PDM Workgroup Limitations?

Discussion created by Rich Trnka on Jun 20, 2007
Latest reply on Aug 24, 2007 by Todd Davis

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I would like to get some feedback from some of you "guru" users that have been using PDMworks for a while. I have been told by several people that there are limitations to the workgroup software; most of these are performance related due to numbers of files or users.

This is what they are telling me:

no more than 15 users
no more than 150GB data

What is your experience? How many files/users do you have?

Thanks for your input!!

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Kenneth Barrentine Jun 20, 2007 1:50 PM
4 users
50gb
12,000 files

works fine at this level
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jeff beardsley Jun 20, 2007 1:52 PM
Rich

Right now we have 15 seats of SolidWorks and 170 Gig of data in our vault. Every now and then we have some hickups with PDMWork, however it is because of the server not PDMWorks. We have been very happy with it.

Hope this helps

Thanks
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- Phil Way @ jeff beardsley on Jun 20, 2007 2:41 PM
  17 users
  30k+ files (over 200 gb)
  Using lifecycles and triggers.
  I work to tap every possible resource to automate processes.
  PDMWorks Workgroup works well. The limitations come in the automation and some functional features. It does take a little babysitting and user training when you try to use the tools and possibilities available. Overall I am satisfied at this point and we have been using PDMW Workgroup for about a year.
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  - ronnie lewis @ Phil Way on Jul 14, 2007 3:02 AM
    Hello Phil
    
    what kind of automation do you use. Is itsettings or something you guys made with a script. Could you pleaselet me know what you did and instruct me as to what Things I coulddo to help my company. Im in charge of the vault, but a lotof our drawings are from German vendors and I have to translatethem. I use it to store drawings and to allow others to search fordrawings. Can you give me tips as to what i can do.
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    - Sheryl Henderson @ ronnie lewis on Jul 17, 2007 8:15 PM
      20 seat license
      14 regular users usually logged in at once out of 30 users
      106k+ files (32 gb)
      
      We have been using PDMWorks Workgroupsince 2001 before it was owned by SolidWorks. It worksvery well. Admin tool runs slowly in 2007. Usertraining is very important and new users must be supported untilthey gain confidence. We have been using PDMWorks Workgroupsince 2001 before it was owned by SolidWorks. This is agreat product for file management by design groups.
      
      For 2007, we have been experiencingsome SolidWorks crashes when opening extremely large assemblies outof the vault. Analysis and testing has shown that this is notreally a PDMWorks issue. It is a PC hardware issue. Atsome point, we may move to the Enterprise version to better supportour change management process.
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      - Sheryl Henderson @ Sheryl Henderson on Jul 18, 2007 7:23 PM
        Riche,
        
        Suggest you review the data in the Blog for PDMWorks ExampleProcess. This may relate to your needs.
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        Michael Kurent @ Sheryl Henderson on Aug 6, 2007 7:09 PM
        We've also been using PDMWorks for a long time (when it was ownedby DesignSource Technologies) I have three separate PDMWorksWorkgroup vaults in three locations in the US, the largest of whichhas over 125 users (SolidWorks Integrated Clients, StandaloneClients & Web Portal access) with a vault size of over 300GB. The only issue we've seen so far is a server memory errorwhen doing a search. The memory error seems to have clearedup after enabling the Microsoft Indexing Service and the catalogoption on the vault server.
        
        Mike Kurent, Systems Engineer II
        Life Fitness / Brunswick IT
        
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        Todd Davis @ Michael Kurent on Aug 24, 2007 6:19 PM
        We have been having this issue where we can't access the PDM systemvia Solidworks explorer, you try and start up explorer and thesplash screen comes up and then disappears. We have been on thephone with Solidworks and our VAR numerous times on this issue. Ourcurrent file structure is as follows: At the root level we have afolder for each part number that we sell. Then in eachfolder/project there is a folder for engineering, Bid package (allthe documents that we send out to vendors for quotation), and thenan inspection folder. If I run a report on the main vault it listthe number of items as about 37000. I am not sure how many foldersthat we have at the root level though. Our IT staff says that ifthey look at the vault from windows explorer it shows about 200k+files at about 35 gigs. We have about 10K+ other part numbers tomigrate over to PDM. Does anyone know of the number of projectsthat you can have at the root level? We have about 35% CAD filesand the rest is written specifications and documents. How areothers structuring their filling into PDM?
        Thanks Todd Davis
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