I'm looking at moving employers. The potential new employer uses Works along with PDMWorks. I'm looking for online resources to brush up on my PDMWorks knowledge, including getting it to interact with ERM systems.
Any good links?
I'm looking at moving employers. The potential new employer uses Works along with PDMWorks. I'm looking for online resources to brush up on my PDMWorks knowledge, including getting it to interact with ERM systems.
Any good links?
in reference to getting pdmw to interact with ERP, you might be better off banging your head against concrete wall. pdmw is a closed, proprietary system. yes some things can be accessed thru api, but it's more trouble than it's worth.
imho, it's virtually impossible for the results to justify the means.
since most ERP's are are based on ODBC compliant database's (SQL) it would seem logical to use a similar database type PDM system.
I didn't get much help searching for PDMWorks other than several links to the Solidworks website, but a search for Conisio left a plethora of information.
First of all, I didn't realize Conisio was bought and turned into PDMWorks Enterprise. The good news is that PDMW Enterprise uses a SQL database and not the closed proprietary system mentioned. It may require a customized app to be written, but at least the databases should share between PDMW and the ERP system. Of course, this is all assuming I got the job.
--Scott
we considered Conisio but, upon Solidworks aquiring them we decided to forgo getting in bed with an MCAD provider for our PDM (relational database) needs.
after using pdmw for almost 4 years, we chose
Does DBWorks work well over a WAN?
I'm just starting with an orginisation that will need a PDM system, one of the requirements will be for several people to work remotely.
John Layne
see this link,
another alternative SQL based PDM system we looked heavily at was
We have been using Conisio/PDMWorks Enterprise for about 6 years now and it works pretty well for the way we do things. I have also seen what I would call improvements since SW purchased the product. One of the biggest jumps we made was upgrading to SQL Server 2005 and PDMWE. This made an improvement in the speed of the system to where it's not too noticeable when it's doing its thing.
WT
John:
Yes dbworks does work over a LAN, it is probably the best at it... And it is much less expensive than PDMWorks enterprise.
dbWorks will work over a WAN and it will also work well between companies. One of the things that is tracked in the database is the company to which the part belongs. So whether it is different divisions in your company or totally different companies there are ways to share parts and still keep track of them.
dbWorks will also keep two databases/filestores in sync IIRC.
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Thanks for the info, I will look at Dbworks and PDMWorks Enterprise, I'm leaning to PDWorks Ent as there is a local supplier i.e. my SolidWorks VAR. DbWorks might not be that well supported here at the bottom of the world, their website is down at the momement so can't do much in the way of research.
John Layne
John,
If you are thinking about dbWorks implementation it is set up so that you can do it yourself. The prerequisites are:
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