Windchill PLM Software
Realize value quickly with standardized, out-of-the-box functionality across a comprehensive portfolio of core PDM and advanced PLM applications
What is Windchill?
Manufacturers have never needed real-time information sharing, dynamic data visualization, and the ability to collaborate more than they do today. With easy, secure data access for multi-disciplinary and geographically-distributed teams, quality-focused processes, and a data driven approach to manufacturing, Windchill is elevating how product development gets done.
Windchill’s open architecture enables easy integration with other enterprise systems, including IoT, providing a solid foundation for a product-driven digital thread. PTC's PLM system provides comprehensive out-of-the-box functionality and highly configurable role and task-based apps. Expand self-service access of traceable product data to non-experts who don’t typically use PLM, while avoiding over-customization and complexity.
Elevating how product development gets done
No matter what role you play in the product lifecycle, Windchill can help you quickly see value. Average results our customers experience include:
MORE PROJECTS
FASTER LEAD TIME
IMPROVEMENT IN R&D EFFICIENCY
LOWER COSTS OF NON-QUALITY
Key features of Windchill
BOM management
Streamline product development with 3D visualization, inline editing, structure comparison, part standardization, variant management, supply chain integration, software BOM alignment, and historical data analysis.
Collaborative product development
Facilitate a unified approach with real-time product data visibility for production planning, advanced manufacturing processes validation, shop floor digitization, quality control, strategic sourcing, and mobile service technician support.
Engineering change management
Configure and automate change workflows, establish change review boards, and orchestrate updates. Ensure traceability, compliance, and integration with manufacturing systems for product and process modifications.
Manufacturing process management
Simplify product-to-process alignment, plant-specific BOM structuring, validation, change management, and integration, enhanced with visual work instructions, digital quality control, and a factory digital twin for optimized 3D process visualization.
Parts classification
Support configurable classification schemes, automatic naming, efficient search, mass data management, supplier integration, BOM specifications, and sustainability criteria for optimized part selection and compliance with business standards.
Product variability management
Streamline complex product customization with robust configuration tools, logic, and change management, supporting dynamic product variations and quality control.
Product data management
Centralize control, streamlining processes and enhancing collaboration with features like robust CAD data management, secure role-based access, simplified workflows for release and changes, ECAD data synchronization, multi-CAD editing, and more.
Quality management
Enable comprehensive oversight with features such as change control, document management, and closed-loop feedback, ensuring compliance and standards adherence, to facilitate audits, CAPAs integration, manage customer experiences, and support traceability, while focusing on risk, reliability, and applicability.
Supply chain collaboration
Streamline end-to-end operations by unifying suppliers, partners, and manufacturers with real-time data sharing, change control, and integrated workflows for faster, more secure, and efficient product lifecycle management.
What's new in Windchill
Experience the power of the digital thread and enable the seamless flow of information across the enterprise.
- Interoperability: Windchill Workgroup Manager now supports back compatibility as well as a degree of forward compatibility. This significantly improves the upgrade experience.
- Visualization: Improved performance and scalability of 3D visualization for extremely large and complex product structures. With QuickView you can visualize highly complex models resulting in much faster decision making and collaboration.
- Dynamic positioning support for Siemens NX: Windchill 13 adds support for Siemens NX locator publishing and dynamic positioning. Designers can define the positioning of components relative to one another in the PLM environment. This saves time as designers do not have to create every configuration in CAD. Additionally, the entire enterprise can easily access configurations for accurate collaboration.
- Automation of the regulatory submission process: New in Windchill 13 are various enhancements to objects including revision control which streamlines and simplifies the regulatory submission process. Windchill 13 includes enhanced Unique Device Identifiers (UDI) support as well as support for leveraging the REST framework.
- XBOM and process planning: Customers can take advantage of multiple improvements in Windchill 13 to visualize, synchronize and extend the flow of information between engineering and manufacturing. From higher performance visualization of very large structures to new automatic BOM transformation capabilities as well as enhancements in standard control characteristics.
Windchill+: Collaborate without borders
Enjoy all the features and value that Windchill offers, plus rapid capability and user adoption, built-in security, and frictionless collaboration enabled through software as a service.
Success with Windchill
Here are a few examples of how your peers are realizing value from PTC's PLM application. For a comprehensive list, visit our case study page.
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PLM as the Foundation for Digital Transformation
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