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PTC Windchill RV&SFormerly Integrity Lifecycle Manager
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What is PTC Windchill RV&S?
PTC Windchill RV&S (formerly Integrity Lifecycle Manager of the Integrity suite) is an MBSE (model-based systems engineering) suite. The former Integrity suite contains an Asset Library which supports systems-of-systems approach to design (i.e. linking models into higher-level models that subsume…
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What is PTC Windchill RV&S?
PTC Windchill RV&S (formerly Integrity Lifecycle Manager of the Integrity suite) is an MBSE (model-based systems engineering) suite. The former Integrity suite contains an Asset Library which supports systems-of-systems approach to design (i.e. linking models into higher-level models that subsume…
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What is PTC Windchill RV&S?
PTC Windchill RV&S (formerly Integrity Lifecycle Manager of the Integrity suite) is an MBSE (model-based systems engineering) suite. The former Integrity suite contains an Asset Library which supports systems-of-systems approach to design (i.e. linking models into higher-level models that subsume them), a Process Director which is designed to articulate, manage and improve the design process, and a Modeler for visualizing and controlling the product design process. The Integrity suite is rebranding and being integrated into PTC's Windchill product suite.
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PTC Windchill RV&S (formerly Integrity Lifecycle Manager of the Integrity suite) is an MBSE (model-based systems engineering) suite. The former Integrity suite contains an Asset Library which supports systems-of-systems approach to design (i.e. linking models into higher-level models that subsume them), a Process Director which is designed to articulate, manage and improve the design process, and a Modeler for visualizing and controlling the product design process. The Integrity suite is rebranding and being integrated into the Windchill product suite.
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Efficient Source Code Management: Several users have found that PTC Integrity is a highly effective tool for managing source code, particularly for larger teams. It enables easy identification of team members working on specific code and facilitates seamless code consolidation.
Effective Version Control: Many reviewers have praised the version control feature within PTC Integrity, which allows for easy tracing of the team responsible for bug fixes in the code even after a significant period of time has passed. Additionally, they appreciate the 4-digit versioning system they implemented to mark specific versions based on release and type of fix.
Comprehensive Change and Defect Management: Users consistently mention the value of PTC Integrity's change management and defect management tools. Its customizable workflow enables approval from multiple managers and can be tailored to meet specific team requirements. The change packages feature greatly assists in identifying which artifacts were modified for each request, whether it be a bug fix, enhancement, or user story.
Outdated Look and Feel: Some users have expressed dissatisfaction with the outdated look and feel of the tool, comparing it to an old JAVA applet view. They felt that the software needs a more modern GUI design in order to give it a premium feel.
Lack of Code Merge Feature: Several users have mentioned the absence of a code merge feature, which is essential for developers to work parallelly and merge their code. This limitation hampers teams from efficiently working on multiple issues within the same application.
Difficulties with Connectivity and Client Loading: Users have reported experiencing connectivity and client loading issues while using the software. These problems arise when trying to perform tasks such as merging, backfilling, or opening the integrity client. It has caused inconvenience for some users who had to resort to command prompt scripts to resolve corrupted files and launch the software.
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There is a group of engineers that work on the interface to validation preparation and validation. They are in need of tools that connect their systems and software. They need to organize and manage their requirements, models, codes, and tests. PTC Windchill RV&S supports and allows to manage complete trackability of activities on the whole software life cycle. The software allows for improved strategy finding and optimization in end-to-end scenarios. There is room for cross-discipline collaboration. The client-server architecture is comfortable and allows for several well-introduced strategies and rigorous control. PTC advertizes PTC Windchill RV&S 12.3 as a flagship for PLM. We agree that the software package is complete for our needs and we are very satisfied with the in our company well-introduced methodologies. We are addicted to the transparency and thorough-going processes implemented. We find it guiding and prefer to follow the included best practices. The software allows us not only to organize all our validation activities it favors the control and initiation. We start better, are better in performing tasks in sole responsibility and collectively. We have comfortably adapted and customized the best practices. PTC Windchill is well accepted in the outcomes at our customers.
- Helps to advance carefully through complicated and delicate process hives.
- Improve thereby our time-to-market knowledge transfers along our portfolio.
- Enhances the performances of single step in processes as well as the processes.
- Allows for unprecedented overview in broads and in depths.
- Decent inspecificiencies give reason for double efforts emotions.
- The software replaces activities feedback to in computer alone.
- As usual certain processes can not be modeled with such software per default.
- There is the danger that steps might not be performed at all that were considered necessary before.
- We achieve an increased product quality.
- We are able to response immediately to market requirements for profits.
- The compliance to industry standards is comfortable and reproducable.
- We achieve to reduce our costs in product definition and reliability proof.
- We are able to improve of word results and organizational efforts in cost and outcome.
- The costs of reproducing and reworking is reduced.
- We were able to enter new markets with safe success rapid.
- We gain more reputation with governmental certifiers and accredition companies.
- We achieved higher returns-on-investments at all and that at less time.
As PTC places PTC Windchill RV&S is confirmed in the market. PTC is able to lead the market well. It is due to the American university mechanism for software research and science that innovation does not come the first time up in industrial software applications. Software developer save costs and effort and reuse unitary first developed software in their applications. So no wonder that Git emerged and innovation roles, views and perspectives and responsibilities management a lot and that HTML5 revolutionized all the PTC infrastructure. Another source of innovation are the resources needed for all kinds of computation and the integration of Industry 4.0 into all processes. In all that PTC only follows and has to keep the pace of others but not of their direct competitors. This leads to a complicated specialist market behavior among the market tiers. So in times of change, it is brilliant advice to wait and stick to the processes already introduced and well approved. The trend to more diverse solutions that have to be integrated is specific to the applications and can not be integrated into big systems at once. So the applications, not the competitor govern the changes and emerging concepts.
September 25, 2017
Nice Source code and Version Control tool
PTC Integrity was used by one of my client, and it is being used for past 8 yrs. PTC previously known as MKS Integrity, is used as a version control, source code management, change management and defect tracking tool. This tool is used throughout the IT Organization globally. I've been using this tool since 4-5 years, and comparing it with other tools in the market, I did initially have some problems using the functionality, but once I got used to it, I liked it a lot. The version controlling of the source code is very nicely organized, and helps in managing the code optimally. In one specific instance, we did see the tool help identifying an issue in code which was checked-in about 2 years prior. There are other features in PTC Integrity, but my main purpose was for version control of source code, and change management, used for labeling the code and promoting.
- Source Code management: This tool is very good at source code management. I've seen some clients, where there are teams of more than 4 members, who have tough time identifying which team member is working on which code, and when the team has to consolidate, the team have to spend considerable time to understand the code changes. PTC Integrity is best at it, wherein each member can checkout and lock the file, so that other users can't use it. Also, Labeling a specific version of the code will help in easy identification, assuming that a common naming standard is used for labeling the files.
- Version Control: Even though version control is part of Source code management, this is an important aspect, since I had an instance when we wanted to identify the team who worked on a bug-fix in the code about 2 years back. Also, with the 4-digit versioning used, we were able to mark the specific version number based on the release, i.e., first digit for Major release, 2nd for minor, 3rd for Defect fix and 4th for very small bug-fix. Again, this versioning model is something we defined for our team. Versioning and branching of code is a very important aspect in IT.
- Change Management / Defect Management tool: The other feature we used was for raising and tracking defects, as well as Change Management, i.e., promoting code from Environment to environment. The process defined thru the tool was such that, a user raises a request which would be routed to another Manager for approval, after which another 2nd level Manager can approve, and then the request would be finally routed the Admin team to implement the change. This workflow can always be customized based on a team to team use. Similar workflow was also tried out for Access requests in one other team.
- Even though the tool has some cool features, the look and feel is more like an old JAVA applet view. If the GUI look and feel are improved, it would give the user a premium feel.
- One other feature as a Qlik Architect I would suggest is to implement a code merge feature for applications, so that developers can work parallel and then merge their code. This would diversify the teams to work on multiple issues in the same application/code. I did see multiple users complaining regarding this issue, and feel that this feature could be good to have.
- Integration with other servers, for easy deployment of code. Again from a QlikView perspective, if code had to be deployed, the code has to manually checked out to the administrator machine and then copied to the respective location, but this could be automated, the risk of manual intervention for promoting/migration of code will be much easier.
- Since PTC Integrity is global tool used by our client, the source code management was good, and the main objective has been achieved. While comparing my experience with other clients, there were some other tools, which weren't as good as PTC Integrity, and some didn't even used source code management tools at all.
- Since we can even create new forms and create workflows, without the use of external systems, this always reduces additional investment and use the existing applications to achieve the functionality.
- The effort involved for managing the tool is much less than other competitive version control tools which are complex to understand and use. Features like use existing filters to identify the list of files attached to label help in promoting or checking the list of files to be moved from environment to environment.
- Tortoise SVN, Big Bucket(GIT hub) and Microfocus StarTeam
There are some tools which are available for free like GitHub. I've used StarTeam when it was a product of Borland, and while using PTC Integrity, I feel PTC Integrity has most of the features which were available in StarTeam. Although there are some other free tools like Tortoise SVN, it's always better to stick with tools which are licensed and supported in case of any issues/problems.
- Checkout-checkin
- Checking history of the code
- Creating new requests
- Identifying code attached to a label
- Initial configuration
- Version controlling different branches
January 08, 2016
PTC integrity
PTC integrity is used by couple of division at my company. It is a single access point for requirement management and traceability.
- Tracing. I can trace right from the requirement until the unit test.
- Automating the tracing based on the category.
- Simple to use.
- Editing is cumbersome.
- Cannot directly import the documents into Integrity.
- Configuring PTC integrity is not easy.
- Increased efficiency
- Customer Service
- DOORS
The single interface that it provides to access all the information about the project, right from requirements to the source code.
January 05, 2016
PTC Integrity and DO-178
PTC Integrity is being used by the Engineering Department for DO-178 and DO-254 projects.
- PTC Integrity provides full traceability from requirements down to the source code that implements the requirement.
- The GUI interface is relatively easy to understand.
- Requirements entry is easy to manage.
- Configuration of PTC Integrity can be intimidating.
- Would be nice if importing from Excel was available.
- Would be nice if more canned import wizards were available.
- We have had to demonstrate traceability in the tool to a customer already and they were very impressed. We anticipate having to demonstrate our configuration management process to DER's during out DO-178 projects and I expect to be successful.
We liked that PTC Integrity requirements management, testing and source control are accessible through a single interface. This is not what we found with DOORS. DOORS only offers requirements management and testing and they are in separate interfaces. We are also beginning to use Jama here. Jama also seems to be a good product. It is more easily configurable and the requirements and resting are accessible from one interface but I think there may be more of a learning curve to creating requirements in the web interface. It is too early to tell to give a good opinion. PTC Integrity support is excellent!! They have always provided answers to all of my questions with one phone call. Jama support is a little less attentive.
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My company allowed only limited administration training for me. PTC administration can be a little challenging. Only once have they suggested that we contract for training rather than using support for help. I have placed very many calls to support and they are always very helpful and attentive to my questions.