Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Break down organizational silos to increase efficiency, cut costs, improve quality, and drive innovation across enterprises and global supply chains.

Product Lifecycle Management: The Digital Thread Foundation

Product lifecycle management is the power behind manufacturers leveraging the competitive advantages of digital thread/twin, generative design, additive manufacturing, industrial IoT, and augmented reality to drive innovation. Disconnected enterprise systems and silos throughout the product development process keep crucial data from those who need it most. Our out-of-the-box applications serve to orchestrate multi-system data, enabling your team to break down silos, reduce time-to-market, decrease costs, improve quality, and drive further innovation.

PLM Opportunity

PLM Handbook — PLM Deployment Handbook

Learn how to align, plan, deploy, evangelize, expand, and support your initiative for digital transformation and best practices.

F&S Award Report — PLM Industry Report by Frost and Sullivan

For the third time in two years, PTC has been rated #1 by industry analysts for our unmatched easy-to-deploy out-of-the-box applications.

Best-in-Class PLM Study — Aberdeen Study: Connected PLM Meets and Beats Product Complexity

Uncover the pros of digital transformation and the perils of maintaining the status quo.

Use Cases

PTC’s PLM software creates and extends the digital thread across the enterprise driving critical business value.

Change Management

Make fast-paced, dynamic changes across the enterprise.

Get In Sync

Quality Management

Transform service issues into closed-loop product improvements.

Improve Your Products

Enterprise Collaboration

Expert and non-expert stakeholders collaborate with role-based apps.

Get Strategic

Concurrent Engineering

Information seamlessly flows between engineering and manufacturing.

Follow the Data

Configuration Management

Create product variations for mass personalization.

Get Personal

Engineering Productivity

Manage product data across engineering teams.

Control Your Data

Digital Transformation With PLM

Digital Innovation Customers: Beneteau Group, Whirlpool Corp., & Polaris

It takes more than a game-changing idea to leave your mark on an industry—it takes a shift in mindset and a step-by-step approach from digital innovation to digital transformation. Explore demos and customer stories of how digital innovation with PTC takes customers, such as Beneteau Group, Whirlpool Corporation and Polaris, from idea to reality.

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Enterprise Visualization With Augmented Reality

Visualize, interact, and collaborate with product data for faster decision making and time-to-market—getting under the hood of the product. By integrating with Vuforia, our world-leading augmented reality platform, Windchill users can author and publish AR experiences right inside the design. Behold the future of advanced esoteric product development.

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Discover Windchill

With breakthrough PLM capabilities, Windchill’s industry-leading software provides a single digital product definition for product and process data across the enterprise. With an open architecture to easily integrate with other enterprise systems and comprehensive functionality, you'll enable your entire organization with a digital thread of information to speed time to market, improve product quality, decrease costs—and so much more.

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ThingWorx Navigate

ThingWorx Navigate enables stakeholders throughout the organization to easily access the rich data stored within the organization’s enterprise system—no training required. With out-of-the-box (OOTB) role and task-based apps that provide contextualized information, ThingWorx Navigate helps users spend less time searching for data and more time developing, manufacturing, selling, and supporting world class products.