Teamcenter Environment Reporter

Abstract

The objective of this thesis was to develop an application which can seek customizations in a Teamcenter environment and create a report about them. Teamcenter is a tool for product data management. Its customizations are Teamcenter library, plugin, workflow, query, preference, XML rendering stylesheet and data model template. The idea of this project is originated from IDEAL PLM to have a tool for collecting Teamcenter customization data. It gives project managers an overview of completed customizations when working with a new environment project. Based on the report, they can estimate working times needed for the whole project more accurately and efficiently. The Teamcenter Environment Reporter consists of two parts, a Windows application implemented in C# .NET and a helper module implemented in C language. The helper module works as an intermediator which takes care of communication between the Windows application and Teamcenter. The application uses Teamcenter libraries and utilities to process data. At the end of the process, required data will be delivered to the user as a report in HTML format and as a zip package containing all accumulated customizations. All require functions for the application were successfully implemented and all objectives were achieved. The application is presented to IDEAL PLM and waiting to be used in the near future.