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Situation

Siemens cover the whole process of development, sales,

engineering, manufacturing and the after market with life-

time service. Each turbine consists of approx. 10 000 parts

and 5% of those are new/revised per project. The core tur-

bine is designed and manufactured in Finspång, while auxil-

iary parts are sourced from sub-suppliers and then assem-

bled in Siemens workshop before sending the complete tur-

bine to the customer.

Problem

The extensive use of a document-based communication

process, based on e-mail and some times also in print, made

it complex and expensive to track product specifications and

documentation coming from suppliers. Lacking an effective

way to communicate with suppliers could lead to develop-

ment of turbines based on incorrect specifications and diffi-

culties for suppliers to manage system documentation.

Solution

The solution is a secure and standard based collaboration

hub that connects Siemens and their suppliers to an environ-

ment to share product data in a controlled way, with minimal

impact on existing processes and tools. Siemens can main-

tain up-to-date product configuration with suppliers, part-

ners and customer. While suppliers can ensure up-to-date

maintenance and assembly instructions, and material certifi-

cation on products and system individuals.

Benefits

Improved efficiency - The collaboration hub with a com-

mon source of product data provides full traceability, up-

to-date system configurations and allows new effective

ways of working together.

Secure collaboration - Suppliers, partners and customers

work together in a controlled manner with flexible admin-

istration of users and distributed access rights protecting

each party’s intellectual property.

Future proof - With full support of the PLCS (ISO 10303-

239) standard in ShareAspace Siemens is ready to imple-

ment supplier collaboration on a more granular level as a

next step.

Siemens Energy Finspång manufactures turnkey gas turbine solutions for

the Oil & Gas industry and Industrial Power Generation customers, in the

range of 8-60MW.

Customer Case: Siemens Collaboration Platform Collaboration with Suppliers and Customers

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Collaboration Excellence with ShareAspace

Why ShareAspace?

Today’s organizations seek ways to become more agile while

managing risk. This means they are operating in partnerships to

innovate, make and service complex products and projects. The

full potential of these partnerships is realized when they share

information across the supply and support networks during the

lifetime of a product.

ShareAspace, a secure PLM collaboration software, allows or-

ganizations and teams to share documents as well as detailed

product information in mixed environments. This can be done

across company borders and also to support different internal

engineering processes. ShareAspace integrates with a diversity

of software to present a common view of all relevant data

Top features

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organization development projects and data sources.

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nology.

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best practice templates.

Supported by Eurostep and business partners.