Hard-to-find, unreliable data hinder innovation and productivity. A single, trusted digital product development data repository allows manufactures to expertly manage all forms of product data - including mechanical, electrical, and software. Windchill PDMLink is this solution. Web-based for easy enterprise-wide access, this PDM system supports geographically dispersed teams while managing critical processes such as change/configuration management and release to manufacturing.

Capabilities & Benefits:

• A Web-based master product data management repository, enabling global access to current, accurate information from myriad sources
• Seamlessly connects to multiple mechanical/electrical CAD applications, desktop applications and Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
• Prevents costly design errors by controlling and automating typically chaotic product change management processes
• Facilitates rapid development of new product configurations through reuse of previously designed product configurations
• Operates seamlessly with Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill ProjectLink for distributed, cross-enterprise collaboration on data acquisition and product information.

Organizations that rely on FTP sites or shared network folders for internal collaboration are risking data integrity since CAD designs and other product information can be overwritten by other team members.

By extending the capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint - an industry-leading solution for simple, file-based collaboration - to enable the sharing of CAD and other structured data among teams, Windchill ProductPoint greatly enhances product development processes and collaboration.

Windchill ProductPoint offers vaulting, sharing, visualizing and mark-up capabilities for product data through its support for multiple CAD authoring applications - a powerful functionality that yields significant benefits.  In addition, the synergy between Windchill ProductPoint and Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 renders possible the Web 2.0 two-way/community-structured communication benefits that are inherent in social product development, via tools such as toaster pop-up notifications, presence detection, model notes wikis and collaboration spaces.

Features & Benefits:

• Enhanced CAD data sharing, CAD vaulting, CAD file management and work group collaboration through multi-CAD support
• Management and versioning of CAD data offers advantages over network drive-based storage systems and FTP sites, thus enabling effective concurrent engineering
• Social product development capabilities, whereby social computing and associated Web 2.0 technologies are extended to the product development arena
• Embedded 3-D visualization for 3-D view, markup and measurement
• Automatic generation of design formats on save and release (PDF, IGES, and STL)
• Minimal learning curve, due to familiar Microsoft environment
• Inherits the easy and fast deployment characteristics of SharePoint
• Low total cost of ownership
• Complements existing implementations of Windchill product lifecycle management solution

With production-proven Pro/ENGINEER workgroup data management capabilities, Pro/INTRALINK is the industry-standard solution to manage concurrent design teams and the power of Pro/ENGINEER data associativity. Engineers easily perform data management tasks, so they can concentrate on innovative product design. The result: more control, higher quality designs, and happier engineers.

Capabilities & Benefits:

• Common working environment and methodologies for Pro/ENGINEER users that improve engineering efficiency
• Centralized vaulting and revision control of Pro/ENGINEER models, relationships, and functionality for improved information security and accuracy
• Individual and group level access control to control when changes are permitted, who can make them, and communicating changes broadly
• Powerful searching tools, product configuration reports, and easy copying / renaming of existing designs facilitates design reuse
• Intuitive user interface improves productivity and simplifies data management activities

Today's challenging global environment demands effective collaboration. With Windchill ProjectLink, you can securely harness the talents and energy of the entire team, inside or outside of your firewall. Through a virtual workspace, Windchill ProjectLink provides access to the right product development and project management information at the right time, keeping the team aligned, on-track, and moving forward.

Capabilities & Benefits:

• Automates key business processes such as New Product Introduction, Six Sigma, and Advanced Product Quality Planning
• Integrates with numerous mechanical and electrical CAD solutions, Microsoft Office applications, and the Windows desktop
• Accelerates time to market by providing real time visibility to current documents, parts, and plan information
• Fosters innovation through real-time group collaboration, both inside and outside your firewall
• Operates seamlessly with Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill PDMLink for incorporation of product information in cross-enterprise activities