Your Vision: A Seamless Digital Product Development Process Within Teamcenter
Clean data is the key to success! Eliminate compliance risks, reduce costly rework, and speed up product launches with BCT CheckIt — your solution for seamless development.
Increasing Innovative Strength - Gaining a Market Lead with Optimized Processes
The Importance of Reliable Data in Product Development: Reliable processes and high-quality data is the linchpin of efficient product development. However, in many companies, systems are isolated, data sources are inconsistent and errors are often only detected at a late stage. The consequences: Delays, high costs for corrections and an extended time-to-market - a clear competitive disadvantage. Without a consistent data strategy, the risk of incorrect product information, regulatory problems and financial losses increases.
Teamcenter is a powerful Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system from Siemens Digital Industries Software that optimizes processes and coordinates systems to make digital product development efficient. However, without consistent assurance of data quality, challenges arise that affect downstream processes and connected systems.
Ensuring Data Quality Through Automated Validation: By systematically validating Teamcenter data, companies can ensure the quality of their product data and prevent inefficient processes. Detecting and correcting errors at an early stage and before they affect downstream systems and processes needs to be done by leveraging automated validating mechanisms. Thereby project managers receive a reliable basis for decision-making, while development teams can concentrate on innovation instead of correcting errors. The result: accelerated product development cycles, reduced costs and increased competitiveness thanks to reliable, consistent data.
Efficiency Instead of Bottlenecks - the Biggest Pitfalls in Product Development
These problems reinforce each other and create a cycle of inefficiencies that impact product quality, innovation and competitiveness. Solving these problems through integrated and automated data management, optimized workflows and proactive defect detection can significantly improve product development outcomes.
MARKET DELAYS
Slow processes and inaccurate data reduce the competitive advantage and growth opportunities.
Impact on time-to-market: Teams waste time reconciling missing or conflicting information, delaying important decisions.
Higher costs: Additional resources are needed to track down missing information, resulting in reduced efficiency.
Product defects: Incorrect or incomplete data can lead to costly and time-consuming rework late in the product development process.
COSTLY ERRORS
Corrections and inefficient processes increase operating costs and absorb important resources.
Declining innovative strength: Instead of focusing on the development of new functions or improvements, developers are primarily occupied with solving existing problems.
Lower productivity: Inconsistent processes create bottlenecks that slow down the entire process.
Employee frustration: A constant search for errors leads to frustration and dissatisfaction among employees, as they are unable to concentrate on important areas of their work.
COMPLIANCE & QUALITY RISKS
Incorrect data can lead to product recalls and fines, as well as seriously risking trust in a company.
Regulatory risk: Non-compliance with industry standards can have serious consequences such as fines, product recalls or lengthy legal disputes.
Quality defects: If products do not meet expectations, this can lead not only to customer complaints but also to lasting damage to the company's reputation.
Rising rework costs: Non-compliant products require re-development, testing and certification, resulting in additional costs.
TRANSPARENCY GAP
Errors that are detected late delay projects, drive up costs and threaten deadlines.
Missed deadlines: If problems are identified too late, this requires last-minute changes that delay the entire schedule and threaten deadlines.
Budget overruns: Correcting problems at a late stage of development is much more costly than identifying and fixing them early.
Customer dissatisfaction: Delayed product releases can result in missed market opportunities and a significant loss of revenue.
Realizing Your Vision: Driving Business Success Through Data Validation and PLM Optimization
Less Rework, More Innovation - Optimize Your Processes Effectively
An efficient digital product development process is based on error-free, validated data. To achieve this goal, you need a proactive strategy for data management and process optimization. This will help you avoid errors right from the start and ensure that your data remains consistent at every stage of the product lifecycle.
Validate Data directly at the Source to Eliminate Costly Errors: Error-free data right from the start means shorter development times, reduced costs and smooth processes. Early validation - whether of bills of materials (BOM), metadata or other critical information - helps you avoid costly rework and prevent production downtime. This ensures predictable supply chains, reduces delays and ensures error-free integration into ERP and manufacturing systems.
Automation instead of Manual Corrections - for Scalability and Efficiency: Manual checks are time-consuming, error-prone and slow down innovation. Automated validations eliminate these hurdles, ensure smooth data quality and keep processes stable. This speeds up approvals, reduces unplanned downtime and increases competitiveness through more efficient processes and shorter development times.
Achieve Seamless Data Flow Across Enterprise Systems: A consistent database enables reliable processes, faster decision-making and reduced error costs. The smooth integration of PLM, ERP and other systems minimizes the coordination effort and increases productivity through consistent data. Uniform, error-free information accelerates development cycles, optimizes the supply chain and ensures trouble-free business operations without costly interruptions.
Equip Teams with Intelligent Tools and Compliance Standards: Well-equipped teams work more efficiently, avoid errors and make informed decisions. Intuitive tools that guide users through processes in a targeted manner accelerate workflows, reduce risks and increase productivity. Automated validations shorten training times, optimize collaboration and allow teams to focus on value-adding tasks.
Move from Reactive Problem-Solving to Error Prevention: Errors cost time, money and competitiveness. With a proactive strategy, problems can be avoided before they arise and efficient development can be ensured. Through validation, automation and compliance checks, expensive rework is avoided, deadlines are reliably met and a data-based decision-making foundation is created that accelerates innovation and ensures sustainable business success.
Realizing this vision is about more than just system improvement - it's about relieving your teams so they can focus on what really matters: Bringing high-quality products to market efficiently and with complete confidence. With the right strategies and tools, this transformation is not only possible, but successful in the long term.
Our Solution
Automated Data Validation for Error-Free Processes
Integrated within Teamcenter, BCT CheckIt validates and cleans data. By combining Teamcenter’s robust PLM capabilities with BCT CheckIt’s data validation, product development becomes a more seamless and efficient journey—one that empowers teams to innovate with precision and confidence.
With tools like BCT CheckIt, we enable:
Real-Time Error Detection: Validation of BOM structures and metadata during data creation to prevent errors from propagating into downstream systems.
Ensured Compliance: Automated checks guarantee adherence to standards and regulations.
Faster Onboarding: User-friendly validation mechanisms shorten the onboarding time for new employees.
Ready to Start Your Path to Process Optimization Now?
Learn more about the benefits of automated data validation. Contact us today to optimize your processes for error-free production and faster time-to-market.
