Hello,
I was recently asked by my supervisor at TRW Automotive to seek out other
teams at other companies implementing Windchill who have recently
successfully upgraded or migrated from a 9.x to a 10.x version. If you
have not completed the move to the new version, what is preventing you from
doing so?
Last year, we deployed out a Windchill 9.1 PDMLink only solution for
management only of CAD Models. There is no WTPart, no change management,
and no other documents (WTDocument) yet in the system. This is something we
wish to configure and deploy in 10.1 along with additional modules.
Our primary CAD platform with our 9.1 system at this time is CATIA V5, but
we will be using Mentor for ECAD, Nx, older ProE (maybe it has to be
converted to Creo). Anyway, if you are a site using CATIA V5 and are
currently upgrading, that is even better. However, I did explain to my
supervisor that it will be a huge challenge to find someone willing to take
their time to discuss their issues with us. So, obviously this is only a
plus, and we want to discuss upgrade/migration challenges with anyone who is
willing.
So far, I have upgraded from our 9.1 M050 environment to 10.1 F000
successfully twice. Now that M010 is released, I will test with this. We
only have about 50 top level assemblies, and with versions/iterations,
around 2500 "EPM Documents". Our data base, user base, is quite small. So
this is why I am urging my company is quickly upgrade before we include more
functionality for the end users to use.
What I should also explain is I am the only person at the company with
recent exposure to upgrading and migrating Windchill systems. I think my
supervisor would like to use the opportunity to network with others to more
quickly absorb and understand the typical challenges faced. She has
supervised a team who has used CoCreate WorkManager for the past 20 years
and Windchill is gradually becoming more familiar to her. I'm still working
on convincing her to budget for attending the annual PTCUser conference.
Our offices are located in Eastern U.S. time in Michigan. However, I think
we can try to meet at different hours if that helps make it easier to
arrange a discussion.
My supervisor, team, and I thank you in advance for your consideration and
time,
David DeMay