Windchill Tips

Tech Tips webcasts are back!    What if manufacturing had all the right data at the right time? With increased visibility through ThingWorx Navigate, engineering and manufacturing can work concurrently and close the gap, helping customers get to market faster.   Increasing visibility to enterprise data helps save time, reduce costs, and improves quality.  In this session, you will hear about enterprise collaboration & how Navigate’s product strategy is value driven.    In our next Tech Tips webcast, "Enterprise Collaboration with Thingworx Navigate,"  we will walk you through the power of reusable components - released in Navigate 9.0 - via a production planner persona demo.  We will also deep dive into the new capabilities included in the upcoming 9.1 release.      Explore the value Navigate can bring to your implementation to drive your Digital Transformation!   Register here : https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/plm/webcast/tech-tips-navigate-9  

Windchill PLM Tech Tips Webcasts are back!  Started back in 2018 as a series of webcasts set to deliver product tips, they are scheduled to launch in November 2020.     These technical webcasts are intended to deep dive, give you more product info and additional details so you’ll gain the most value from your PLM software.     Two of our upcoming webcasts are:   Enterprise Collaboration with Thingworx Navigate: Thursday, November 19th @ 10am EST Creo View 7.0 (And Beyond): Thursday, December 3rd @ 10am EST Event registration details to follow!   Check out two of our Tech Tips Replays from March and July 2020: Configuration Driven Visualization and Intro to Windchill Rest Services

Engineering the “New Normal” with PLM on Cloud  HCL Hosts PLM Manufacturing Tweetchat Panel Session     From the Desk of our PLM Product Marketing Director, Nikhil Rai     Last week, Keith Berling, VP of SaaS Solutions, was a Twitter panelist on CTOStraightTalk which was hosted by HCL.  During the session, Keith discussed how PLM on PTC Cloud is transforming manufacturing and enabling collaboration in this current pandemic world. To see the entire Tweetchat, click here.    ​​​​​​​About CTO StraightTalk:  Straight Talk is a multi-media thought leadership platform for the peer-to-peer exchange of experience-based insights among senior technology leaders designed to help them find solutions to current challenges, drive business results, and advance their careers.   

Our own GM, Kevin O’Brien, will be one of the sponsored speakers for this upcoming virtual Product Innovation (PI) Digital Transformation (Dx) event, which spans such themes as Digital Product Design and Development, PLM, Digital Manufacturing, Data Integration, and more.     To learn more about PI DX and to review their agenda,  visit https://events.pi.tv/2020/dx/agenda

We are happy to announce two new blogs on ptc.com – Check them out!     Our first blog,  Coordinate Change Management for Faster Time to Industrialization, focuses on ERP and PLM orchestration and how to enable automatic product data transfer.   In our blog, Concurrent Manufacturing: Break Down Data Silos to Deliver More Value, we highlight how to break down data siloes by building a complete digital thread and the value collaboration between engineering and manufacturing brings.   Feel free to share the links with your colleagues. 

Windchill Extensions from SiliconExpert Ensure Design Viability By SiliconExpert and PTC   Garbage in.  Garbage out.  The familiar computer science concept refers to the fact that the resulting output is dependent on the quality of the input.    The same is true for industrial design.  Complex product designs are dependent on the components required to build them.  An otherwise beautiful design can turn to garbage when composed of parts that are non-compliant or become obsolete.      Windchill PLM software reduces the time to industrialization by digitizing and connecting your enterprise across the globe.  Product design is a complex process that requires information from a myriad of sources.     Windchill Extensions from SiliconExpert help ensure the long-term viability of your designs.   As a leading development and administrative support suite, SiliconExpert is unifying semiconductor and mechanical parts management from design to end of life.  SiliconExpert’s team of electronics engineers are available to answer system questions as well as maintain a current database of data points to ensure users are confident in the components which make up their designs.      SiliconExpert CONNECT    SiliconExpert CONNECT is embedded into Windchill, providing access to trusted design and component libraries.  It identifies potential risk from lifecycle classification and compliance information, while providing crosses, stock levels, and pricing data. This means your engineers get access to reliable data when they need it in order to drive their decisions and streamline design processes.    With SiliconExpert CONNECT, engineers can search and validate orderable part numbers using the SiliconExpert validation algorithm, resulting in a list of standard parts.  You can also analyze your bill of materials and identify parts that might put your design at risk.  With the click of a button, proprietary algorithms give you a thorough risk review by part and allow you to cross reference replacement parts.  All known form-fit-function cross-references and supplier replacements for a manufacturer part number can then be found.    SiliconExpert Synch    With SiliconExpert Synch, your engineer’s designs are synchronized with the parts in an information repository. Engineers can initiate synchronization from a part, a folder page or a search, and obtain new information regarding compliance, availability and price. This ensures their design has the most current data available.          SiliconExpert electronic engineers stand behind this information, since their relationships with suppliers enhance the accuracy of a part’s expected availability as well as its regulatory compliance.  When this information is updated, SiliconExpert Synch makes it possible for designs to update regularly as well.    State of the art technology and machine learning play a part in enhancing information. Through SiliconExpert, data points provide insights into material prices and availability in order to adjust parts’ forecasts.     Integration with Windchill provides visibility at every stage of the life cycle, ensuring the right parts for your design, saving time and money by preventing errors. This eliminates “garbage” from entering your designs and ensures pristine outcomes.    Try the SiliconExpert CONNECT Starter in the Windchill Extension Center and render live data in the Windchill interface, allowing your engineers to monitor a part or a BoM to check for compliance, obsolescence, end of life, and more.  The Starter extension is limited to 200 parts, but does not require a SiliconExpert license.  It’s a great first-look at the value SiliconExpert brings to Windchill.    To learn more about SiliconExpert extensions, visit the PTC Windchill Extension Center at  https://windchill-extensions.ptc.com/home

I'm excited to share that we have a new event series that kicked off this week called 'Coffee with a PLM Expert'. The sessions in these series are all live and interactive, focused the most popular Windchill topics. Here's a bit more about each series:  Core PLM Series Wednesdays from June 10 – July 29 10-11AM EST PTC’s PLM platform, Windchill, offers native collaboration capabilities enabling your global virtual workforce to efficiently design and manufacture products. In these relaxed, interactive sessions, you’ll learn about new and existing PLM capabilities and how they can best support your product development process. Date Topic June 10 Visualization June 17 Project Collaboration June 24 Windchill Extensions Introduction July 1 Change Management July 8 Manufacturing Process Management July 15 Parts Classification July 22 Creo 7 + Windchill 12 July 29 ThingWorx Navigate   Windchill Extensions Series Tuesdays from June 16 – July 21 10-11AM EST The Windchill Extensions Engineering Bundles give your engineers fast access to additional PLM functionality. Join our subject matter experts for an interactive experience including live demos and Q&A to learn more about the extension capabilities. Date Topic June 16 Watermarking June 23 Change Workflows June 30 Promotion and Export July 7 Cluster Support July 14 Supplier Component Interfacing July 21 Quick Access to PDF and CAD Documents   Click this link to register: https://ptc.com/en/products/plm/coffee-with-an-expert We look forward to seeing you there!  

We are bringing the Liveworx UX Lab to you this year! Contribute to the design and development of PTC’s PLM products from the comfort of your home.   Participate in online 1:1 session with PTC Researchers and Designers to take our prototypes & conceptual designs for a spin, share your expertise to directly impact the experience of our future products.   For all Liveworx 2020 UX Lab sessions, click here   PLM session links: WINDCHILL: Actions Menu WINDCHILL: Dynamic Positioning and Visualization using Virtual Product Architecture WINDCHILL: MPMLink BOM Reconciliation NAVIGATE: Create Problem Report WINDCHILL: Change Redline WINDCHILL: RV&S 12.4 (formally Integrity Lifecycle Manager) WINDCHILL: Modeler 9.3 (formerly Integrity Modeler) CREO & WINDCHILL: Windchill Replace Assembly Action in Creo

Join this webinar to get expert advice on how to plan and deploy PLM in support of your innovation efforts. Based on the eBook, “The PLM Deployment Handbook: Planning and Driving Digital Transformation”, Kevin O’Brien, Divisional GM of PLM, will ask author Chad Jackson, Chief Analyst at Lifecycle Insights, to provide: Examples of digital transformation initiatives Best practices for successfully implementing PLM Tips on how to integrate your functional systems Ways to improve product quality that drives customer satisfaction Register here: https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/plm/webcast/deployment-lifecycle-insights  

We've had several questions around these topics so I am uploading the slides from the 2015 PTC Live session.  I will add the follow on videos.

A complete bill of materials is the cornerstone of your digital transformation. Learn how taking small steps can have a huge impact. Take a walk through our virtual conference to see how your organization can gain: Increased change management efficiency with repeatable processes and traceability Increased parts reuse and decreased data duplication Single, up-to-date source of truth for product data Faster, more accurate response to internal/market pressures Earlier, improved cross-discipline enterprise collaboration In this virtual conference, you can choose from multiple presentations. Spend as much time as you want learning how to improve your BOM through digital transformation: BOM Structure BOM Visualization Change Management Component and Supplier Management Enterprise Collaboration BOM Transformation BOM Reporting & Analytics Connected PLM Production Planning Quality Click here to get started. 

For Whirlpool Corporation, innovation is inspired by the impact it will have on their consumers. Products need to be easier, faster, and better – improving the customer’s home experience. Whirlpool Corporation is leveraging PTC products to achieve its vision by reducing overall system and product complexity, improving its lifecycle processes and efficiencies. In these demos, see how Whirlpool Corporation is exploring technology – such as digital twin, augmented reality, and data-driven design -- to extend PLM across the enterprise and bring innovation to its consumers. https://www.ptc.com/en/products/plm/everyday-innovation/innovator-spotlight-whirlpool/whirlpool-plm-demonstrations

This Expert Session will explain the type of changes that you can expect to affect your current processes around managing and securing your PLM application when moving to the Cloud.     For full-sized viewing, click on the YouTube link in the player controls.

This Expert Session will explain the steps PTC will take to move all of your data, application settings, configurations & customizations to PTC Cloud.       For full-sized viewing, click on the YouTube link in the player controls.

  The /Windchill/tmp/wrmfTransport directory get deleted randomly. Tried to exclude that folder from antivirus analysis but in vain. Can someone help on this please?    

Polaris strives to give a great end-to-end experience for its riders, from customized purchase options to enhanced safety features. To achieve this vision, Polaris is adopting a step-by-step approach to digital transformation through PLM. In this series of 10 technical demos, you'll see what Polaris has either currently implemented or is considering as a part of its PLM/digital transformation roadmap.    BOM Management and Global Platforms — Manage and link CAD data, bills of material, and visualization for a modular EBOM structure and generate options and variants for design verification and visualization Family Management — Plan product families and manage options, choices, and assignments in multi-year product structures Change Management — Manage change of a new option from EBOM to MBOM through process plans and work instructions Augmented Reality — Variant-specific AR design review and visualization and process plan visualization BOM Transformation — Associatively transform EBOM to MBOM and EBOM to SBOM with options and logic Manufacturing Process Planning — Concurrently develop mixed-model assembly process plans Role and Task-Based Access — Access digital product information based on the task and function within an organization BOM Costing Application — Create custom mashups of variant-specific cost tracking and roll-up Interference Detection — Develop variant-specific validations with DMU/interference analysis Visit: https://www.ptc.com/en/products/plm/everyday-innovation/innovator-spotlight-polaris/polaris-plm-demonstrations to check out this great demo series - we hope this gives you some inspiration in your own digital transformation initiatives.  

LiveWorx and PTC/User are now offering an entire day focused on Creo and Windchill content with the addition of CAD & PLM Technical Day on Monday, June 10. This is an additional 25 breakout sessions with all of the Creo and Windchill tips, tricks and insights necessary to get the most out of your PTC Products. Here’s what you need to know:   You can take a look at what to expect for sessions here CAD & PLM Technical Day is included with your purchase of an All Access or DeluX Pass Explorer Pass holders can add it on for an additional cost of $250 until March 27 and $350 through June 13 If you are already registered it is not too late to add this to your registration: Log In to your account Enter username and password Select “Registration” Scroll down and click “Purchase Additional Event Offerings” and add the CAD & PLM Technical Day to your account   Seats are filling fast for this dedicated content, don’t miss out on learning from some of our Creo and Windchill super users (and fellow Community members) on best practices and how other organizations are utilizing these solutions.   Please email concierge@liveworx.com if you have any questions.      

From Windchill 11.0 M030 onward, 32-bit Windchill Workgroup Manager client is not supported.   It means that installing the Windchill Workgroup Manager on 32-bit Windows OS is not supported and/or it may not be possible. Installing the 32-bit Windchill Workgroup Manager on 64-bit Windows OS is not possible For the detail, please refer to CS265512 - "Discontinuation of support of 32-bit Windows with Windchill Workgroup Manager 11.0 M030.

In this example Change Associations are used to define that a Prototype CN (Soft typed) will have a single Change Task - Prototype Change Task that is defined as the default change task for this type of Change Notice.   With Windchill 11.0 M010 and onwards you can define which Change Task types are allowed and created for a type of Change Notice.  This is allow followed with Change Task templates.  Together this helps to error proof your process and reduce clicks for the user.

With Windchill 11.0 one can use Query Builder queries to further refine search results.  For example refine the search to look at results based upon related objects.   This zip file contains two queries from 11.0 M020   Search with Parts - additional query to find parts that are on a Change Notice at a given state Reference Designator - Find parts on a BOM with a given reference designator.  For example - find a part (eg Name Capacitor*) that has a reference designator C16

Example of using Part Compare with and showing how Show Only Differences works   (view in My Videos)