How do you decide what business processes belong in Windchill?

Hey Marc,

I am late with this post but am curious to see how you did it in the end

Aleksandra

With ingenuity, can implement pretty much any business process in Windchill - using types, attributes, workflow templates, reports, baselines, managed collections, meetings, action items, etc.

My opinion after lots of years of this is that only those processes that deal directly with product data should in fact be implemented in Windchill. But, this is still extremely broad.  Some ideas of what we had in place / considered in the past beyond the standards:

- Track what labels (or software screens) mention a Patent; tie together patent expiration, status, etc.

- Various "request" processes including prototypes, FEA studies, lab tests, special purchases, etc.

- First article and similar studies

- Tracking of exact configuration of pre-production units (variety of Windchill tools / objects may apply)

- Include permanently all training exercise data (in isolated Library or Project)

Primary consideration for whether to manage in PDMLink or ProjectLink is likely whether it needs Revision control.

Do you have any kind of process mapping standard guideline in place?