PDM experience

Hello,

I am looking for anyone who has any experience with Windchill PDMLink. I
would like to know if it is a good PDM solution, what its general
capabilities are, how long to implement, etc.--all the general questions
before making a large investment in time and money. Anyone out there use
Windchill? (or any other PDM that plays nicely with both ProE and other
CAD/non-CAD files)?

thanks in advance,
Mark

 

Ben,
Thanks for the reply.
Anyone else out there use a PDM system? or just Intralink?
I am very hesitant about possibly using Windchill. What I am considering, by
a PTC competitor, that looks very promising is SmarTeam. If anyone can give
me some advice about Pro/E with any type of PDM I would really appreciate
it!
Thanks,
Mark

 

V70 is set for release by the end of January sometime. It wouldn't hurt to
try the implementation now with 6.2.6 DSU 6. A basic setup with Apache
tomcat and either Solaris or Windows is pretty easy and shouldn't take more
that half a day if you already have the oracle database back end up and
running. Add another half of day if the oracle setup goes great.

The farther you deviate from the basic setup the more time it will take and
complications can occur. But for a good system you will want a reverse proxy
with ssl, file vaulting set up and some sort of cad adapters with
visualzation. This is how PDMLink and Windchill systems are mostly deployed
in large scale corporations. In your case a Pro/E cad manager works great
for viewing cad docs from PDMLink.

PDMLink is great for managing CMII processes. It is built on a web server
platform so that users can access from just about any PC. This is quite
different from Pro/Intralink. So it just denpends on what you are trying to
do. Ask your sales rep for a demo. And make sure you can get a full
representation of everythign you want to do.