Before you begin

(This topic's content is identical to "Before you begin" in the Systems Engineering Fundamentals book — see plm00192-before-you-begin.md — reproduced here for the Deployment and Rich Client Usage book.)

Prerequisites

You need a basic understanding of the systems engineering discipline to use Systems Engineering.

You do not need special permissions to use Systems Engineering. Standard Teamcenter user and administrator accounts are adequate.

You need valid feature licenses to work with Systems Engineering. Certain menu commands are disabled if these licenses are not installed. Contact your Siemens Digital Industries Software representative for more information.

To use Teamcenter Extensions for Microsoft Office, the following must be installed on your computer:

• Teamcenter Extensions for Microsoft Office
• Microsoft .NET Framework

Note: For certified versions of Microsoft products, see the hardware and software certifications matrix.

Enable Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering is an optional module installed as part of the standard Teamcenter core installation procedure. It does not need to be enabled before you use it.

During installation in Teamcenter Environment Manager, select the following check boxes under Extensions→Systems Engineering and Requirements Management in the Features panel:

• Requirements Management
• Systems Engineering

If you have trouble gaining access to Systems Engineering, consult your Teamcenter system administrator. It may be a licensing issue.

Note: You can log on to Teamcenter only once. If you try to log on to more than one workstation at a time, an error message appears.

Configure Systems Engineering

Before using Systems Engineering, you must:

• Configure the necessary business rules.
• Set the appropriate preferences.

You can optionally configure some Systems Engineering features by setting user preferences, including the MS Word view, keywords for parsing Word import documents, baselines, property columns, and trace links.