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Re: Windchill Implementation

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Naeem,

 

I do not think any one is going to share a project plan with you; consultants charge over 150 dollars an hour for that expertise.  I am going to give you a lot of high level info.  Strongly suggest your company hire an WC implementation consultant to assist your organization with this effort.  Only being open and honest..

 

Strongly suggest you look into using IntraLink not PDMLink, because you only want to manage CAD MODEL data.

 

Even thou you do not want to use workflow, for for CAD models, you will still have to configure life cycle templates and OIR (object initialization rules.)  You will also have to manage Principals, create Organization and Product and Library containers and perhaps ACLs too.

 

High Level Plan:

 

1) Analysis/Demos - get PTC to Demo PDMLink or IntraLink for you, or learn about PDMLink or IntraLink and install them to understand functionality of these applications.

2) Process/requirements - define your processes for your CAD Model management in WC (from this point on, I shall use WC, to mean PDMLink or IntraLink).  Document your requirements for your project, to will give to something to test against to insure your implementation matches what you set out to accomplish.  In these requirements suggest you define the current source system/ file share used to store your CAD data and specifcally ID what part of this data shall be stored in your WC system when you go-live.

3) Dev Work. Use a Development environment where you can:

  • Install WC
  • Configure WC.  I.E. Create Organization, Products, Libraries, life cycle templates, ACL, Principals, etc
  • Rehearse how you will migrate your CAD Model data from your current source system into WC.
  • Create your Beta test script
  • Execute your Beta test script
  • Rework depending on test results.  when all is go move to UAT work.

4) UAT Work (this is your user acceptance testing.)

  • Use a different system then the one used for DEV work.
  • Install/configure WC
  • If required update your beta test to create your UAT test script
  • Execute your UAT test script
  • Review UAT test results.  If all good technically you should be ready for Go-live to Production work

5) Training

  • Create your training material, train your 3 users.  Now a days, very few stays at a company all their life, so these material will help you train the current 3 users and when you have to on board a new user.
  • Conduct training

6) Go-live to Production work

 

 

Good luck...


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