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DesignForward: CAD Modernization with PTC and LTTS

Move from fragmented CAD to engineering intelligence. Standardize design data, automate quality, and build an AI-ready Creo and Windchill foundation with L&T Technology Services and PTC.
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Engineering teams need a more intelligent foundation

Product engineering teams are under pressure to design faster, improve quality, reduce rework, accelerate configuration, and prepare for AI-enabled engineering decisions. But many are still held back by fragmented CAD environments, inconsistent standards, disconnected model-based data, manual design reviews, and expert-dependent configuration processes. DesignForward helps organizations modernize the foundation first by standardizing CAD, automating quality checks, connecting Creo and Windchill workflows, and creating a trusted path toward AI-optimized engineering intelligence.

Fragmented CAD is slowing engineering execution

When CAD tools, standards, templates, product data, and downstream processes are disconnected, engineering teams spend too much time managing complexity instead of designing better products. Manual quality checks happen late, configuration relies on experts, and model-based information is difficult to reuse across manufacturing and service. DesignForward addresses this by standardizing CAD, improving design quality, automating configuration, and connecting engineering data across the digital thread.

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CAD modernization is the path to AI-optimized engineering

AI only creates meaningful engineering value when design data is clean, contextualized, and connected. DesignForward makes Creo more than the CAD authoring backbone: it helps teams standardize reusable data, automate model checks, connect model-based definition, and prepare engineering information for Gen-AI BOM analysis, model-aware guidance, and future engineering-level automation.

AI only creates meaningful engineering value when design data is clean, contextualized, and connected. DesignForward makes Creo more than the CAD authoring backbone: it helps teams standardize reusable data, automate model checks, connect model-based definition, and prepare engineering information for Gen-AI BOM analysis, model-aware guidance, and future engineering-level automation.

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Standardize CAD at scale

Consolidate fragmented CAD environments, migrate legacy data, define reusable standards, and create a consistent Creo and Windchill foundation for engineering intelligence.

Consolidate fragmented CAD environments, migrate legacy data, define reusable standards, and create a consistent Creo and Windchill foundation for engineering intelligence. Explore Creo

Automate design quality

Design for Xellence, or DFX, automates design-quality checks so teams can identify errors earlier, reduce rework, and improve first-time-right engineering output.

Design for Xellence, or DFX, automates design-quality checks so teams can identify errors earlier, reduce rework, and improve first-time-right engineering output. Plan CAD Migration

Optimize for AI-enabled decisions

A standardized Creo and Windchill foundation helps teams move into AI readiness, Gen-AI BOM analysis, model design checks, and model-aware engineering guidance with greater confidence.

A standardized Creo and Windchill foundation helps teams move into AI readiness, Gen-AI BOM analysis, model design checks, and model-aware engineering guidance with greater confidence. Explore Creo AI

DesignForward: From CAD modernization to engineering intelligence

DesignForward combines PTC Creo and Windchill with L&T Technology Services engineering automation capabilities to help organizations move from legacy engineering processes to a standardized, automated, and intelligence-ready operating model. The solution connects CAD standardization, DFX quality checks, iConfigure, model-based design, and AI readiness into a practical path: assess the current environment, standardize and automate core workflows, then scale toward engineering intelligence.

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Why PTC and LTTS deliver stronger engineering outcomes

PTC Creo and Windchill

Creo provides the CAD authoring backbone for modern product design, while Windchill serves as the product information system and single source of truth. Together, they connect design, product data, manufacturing, and digital thread workflows while creating the trusted data foundation needed for AI-optimized engineering.

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LTTS Product Engineering

LTTS brings deep engineering services expertise, product engineering capabilities, CAD modernization experience, automation accelerators, and systems integration services across PLM, ERP, CRM, and downstream enterprise environments.

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