Today, your role in product development extends well beyond its original objectives. In addition to creating innovative designs, you must collaborate with partners across the global supply chain, and control data throughout every stage of a product's lifecycle — from concept to retirement. Without the ability to create, collaborate, and control, your product development process is destined for unexpected results.

By combining Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire with Windchill solutions, you can dramatically simplify and accelerate the way you work. The result: you can finally bring order to your product development process.

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Design Conferencing Now you can conduct real-time, peer-to-peer, multi-user design conferences with other Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire users via the Web. Share control of your model with everyone — no matter where they are. It's a true breakthrough in design collaboration.

Product Data Management Your job doesn't stop at creating great designs — managing them is just as important. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, working in concert with PTC data management solutions, uniquely provides everything you need for total information and process control: easy access to the correct version of a design; a list of prioritized tasks with supporting data; workflow-driven configuration, release, and change management; and instant change notification. Plus, every byte of data is securely vaulted for easy reference. Now, you can stay focused on what matters most — developing great products.

Project Management & Collaboration How can Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire and PTC project management solutions help you work confidently with colleagues and partners? By enabling you to easily create secure, shared project workspaces and run them without leaving Pro/ENGINEER. You can develop a project plan and track its progress. Invite anyone via email. Upload files to share. Chat about issues in discussion forums, and schedule virtual meetings. And it all happens directly in the Pro/ENGINEER browser.

Online Catalogs and Product Libraries Are you spending hours looking through paper catalogs or drawing files to find the right part for your design? Are you losing valuable design time by creating 3D models of purchased components for your assemblies? The new embedded browser in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire gives you seamless access to a variety of content-rich supplier catalogs and internal product libraries created with Windchill PartsLink. Just type in a keyword or part number, navigate by product type or search by part attributes. Then drag and drop the CAD model of the part directly into your assembly. Plus, all the supplier's information is added to the part for later use.

Contract Manufacturing Collaboration How can you incorporate critical feedback from contract manufacturers? Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire and Windchill enable your manufacturing partners to collaborate with you by marking up visualization files, annotating product structures, initiating problem reports, and improving product change coordination. Product quality is improved through an automated sourcing process. So instead of managing vendor relationships, you can focus on communicating design intent.