What do pdm's cost?
What do pdm's cost?
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My been counter won't buy a pdm because he says it would cost £30,000. I that is true I do not blame him. But is it true?
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RE: What do pdm's cost?
SmartTeam is about £2200 per seat PDMworks is free with Office professional
RE: What do pdm's cost?
This is to upgrade a current near-PDM system that never quite cut it. We had no trouble justifying it to our CFO.
RE: What do pdm's cost?
I think the best route is to start with PDMworks from SolidWorks ($500 USD add-on if you don't use SW Office) and then expand to more capable enterprise wide solutions like SmartTeam.
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RE: What do pdm's cost?
Bradley
RE: What do pdm's cost?
When implementing a PDM system, we should consider the following costs:
- PDM software
- PDM software maintenance
- implementation (can it be internal or should it be external by a consulting company?)
- system maintenace (internal or external?)
When you refer your costs are you considering all the above costs?
From my experience (not in PDM system) the implementation costs can be very significant. If not well done, then we will have significant system maintenace costs. If we neglet these costs and don't carefully plan the strategy and the migration, we better be prepared for very bad news!
How can we mesure the benefits in order to justify the investment?
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RE: What do pdm's cost?
Bradley
RE: What do pdm's cost?
I've been on the implementation team at a couple of companies that were thinking of purchasing a PDM software for SolidWorks. After first convincing the Mechanical Engineering Manager, then the Vice President of Engineering, the idea got squashed by the CFO. He said he didn't see the practicality of the software and that we shouldn't need it anyway if we keep a paper trail.
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RE: What do pdm's cost?
We also keep a paper trail for obsolete drawings and obsolete revisions.
Some yers ago, I've started an experiment: save these obsolete docs. on the server, to avoid paper. The result was the growing unusefull space ocupied by these files.
Maybe it depends on your work, but I think the probability of turning back on a design doesn't pay the price of obsolete files management. Just keep it in paper for history purposes.
I my opinion, the biggest goal in a PDM is not the revisions history, but to assure that the available drawing is actualy the latest approved revision, and that it can be revised only under certain safe conditions.
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