Windchill® ProductPoint®
Windchill ProductPoint will give SharePoint reach into the world of Product Development.
Windchill ProductPoint benefits companies of all sizes, providing smaller companies with an ideal steppingstone into product lifecycle management (PLM) and giving larger companies with a SharePoint strategy the ability to extend their product development system to broader user communities.
Capabilities and Benefits:
- Multi-CAD SharePoint services offer basic functions for managing Pro/ENGINEER data as well as other CAD file formats, their structures, and inter-relationships
- ProductView™ services enable visual product interaction with 3D thumbnails, visualization of lightweight product viewables, and Web-based markup tools for redlining designs
- Visual navigation and interrogation of files dependencies
- Windchill Portlets present Windchill information (e.g. task lists) to users in a familiar SharePoint portal
- Windchill PLM Connector enables sharing of CAD data across Windchill-based systems in support of customer or supplier collaboration, or internal collaboration among different divisions
- Improve efficiency and collaboration through access of engineering content to broader product development teams
- Minimal learning curve, due to familiar Microsoft environment
- Version control offers advantages over network drive-based storage systems and FTP sites, thus enabling effective concurrent engineering


