Dave Duncan is VP of Sustainability at PTC. He is responsible for the sustainability capabilities of PTC’s product portfolio to help customers sustainably design, manufacture, and service products. He also leads PTC's internal environmental programs to ensure environmental improvements are aligned with financial goals, both for PTC and our customers. Prior to PTC, Dave held various product leadership roles at Servigistics, Kaidara, GE Healthcare, and JD Edwards. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University and received a Blended Professional Certificate: Chief Sustainability Officer from MIT.
At PTC, we believe that the most sustainable business practices are those that align environmental responsibility with financial success, ensuring long-term adoption and impact. That’s why I’m excited to share the latest step in our journey toward enabling smarter, more sustainable product development: the integration between PTC’s enterprise PLM product, Windchill, and Makersite, the leading AI-powered platform for product lifecycle intelligence.
This integration helps manufacturers who are looking to balance product performance, environmental impact, and compliance demands. By bringing together fragmented supplier data and allowing teams to analyze product footprints for parts and bill of materials (BOMs) directly within Windchill, this integration empowers product development teams to make informed decisions faster and more efficiently than ever before.
Why this matters for product development
Product teams face increasing pressure to deliver innovative designs that meet complex sustainability and compliance targets. Yet, achieving these goals often requires navigating disconnected systems, incomplete data, and time-consuming analysis.
Together, PTC and Makersite are working to remove these barriers by combining the power of our Windchill PLM solution with Makersite’s robust data foundation and AI-driven insights. Engineers no longer need months of effort or specialized expertise to gain these insights. For the first time, they’re available in real time, directly within the tools engineers already use.
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Contact UsKey benefits of the integration
The Windchill-Makersite integration unlocks new possibilities for product development teams through:
- Bi-directional integration: Windchill provides bill of materials (BOM) data to Makersite and Makersite returns a supply chain and environmental analysis of the BOM.
- Unified insights: Compliance, supply chain risk, and life cycle analysis (LCA) use cases are brought together at the portfolio level via a singular data model within Windchill.
- Cradle-to-gate analysis: Analysis and measurement for part and BOM footprints, including supplier hazardous material compliance and carbon footprint.
By embedding sustainability and compliance insights directly into the design process, we’re helping product development teams to effortlessly prioritize sustainable product development.
Data-driven insights at the core
The Makersite Data Foundation, powered by AI and backed by over 140 materials, process, and supplier data databases, serves as the backbone of this integration. With this resource, product teams can seamlessly access the data they need to optimize designs for sustainability and compliance, all within their existing Windchill workflows.
As Neil D’Souza, CEO, Makersite shared, “Our mission at Makersite has always been to harness the power of data in making product lifecycle management tools smarter and more intuitive. Partnering with PTC not only amplifies our commitment to this mission, but also enables a collaborative approach that allows us to serve our combined customer base to the absolute highest standard.”
Advancing sustainable product development together
At PTC, we’re deeply committed to empowering our customers to lead in a rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape. This collaboration gives manufacturers the tools and insights they need to innovate confidently and sustainably.
Learn more about this smarter, data-driven approach to product development below, and reach out to our team to get started.
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