Measuring success going from Native file system to PDM
Measuring success going from Native file system to PDM
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To those of you who have transitioned your production enviornment with NX and the native file system to NX within a PDM/PLM integrated enviornment, What are some examples of KPIs and metrics that you began tracking to determine the success of your implementation?





RE: Measuring success going from Native file system to PDM
Put those maetrics into play before the transition so you have a valid comparison both before and after the move to PLM.
RE: Measuring success going from Native file system to PDM
PDM systems provide better access on a wider area to common data within your company, and sometimes outside, if you allow it. They provide better organization and control of files. They provide a workflow for design signoff. They do not increase productivity of your CAD team.
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RE: Measuring success going from Native file system to PDM
- tedious work we had to check/map many users fancy native parts number and attributes to comply to the controlled environment and to have consistant and fast search/find results on desciptions
- today the biggest advantage of Teamcenter is that we do not spend 25% of our time looking for parts into a folderized system anymore - everything is just withing the big container and IMHO this should be considered as an improvement of our productivity
- our fear towards using WAVE links because of possible broken ones due to copied/moved parts is slowly fading away and we start to take full advantage of that approach
- NXOpen application managing parts in all kind of processes now also work much more efficiently because you don't need to specify any paths to data anymore
- Couple your part creation with the integrated number generator and you'll really free your users' mind from tedious typing actions and give them better ability to fully focus on their design
As always in life, a lot of fear to change in the begining but, afterwards and from the users themselves: don't want to go back native for anything!
I hope this helps.
RE: Measuring success going from Native file system to PDM
1) individual users hour by hour productivity = worse, more mouse clicks and strict process to follow.
but anticipate:
2) Reduction in time searching for data,
Elimination of time spent creating a COTS part that has already been created by somebody else, (multiple files for the same fastener)
Elimination of the Risk that downstream functions are using an out of date copy of a model,
etc.
All adding up to offset 1), overall making it = much better.