SmarTeam to 3DEXPERIENCE Migration

Introduction

Today all SMARTEAM customers worldwide are aware that, 3DEXPERIENCE is at the center of Dassault System’s product strategy for future. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform delivers the flexibility, open standards, scalability and industry-specific functionality today’s global enterprise as well as SMB companies. SMARTEAM customers are evaluating various methodologies, approaches and tools for Migration to 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

Challenges:

Below are key challenges being faced by SMARTEAM Customers when Migration to 3DEXPERIENCE

• For many ENOVIA SMARTEAM customers, particularly those deployed more than 2 years ago, their base data model (the one from which their specific environment was derived) was SmDemo, whereas for other Customers, the basic data model is PLMDB. It is important that, in both cases, the migration to 3DEXPERIENCE should be able to map all data including CAD Data
• 3DEXPERIENCE Designer Central has complex data model for Multi CAD Management compared to SmarTeam. These peculiarities include concepts of finalization, renaming, hashcode management, configuration management etc. It is important that, the migrated data of CATIA V5, SolidWorks maps accurately to the Designer Central data model
• Workflows in Out-Of-The-Box 3DEXPERIENCE are different than those in SMARTEAM. The functionality does not one-to-one map between these two platforms. It is important that all SMARTEAM workflow functionality is mapped in 3DEXPERIENCE
• The data set in terms of metadata could be very large and complex. It is important that migration tool has capabilities to execute several threads, processes, machines to that throughput of the migration is very high to reduce migration time window.

SmarTeam Migrator Tool:

SmarTeam Migrator is sophisticated migration tool, developed by SteepGraph Systems to migrate SMARTEAM data to 3DEXPERIENCE for various migration paths

Key Capabilities

Support for Data Models: PLMDB or SMDemo
For many ENOVIA SMARTEAM customers, particularly those deployed more than 2 years ago, their base data model (the one from which their specific environment was derived) is SmDemo, whereas for other Customers, the basic data model is PLMDB. SmDemo database has specific classes for CATIA, Solidworks, UG and PROE data, whereas PLMDb has same classes for all CAD data.
SmarTeam Migrator supports both the data models and migrates all CAD, Non CAD data that exists in these databases.

Migration of Projects, Folders data

SmarTeam Migrator supports migration of Projects, folders and the data in the folders. It maps this data in 3DEXPERIENCE so that post migration users see similar way of managing the data.

CATIA V5 Data Migration:

SmarTeam Migrator migrates all CATIA Data that includes,

• CAT Products
• CAT Parts
• CAT Drawings
• External Reference links
• Metadata and files

• Revisions
• Versions
• Maps state management
• Attribute mapping

In 3DEXPERIENCE, data is migrated to Designer Central based data model. The designer central data model supports multi-CAD environment including CATIA V5. When performing migration, the finalization relationships are maintained well based on state of the object. Also, Designer Central for CATIA integration requires that object name and file names are same. To take care of this, renaming features of Designer Central is used.

SolidWorks Data Migration

SmarTeam Migrator migrates all Solidworks Data that includes

In 3DEXPERIENCE, data is migrated to Designer Central based data model. The designer central data model supports multi-CAD environment including Solidworks. When performing migration, the finalization relationships are maintained well based on state of the object. When it comes to files, in SmarTeam, file names are appended with object Id and class id. These are updated as a part of migration.

Also the Designer Central data model requires that, when the Solidworks data is checked in, it should be managed as configurations. This data model is elaborate and complex. SmarTeam Migrator takes care of this aspect very well and create all required objects, relationship to ensure that it complies with Configuration schema of Designer Central. This is very key aspect of the migration of Solidworks data.

SMARTEAM Customizations

• Typically SMARTEAM customers do customizations to map their business processes to SmarTeam. It is important to understand the customizations and map them to 3DEXPERIENCE

• SmarTeam Migrator has configurability in XML to map attributes from SmarTeam to 3DEXPERIENCE.

Documents, Items and BOMs

SmarTeam Migrator migrates all Documents, Items and BOM to 3DEXPERIENCE. All revisions, versions, profile attributes of the data are migrated well. It creates BOM structure in 3DEXPERIENCE. Post migration, 3DEXPERIENCE’s comprehensive BOM management capabilities can be used for Parts and BOM Management.

Migration Monitoring Console

When actual migration is run, it is important to get visibility of the migration progress. To provide the up to date progress, Migration Monitoring Console is provided.

Key features of Interactive Monitoring console:

• Provides monitoring of each of the phase of the migration – Extraction, Transformation, Loading
• It provides overview of the progess – indicating Successful/Remaining/Failed data with ability to drill down to specific category for example – to list failed data
• Indicates progress per running thread on each of the machine being deployed for migration

• Filter the data per type
• Monitor the progress of specified duration – say last 30 minutes
• Very intuitive user interface and very fast data navigation
• Automatic refresh of the console after every 60 seconds.

Scalable Migration Framework for High Throughput

SmarTeam Migrator is based on very extensible and scalable framework for migration. The framework has below capabilities to have high throughput of the migration and minimize the migration window.

• Ability to Scale Vertically by configuring more threads
• Ability to Scale Horizontally by adding more nodes (machines) for processing
• Loose coupling between Source and Target Systems. Can replace one of them or both by keeping framework components as reusable
• Has good logging mechanism

• Has good exception handling
• Has good Transaction Handling capabilities; and in case of any error – it aborts transaction leaving database state consistent
• Highly Configurable in terms of mappings. All mapping configurations in XML
• Highly Extendible to OOTB/Custom classes, attributes

Workflow Mapping to 3DEXPERIENCE

Workflows in Out-Of-The-Box 3DEXPERIENCE are different than those in SMARTEAM. The functionality does not one-to-one map between these two platforms. It is important that all SMARTEAM workflow functionality is mapped in 3DEXPERIENCE.

To take care of this, SmarTeam Migrator is bundled with Workflow tool for 3DEXPERIENCE.

Workflow Tool Kit key features include

Supports Workflow Instantiation initiation from:

• Manual
•  On creation of object
• On Promote/Demote events

Workflow Types Supported

•  Rigid : WF is derived from Template. No activities can be added/removed.
•  Flexible : WF is derived from Template.
  WF Leader(Object Owner) can add/remove activities.
  Can change assignments

Workflow Tool Kit key features include

Workflow Template Definition Supports:

•  Define activities in Series, Parallel, cyclic
•  Define Manual, Start, End, Automatic activities
•  Define multiple Paths/branches from activities
•  Define Tasks under activity

View the graphical status of Workflow

•  Colour-coded representation of workflow activities, tasks etc.

•  Define Scope of the Work Flow to All / Organization / Project
•  Define expressions for auto selection of Path / Branch
•  Define Actions on Workflow event
•  Define FF / SF / FS / SS dependency on other activities

SteepGraph Migration Service Benefits:

• SteepGraph is PLM Focused Company and is Dassult Systemes Services Partner for 3DEXPERIENCE. SteepGraph has high competency on 3DEXPERIENCE, SMARTEAM and other Dassault Systems Products

• SteepGraph has extensive experience of large scale migrations

• SteepGraph has sophisticated tools and technology built to reduce cost and timelines of Migrations

• SteepGraph has onsite-offshore model to be cost effective

• SteepGraph has worked with Global Customer’s in more than 12 counties including North America, Europe, Australia, Middle East and India

• SteepGraph has experience of End-to-End PLM implementation Experience