Next-generation PLM collaboration gives you consistent, high-quality data as a single source of truth. This creates the foundation for maximum transparency, seamless compliance, and a new level of cross-company collaboration.
Global collaboration often breaks down due to incompatible systems and manual data exchange. Our solution Communication with Product Data Management (COMPDM) serves as a central integration hub for transferring complex product and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) structures across different platforms. By automating data exchange and validation, it reduces manual effort by up to 80 percent. This ensures that original equipment manufacturers, suppliers, and engineering partners worldwide operate on a consistent, up-to-date data foundation, improving accuracy, speed, and transparency.
The timeline depends on the specific process and system landscape. On average, a new partner can be integrated within a few days using standard tools such as COMPDM. After a short onboarding and introduction, many customers manage the process independently. Automation reduces manual effort by up to 80 percent, and organizations often achieve return on investment within the first year of implementation.
T-Systems’ Catena-X solution provides a central platform for managing data across the entire asset lifecycle through the Digital Twin Registry. Digital twin can be created, updated, and enriched with standardized semantic models. This enables consistent capture and secure sharing of product data, from development and production to use and recycling, across the value chain, improving traceability, transparency, and collaboration.
The premium and enterprise packages enable application programming interface–based integration with existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and other legacy backend systems. The Enterprise package also includes the T-Systems Data Integration Kit, providing preconfigured Catena-X standards and a Semantic Integration Assistant for data mapping and transformation. This ensures structured, secure integration of existing PLM landscapes into the Catena-X data ecosystem.
