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Legacy PDM/MCAD Data Migration

A fundamental aspect of the value proposition for the implementation of an MCAD & PLM integration is a high quality, efficient, and cost effective migration of the legacy PDM/MCAD data to the new PLM system.

Quality, efficient, and cost effective PDM/MCAD to PLM data migration is a challenging objective.  It requires a joint/collaborative effort to carefully assess several important trade-offs.

• Should the initial migration target be simple MCAD data management, or should the initial target be a fully integrated PLM / ECO / MCAD solution?
• How and when should the MCAD drawing *viewables* be migrated?
• Should you migrate one legacy PDM/MCAD system at a time, or do a merged big-bang migration?
• How much historical (previous revisions/versions) data should be migrated?
• How much PDM/MCAD data clean-up should be done prior to migration vs. automatically, as part of the migration?
• How long can the PDM/MCAD system be down during the production migration?
• How much automated vs. manual validation should be done to the migrated data?

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