Teamcenter Provides the Product Data Management Platform, Including Digital
Mock-ups, to Enable the Internationally Designed and Manufactured Sukhoi
Superjet 100 to Complete Maiden Flight in May
PLANO, Texas and FARNBOROUGH, England, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens
PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and
a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and
services, today announced that its Teamcenter(R) software suite enabled the
production of Russia's first internationally-designed and manufactured,
paperless aircraft. Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company's Superjet 100 (SSJ100),
marked its maiden flight on May 19, 2008.
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Russia's new entry into the competitive and rapidly growing global
regional jet market involved an international team of international partners
and world-class aircraft systems suppliers throughout Western Europe and the
United States. The goal for SCAC was to bring all system suppliers into a
virtual enterprise on a global platform, implementing the latest design and
manufacturing technology. The end result is an aircraft that consumes 10
percent less fuel than its nearest competitor, has a 10 percent lower overall
cost of ownership and has the lowest price in its class. The SSJ100 also
offers unprecedented passenger comfort in the regional jet category, with
wider seats, wider aisles and larger storage bins.
To create this industry-leading aircraft, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company
and its partners worked within a single master data warehouse enabled with
Teamcenter that included all 3D models and related data to completely define
and digitally mock up any aspect of the SSJ100. This warehouse, or platform,
enabled the company to create Russia's first aircraft from a paperless design
process.
Siemens PLM Software's Teamcenter software suite, the world's most
widely-used PLM portfolio, was central to SCAC upgrade effort and was among
key factors in achieving first flight in a fast-paced development program for
the SSJ100 regional airliner.
Teamcenter helped coordinate the efforts of approximately 1,700 engineers
and manufacturing specialists in more than eight locations with a world-class
team of partners across the globe.
"We set out with an aggressive plan and succeeded because of our
collaboration with partners and suppliers powered by Teamcenter," said Viktor
Soubbotin, President, Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company. "The collaborative
technology played a central role in bringing the SSJ100 into the air faster
and at lower cost."
"Teamcenter gave SCAC a single synchronized knowledge platform for
designing and manufacturing," said Paul Vogel, senior vice president and
managing director for Europe, Middle East & Africa, Siemens PLM Software. "In
large, geographically distributed projects, like SSJ100, everyone should work
with a single source of data to keep the control over all design changes
during production. Watching and working with Sukhoi over the course of the
design process has been inspiring. We, in a sense, provide the paint brush and
palette, but the designers at SCAC and their partners around the world are the
artists. And they truly have created a masterpiece in their first global
effort and they've done it in record time."
About Siemens PLM Software
Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation
Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM)
software and services with 5.5 million licensed seats and 51,000 customers
worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software's open
enterprise solutions enable a world where organizations and their partners
collaborate through Global Innovation Networks to deliver world-class products
and services. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and
services, visit www.siemens.com/plm .
About the Siemens Industry Automation Division
The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg), a division of the
Siemens Industry Sector, is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation
systems, low-voltage switchgear and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges
from standard products for the manufacturing and process industry to solutions
for whole industries and systems that encompass the automation of entire
automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software
supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of
manufacturers -- from product design and development to production, sales and
a wide range of maintenance services.
About Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC) is a Sukhoi Company subsidiary
headquartered in Moscow. Founded in 2000, SCAC aims to produce new models of
civil aircraft. The Company's major project is production of a new Sukhoi
Superjet 100 regional aircraft family. SCAC is focused upon the following
scope of activity: design and development, marketing and sales, production,
certification of the aircraft. Worldwide after-sales support and sales at
mature markets is handled by Superjet International, a joint venture founded
by Sukhoi Company and Alenia Aeronautica, SCAC's strategic partner. Boeing
Commercial Airplanes, the globally recognized aviation industry leader,
provides consultancy support to the project, while Snecma is a risk-sharing
partner. SCAC has two branches at the production sites located in Komsomolsk
and Novosibirsk and altogether employing 1,500+ people.
Note: Siemens and the Siemens logo are registered trademarks of Siemens
AG. Teamcenter is a trademark or registered trademark of Siemens Product
Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States
and in other countries. All other trademarks, registered trademarks or service
marks belong to their respective holders.
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