originally posted on one of my several now defunct blogs, called On Engineering, under my persona Literally Engineering, on the 23rd of May 2013
We’re on the cusp of starting the migration of our CAD data into a full-fat PLM system (in our case Teamcenter from Siemens). It’s now becoming clear what the task ahead of us entails - approximately one thousand 3D models and their associated prints need to be collated, tagged, parametrised, renamed, renumbered and transferred.
The tagging and parametrisation will take approximately 30 minutes per item, meaning (rumble, mumble, calculators, divide by the solar transit and carry the moon) around sixty working days, for somebody (most likely not me, thankfully) working at full tilt to the exclusion of everything else.
It’ll be a big old resource hit, it’ll cause lots of anguish, gnashing of teeth and grinding of coffee - but the results should be spectacular, even if we’re “only” migrating the CAD data in this first step.
Once we start adding the life-cycle documents for each part, it will become a world unto itself. That’s for another post.
