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Products

NX, Teamcenter

Business challenges

Manage an extensive range

of products, each with

multiple variants

Promptly respond to

evolving market and industry

standards, adapting products

and documentation

Share information acrossall departments with high

efciency and reliability

Keys to success

NX to enable high productivity

in design and engineering

Teamcenter to manage

process data and digitize

operations workows

Results

50 percent reduction of

engineering errors

Work created by late

modications cut in half

Total elimination of paper,

reducing costs signicantly

Faster product development

Enhanced quality advantage

Campagnolo uses NX andTeamcenter to digitize the entireproduct development cycle

Benchmark for design of groupsetsand wheels

Campagnolo S.r.l. is an iconic, globally

recognized, high-end sports cycling

brand. Founded in Vicenza in 1933 by

Commendatore Tullio Campagnolo, the

company expanded over the years, while

focusing on three fundamental concepts:

performance, technological innovation

and quality of products and services.

Today, the company operates in more than

30 countries, exporting 80 percent of its

products to the United States, the United

Kingdom, Benelux, Germany, France,

Spain and Japan. Campagnolo products

are known for embracing new technology,

including the use of top-quality materials

from the aerospace industry, such as car-

bon ber, titanium and aluminum alloys.

The company is a benchmark for design, as

evidenced by the prestigious Compasso

dOro award from the Associazione DesignItaliano in recognition of the Veloce group-

set, Ergopower integrated controls and

Shamal high-prole wheels. (A groupset is

a bicycle manufacturers organized collec-

tion of mechanical parts.)

Extreme complexity

It normally takes almost three years for

Campagnolo to develop a complete product

groupset. However, a highly competitive

Consumer products and retail

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CampagnoloIconic bicycle component manufacturer kicks new product developmentinto a higher gear

and ever-changing market has led the com-pany to squeeze the cycle down to two

years, starting from project specications.

Stefano Garbin, CAD/CAE/PLM (computer-

aided design/computer-aided engineering/

product lifecycle management) and com-

puting technology manager, says that

development consists of different stages:

from concept to technical pre-series, from

industrial pre-series to production launch.

With very narrow deadlines, we need ex-

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ible tools that allow us to view each part

inside the overall assembly, says Garbin.Because we have high component re-use

rates, when we decide to change an exist-

ing component, we have to consider the

possible performance impact on the entire

range. A simple spring, for instance, can

be found in 70 percent of our present and

past groupsets.

The share of new components in a new

groupset design can reach 50 percent,

while for simple restyling projects it can be

as low as 10-15 percent. The company

must ensure full traceability and preserve

all the documentation of the developmentcycle, in case of complaints or legal issues.

Campagnolo must always be at the top of

performance, says Garbin. Our products

are at the high end of the market. We are a

sort of a Ferrari for bikes, with the differ-

ence being that, besides performance,

ergonomics and weight, we also have to

deliver products at a reasonable price.

With Teamcenter, we can

now handle the complexityof our portfolio more effec-

tively, keep control of

huge data volumes and,

consequently, we have cut

unnecessary work for

late modifcations and

corrections in half.

Now all data are managed

electronically using

Teamcenter, with approval

workows involving the

development of groupsets,

electronics and wheels.

Stefano Garbin

CAD/CAE/PLM Manager

Campagnolo

Gradual transition

The technical department of Campagnolohas been using NX software from

Siemens PLM Software to design group-

sets, wheels and other components since

2000. With a tool such as NX being used to

boost design productivity, the company

was soon confronted with the challenge of

handling a huge volume of project data

with all related changes. Each designer

was used to saving projects on their own

PC, says Garbin. If you just changed a

tiny spring in a groupset or a spoke in a

wheel and forgot to update one or two

assemblies out of thirty, this was enough

to generate unsustainable issues and con-fusion, wasting time and money due to

errors.

Campagnolo management started

searching for a PLM solution, scouting a

variety of options and nally identifying

Teamcenter software, also from Siemens

PLM Software, as the most suitable tech-

nology to address its needs, especially

The use of Teamcenter at Campagnolo hasevolved from basic CAD vaulting to simpleworkflows in the technical area.Stefano Garbin

CAD/CAE/PLM Manager

Campagnolo

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considering its tight integration with NX.

NX and Teamcenter are two faces of thesame coin and they work best when they

run together, says Garbin. Their integra-

tion level increases at each new release.

Teamcenter was implemented gradually,

because company management wanted to

minimize the impact on the engineering

department. Initially, a pilot test with a

few designers was conducted and then the

solution was deployed on a team-by-team

basis. Without migrating the entire legacy

archive in bulk, new components were

developed using Teamcenter rst, onlyimporting the necessary parts to complete

or modify assemblies.

Tidy and fast

The use of Teamcenter at Campagnolo has

evolved from basic CAD vaulting to simple

workows in the technical area. Legacy

paper-based processes were initially con-

verted to electronic form, then gradually

modied, enhanced and optimized.

We have completely eliminated paper,

with annual savings in the range of several

thousand Euros, says Garbin. Now all

data are managed electronically using

Teamcenter, with approval workows

involving the development of groupsets,

electronics and wheels. At the end of each

workow, PDF (portable document format)

les are generated automatically for

approved and tested products that are sent

to manufacturing. The Teamcenter work-

ow continues with our ERP (enterprise

resource planning) software, through

one-way communication interfaces that

we have developed internally thanks to

the easy customization options ofTeamcenter.

Garbin has a clear vision of the tangible

benets offered by Teamcenter, starting

with organization, speed and efciency in

creating new products and in updating

existing ones. With stricter control, errors

in the engineering departments have been

cut by approximately 50 percent. With an

ever-expanding product range and increas-

ing complexity, we could no longer man-

age all information manually, notes

Garbin. With Teamcenter, we can now

handle the complexity of our portfolio

more effectively, keep control of huge

data volumes and, consequently, we havecut unnecessary work for late modica-

tions and corrections in half.

Electronic derailleur

Two years ago, Campagnolo launched an

electronic derailleur gear that relieves the

hassle of ne adjustment. Instead of oper-

ating mechanical levers and cables, the

bike rider simply presses buttons that send

information to a central control unit,

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Solutions/Services

NX

www.siemens.com/nx

Teamcenter

www.siemens.com/teamcenter

Customers primary business

Campagnolo S.r.l. designs,

produces and distributes

high-end components for

racing bikes.

www.campagnolo.com

Customer location

Vicenza

Italy

NX and Teamcenter are two

faces of the same coin and

they work best when they

run together. Their integra-

tion level increases at each

new release.

The use of Teamcenter at

Campagnolo has evolvedfrom basic CAD vaulting to

simple workows in the

technical area.

Stefano Garbin

CAD/CAE/PLM Manager

Campagnolo

which in turn issues commands to and

gets feedback from the derailleur gears,

delivering accurate self-adjustment invirtually any situation.

To develop our electronic derailleur gear,

we used the electronic design software

OrCAD by Cadence, which provides a spe-

cic integration with Teamcenter, Garbin

says. It is vital to manage all electronic

component specications systematically,

because electronic parts are subject to

frequent updates, and communications

with suppliers must be as quick and

reliable as possible. The printed circuit

boards designed with OrCAD are inserted

into the model created with NX as simpleshapes and then they are managed

using Teamcenter, just like all other

project data.

Campagnolo is not only a star of the

cycling world, but also in sports in general.

The Wall Street Journal named it as one ofthe most prominent sports brands in the

world. This reputation has been earned

not only through countless racing suc-

cesses, but also by virtue of the attention

Campagnolo places on delivering the high-

est quality and service, which has earned

the company a tangible competitive edge

in its sector.

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With Teamcenter, we can nowhandle the complexity of ourportfolio more effectively, keepcontrol of huge data volumesand, consequently, we have cutunnecessary work for latemodifications and correctionsin half.Stefano Garbin

CAD/CAE/PLM Manager

Campagnolo

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