One of the important areas to work for the correct use of Windchill PDMLink and ProjectLink, as well as any other application, is the adequate training of the users. It is not enough to offer courses when they start using the system to get this. Youn need to provide to the users courses, tutorials and manuals on which they can rely to use the multiple posibilities that allow systems such as PDMLink or ProjectLink.

In the case of Windchill, in the upper right of the web pages there is a link called “Learning” providing tutorials and manuals about the OOTB utilities. But as you are creating new and more complex processes in the system, these manuals are not enough for the users.

Therefore, we use tools that allow us to add to these courses, materials specifically generated for processes or developments that are not included in the OOTB version of Windchill and which were created as extensions or customizations of Windchill. These can be manual kind documents in PDF format or HTML, or complex browsing based simulations or demonstrations created in Flash. The first ones are viewed as a video, and the second ones require user intervention, as if they were really using the application.

Obviously, these e-learning courses, not only can be created for Windchill PDMLink or ProjectLink. They can be generated for any application that may require continuous training of users.