Web-based project collaboration across product development
Today’s challenging global environment demands effective collaboration. With Windchill ProjectLink, you can securely harness the talents and energy of the entire team - inside or outside your firewall. By creating a virtual workspace, Windchill ProjectLink provides instant access to the right product development and project management information at the right time, keeping the team aligned, on track, and moving forward.
Using pre-built, workflow-driven project and document templates, Windchill ProjectLink helps ensure that cross-functional processes are in accord with prescribed standards. It also formalises critical quality management methodologies, such as Six Sigma, advanced product quality planning (APQP), and ISO 9000.
Project information management
- Access control rules for individual documents, parts and folders
- Automated or ad hoc routing of documents and parts for review and approval
- Check-in or checkout a CAD design to multiple projects at the same time; thus allowing for potential alternative designs to be simultaneously developed
- Create, review, distribute and track packages of Windchill managed information (e.g., documents, parts, CAD models, associated meta data) for sharing with external partners
- Document and template standardisation
- Document check-in/check-out with iteration history
- Folder-based storage and controlled access to requirements, specifications, CAD models, design notes, manufacturing plans, part definitions, bills of material, etc
- Optionally add Windchill PDMLink for comprehensive product content management, out-of-the-box change management procedures and support for key business processes
- XML-based import and export of project information to and from other projects, corporate enterprise systems or other exchanges
Business process automation
- Action Item capture and resolution management
- Advanced workflow definition capabilities to automate proprietary processes, including support for nested processes, process referencing, conditional branching, voting, synchronisation, timers, iterative loops and response-based routing
- Automatic distribution of tasks to team members
- Enforce deadlines with escalation policies for proactive and follow-up notifications
- Powerful, flexible workflow engine and reusable workflow templates to automate common processes
- Supports methodologies such as PACE™ and Stage-Gate
- Tailor forms to define process tasks and tie together relevant information
- Task reassignment helps project leaders relieve bottlenecks and facilitate workflow
Web-based
- Collaborate interactively through online discussions and live Web-based meetings
- Personalised subscription and notification keep development teams attuned to the latest changes
- Project portals to dedicated workspaces enable the project team to track the project schedule, deliverables, status and associated tasks
- User portals offer personalised views of specific projects and activities
- Uses standard Web browser
- Web-based interface presents all information relevant to specific roles, responsibilities and tasks
Integrates with other applications
Supports Creo , Arbortext , CADDS 5, AutoCAD CATIA V5, Inventor , Mathcad and SolidWorks
Faster Time-to-Market with Windchill ProjectLink
Windchill ProjectLink automates project management, resulting in faster time-to-market.
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