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Arjen12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
September 11, 2014
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Display Windchill documentation at the Shopfloor

  • September 11, 2014
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I am looking for a cheap solution to display Windchill information at the Shop Floor based on input of a barcode scanner. We would like to display part information and documents (drawings, norms, Shop Floor work instruction, etc) to work paperless at the Shop Floor.

Anyone having experience with bringing Windchill information to the Shop Floor without a full blown MES solution?

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MikeLockwood22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
September 12, 2014

Set up and use standard Windchill visualization services.

Shop floor (and everyone else) access Windchill data presented in Creo View (ProductView prior to Windchill 10.x).

It's core to Windchill to publish and handle Pro/E and Creo. Can set up for SolidWorks or other CAD. Additional cost and module to publish MS Word but can be done.

Optionally set up watermarking such that every Drawing / Document viewed in Creo View andn optionally printed / saved off to PDF includes identification of the exact WIndchill page, and optionally user, date, etc..

Don't know of a way to utilize bar codes but that may be something that could be developed as the input for what to search for. Meanwhile, operators would just search for the needed document / drawing Number.

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    LoriSood23-Emerald II
    23-Emerald II
    September 19, 2014

    Arjen,

    Was Mike's info helpful for you?

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    Arjen12-AmethystAuthor
    12-Amethyst
    November 4, 2014

    The reply of Mike is not the solution I am looking for. Windchill is not very practical for use at the shopfloor. A very simple big buttons interface is required, barcode enabled. Windchill is not supporting this out of the box. We are still looking for a pragmatic solution.

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    LoriSood23-Emerald II
    23-Emerald II
    February 4, 2015

    Arjen,

    Were the videos Marc provided helpful and more in-line with what you were looking for?

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    boemi14-Alexandrite
    14-Alexandrite
    November 5, 2014

    Hello Arjen

    I'll be also interested in your idea.

    What I found on the Internet is a QR code access to windchill.

    Please take a look on these movies:

    General link with QR code

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-dOqry2uwE

    Service part with QR code

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77qRiPPNh4g

    Perhaps this helps you.

    Looking forward to what your creating.

    Regards,
    Marc

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    ahamblett1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    February 16, 2015

    Hi Marc, those videos were great. Thank you for sharing!

    But now I have a question... Can Windchill be programmed to automatically generate QR Codes, as Visualizations, and be associated to their respective .prt's and/or WTPart's??? What about including these as part of any Creoview Watermarks? Obviously, the Watermark must refer to something in order to populate - would the QR code be an [automatically generated] attribute which can be applied to the watermark? Or a Visualization, which is what the videos seem to indicate?

    Thanks.

    -Adam

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    rkayasth1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    February 18, 2015

    Hello Adam, Arjen,

    My company has done this albeit for another PLM implementation.

    If you are really interested, pl mail me in detail at ravin.kayasth@tatatechnologies.com

    Thanks,

    Ravin Kayasth

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