PDM Solutions
PDM Solutions
(OP)
Hi
My company is currently running an ancient version of Pro/PDM to manage drawings, models and documentation etc (not quite sure of the release but it would be late 1990's era). We currently have 11 Pro/ENGINEER 2000i (yes 2000i!) seats/licences. As Pro/PDM is no longer supported these days we have a potential problem should the system fail in any shape or form. At the same time we would like to upgrade to Wildfire 3.0 but as you probably realise Pro/PDM does not support the latest Pro/ENGINEER files and to complicate it further we would like to move away from the Silicon Graphics 'unix' platform to todays favourite Windows XP. We have thousands of historic drawings/models/assemblies spread over multiple Silicon Graphics machines which would need to be tranfered from Pro/PDM to the chosen solution. Our Pro/ENGINEEER and Pro/PDM software is heavily customised (being in the defence industry) and is likely to add to the complication.
Also our company now requires a PDM solution that will integrate both AutoCAD and Pro/ENGINEER files, which doesnt seem to be too much of a problem looking at some of the solutions on the market. The two suggestions so far have been Windchill and Agile, however i have no experience of either. Pro/INTRALINK has been looked at but conversion of Pro/PDM files does not seem feasible.
Does anybody have any recommendations or ideas of a way forward in terms of selecting a PDM solution that will meet the above criteria (conversion to windows platform, retaining historic ProPDM files, integrating AutoCAD and ProENGINEER drawing control and allowing for the introduction of Wildfire 3.0)?
My company is currently running an ancient version of Pro/PDM to manage drawings, models and documentation etc (not quite sure of the release but it would be late 1990's era). We currently have 11 Pro/ENGINEER 2000i (yes 2000i!) seats/licences. As Pro/PDM is no longer supported these days we have a potential problem should the system fail in any shape or form. At the same time we would like to upgrade to Wildfire 3.0 but as you probably realise Pro/PDM does not support the latest Pro/ENGINEER files and to complicate it further we would like to move away from the Silicon Graphics 'unix' platform to todays favourite Windows XP. We have thousands of historic drawings/models/assemblies spread over multiple Silicon Graphics machines which would need to be tranfered from Pro/PDM to the chosen solution. Our Pro/ENGINEEER and Pro/PDM software is heavily customised (being in the defence industry) and is likely to add to the complication.
Also our company now requires a PDM solution that will integrate both AutoCAD and Pro/ENGINEER files, which doesnt seem to be too much of a problem looking at some of the solutions on the market. The two suggestions so far have been Windchill and Agile, however i have no experience of either. Pro/INTRALINK has been looked at but conversion of Pro/PDM files does not seem feasible.
Does anybody have any recommendations or ideas of a way forward in terms of selecting a PDM solution that will meet the above criteria (conversion to windows platform, retaining historic ProPDM files, integrating AutoCAD and ProENGINEER drawing control and allowing for the introduction of Wildfire 3.0)?





RE: PDM Solutions
Enquire about PDM on Demand. We are on Wildfire 3, using Autocad files, to translate to ProE, and are on Windows XP. You can't customize it, but it's a certain $ per month.
That may or may not be what you need.
Regards,
Sip
RE: PDM Solutions
I am also running Pro/PDM and in the process of migrating to PDMLink7 and in the defense industry.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
Ben Loosli
Sr IS Technologist
L-3 Communications