Siemens Teamcenter Easy Plan

About Siemens Teamcenter Easy Plan

In a global production environment, manufacturers often find themselves looking for ways to reduce time-to-market, control costs and manage complexity while maintaining high quality. Factors such as connectivity to engineering and production, effectively managing changes, assembly line balancing, forecasting production orders and more must be considered in the planning and execution phases. Teamcenter Easy Plan, a role-based planning solution, delivers key capabilities to support and execute manufacturing planning.

Teamcenter Easy Plan Capabilities

Teamcenter Easy Plan helps teams increase operational efficiency, reduce shop floor errors and maximize overall engineering productivity. Built on top of the best-in-class Siemens Teamcenter® software with a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) backbone, Easy Plan helps enterprises leverage existing product and process information, as well as share cross-departmental workflows. Businesses are enabled to optimize their Bill of Materials (BOM) and process plans, capture shop floor feedback and manage changes effectively.

Teamcenter Easy Plan works in the Active Workspace client for Teamcenter. Active Workspace is an innovative, web-based client platform that simplifies PLM for all users involved in the entire product lifecycle, accelerates user adoption and shortens time-to-value by providing a streamlined and intuitive planning experience anytime, anywhere, on any device. Teamcenter is a part of the Xcelerator™ portfolio, a comprehensive and integrated portfolio of software and services from Siemens Digital Industries Software.

Manufacturing BOM Management (mBOM) / Product Structure

Teamcenter Easy Plan delivers a task-based solution for defining and managing the Manufacturing Bill of Materials (mBOM) while ensuring seamless reconciliation of product changes originating from the Engineering Bill of Materials (eBOM). Managing both the eBOM and mBOM within a unified environment increases accuracy and reduces inventory costs by streamlining the implementation of changes without delays. Virtual validations further ensure eBOM accuracy, mitigating the risk of purchasing outdated parts or producing obsolete product versions—common issues when eBOM and mBOM are handled separately.

Key capabilities include:

Defining make vs. buy parts
Managing substitute and alternate items at global and site levels
Supporting effectivity, kits, sub-assemblies and phantom items

Production Scenarios & Optimization for Industrial Engineering

Teamcenter Easy Plan offers advanced optimization tools to enhance plant-level activities through features such as line balancing, cycle time analysis and station-level walk path estimation. By enabling detailed analysis of production sequences and the breakdown of value-added vs. non-value-added tasks, Easy Plan helps industrial engineering teams maximize assembly productivity. Integrated standard time data cards allow for highly accurate cycle time estimates. Additionally, manufacturing teams can define, execute and analyze "what-if" scenarios to validate and optimize the feasibility of assembly processes before execution.

Process Planning and Validation

Teamcenter Easy Plan enables organizations to define and manage the Bill of Process (BOP) to improve product quality while accelerating new product introductions (NPI) by validating process plans much earlier, reducing the need for costly late-stage design changes. Manufacturing teams can reuse standardized best practices and tailor them to plant-specific requirements, driving cost savings and productivity improvements. For centralized manufacturing planning, Easy Plan overcomes the limitations of working with isolated programs or product variants. Any program can be adapted to reflect real-world production scenarios. The platform also fosters collaboration, allowing factory planners to customize centrally defined process templates based on local resources and capabilities. This integrated central and factory-level planning approach improves traceability, streamlines change propagation and minimizes the costs associated with product modifications.

Work Instruction Authoring and Data Collection Definition

Teamcenter Easy Plan provides a graphical interface for authoring detailed manufacturing work instructions and defining data collection points. By consolidating engineering and manufacturing data management into a single source of truth, the solution promotes data reuse across the organization’s entire product development process. Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) data from the model can drive the definition of critical quality control data collection, while mBOM management enables the creation of material validation and control checkpoints by manufacturing engineers. Additionally, engineers can leverage engineering design data, PMI and item masters to produce comprehensive and informative work instructions. These instructions can include text-based content with automated calls for parts, tools, sub-assemblies and more. Engineers can also create rich 3D visualizations, including callouts, cross-sections, exploded views and animations to support manufacturing operations.

Electronic Work Instruction – Shop Floor Delivery

For organizations without a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) such as Siemens Opcenter, Teamcenter Easy Plan provides Electronic Work Instructions (EWI) directly to the shop floor. Unlike static, paper-based instructions, EWIs can include interactive 3D models of parts, tool information and embedded PMI. Operators can manipulate 3D views, play animated assembly sequences and navigate step-by-step job instructions. These dynamic, highly visual and always up-to-date instructions enhance product quality, reduce rework and boost operational efficiency. Additionally, the ability to manage work instructions by product configuration ensures not only efficient initial creation but also the flexibility to implement changes swiftly—an essential feature for modern manufacturing teams. While authoring initial work instructions requires upfront effort, the ongoing task of managing engineering changes and integrating them into manufacturing structures is often the most time-consuming element of the planning process, which Easy Plan helps to streamline.

Target Industrial Sectors

Automotive & Transportation
Aerospace & Defense
Industrial Machinery & Heavy Equipment
Electronics & High-Tech
Medical Devices & Life Sciences
Energy & Utilities
Shipbuilding
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

Features of Siemens Teamcenter Easy Plan

EBOM and MBOM accountability, reconciliation and visualization
Configuration using variants and effectivity
Line balancing and operation time analysis
Cycle time and production rate estimation
Textual work instructions and visual aids with markups
Issue reporting and guided change management

Benefits of Siemens Teamcenter Easy Plan

Enabled intuitive user experience and ease of use for process planning
Standardized and re-use best practices
Process plan development to reflect plant level production scenarios
Strong configuration and change management for manufacturing data
Optimized cycle times and production rates
Clear and up-to-date operator instructions

Engineering’s Expertise

Siemens Digital Industries Software is at the forefront of enabling the digital enterprise, where engineering, manufacturing and electronics design converge to meet the challenges of tomorrow. By helping companies of all sizes create and leverage Digital Twins, Siemens empowers organizations to unlock new insights, accelerate innovation and achieve higher levels of automation. As a certified Siemens reseller, solution provider and system integrator, Engineering Industries eXcellence stands apart as the only partner globally with the combined vision, industry expertise, resources and technical capabilities to deliver fully integrated solutions across the entire Siemens Digital Industries portfolio.

A key part of this portfolio is Siemens Teamcenter—the world’s most widely adopted PLM system. While many view Teamcenter as a tool focused solely on managing engineering data, we take it further. Our approach centers on using Teamcenter to bridge the critical gap between engineering and manufacturing, enabling true concurrent engineering. With Siemens Teamcenter Easy Plan, we help organizations seamlessly execute product engineering and process planning in parallel, driving faster time-to-market, increased profitability and enhanced product quality.