Avoid misunderstanding. Increase productivity.

Windchill PDMLink enables you to manage the complete digital product definition.

Windchill PDMLink

Product and process control

Expert View

Windchill PDMLink not only captures, configures and manages product information during every step of the product lifecycle, but it also effectively supports your company’s initiatives to optimize key business processes. The result: you can finally align product development with strategic corporate goals, and improve your business results.

  • Powerful Configuration Management
  • Out-of-the-Box, Best Practice Change Management Process
  • Comprehensive Product Content Management
  • Integrated with Other Applications

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New in Windchill 10

Windchill 10.0 General Usability Improvements

Windchill 10.0 incorporates a significant number of improvements that streamline any user’s experience and make work within Windchill more efficient.

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CAD Data Management and CAD Driven Product Structures

Windchill 10.0 introduces several improvements to CAD data management with the primary focus on relating CAD data to part and product structures. Most notable improvements include increased flexibility when creating product structures from CAD and the introduction of enterprise top down design capabilities, allowing product structure edits to be pushed back into CAD.

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Change Management

Change management in Windchill PDMLink 10.0 has been enhanced in several key areas, including improved flexibility in creating and sequencing change tasks, new and improved change reports, abilities to create problem reports and variances in projects, and updates to disposition capabilities.

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Document Management and Desktop Integration

Windchill 10.0 brings some major enhancements to the usability of Windchill document management. In addition to streamlining the HTML user interface, Windchill 10.0 desktop integration dramatically improves and simplifies the creation and editing of Microsoft Office documents. A newly introduced extension to Windchill Desktop Integration allows users to view Windchill folders and interact with Windchill documents as a natural extension to their file system in the Windows explorer.

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Product Structure and Configuration Management

Windchill PDMLink 10.0 provides significant enhancements in editing and viewing product structures within the browser environment. Additionally, there is a new filter capability providing robust configuration control to display interesting product configurations including by configuration specification, spatial location, and attributes. Further improvements are made in the areas of product structure compare and history display.

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Benefits

  • A Web-based master product data management repository, enabling global access to current, accurate information from myriad sources
  • Seamlessly connects to multiple mechanical/electrical CAD applications, desktop applications and Enterprise Resource Planning systems
  • Prevents costly design errors by controlling and automating typically chaotic product change management processes
  • Facilitates rapid development of new product configurations through reuse of previously designed product configurations
  • Operates seamlessly with Creo Elements/Pro and Windchill ProjectLink for distributed, cross-enterprise collaboration on data acquisition and product information

Overview

Improve Product Quality

With a single complete digital product definition, Windchill PDMLink enhances product quality by eliminating mistakes associated with duplicate or incomplete data. Potential problems can now be identified earlier in the process. With all levels of content – from final assembly structures to individual components – configured, managed and stored in a one central repository, everyone within the  enterprise can now immediately access the same product information.

Reduce Process Errors and Engineering Rework

Windchill PDMLink includes a comprehensive Change Management process that can both ‘fast-track’ your simple, low-cost changes and ‘full-track’ extensive modifications, all while automatically documenting revision and iteration histories. Problems caused by miscommunication or delays in conveying product changes are eliminated.

Support Global Product Development

Windchill PDMLink was designed to support distributed product development with a Web-based architecture that can coordinate replicated databases around the world. Now anyone, anywhere within the enterprise or extended supply chain can communicate and collaborate on product development. Regardless of location, activities and events can now be monitored, allowing you to identify potential bottlenecks or duplicate tasks.

Specifications

  • Comprehensive Product Content Management
  • Business Process Automation and Reporting
  • Pervasive Visualization
  • Integrated with Other Applications
  • Scalable and Secure