PDPA - Product Development Assessment
The PDPA is the first tool to getting on the right track towards operational efficiency. ProductSpace uses the LAMDA approach (Look Ask Model Discuss Act) in analyzing the current state of Product development, at no cost, to find ways to drastically improve your throughput while reducing operating expenses, while at the same time reducing inventory and scrap.
PDVA - Vision Assessment
Product Development Vision Assessment - This is the next step beyond the PDPA to lay out a plan in the next 5 years to continuously improve the product development process.
PDS Infrastructure Scalability Assessment
Windchill is a very complex product combining disparate technologies. General principals can be used for tuning, but then one needs to dive into some implementation details. The PISA methodology is a deep dive into a customer's environment to address overall performance tuning or pinpoint performance troubleshooting.
Top down methodology to assess a customer's PDS environment
- Infrastructure
- Systems
- Application
Infrastructure
- Assess the infrastructure and architecture
- CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network
- Determine if hardware is appropriately sized for user community
Systems
- Is the operating system configured for high performance?
- Check critical OS settings for Windows, Linux, or UNIX
Application
- Oracle tuning
- Java tuning
- Web server tuning
- Windchill tuning
