Products

Whether you're a global conglomerate, a regional supplier, or a small service bureau, you face obstacles while trying to manage product content and development processes. Your company's success relies on having efficient business processes and effective development of complex information assets including product designs, service documentation, and regulatory submissions.

Naturally, product development teams need to exchange information with other groups, including external partners and internal teams. Yet, each different organization often uses its own PLM system. Friction and miscommunication may arise when one group imposes software usage requirements on the other, or when both organizations opt for a “shortcut,” and work outside the context of a data managed environment. By enabling the exchange of Pro/ENGINEER files and associated metadata across Windchill-based systems, Windchill PLM Connector offers a needed solution.

The Windchill integration to UGS NX combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the NX design tool.The ability to leverage data created during the product development process is a strategic advantage for manufacturing companies. The heterogeneous CAD capabilities of Windchill allow enterprises to capture, control and share complex design information from different ECAD/MCAD packages within a single enterprise environment, and even within a single product structure.

Software is an important part of many products today, yet many companies do not manage software content as an integral part of their product data. This causes a myriad of problems including lack of synchronization between the appropriate versions of software, mechanical, and electronic data. The optional Windchill Integration for Rational ClearCase provides a solution to these problems - it enables you to expertly manage your software source code with the rest of your product data, keeping it properly synchronized with the right MCAD and ECAD content.

The Windchill Workgroup Manager (WGM) for Electrical Design Automation Tools combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control capabilities with InterComm Technology.

Historically, enterprise system integrations have required error-prone manual processes or fragile, custom point-to-point solutions, resulting in significant cost and product quality issues. But Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration (ESI) synchronizes processes and information, enabling optimization of product development while minimizing risk and total cost of ownership. Via bi-directional integration, Windchill ESI enables robust connection between PLM and ERP systems.

The Windchill integration to CATIA V4 combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the CATIA V4 design tool.

A cluttered database with obsolete or infrequently used data can impact your system performance. Yet your company requires long term retention of this data for compliance with corporate policies as well as industry and government regulations. The optional Windchill Archive Module provides the solution to this dilemma - it allows you to purge unneeded information from your database, to archive that information to long-term storage, and to easily restore the information when you need it.

Optimizing supplier and manufacturer selection across multiple product lines, programs, and geographies is a major challenge facing product companies today, with huge implications on product cost and time-to-market. Windchill Supplier Management delivers the key capabilities that you need to meet the demands of complex, global supply chains by optimizing manufacturer part sources and vendor selection with approved manufacturer and vendor lists.

Engineering and technical teams generate much of an organizations’ most valuable intellectual property – customer requirements, engineering calculations, detailed CAD designs, product documentation. And the list goes on.

Designed to eliminate the hurdles of upfront investment, IT resources and longer deployments, PTC PLM On Demand Standard, delivered as a service and hosted by IBM, is your easy-to-use, comprehensive solution for small-and-medium sized businesses. Go live in days, access from anywhere and enjoy the security, performance, and scalability of IBM hosting. Enjoy all the benefits and capabilities of PLM - without all the hurdles.

Everyday, manufacturing engineers are faced with the challenge of ensuring that their process plans, manufacturing bill of materials (mBOMs), & work instructions accurately reflect the current engineering design. It’s typically not until the design is completed that design engineering involves manufacturing engineering to define “how” a product is to be made in a specific factory. But if manufacturing process management (MPM) could be done in synch with engineering, operating on the same design data, it could have a significant positive impact on reducing product cost, improving the accuracy of manufacturing deliverables, and shortening development cycle time.

The Windchill integration to SolidWorks combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the SolidWorks design tool.

Enterprise systems harbor great potential for your organization, yet poor information accessibility often keeps that value from being realized. For maximum benefit, companies must extend enterprise information assets to a wide range of users and applications for context-specific usage. Windchill Info*Engine provides a flexible, standards-based foundation for seamless data sharing between enterprise applications and user communities.

The Windchill integration to CATIA V5 combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the CATIA V5 design tool.

Windchill reporting capabilities provide real-time access to the information you need to analyze and optimize your product development processes. Preconfigured for Windchill, and utilizing the proven, industry-leading Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) reporting framework, Windchill Business Reporting modules makes the report development and distribution process faster and easier.

The Windchill integration to Autodesk Inventor combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the Autodesk Inventor design tool.

InSight Environmental Compliance will help your organization get green and stay green – and enable a less costly, more proactive approach to product environmental compliance.

Today’s challenging global environment demands effective collaboration. With Windchill ProjectLink, you can securely harness the talents and energy of the entire team, inside or outside of your firewall. Through a virtual workspace, Windchill ProjectLink provides access to the right product development and project management information at the right time, keeping the team aligned, on-track, and moving forward.