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Industrial Augmented Reality
Market leaders are using AR to empower their workforce, optimize operations, transform service, and innovate new products. Learn how you can harness the value of AR.
AR is helping to upskill workers by replacing traditional training and guidance materials with more effective, immersive experiences.
Successful AR solutions require proper planning, including identifying the best software and hardware for your needs, as well as a plan to integrate AR into existing processes, workflows, and systems.
From proof of concepts and functional pilots, to fully-deployed, scalable solutions, this white paper details the critical steps that will guide AR project owners through getting started with industrial AR.
Download it now to learn how to:
- Identify the most compelling business case
- Generate quick, visible wins using a phased implementation
- Deliver the optimal frontline user experience
- Save significant time and costs for your organization
If your workforce is challenged by high turnover, expert worker scarcity, error prone processes, or competitive advantage, it’s time to get started now. Download your copy of “Getting Started with Industrial Augmented Reality Solutions.”
Start Your Augmented Reality Journey
Speak with one of our AR experts to learn more about the ways that AR can improve service, customer experiences, operations, and the engineering and manufacturing of products. Explore Vuforia: PTC’s Market-Leading Industrial AR Solution Suite that provides industrial enterprises with a powerful new way to publish work instructions, transfer expertise, provide hands-on training, and deliver remote assistance. With a suite of offerings, Vuforia is optimized for rapid time-to-value across multiple industries or use cases.
Download your copy of the “AR Buyer’s Guide: Select the Right AR Tools” and use this buyer’s guide to evaluate AR technology based on its ability to address your business challenges.
Find AR Solutions to Fit Your Use Case
Industrial Augmented Reality has numerous practical applications—where to begin depends on knowing where you’ll get the fastest, most meaningful ROI. These use cases stand out as offering easy adoption, clear returns, tangible benefits, and a roadmap to scale up.
- AR for Manufacturing
Revolutionize your workforce with augmented work instructions and training to elevate skills, performance, uptime, safety and overall efficiency.
- AR for Services
Empower your technicians with real time access to relevant information and subject matter experts to resolve problems faster, reduce cost and satisfy customers.
- AR for Sales and Marketing
Employ new ways to strengthen your brand, build demand and shorten sales cycles.
Industrial IoT Is Driving Business Value
Smart connected products offer increased opportunities for features and functions along with far greater reliability and higher product utilization. Changing nature of the product is disrupting value chains and forcing companies to rethink and retool everything that is current done internal to an organization.
Smart connected products require companies to build an entirely new technology infrastructure. This includes modified hardware, software applications
Including an enterprise-ready IoT platform (ThingWorx) that enables innovators to rapidly develop and deploy smart, connected solutions. An AR platform (Vuforia) to transform applications/solutions into immersive experiences that enable users to create, service, and operate products in the smart, connected world. And an industrial connectivity platform (Kepware) purpose-built to support connectivity to thousands of industrial devices and other data sources, providing industrial data to all of your applications.
Connect your machines, devices, workers, facilities, and entire systems to the industrial IoT. Gain powerful new capabilities to digitally transform your business.
What is the industrial IoT?
Your enterprise assets and systems are a rich source of untapped data. The industrial Internet of Things enables you to access, analyze, act upon, and monetize that data. A flexible IIoT platform provides a number of ways to accomplish this—and greatly expands how to drive value from it. From optimizing what you make and how you make it, to transforming how you service and sell your products, there are smart ways to get more value—faster—from your industrial Internet of Things investment.
Improve manufacturing operations with IIoT solutions
Used with complementary technologies, the industrial Internet of Things plays a key role in PTC’s digital transformation solutions. To learn more about how you can use the industrial Internet of Things to improve efficiency, quality, and throughput in your operations. (visit the Digital Manufacturing Solution Suite page)
- Real-time Visibility
Reduce downtime, improve throughput, increase safety, and access a holistic, unified view of your enterprise.
- Plant Benchmarking
Get apples to apples comparisons across plants, equipment, production lines, shifts and move to uncover and implement industry best practices.
- Digital Work Instructions
Give workers the right information to improve productivity, quality, safety and agility while lowering costs.
IIoT solutions for service innovation
Along with complementary technologies, the industrial Internet of Things can be used to maximize equipment uptime and lower service costs for customers—elevating overall customer satisfaction and loyalty. To understand how IIoT-enabled products and services can transform your business. (visit the Service Optimization page)
Computer Aided Design Software
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What Is CAD?Computer-aided design is a way to digitally create 2D drawings and 3D models of real-world products—before they’re ever manufactured. With 3D CAD, you can share, review, simulate, and modify designs easily, opening doors to innovative and competitive products that get to market fast. |
Creo
The industry standard for product design and development software for parametric modeling, simulation/analysis, and product documentation for more than 30 years
Now Available! Creo 9.0
Now more than ever, product design & manufacturing teams are expected to create products more efficiently & cost effectively, without sacrificing innovation or quality. Fortunately, Creo delivers the most scalable range of 3D CAD product development packages & tools in today’s market. Its variety of specific features, capabilities, & tools help engineers imagine, design, & create your products better.
Take your products from concept to digital prototype efficiently, precisely and intuitively with Creo—on the cutting edge of CAD for more than 30 years.
Exciting new technologies are changing the world of product design. Creo includes breakthrough capabilities in Additive Manufacturing, IoT, Model-Based Definition (MBD) and Augmented Reality (AR). Design faster and smarter by connecting your digital design to your physical products.
Create, design, and innovate with Creo.
Features
Modeling and Design
Explore your product design options and introduce more innovative products while reducing redundant work.
Simulation and Analysis
Use digital prototypes to understand how your design performs in real-world conditions.
Augmented Reality
Use Augmented Reality to share your designs at scale in the physical world with stakeholders anywhere in the world.
Smart Connected Design
Replace design assumptions with facts thanks to IoT. Utilize real-world product data in your designs.
Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (3D printing) closes the gap between 3D CAD and 3D printing.
Model-Based Definition
Embed all the necessary product manufacturing information (PMI) directly in your models, where everyone can access the data
Creo Capabilities
PTC’s developers created Creo Parametric as a sound foundation software that allows its users the ability to expand deeper functionality with each component. As your products become more complex in its engineering, Creo offers expanded capabilities to meet your requirements. Every product isn’t made equal, and your 3D CAD solution shouldn’t be either. Explore Creo’s capabilities that mold to your unique craft.
3D Design
- Parametric & Freestyle Surfacing
- Augmented Reality
- Direct Modeling
- 2D Drawing
- Model-Based Definition
- Design Exploration
- Sheet Metal Design
- Mechanism Design
- Structural Framework & Weld Design
- Fastener Design
- Human Factors Design
- Routed Systems Design
- Smart Connected Design
- Concept Design
- Plastic Part Design
- Industrial Design
- Reverse Engineering
- Multi-CAD
- Rendering & 3D Animation
- Assembly Management & Performance
Analysis
- Structural Analysis
- Thermal Analysis
- Motion Analysis
- Mold Fill Analysis
- Fatigue Analysis
- Creepage & Clearance Analysis
CAM
- Additive Manufacturing
- Tool & Die Design
- Production Machining
Other
- Performance Advisor
- Product Data Management
- Technical Illustrations
New to Creo?
FREE 30 day trial of Creo Parametric.
Top 7 Reasons To Try Creo Today:
- Instantly take advantage of a fully functional, 30-day trial of Creo Parametric
- Use Augmented Reality to share your designs at scale in the physical world with stakeholders anywhere in the world.
- Effectively combine the power and control of parametric modeling with the ease of use and flexibility of direct modeling
- Quickly and easily create freeform shapes and surfaces using sub-divisional modeling capabilities
- Run simulations on your parts to see how they will perform under real-world conditions
- Easily get up to speed with comprehensive learning materials and embedded tutorials
- Effortlessly manage neutral and non CAD data, avoiding the need to convert files or recreate 3D CAD models from scratch
Creo Trial Creo Features
Creo is design the way it should be, and your download is the first step to designing the products of the future. Use the free trial to explore these features:
- Parts & Assembly Modeling
- Augmented Reality
- Manufacturing Drawings
- Sheet Metal Modeling
- Framework & Weld Design
- Structural Analysis
- Mechanism Design
- Photo Rendering & Design Animation
- Data Rendering & Repair
- Complete Library of Parts, Features, Tools & More
Creo Trial System Requirements:
The Creo trial requires a 64-bit operating system to run.
| Operating System | Version |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Windows 7 |
Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Ultimate Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit Editions Service Pack 1 Internet Explorer 11.0 |
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit Editions Internet Explorer 11.0.3 |
| Microsoft Windows 10 |
Windows 10 Professional 64-bit Edition Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit Edition Windows 10 Anniversary Edition Windows 10 Fall Creators Windows 10 Enterprise 2015 LTSB 64-bit Edition Base OS, Internet Explorer 11.0 |
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.
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.
 | 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. |
Capabilities
- Product Data Management
Manage multi-CAD data in a single system using tight integration with Creo, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and other CAD tools
- BOM Management
Adopt a parts-centric approach to managing your Bill of Materials
- Change and Configuration Management
Make dynamic, coordinated changes across the enterprise to deliver accurate, real-time information
- Platforms, Options, and Variants
Design with platform structures and manage options and variants
- Manufacturing Process Planning and Work Instructions
Ensure manufacturing planning and product development
- Quality Management
Continually improve the quality of the product and reduce service instances
