In most companies, engineers spend much of their time working in the engineering systems of record, like Siemens Teamcenter and Polarion or in PTC Windchill and Codebeamer. But the standards that govern their work are published outside of that system breaking the Digital Thread. What if there was a better way that allows engineers to stay where they work but connects the governing standards into their existing workflows, fully licensed and protected?
Often engineering decisions require a user to leave the PLM or ALM system to run searches, validate versions, and compare changes before returning with the answer. This inherently leads to delays in time to market and increased project cost.
Fast forward to the point in time when there is a revision to the governing standard – there’s no way for a notification to alert the engineering team of the revision, which can lead to quality issues, late-stage design changes, and potentially engineering rework.
Finally, what happens during design reviews, audits, or compliance events? Instead of having traceability evidence at your fingertips, the pathway must be reconstructed, taking engineers away from their work to reactively search and document the steps taken up to that point.
Accuris Connect for Engineering Workbench closes these gaps, helping accelerate time to market, mitigate project cost creep, limiting late-stage design changes and costly engineering rework, and improving product quality. A governed record is created in your system of record carrying the standards designation and the edition that applies, all while sitting beside the part or requirement it governs, extending Digital Thread to the source of the standard. The standard itself remains licensed and protected in Engineering Workbench, but the intelligence it provides comes into your system of record.
In this session, Emily Hartman introduces Accuris Connect, demonstrating in real time what changes for engineers and what stays exactly the same, while also providing answers on entitlements and deployment.
What you will learn
• How Accuris Connect creates standards links from designation and edition metadata, and keeps them current as editions change
• What an engineer sees from inside a part, document, or requirement, and why standards continue to open in Engineering Workbench
• How withdrawn and superseded editions are flagged, and where the current edition appears
• How existing entitlements, site limits, and content scope continue to govern every link
• What deployment involves, and why no standards content is copied into or stored in your engineering systems
