Digital Manufacturing Solutions

Unlock new levels of efficiency, innovation, and growth with solutions that improve factory performance, production quality, and workforce productivity.

What is digital manufacturing?


Digital manufacturing is the process of using technology and computer systems to improve the quality and efficiency of manufacturing operations while reducing costs and waste.

It’s a collaborative, flexible, data-driven approach to manufacturing that helps product-focused companies gain a competitive edge and respond to changing market conditions with agility.

Digital manufacturing technologies

Our portfolio of data-driven manufacturing solutions can help your organization achieve operational excellence, increase productivity, and drive a competitive edge.

PLM

Enterprise PLM provides a seamless flow of real-time, accurate product data between manufacturing and engineering, enabling both teams to work concurrently to deliver higher-quality products to market faster.

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IIoT

Monitor and analyze industrial performance data to gain real-time visibility into your manufacturing operations, make faster business decisions, and maximize productivity for your business.

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Industrial AR

Improve workforce efficiency, reduce operational costs, and overcome the growing skills gap by utilizing industrial augmented reality to provide frontline workers with immersive work instructions and training.

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Industrial Connectivity

Securely move industrial operations data amongst devices, machines, and systems to optimize efficiency, improve quality, reduce downtime, and enable predictive maintenance.

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Additive Manufacturing

Innovate faster, improve time to market, and reduce expenses by using additive manufacturing to create prototypes, fixtures, and production parts that traditional manufacturing processes could not produce.

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Why digital manufacturing?

The manufacturing space is as competitive and challenging as ever. Products are growing more complex with endless combinations of potential customizations and variants to manage. Supply chains face constant risk of disruption, while frontline workforces continue to evolve along with the expectations they have for their employers.

Digital transformation is essential for today’s manufacturers to overcome these challenges and keep pace with tomorrow’s innovations. PTC’s industry-leading solutions and broad ecosystem of partners can help you accelerate digital transformation by providing a digital foundation for the entire product lifecycle, from early design and development to manufacturing, service, and end-of-life management. We help you solve your most critical manufacturing challenges, so you can improve margins and outpace the competition.

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What is the business value of digital manufacturing?

Digital manufacturing solutions can help you overcome common business challenges by maximizing efficiency and profitability, improving product quality and throughput, and driving continuous improvement across your manufacturing operations.

Digital manufacturing solutions can help you overcome common business challenges by maximizing efficiency and profitability, improving product quality and throughput, and driving continuous improvement across your manufacturing operations.

Increase revenue and productivity

Work concurrently with design engineering to optimize processes and speed time to production while improving quality and throughput.

Work concurrently with design engineering to optimize processes and speed time to production while improving quality and throughput. Learn more

Reduce costs and risk

Minimize errors, risk, and operating costs by streamlining manufacturing workflows and providing frontline workers with configuration-specific work instructions.

Minimize errors, risk, and operating costs by streamlining manufacturing workflows and providing frontline workers with configuration-specific work instructions. Learn more

Drive continuous improvement

Identify inefficiencies and correct the most costly issues with real-time visibility into manufacturing operations and production performance.

Identify inefficiencies and correct the most costly issues with real-time visibility into manufacturing operations and production performance. Learn more

Support sustainability initiatives

Promote circularity and manufacturing location flexibility by managing product- and plant-level variation more efficiently.

Promote circularity and manufacturing location flexibility by managing product- and plant-level variation more efficiently. Learn more

Empower a connected workforce

Boost productivity, improve quality, and enhance collaboration when you equip your workforce with the right technology. Discover how PTC’s digital manufacturing solutions can be leveraged to enable an empowered, connected workforce.

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Manufacturing case studies

We’ve partnered with manufacturers in industries, like automotive, aerospace and defense, industrial machinery, life sciences and more, to unlock the full potential of their data and transform how their businesses operate, innovate, and grow. Read their stories here.

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Electrolux

Discover how Electrolux unlocked insights by using industrial connectivity to access and harness factory data from the shop floor.

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ZF

Explore how ZF integrated product data across its systems, people, and processes to unify teams across R&D, manufacturing, and field operations.

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Vestas

Discover how embracing digital transformation has helped Vestas efficiently design, manufacture, install, and service onshore and offshore wind turbines across the globe.

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Vaillant Group

Discover how a PLM-enabled digital transformation helped Vaillant Group achieve a 16% reduction in rework and an 8% reduction in time to market.

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Polaris

Learn how PLM software helped Polaris create a digital thread across design, engineering, manufacturing, sales, and service.

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Magna

Discover how Vuforia’s augmented reality solutions helped Magna improve quality inspections, while reducing costs caused by scrap, rework, and defects.

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Optimize your manufacturing operations with PTC products

PTC’s portfolio of data-driven solutions provides the perfect combination of manufacturing technologies to maximize quality and production efficiency, while minimizing costs and risk.

Windchill

<p>As the leading enterprise PLM solution, Windchill helps dispersed engineering and manufacturing teams stay on the same page by ensuring they have access to the most up-to-date configurations and product information, while automating the creation of MBOMs, manufacturing process plans, and digital work instructions.</p>

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ThingWorx

Trusted and recommended by industry experts, ThingWorx offers all the IIoT capabilities to quickly build and scale your manufacturing solutions.

Kepware

An industry-leading industrial connectivity software, Kepware connects legacy and disparate sensors and equipment on the factory floor to gather data for operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) factory transformation initiatives.

Vuforia

With market-leading AR technology and an extensive application suite, Vuforia has become the go-to choice for manufacturers seeking to transform their operations.

Windchill As the leading enterprise PLM solution, Windchill helps dispersed engineering and manufacturing teams stay on the same page by ensuring they have access to the most up-to-date configurations and product information, while automating the creation of MBOMs, manufacturing process plans, and digital work instructions. Digital performance management A closed-loop problem solving solution, digital performance management helps increase revenue by reducing operating costs, increasing service levels, and regaining lost production hours. ThingWorx Trusted and recommended by industry experts, ThingWorx offers all the IIoT capabilities to quickly build and scale your manufacturing solutions. Kepware An industry-leading industrial connectivity software, Kepware connects legacy and disparate sensors and equipment on the factory floor to gather data for operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) factory transformation initiatives. Vuforia With market-leading AR technology and an extensive application suite, Vuforia has become the go-to choice for manufacturers seeking to transform their operations.

Tune in to The Lean Manufacturer podcast

The Lean Manufacturer podcast speaks with industry experts who share their insights on various critical manufacturing topics.

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