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FARNBOROUGH. October 06, 2009 - PTC® (Nasdaq: PMTC), The Product Development Company®, today announced that it will be demonstrating Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, the latest release of its integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software and a key component of the PTC® Product Development System, at three upcoming trade shows regionally selected to cover Ireland and the UK.

The trade shows kick off with Manufacturing Technology Ireland in Dublin, Ireland, October 14 -15, where PTC will host a booth with Honeycomb Solutions, its exclusive Irish Reseller . On October 20 – 21, PTC will be attending the  TCT show in Birmingham, UK and during November 11 -12, the company will participate in  Manufacturing Technology Scotland, in Glasgow, Scotland.

In today’s complex environment, product development teams often face a number of barriers that can impact productivity. These include the difficulty of making design changes, the length of time to productivity, dealing with heterogeneous CAD data, working with a multitude of disconnected point solutions, and identifying resources and leveraging collective knowledge when needed. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 offers powerful new capabilities and over 330 enhancements that improve productivity, enrich the user experience and provide the freedom to design without barriers.

Highlights include:

- Make design changes faster and easier.  
- Accelerate time to productivity by up to 10X.
- Design in a multi-CAD environment faster.
- Leverage new, seamlessly integrated Pro/ENGINEER applications. 
- Increase collaboration efficiency with breakthrough social product development capabilities.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, the first CAD solution enabled for social product development, helps users remove the communication barriers preventing them from finding the right people and resources at the right time.  The seamless integration between Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill ProductPoint®, which is built on Microsoft® SharePoint® social computing technologies, helps users find and reuse their design community's collective knowledge and improve process productivity. 

Attendees at all shows will also have the opportunity to learn more about Windchill ProductPoint, which offers an easy to learn, quick to deploy solution for sharing CAD and other structured data among teams, and Windchill®, PTC's production-proven content and process management software.

About PTC
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) provides discrete manufacturers with software and services to meet the globalization, time-to-market and operational efficiency objectives of product development.  Using the company’s CAD and content and process management solutions, organizations in the Industrial, High-Tech, Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Consumer and Medical industries are able to support key business objectives and create innovative products that meet customer needs and comply with industry regulations. For more information on PTC, please visit http://www.ptc.com.