Hello all,
Windchill is currently only used for CAD data management at Edwards (Windchill 10.2 M020, Creo 3.0 M060).
Windchill is on state of the art servers and user workstations are high end, but Windchill is very slow for some users some of the time. In general, the network is very capable and fast. No specific reason identified yet.
I've been asked to put measurement tools in place and methodically see what can be done. We now have:
- PTC System Monitor installed and monitoring production
- PTC standard world car dataset in production
- A few key users lined up to do performance testing in order to trend / compare
I spent most of today on the available tools to automate the performance testing - with pretty good success. Getting good support on this from EDC. Able now to create / register workspace, import data, upload, checkin, checkout, export, etc., with log files recording the times.
http://support.ptc.com/WCMS/files/92341/en/WindchillSingleUserPerformanceTester.pdf
So, question - has anyone else used these tools to automate Creo user actions with Windchill using this approach? I'd like very much to compare notes. Happy to share what I've got with anyone interested.
It seems like the ultimate for this would be to automate the test, record the results using PSM, then analyze a PSM session exported for the single testing user.