Uncovering the Key Players: How to Define Teamcenter Training Roles in Your Organization

All training is created with a specific role in mind. In some cases, there is recommended material to take prior to taking the content in question. These recommendations are to ensure you receive the most for your investment.

Image provides a simulated example where a Teamcenter administrator is demonstrating how to search in Teamcenter to a user on the floor.

Be sure to stay informed and make cost saving decisions regarding which users receive what training by mapping the role to the service. Below are the definitions of each role for training and their definitions.

Teamcenter Training Information for Users

Benefit the most from Using Basics Learning Tracks. These topics provide an introductory demonstration on how to interact with the Active Workspace user interface, commands, and data. In addition, there are some demonstrations related to using the older Rich Client (legacy).

Information for Subject Matter Experts (SME)

Benefit the most from either the Using Essentials Learning Track. These courses provide an introductory demonstration on how to interact with the Active Workspace user interface, commands, and data. For a SME, these topics not only provide clarity on how to perform tasks but also demonstrate the capabilities of the software to make informed business decisions during implementation or for support.

Information for Teamcenter Administrators

When it comes to Teamcenter and Active Workspace administrators, there are basically 2 types that fit this category.

1. Administration Data Administrator (Application Administrator)

2. Data Model Administrator (Business Modeler IDE BMIDE)

Teamcenter Administration Data Administrator

Also referred to as an Application Administrator because the Rich Client had Applications (Perspectives) and most of these administrators interact with the Applications to perform their tasks. Such tasks include working in the Workflow Designer, Organization, Query Builder, and other applications.

Teamcenter Data Model Administrator

Also referred to as a Business Modeler IDE (BMIDE) Administrator, these administrators work with the changes to the underlying schema behind Teamcenter and Active Workspace. Adding new types of objects, modifying attributes in the database, creating Lists of Values (LOV), building ways to filter workflows by object type or Group are all examples of tasks Data Model Administrators are tasked with achieving and then some.

This type of administrator needs an additional layer of training to understand the way that Teamcenter is constructed, how to implement and test tasks, and how to modify administrative settings to fully test and understand use cases.

User Interface (UI) Configurator and Developer

A specialized role that may be a separate person or may be combined with another role in the organization, such as Data Model Administrator does both duties.

Typically, the 2 administrator types and this role interact with each other closely and may be a single person performing all three roles for a company. Which ever is the case, the User Interface Administrator/Developer role is responsible for optimizing and maintenance of the features and components in the interface and how data is exposed.

Examples would include modifying Style Sheets to expose attributes or object type creation panels, developing custom commands and locations in Active Workspace, creating Indicator (Status) icons, and any other action which requires the development of XML, XSLT, C, C++ C#, Java or any other variation of code utilized by the Teamcenter and Active Workspace environment.

Teamcenter System Administrator (Installation)

This role is typically responsible for the installation, maintenance, patching, upgrading, deploying type tasks related to Teamcenter and Active Workspace. This role's Learning Tracks are designed to emphasize on the installation and minimize on the configuration.