Prolink

[[Ji...]]

Has anyone's company went with Prolink and got away from PiWeb? Our company is looking at doing that and I want to see advantages and disadvantages of doing so. My understanding is it does not work with PiWeb and somehow generates it's own reporting style for Zeiss and other CMM types.

[[Mi...]]

I'm trying to convince my company to go away from Prolink and to PiWeb so I'm curious what parts of PiWeb you're unhappy with that you think Prolink might do better.

Maybe we can share notes lol

One big difference is Prolink isn't really great for viewing a single run. So for us it's next to useless for the goal of no longer printing CMM reports. It's main push is run charts and viewing the whole process. Where as I understand it, PiWeb you can pull up CMM reports from given runs.

[[Ji...]]

Do you have to create a new report for every program with Prolink like you do with PiWeb?

[[Mi...]]

Not being that well verse in PiWeb, report could mean many things.

If you mean a CMM report that's human readable, no. Because Prolink hardly has any ability to do that period. You still have to rely on the reports generated by Calypso for that. That is my biggest issue with Prolink as it's almost useless for the individual at the CMM.

If you mean reports for capability and such, there's templates but yes, you have to do work in ever single program to make them work right.

Knowing how frustrating Prolink software has been, I'm a little shocked to see somebody want to pick it over PiWeb. I'm sure Piweb leaves some to be desired, but being developed by Zeiss it actually supports the CMM software properly. If you use parametric programs at all, forget Prolink. Since it uses the .txt files, it's very inflexible, changes to the program are not handled well.

[[Da...]]

Just to add recent experience, if you maybe own GOM/Zeiss Inspect Pro also - I successfully output measurement data from Calypso and Inspect Pro in PiWeb Enterprise, which is beneficial when analysing characteristics and looking for trends (in production and development).