We are running Altium Enterprise here and using the Publish to PLM option to push updated content to Windchill. The EE team was more excited about all the tools and features in AES (Nexus) compared to XPLM. However, we are still a Windchill first site because we have been using Windchill and Altium with the old Windchill Workgroup Manager for a long time. We still originate new parts and suppliers in Windchill and sync them to AES. We also manage our Altium Designer library in Windchill and sync to Altium. All
Coming from WGM, the XPLM solution is an amazing replacement and allows you to connect Altium Designer directly to Windchill w/o implementing a second PLM solution for ECAD. The team at XPLM is awesome and very easy to work with.
From an administrative perspective, I really wanted to go with XPLM because the implementation would have been simple. From an end user perspective, the EE team really wanted to live and work out of a 100% Altium solution.
The cost difference was not a factor because the EE team chose AES and paid for the solution from their budget. If we had a chance to reconsider, XPLM would still be my choice to avoid the cost, maintenance and training required for everyone to use AES.
They are both great solutions, the decision is if you need or want a second PLM solution and want to take advantage of all the built-in capabilities AES offers. We are not publishing ECAD in Windchill, so the AES solution with built-in viewing was very exciting for our manufacturing team.
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