Three Ways to Integrate Cameo Systems Modeler with Teamcenter

PROSTEP Group provides standard-based solutions to enable the heterogeneous digital thread, connecting different IT systems, domains, and organizations across the whole product lifecycle. PROSTEP is a vendor neutral specialist for PLM strategy consultancy and engineering solutions, maintaining long-standing partnerships with leading PLM providers like Aras, Dassault Systèmes, PTC, Siemens Digital Industries Software and others. It also is a founding member of the non-profit standardization body prostep ivip Association which is strongly committed to interoperability and collaboration.

A cornerstone of PROSTEP’s digital thread platform is the PLM integration platform OpenPDM which powers the integrations between Cameo and Teamcenter. It integrates product data and processes horizontally across the product lifecycle, from concept design to service, but also vertically across disciplines and domains, supporting ALM PLM connectivity and model-based systems engineering (MBSE). For this purpose, the platform provides a wide variety of standard connectors to different commercial PDM/PLM, ALM, ERP and IoT systems, an easy-to-use business process modeler based on Camunda and a powerful data mapping engine.

The three Cameo integrations developed by PROSTEP, Inc. address different customer needs in MBSE from light-weight data linking ensuring traceability, to in-depth interaction of systems engineers with PLM, to automatic synchronization of data between the Cameo and PLM environments. The latter is supported by the Teamwork Cloud to Teamcenter integration based on the two OpenPDM connectors and the Camunda-based process server. Teamwork Cloud is the former No Magics’ and now Dassault Systèmes’ model repository for collaborative MBSE with the Cameo Systems Modeler. Any system could be integrated to Cameo with OpenPDM connector technology such as Windchill, Aras, Smarteam, etc.

Using a trigger or event, the Teamwork cloud integration allows to automatically export data from the Teamwork model repository, map it to the data structure in Teamcenter and import it into the PLM system or vice-versa. The focus would be on exchanging and synchronizing managed data that is the Authoritative Source of Truth (ASoT) between Cameo and Teamcenter. OpenPDM manages the synchronization by documenting the successful execution of the exchange process and creating the corresponding reports.

Direct Access via Cameo Client Plugin

To give systems engineers more direct access to Teamcenter data from their Cameo Systems Modeler, PROSTEP, Inc. has created a Cameo client plugin integration that directly interfaces with the Teamcenter connector via web services. A user can login to the backend system, query for data, import it to Cameo, update Teamcenter data, all, without having to leave their familiar working environment. They could, for example import a bill of material from Teamcenter to add product BOM data to a system model in Cameo. The Cameo client plugin also offers powerful filtering functions to facilitate data query.

The third way to integrate Cameo with Teamcenter or other PLM solutions is through the Cameo Data Hub OSCL bridge, using the PROSTEP OSLC Provider and Teamcenter Connector to federate authoring tool and the backend system. OSLC stands for Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration and is an open standard for data linking inspired by web technology. It has a consumer and a provider side. Built into the Cameo Systems Modeler is an OSLC consumer which allows it to connect to other OSLC-compliant systems. It is important to note that data is not replicated but only linked in a traceable manner. Clicking on the hyperlinks, the data can also be traced directly to the other system.

All companies developing and manufacturing smart connected, software-intensive products and systems face the challenge of better integrating mechanical and electrical/electronical software development. Many of them adopt the MBSE approach to improve cross-domain and interdisciplinary collaboration. The three ways to integrate Cameo Systems Modeler with Teamcenter or other PLM systems showcased by PROSTEP, Inc. give them maximum flexibility when embedding MBSE into their overall development processes to realize the heterogeneous digital thread.