My understanding of Windchill PDMLink Packaging is that it was designed to help share requirements, design, or specification with an external group in an effort to improve collaboration. I find that there are some users in the community that entertain the thought of using Packaging to solve other issues like synchronization of two PDMLink systems.
My questions are:
- What are some valid Use Cases for the use of Windchill PDMLink Packaging?
- Can Packaging be used to collaborate with a 2nd party if they do not have a PDMLink to import the Package? If so, how efficient would this be?
- Can Packaging be used as a synchronization mechanisim? What issues would be expected to work around?
My concerns are:
- PTC put considerable effort into this functionality, but yet when I try to find users in the field that are actually utilizing this functionality they are hard to find. Is this capability that is widely used? If not, then why?
- There appears to be a fair amount of overhead associated with managing the package. Does anyone have experience with just how costly this is?
