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A Million to One

Edwin Muirhead
CAD Manager, Weatherford

PTC Live Global 2014, Boston

Weatherford’s Intralink Migration

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About Weatherford

• Global: 100+ countries,


at 1000+ locations
• Innovative solutions
in all sectors of oil and gas
• 4,000 International Patents
• Engineering & design teams
working across time-zones

About me

• Mechanical Engineer, 1st Class Honours

• CAD Manager, Hundreds of CAD users

• Troubleshooting, Training, Tactics

• PTC/USER presenter 2004 & 2006

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Weatherford’s Intralink Migration

January 2012
CAD files: 1 million
Intralink: 14
Windchill: 1

January 2013
CAD files 1 million
Intralink: zero
Windchill: 1

Take away 1
Prepare a range of Intralink databases
High-level strategy and Hands-on details

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A Year of Migrations . . .

• Planning began years beforehand

• Several approaches considered

• CAD data analysed on all servers

• Constraints for migration…

A Year of Migrations . . .

• Intralink – export details of all files


–Filenames, Parameters, Dates, Usernames

• Relational Database – compare servers


–Report overlapping filenames

• Intralink – scripting to automate clean-up


–Remove unused items, Rename non-prime items

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A Year of Migrations . . .

CAD files in Windchill


1,000 1,000

900 900

800 800

700 700
Files x 1,000

600 600

People
500 500

400 400

300 300
CAD files
200 200
CAD file makers
100 100

0 0
Netherlands - Jan

France - Jun
UK 1 - Mar

UAE - May

UK 2 - Jun

UK 3 - Nov

Germany - Dec

Finish
Canada - Jul

USA 2/3 - Aug

USA 4/5 - Aug

USA 6/7 - Sep


Norway - Jun
USA 1 - Jan
Start

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Tips & techniques for analysing CAD duplicates

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Analysing CAD duplicates

• Servers had many duplicate files


• Detailed reports of names & attributes
• Database tools helped identify overlap
• Files tackled in batches
Source Usage Action

Original Used KEEP!


EASY
Copy Unused DELETE

Original Unused Rename/replace?*


HARD
Copy Used Keep*

*This is where file knowledge was very useful


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Analysing CAD duplicates

UK1
Etc… Germany

UK2 US2

US1
Canada Norway

US3 UAE
France

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Analysing CAD duplicates

• Regular communication
–Contact with regional engineering groups

• Decisions about data


–Choose master & duplicates

• Pre-migration Clean-up
–File movement, Family table preparation

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Bonus outcome!
All CAD data is on a single system,
now it’s easier to standardise

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Single System Benefits

• Single Source for CAD

• Common Titleblock

• One Launch Script

• Multi-level Config files

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Other standardisations

Upgrade to Creo from Wildfire

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Other standardisations

More Drawings on Less Formats


10 30
Hundreds

Thousands
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25
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Drawings on common block


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20
Formats in active use

5 15

4
10
3

2
5
1

0 0
Spring 2012 Fall 2012 Spring 2013 Fall 2013 Spring 2014

Formats Drawings

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