Anyone have experience with Windchill PDMLink?
I am looking at a pdm package for our small engineering group, but want non-cad users to be able to use pdm as well for both viewing and document workflow. I have seen 3 packages that I like: PDMLink, Smarteam (Dassault Systemes), and ProductCenter (from SofTech). Anyone have experience with any of these packages? I would appreciate any comments (positive or negative) you have; or any recommendations for other pdm software.
Thanks in advance.
What type of data are you storing in the PDM system? Are you vaulting CAD/CAM data and if so, which CAD system?
Since you are asking in the Pro/E group, PDMLink is your best choice since it fully understands (or at least should) the intricies of storing Pro/E data.
We evaluated PDMLink 6.2 last year. It was hard to load, install scripts failed, and even harder to configure, I even went to Windchill Administration class. We didn't think was ready yet. I am now setting up the test machine to remove 6.2 and start over with 7.0.
Mechanical CAD data is ProE and AutoCad. PCB/Schematics are Cadence. We may want to add Solidworks data in the future. We have a lot of other documents (Word, excel, pdfs, microcontroller program files, etc.) that also need to be handled by the system. Almost anything would be better than the kludgey "Document Control" method we use now. (zip up the ProE files and put them in a numbered folder on the server).
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