Wintersteiger, a specialist machinery manufacturing company in Austria, has selected Siemens as its exclusive product lifecycle management (PLM) software supplier in support of its digitalization efforts. Wintersteiger will replace its existing heterogeneous portfolio of software systems for product data management with Siemens' Teamcenter portfolio, the world's most widely used digital lifecycle management software. In addition, Wintersteiger plans to migrate all its existing design and development systems to NX™ software, Siemens' flagship solution for integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE).  By integrating its product development software with the new Teamcenter platform, Wintersteiger product development designers and engineers will be able to collaborate more efficiently and directly, even across the various divisions and subsidiaries in the group.

"First and foremost, we expect greatly improved synergies between our development departments, and we are confident that the new Siemens software will meet our expectations," says Christian Rauscher, CTO at Wintersteiger AG. "The deeply integrated Siemens portfolio will empower our design engineers. It will create a broad base for their combined knowledge and experience on which they will be able to efficiently and flexibly develop new products bound to be successful in their various markets."

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