PDMWorks Enterprise vs Windchill PDMLink

Hello all,

Our company is currently reevaluating CAD and PDM solutions. We are
currently running ProE wildfire 2.0 and Intralink 3.4. We are trying to
decide between solidworks/pdmworks and wildfire3.0/PDMLink. I am in the IT
dept, but work closely with eng. department. They are leaning heavily toward
Solidworks on the CAD side, and the logical choice for PDM would be PDMWorks
Enterprise. However, we have been using PTC for a long time. From my
outside-looking in view, it does seem that solidworks is where the industry
is heading. However, I am skeptical about the PDM side and
performance...seems like Windchill has the upper hand here . I've heard
horror storis about performance and PDMworks (maybe was just the workgroup
edition?). We have about 16 engineers and need to share info with users in
(US-China) and other countries. Roughly 17,000 objects in our vault.

Any thoughts or experiences with both?

Thanks in advance!

 

I have no experience with the PTC product, but we have used PDMWE/Conisio
for about 6 years. You could email me offline if you wish to discuss
further.

WT

 

Thanks all for the replies!

Well...we are virtually all PTC with some autocad /various cam packages in
molding. I think some issues that are causing a new evaluation are

1) end of life for intralink--we will have to upgrade to ilink 8 (have not
heard good things about it) or PDMlink in the near future
2) lacking FEA abilities (using mechanica at the moment)
3) sharing/collaboration of data with int'l sites

Not to mention that the 2 guys championing the move have more solidworks
experience Any additional thoughts / insights are greatly appreciated.