Windchill ProductPoint

Social Product Development & Multi-CAD Support for Enhanced Product Development Collaboration
Engineering and technical teams generate much of an organization's most valuable intellectual property - customer requirements, engineering calculations, detailed CAD designs, product documentation. And the list goes on.

While these organizations have rich solutions for creating and evolving these complex forms of information, a key challenge remains: efficiently sharing them with the broader team. The value of this content, and the productivity of the extended product development team, would skyrocket if access to this information could be made easier.

Introducing Windchill ProductPoint, a Microsoft SharePoint-based solution for product development. Windchill ProductPoint offers an easy to learn, quick to deploy solution for sharing CAD and other structured data among teams.

For Windchill customers, Windchill ProductPoint will complement current deployments by optionally exchanging CAD data across existing Windchill systems. Plus, Windchill information can be presented in a familiar SharePoint browser, extending product development information to a broader audience.

Smaller companies currently using network folders or FTP sites to manage CAD files may find that Windchill ProductPoint alone is sufficient to meet their needs for protecting and sharing product data.

	BENEFITS Enhanced CAD data sharing, CAD vaulting, CAD file management and work group collaboration through multi-CAD support, including support for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, AutoCAD and Mathcad Management and versioning of CAD data offers advantages over network drive-based storage systems and FTP sites, thus enabling effective concurrent engineering Minimal learning curve, due to familiar Microsoft environment Inherits the easy and fast deployment characteristics of SharePoint Low total cost of ownership Complements existing implementations of Windchill product lifecycle management solutions