Windchill Tips

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

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

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.  

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

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. 

Check out this video on MFG Process Management in Windchill from PTC Application Engineers Presenters: Steve Ingham (Technical Specialist, Principal) and Ryan Butcher (Technical Specialist, Fellow) Original Date Presented: October 19, 2021   To dive deeper into the subject, check out Windchill MFG Process Management - PTC University.   (view in My Videos)

Are you looking for better alignment between engineering tools, processes, and teams? Accomplishing this would lay a solid foundation for your ‘digital house’. The key building block to achieving this is PLM, with a digital thread at its core.   In our PLM Virtual Conference on June 8-9, we will outline the steps it takes to ‘get your digital house in order’. Both our customers and PTC experts will show how to deliver greater engineering excellence with improved efficiency, reduced lead times, and reduced operational costs.  The event will highlight speakers from Volvo CE, J&J, Steelcase, Toro, and Solar Turbines, in addition to Live Q&A, an Ask the Experts forum and a Networking Lounge. Take a peek at our agenda below:    Day One: Keynote: PLM Strategy & Vision (20 min) Keynote: PLM Fundamentals at Volvo CE (25 min) Closing the Loop on Quality: Establishing Digital Product Traceability, Change Management and Regulatory Submission Compliance (20 min) Building Your Modular Product: Reaping the Benefits of Dynamic Platform Visualization (20 min)         Avoiding the Parts Duplication, Search and Reuse Woes in Engineering and Beyond (20 min) Live Speaker Q&A Day Two: Panel Discussion: Creating a BOM-Centric Foundation for the Digital Thread (25 min) Unifying the Development Environment with One Shared System for Concurrent Engineering (20 min) PLM Adoption Across the Digital Thread: Simplifying the User Experience to Drive Expansion (20 min) Reaching New Heights with PLM SaaS (20 min)           PLM Product Roadmap (20 min) Live Speaker Q&A Click here to register or feel free to reach out with any questions – can’t wait to see you there!   Katie

The Windchill Design Team is conducting a short survey to better understand the day-to-day activities within PTC Windchill.  This information will help the team clarify next steps as the Next Generation User Interface and Experience is being implemented.  This is a great place to share your thoughts on the product- what you love, your frustrations, and everything in between!    This survey will be open until July 1st.  Thank you in advance for your feedback!   Click here to complete the survey! 

SPN-2395-F- Windchill Info*Engine Java Adapter Development is about to end its life.  Do someone know by any chance how we could replace it in the future?  Thank you 

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.

Check out this video on Using PLM_Quality Management in Windchill from PTC Application Engineers Presenters:Ryan Blankenship (Senior Solutions Consultant), Ryan Butcher (Solutions Consultant, Fellow). Original Date Presented: April 19, 2022   To dive deeper into the subject, check out Windchill Windchill Plans - PTC University.   (view in My Videos)

  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?    

Register for Our Upcoming Cloud Tech Tips Webcast  The Path to PLM in the PTC Cloud: Migration Made Easy on Feb. 18th As you begin your journey to PLM in the cloud, there are key tenants which must be leveraged in order to ensure a positive, long-term experience: people, processes, and technology. By moving to PLM cloud, you can quickly scale up, lower cost of ownership, enable external collaboration, and decrease in-house burden. Productivity will increase because your admin’s impact will be elevated, as they spend more time on high value activities and less time on tactics.     To get started in cloud computing and make the best decision for the company, there are strategic questions IT leaders consider: Which cloud do I need? Which features do I use? What about upgrades and updates? What kind of control do I need? How will I manage my PLM solution and what are the impacts? Join Lisa Hayes, PTC Cloud Portfolio Lead and Vipul Gohil, Principal Quality Engineer on Feb. 18 th  at 10 AM EST as they take the guesswork out by highlighting these important deployment criteria – security, availability, functionality, performance, and support.    Register HERE and identify the best path forward to a successful transition so you can get back to your IT business initiatives.

Check out this video on Using Windchill Plans in Windchill from PTC Application Engineers Presenters: Ryan Butcher (Technical Specialist, Fellow). Original Date Presented: November 16, 2021 To dive deeper into the subject, check out Windchill Windchill Plans - PTC University.   (view in My Videos)

Applicable Release: Windchill release 10.0+   Description: In this video, we will be enabling server side DEBUG Logs by adding additional properties to log4jMethodServer.properties file.              log4j.logger.com.ptc.windchill.uwgm=DEBUG log4j.logger.wt.method.server.timing=INFO log4j.logger.wt.adapter.verbose=INFO

This is the HTML5 drag-n-drop file upload in Windchill 10.2_M020. This will replace the Java drop target giving people a much simpler and intuitive way to upload new documents and attachments. This video demonstrates how easy it is to create a single document and its associated attachments

The Registration Link is live:  https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/plm/webcast/tech-tips-navigate-9   Learn more about this webcast on November 19th at 10 am EST:   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! Share this with your colleagues!    

We  are excited to be working closely with our PTC Gold Partner, Anark, on Supplier Collaboration.  Anark, whose Core software allows PTC customers to transform their engineering design, manufacturing, and maintenance information into advanced technical content and digital workflows, has posted a number of useful blogs on supply chain collaboration and cybersecurity.        In 'Supply Chain Collaboration: Top Five Strategies', Anark CEO Scott Williams challenges readers to stop doing the same things with supply chain collaboration and become more agile and responsive -  but how, with so many suppliers in the value chain?   To learn how, read 'Supply Chain Collaboration: Top Five Strategies'.

Don't Miss Our Next Tech Tips Webcast Feb. 4th! Windchill Project Management: Take Supplier Collaboration to the Next Level  Registration Now Live Supplier collaboration within Windchill takes supply chain management disciplines - such as planning and designing for manufacturing - to the next level.  Through collaboration, focus shifts to joint planning, joint designing, coordination, and project management, thus reducing inefficiencies and enabling faster time to market.    Using Windchill to collaborate on designs with external parties allows for flexible functionality and better control over tasks and associations.  Getting an early view, while engaging with the iterative design ensures change management and traceability.  As an attendee, you’ll learn how to streamline processes by creating projects with the external team members that you choose, while sharing the information you want.   Join us on February 4th to learn how supplier collaboration within Windchill will improve productivity and higher quality while reducing costs.   Register Here!