Hi Folks,
Sure miss the days of the email exploder (ProE) as I so rarely remember to look at forums (yep, I am a dinosaur).
This is a non CAD question about capturing knowledge that is not part or product specific. This is the sort of information you want to reuse for other projects across your organisation. In a previous job it was silos of information kept in windows folders, some more easily accessed than others and others buried deep in somebodies personal HDD or even paper files! In my present job we have specific software for this but it is a standalone system and I wonder about using Windchill for storing this design related non-part/product specific reference information as it is not related to PLM as such.
Some examples could be:
- Bend Radii for different materials/thicknesses/hardness's (though this would likely be in a bend table in Creo where is the reference information for it?)
- Reference articles on deep drawing of sheet metal
- Reference information on various adhesives (some of which are not in any BoM)
- Reference links to company products that have been researched
- ???
Usually with Windchill we have a part or assembly number or possibly a process number to attach files of various types to. But if there is no number?
My general thinking is to try and consolidate systems so that more people are more familiar with that one system so can better do their work.
Thoughts?
Regards, Brent