Windchill 13
The latest evolution of Windchill — a modern, intelligent PLM platform built to accelerate innovation across the product lifecycle. With a refreshed UX, new manufacturing and supplier collaboration tools, enhanced BOM and materials management, and a robust strategy for AI and sustainability, Windchill empowers teams to move faster, align better, and innovate with confidence.
Next gen UI/UX enhancements
Windchill’s next-generation UI/UX delivers a modern, intuitive experience that keeps you focused and productive. The latest release is built around four core principles: keeping you in context, surfacing data at the right moment, delivering only what’s needed, and creating a cohesive experience. With smarter navigation, fewer interruptions, and seamless data integration, you stay in control without distraction. A consistent interface across the platform makes it easy to learn, adapt, and collaborate—so every interaction feels natural and efficient.
Homepage renovation
Windchill’s redesigned homepage sets a smarter, more efficient tone for the entire experience:
- Simplified layout with quick actions for faster task execution
- Recently-used shortcut bar for instant access to work-in-progress items
- Advanced table controls to filter, group, and sort critical data
- Dynamic graphs embedded in tables for at-a-glance insights
These updates turn the homepage into a true productivity hub—clear, actionable, and built for how users work.
All new BOM reporting
Windchill’s BOM reporting tool has been completely rebuilt on our next-gen tech stack to improve clarity, speed, and collaboration:
- Centralized product data for better alignment across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain
- Streamlined interface to switch report types and toggle views with ease
- Customizable layouts to tailor reports to your workflow
- Fast Excel export for quick sharing across teams and stakeholders
These updates make BOM reporting faster, clearer, and more actionable across the enterprise.
Modern browser experience
Windchill’s new table UI is now available across key areas like folders, projects, products, and libraries—streamlining how users organize and interact with product data:
- Modern, intuitive design with clean visuals and smooth interactions
- Fast loading via optimized data fetching and lightweight rendering
- Instant search with type-ahead results and inline filters
- Quick sorting & filtering using one-click column sorts and chip filter
- Drag-and-drop column organization for personalized views
- Performance polish including virtualized rows and keyboard shortcuts
These updates reduce friction and boost team efficiency across the platform.
Manufacturing updates that streamline, scale, and connect teams
Plan with precision – BOM generation
Windchill’s latest release simplifies BOM generation to boost agility and accuracy in complex manufacturing environments. Users can now mass-generate mBOMs from a generic mBOM and variant eBOMs or specifications, eliminating repetitive manual work and reducing errors. This ensures consistency across configurations, speeds response to market changes, and helps teams adapt quickly to shifting production needs while maintaining product quality and efficiency.
Execute with confidence – Process planning
Windchill’s latest release streamlines process planning with a new diagram-based editor, making plans easier to visualize and adjust. Planners can mass-generate and update process plans from templates and variant mBOMs, accelerating new product introductions and production shifts. Enhanced reuse and mass change tools cut duplication and ensure consistency, while new quality features improve compliance, traceability, and control — helping teams work faster and maintain product integrity.
ERP+MES integration
Windchill now enables seamless integration of process plans into ERP and MES systems, reducing manual steps and errors while aligning engineering and manufacturing. This improves first-pass yield, lowers scrap, and streamlines the design-to-delivery process. Modernized tools also support intuitive training and faster onboarding, helping manufacturers retain skilled workers and operate efficiently in today’s labor-constrained environment.
Integrated product engineering
Unlock deeper traceability by linking requirements data in Codebeamer directly to Windchill Control Characteristics and Resources. This enriched connectivity ensures that every part is not only defined but the requirements it’s intended to meet are tied to its critical manufacturing parameters and resource dependencies—enabling smarter decisions, tighter quality control, and faster issue resolution across the product lifecycle.
Empower engineering and downstream teams with exposed links from parts to their associated CAD and Requirements data. This seamless integration bridges design intent with product data, ensuring that every stakeholder—from ideation to requirements engineering to design to manufacturing—has instant access to the latest visual and technical context, reducing errors and accelerating time-to-market.
Design for X – Sustainability, cost, manufacturing
New BOM Roll-up capabilities give users an instant view of the aggregate properties of a bill of material to make managing complex products faster and more reliable. This consolidated product view supports metric-driven programs by, for example, providing early visibility into Scope 3 environmental impact of design decisions, monitoring key attributes for improvement opportunities through the development lifecycle, and rolling-up critical attributes such as weight, cost, or compliance information to support external activities such as supply chain sourcing/logistics and compliance reporting.
Windchill's enhanced material management tools give teams the ability to track, analyze, and optimize material usage across the entire product lifecycle. By connecting material data to BOMs, product structures, and underlying CAD models, organizations can ensure traceability, support sustainability initiatives, and make smarter sourcing and design decisions. These capabilities help reduce waste, improve compliance, and provide actionable insights for faster, more informed decision-making across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain operations.