols
• Development and programming of company-specific technical calculation programs, in some cases integrated into the CAD system.
• Development of tools for automatic quality checking of existing CAD records, including output protocols
• Implementation of CAD systems at different types of companies
• Economic viability assessment of CAD systems

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg W. Fischer   Phone: +49 173 367 52 20

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ute Dietrich   Phone: +49 170 415 68 32

Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Fernando Trinidad Diaz   Phone: +49 172 894 10 82

Steinbeis Transfer magazine

Editorial (Transfer 02/19/2019)
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION MEANS A LOT MORE THAN DIGITALIZATION (Transfer 02/19/2019)
Small and medium-sized enterprises need to do more than digitalize processes – they also need to keep overhauling their business models
The Starting Point for Implementing Digital Transformation: Excellent Teaching (Transfer 2/2017)
Steinbeis experts develop tool kit-based PLM teaching module PLM-Tactile
A Shaolin Monastery for Managing Product Life Cycles, Smart Factories, and Digital Solutions (Transfer 1/2017)
Steinbeis experts launch training to become a PLM Principal Consultant
“The Innovation Process Needs Flexibility and Freedom!” (Transfer 4/2014)
An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Jörg W. Fischer
Ready for PLM? (Transfer 2/2014)
Steinbeis helps companies maintain consistency in their engineering processes