In the world of business operations, Teamcenter's workflow functionality plays a vital role in executing various processes like change management, release processes, and ERP system data transfer with utmost precision. This powerful feature acts as the foundation for streamlining and automating these crucial processes. However, to ensure flawless execution, it is imperative to maintain impeccable data quality.
A few common challenges associated with Teamcenter workflows include:
Workflow Disruptions Due to Missing or Incorrect Metadata: Incomplete or inaccurate metadata can disrupt the workflow, leading to inefficiencies.
Inability for Users to Reset Workflows: When workflows encounter issues, users often find themselves unable to reset or access them, requiring administrator intervention.
Workflow Deletion, Forwarding, or Resetting Limited to Administrators: The authority to delete, forward, or reset workflows is typically restricted to administrators, resulting in delays and administrative burdens.
Time-Consuming and Repetitive Tasks for Designers: Workflow disruptions in the latter stages necessitate designers to invest time in repetitive and laborious tasks.
BCT CheckIt offers a solution by facilitating the early detection of data and consistency errors in the product development process, even prior to the approval phase. This proactive approach not only improves data quality but also helps in circumventing the need for resource-intensive corrections later on.
As a Teamcenter portal or Active Workspace plug-in, BCT CheckIt empowers Teamcenter users to autonomously conduct flexible data checks. Due to its user-friendly interface and ease of use - even without detailed knowledge of the Teamcenter data model - e.g. Bill Of Material (BOM) verifications can be performed quickly and effectively.
An interactive inspection report furnishes users with insights into the results of their assessments. Upon successful validation, an automated Teamcenter workflow can be seamlessly initiated. Furthermore, BCT CheckIt assessments can also be integrated as workflow handlers within existing Teamcenter workflows, granting versatility and adaptability.
Standard validation rules expedite implementation, while administrators retain the capability to effortlessly supplement and customize organization-specific rules to align with business requirements.
BCT CheckIt stands as a pivotal asset in ensuring error-free workflow runs within Teamcenter, mitigating disruptions, enhancing data quality, and fostering operational efficiency. By identifying and rectifying issues at an early stage, businesses can streamline their processes and optimize their product development endeavors.
With BCT CheckIt a product has been developed which enables the user in Teamcenter to recursively check even complex assembly structures for plausibility and completeness of attributes, characteristics, classifications and change information at any time.
Michael Pratz, Abteilungsleiter Datenverarbeitung / Organisation / Technology
Bausch + Ströbel Maschinenfabrik GmbH + Co. KG
You can find more information in the Bausch + Ströbel Case Study "Optimization of processes in Teamcenter"