TeamViewer announces a new strategic collaboration with Siemens Digital Industries Software to bring the power of TeamViewer’s enterprise augmented reality (AR) platform, Frontline, to Siemens’ Teamcenter software, a portfolio product lifecycle management (PLM) solution from Siemens Xcelerator.
This collaboration enables Siemens customers to enhance their product development process through immersive experiences with interactive 3D content connected to a product’s digital twin. 3D models of products can be easily modified, allowing more teams throughout the product lifecycle to collaborate, thereby driving more informed product and innovation decisions.
We are very pleased to collaborate with Siemens in the field of product lifecycle management (PLM) and to help its customers increase their productivity, efficiency and quality of processes. This strategic partnership once once more highlights our leadership position in cutting-edge technologies such as AR and Mixed Reality (MR), and our notoriety in the global technology ecosystem, which is a major driver for our growing enterprise business, says Oliver Steil, CEO of TeamViewer.
Providing rich and immersive experiences to our customers is key to enriching the use of the executable digital twin. Our collaboration with TeamViewer offers another way for our community of designers, engineers and managers to engage with their product data, using the latest interactive Mixed Reality technology, says Tony Hemmelgarn, CEO and President of Siemens Digital Industries Software.
The Spatial module included in TeamViewer’s Frontline enterprise AR platform allows employees wearing Mixed Reality smart glasses, such as Microsoft HoloLens, to execute tasks in a more intuitive and interactive way by providing them with digital information, with three-dimensional elements and content. multimedia in an Augmented or Mixed Reality environment. Virtual information or holograms are placed on top of real world objects to enrich the reality of each employee and thus help visual orientation in the process. Thanks to the built-in code editor, process owners can easily manage and update the underlying workflows without involving their IT department to, for example, create digital twins from CAD model data.
With the added module, organizations can leverage their existing investment in CAD and PLM to increase productivity, efficiency, and process quality throughout the product development process and in following-sales service and maintenance. In addition, it allows the creation of AR content through PLM information without the need for programming knowledge. The solution is expected to be available later this year.
