Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC): Windchill®

Manufacturing companies today face ever-growing challenges in bringing products to market. Technology, outsourcing, globalization, and consolidation have converged to create new opportunities—and new complexities—in the process of designing and developing products.

As more and more people become involved in product development, the need for practical solutions to create innovative designs, share information, and manage change intensifies. This is the essence of product life-cycle management.

With more than 50,000 customers using PTC product development, content management and dynamic publishing solutions, PTC is recognized as the global leader in helping discrete manufacturers optimize product development performance.

Fast, powerful, and secure, Windchill® is designed to effectively manage global product development and work in an Internet-based, distributed-design environment. Windchill uniquely has the capabilities needed to effectively manage global product development teams.

Windchill manages all product content (mechanical CAD, electrical CAD, software, and documents) and business processes throughout the product life cycle. Windchill can help companies of all sizes and in all industries with product development and business process management. Windchill can be deployed on site using IBM Express Advantage components. Windchill can also be hosted; IBM provides the hosting.

IBM Built On Express components:

IBM System p™ and System x™ Express Models
IBM WebSphere® Business Integration Server Express V4.4
IBM WebSphere Application Server - Express V5.1

A mid-sized design, marketing and distribution company specializes in consumer products and sells its goods in department and specialty retail stores around the world, as well as through their e-commerce Web site.

They needed a product data management (PDM) solution that would help its geographically dispersed divisions collaborate more efficiently, to get its products to market faster. They chose PTC’s Windchill, but they were concerned that installing, integrating and running a PDM solution might be more than their internal staff could handle.

PTC and IBM responded by introducing Windchill PDMLink as an On Demand solution hosted by IBM. This solution manages and controls product information and processes throughout every step of the product life cycle.

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