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PLM

PLM

PLM

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 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.

The Digital Thread Foundation

PTC’s PLM application suite combines the power of Windchill, the industry’s #1 PLM software with ThingWorx, PTC’s market-leading, purpose-built IIoT platform. The suite offers a mix of Packages, Add-Ons, and Apps to best suit your business needs:

Packages: Windchill packages at the Base, Advanced and Premium level
Add-Ons: Categorized by Enterprise Functional or Industry
Apps: ThingWorx Navigate View and Contribute role and task-based apps or ThingWorx Connected PLM customizable apps

Whether it’s Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed Service, or an On Premises approach, Datafrond offers flexibility in deployment options:

PTC Cloud – SaaS: Software architected, delivered, and serviced by PTC in a secure, dedicated Microsoft Azure cloud environment including implementation, upgrades, system updates, backups and disaster recovery, application management, service management, and technical support.
PTC Cloud – Managed Services: Existing software managed by PTC in a secure, dedicated Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
Your Own Cloud – Managed Services: Existing software managed by Datafrond in a secure, dedicated Microsoft Azure or Amazon cloud environment.
On Premises: Software managed on premises.

Capabilities

What Windchill Can Do For You

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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Product Data Management

Manage multi-CAD data in a single system using tight integration with Creo, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and other CAD tools

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BOM Management

Adopt a parts-centric approach to managing your Bill of Materials

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Change & Configuration Management

Make dynamic, coordinated changes across the enterprise to deliver accurate, real-time information

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