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sdrzewiczewski10-Marble
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December 28, 2009
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Project, Products and Libraries - how do you define their uses?

  • December 28, 2009
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I had a user recently ask how they should be using the three different types of contexts. We have some legacy contexts that don't necessarily make sense, or at least aren't consistent with how we currently use them. So I'm looking to give them some more concrete guidelines of how to use them. Plus in the process hopefully clean up some of the older contexts and consolidate our active context list.

Thanks,
Steve D.

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RandyJones20-Turquoise
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August 16, 2010
On 08/16/10 13:13, Erik Gifford wrote:
> Good thread. I'm currently getting Windchill PDMlink set up on a pair of
> virtual servers to work the kinks out of the process. The way the PTC training
> and trainer described Organizations, Products, etc had me thinking I'd have to
> have 7 or 8 Organizations to cover our different product enginering departments
> (different families of product), manufacturing engineering, machine shop etc.
> who all use Pro/E...followed by a "product" for each shippable P/N under each
> Org....it started to look unecessarily difficult to set up and manage. From this
> and after talking to an applications engineer it would seem I would be better
> off creating one company "organization", establishing each engineering
> department or group as a Product and organizing the data below that in folders
> (similar to what we have in Intralink 3.4 - folders to organize library data, a
> folder for each job (shippable P/N) etc. ). I just wanted to bounce this off
> some others out there to make sure I'm reading this correctly and heading down
> the right path.

That is what we are doing. One Product for each engineering group. One Library
for the Pro/Engineer library data. Basically Products (and Libraries) are more
about the team than about the product. We would have a bazillion Products if
we had a (WindChill) Product for each product we make.

>
> Thanks
>
> Erik Gifford
>
> G.W. Lisk Co., Inc.
>
>


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