EASY PRODUCT DATA MANAGEMENT

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1 EASY PRODUCT DATA MANAGEMENT WITH PTC WINDCHILL ARVID SURSTEDT 1

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4 AGENDA WINDCHILL PRESENTATION PTC Windchill Introduction Product Data Management in Windchill Creo Data Management Document Management Visualisation 4

5 PTC WINDCHILL GENERAL INTRODUCTION 5

6 WHY PTC WINDCHILL?...The extend of CAD data and complexity has become unmanageable......product data and documentation can barely be found and versioning history is missing...the internal and external communication is not effective 6

7 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CURRENT STATE Distributed Mfg Supplier Supplier Distributed Mfg Supplier Preferred Parts Approved Vendors Feasibility Feedback Tooling Designs Work Instructions NC Programs Distributed Mfg FTP Requirements Design Feedback Procurement Manufacturing Part Designs BoMs Changes Models Drawings Simulations Engineering Marketing SneakerNet Sales Service Custom Configurations Field Notices Customer Concerns Failure Reports User, Service Manuals Design Partner Courier Customers Design Partner Design Partner Concepts Requirements Proposals Customer Requirements Customers Customers 7

8 CURRENT STATE Unmanaged product data Multiple storage locations Duplicates No version or revision management No authorisation Limited automated processes Data release Change management 8

9 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FUTURE STATE Supplier Supplier Supplier Preferred Parts Approved Vendors Feasibility Feedback Tooling Designs Work Instructions NC Programs Distributed Mfg Distributed Mfg Distributed Mfg Requirements Design Feedback Procurement Manufacturing Custom Configurations Part Designs BoMs Changes Engineering Service Field Notices Models Drawings Simulations Customer Concerns Failure Reports User, Service Manuals Marketing Sales Design Partner Design Partner Design Partner Concepts Requirements Proposals Customer Requirements Customers Customers Customers 9

10 FUTURE STATE Product data and documents fully managed A single source of truth Data and document reuse Revision and versions managed Roles and rights Automated processes Data release Change management 10

11 PTC WINDCHILL CENTRAL PLATFORM Products CAD Documents Product Libraries 11

12 WINDCHILL SEARCH CAPABILITIES Advanced search capabilities Quick Search Search history Saved searches Facet Search Related object search Text Preview 12

13 DATA MANAGEMENT Set State Promote Revise Check in/out Lifecycles Every object has its own lifecycle The lifecycle shows maturity of the object At every state a new Workflow can be started State Based Access Control based on Lifecycle State Versioning Revision + Iteration = Version Iterations every Check-In Revisions only when released Reject/rework In work Promotion request Under review approve Released revise CHECK IN CHECK OUT OBJECTS READ ONLY MODIFY 13

14 PTC WINDCHILL CREO DATA MANAGEMENT 14

15 WINDCHILL CAD DATA MANAGEMENT PLATFORM Functionalities Save to central vault Check out / check in Version and revision management Easy to configure roles and right Easy search functionality Integrated in Creo Concurrent engineering CAD Data Management Release Rename Save As Revise Check-out / Check-in Where-Used 15

16 PTC WINDCHILL DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT 16

17 DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES Current state Multiple storage locations Document status unclear Version or revision unclear No relations between documents and other files 17

18 DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT AS IT SHOULD BE Civil Engineer Single Source Future state Process Engineer Process Engineer Version 1.b Released Single source of Truth for documents Version, revision and history managed State Based Access Control Engineer of Energy Project Manager 18

19 PTC WINDCHILL VISUALISATION 19

20 VISUALISATION WITH CREO VIEW PTC Creo View: lightweight visualisation tool Accurate geometry Measure Markup Sectioning Animate 20

21 AGENDA WINDCHILL PRESENTATION PTC Windchill Introduction Product Data Management in Windchill Creo Data Management Document Management Visualisation 21

22 Q&A 22