About this author

Howard Heppelmann is Divisional Vice President and General Manager of PTC’s ThingWorx IoT Solutions business segment. In this role he is responsible for bringing to market solutions that harness today’s most disruptive technologies into a continuous digital thread that enables industrial companies to improve operational efficiency, differentiate products and service offerings and transform business models.

Experience

Howard most recently served as Vice President and General Manager, ThingWorx IoT Solutions. In this role he was responsible for bringing to market solutions to help manufacturing leaders improve efficiency, agility, quality and workforce safety in discrete manufacturing, oil & gas and process manufacturing market segments. Howard’s previous roles at PTC include General Manager, Connected Product Management and General Manager, Service Lifecycle Management.

Howard has worked in the manufacturing industry since 1990 and has extensive experience working with businesses to apply Industrie 4.0, Smart Connected Operations and Smart Connected Product technologies and process innovation in order to transform how industrial companies design, manufacture, sell, operate and deliver service in a today’s Internet of Things (IoT) powered world.

Howard is a regular participant at industry seminars where he has presented on important topics such as Industrie 4.0, Service Lifecycle Management (SLM), Smart, connected Products and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and product development best practices in both discrete manufacturing and retail. He has been published and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and numerous other business and trade publications.

Education

Howard attended Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota, where he earned degrees in Economics and International Studies.
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Additive Manufacturing Agile Artificial Intelligence Asset Centricity BOM Management Closed-Loop Quality Cloud Native Connected Devices Customer Experience Digital Thread Digital Transformation Digital Twin Education Engineering Collaboration Enterprise Collaboration Field Service Generative Design Increase Manufacturing Productivity Industrial Skills Gap Industry 4.0 IT/OT Convergence Life at PTC Math Software Model-Based Definition Predictive Analytics Predictive Maintenance Product Line Engineering PTC Reality Lab Regulatory Compliance Remote Service Requirements Management Risk & Test Management SaaS Service Optimization Service Parts Service Revenue Simulation Software Development Sustainability Technician Efficiency Training Variant Management

For ThingWorx, 2023 was another outstanding year in which both partners and industry analysts recognized PTC as the global leader in IIoT.

Learn more about the latest IIoT software – ThingWorx 9.4 - which increases overall security and helps boost productivity.

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