Active Workspace’s simple and intuitive interface makes it easy for all users to participate in and contribute to the product lifecycle processes, without having to be a PLM expert. Instead of doing a gut-wrenching rewrite of the underlying complex Teamcenter architecture and risking losing users with an entirely new architecture that requires time-consuming migrations, Siemens PLM has logically added a general search and data discovery layer. Navigate here to read more – Siemens’ Active Workspace Handles PLM Data Complexity TEC article by PJ gives you some more information and explains ActiveWorkspace as a client for Teamcetner using Teamcenter data model, SOLR and some other search tech. However, you can see an accent shifted already in Active Workspace 2.0 release in 2013. Active Workspace is designed to track and display the semantics of such relationships and to visualize them. If a requirement changes, the CAD model must change. At any given time during product development an engineer may need to refer to or create information in both, but it is usually the norm that the data in each place was created by different people. Intelligently integrated information: A requirements document and a CAD model are two very different repositories of data, but they are both important to the design and manufacturing of a product. Randal Newton Graphic Speak article is explaining Active Workspace as an intersection of big data and intelligently connected information. “So Active Workspace set out to relieve that finding information problem by aggregating that information, connecting to those other data sources, and bringing them to one user interface that allows the user to find that information in one tool rather than go to all these other tools,” he said. “An example I’ve seen is an engineer wanted to release a part and in order for the engineer to do that there were 14 different databases they had to visit to get the information they needed.” Simply because information is stored in so many places, it can be hard to work with it all.
“Active Workspace started its life as a search application to help our customers find the information, but what we’ve found is that there’s a search problem that’s broader than that.” Finding information in a particular PLM solution is not the problem it’s finding data from many other sources as well Lewis said. “Active Workspace is a tool that helps us achieve that vision,” Lewis said. This is where Active Workspace comes into the HD-PLM vision. This means “taking all this information, all of this powerful PLM information, and giving it to the user in such a way that it looks like it was made for them regardless of what job they do,” he said. The last area of HD-PLM Lewis mentioned is the high definition user experience. Here is CIMdata article from 2012 – Siemens’ New Active Workspace: Tool Helps Find Info from Many Applications. That was the mantra of search-driven applications. Here is slide from Teamcenter 9 presentation I captured:Īnalyst reviews captured at the same time, confirmed Siemens PLM Active Workspace strategy to target multi-disciplinary data, indexing data from multiple applications and providing right information to the right user at the right time. You might remember Dassault Exalead acquisition that came around the same time and few other projects I mentioned in my blog. Check my old blog about search experience in PLM. The idea of search technologies was novel back in 2010-2012.
It was first introduced 6 years ago as part of TC 9 and it was presented as a search driven tool to reduce complexity of PLM data and user experience. One of PLM projects I’ve been following for long time is Siemens PLM Active Workspace.
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