Windchill Expert Packages

For users who create, share, and manage product data, as well as define, initiate, and/or participate in core PLM business and/or administrative processes.

Use cases supported

• Single view to version and access-controlled data
• Project planning and execution with milestones and deliverables
• Internal and external collaboration with controlled spaces and offline packages
• Simple to complex changes supporting industry best practices and tailorable automated workflows
• Review and markup of product data
• Business systems integration
• Document management and collaboration

To securely manage product configurations at scale, users can create and edit engineering BOM’s, manage product configurations, and/or relate product information to the BOM.

Use cases supported - Windchill base package functionality, plus

• Digital product definition with engineering BOM management
• Traceability of product data (CAD, documents, BOM)
• Basic product variant management (O&V)
• Secure collaboration using labels (ITAR, Company Confidential) and agreements (TAA, Confidentiality Agreement)
• Support for design reuse – “save as” with links, etc.
• Support for top down and/or bottom up product development

To manage and embrace product and organizational complexity, users can perform value-add part operations such as component classification for re-use, AVL/AML, and creation of associative downstream BOMs for manufacturing and service.

Use cases supported - Windchill base and advanced package functionality, plus:

• Component classification and re-use
• Identify and promote preferred suppliers and components (AVL/AML)
• Digital traceability between engineering and downstream product data (manufacturing, service)
• Cross discipline change management