PDM Solutions

[Roxel]

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)?

 

[WildCAD]

Roxel,

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

 

[looslib]

Windchill-based solutions, PDMLink8 or Intralink8, both can handle Wildfire and AutoCad files. For data migration, look at Legend for PDMlink by I-cubed. It can handle the migration of files from Pro/PDM to Windchill.

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