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I previously worked at Airbus Defence & Space in Toulouse and witnessed a Windchill - MES integration but I believe that it was heavily customised (directly with the PTC architects). In my present role, this will be on the roadmap in the next few years so very interested to stay in the loop. The current MES is SAP ME.
It is two and a half years since I worked on the Airbus implementation of Windchill PDMLink as the database backbone of a full PLM system. Basically it was 3D modelling > Windchill PDMLink > SAP > MES all connected by a TIBCO bus allowing flow of data in any direction as required by use case. Specifically MES was driven by SAP which in turn was driven by 3D modelling and Configuration Management in Windchill. Then MES data (As-built)flowed back into Windchill to complete the Product Structure. I have no details of the customisation that was required and implemented but it occupied a lot of people over a lengthy period of time. Still it was very impressive to see As designed/As built reconciliations managed seemlessly. Sorry cannot be more specific with the details of the customisation, as I was more on the side of the business requirements than the solution.
