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PTC Windchill Reviews & Product Details

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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

It is easy to link cad parts with the drawing documents.easy to structure the parrnt parts with child parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

The servers are sometime very buggy.Advanced search is not great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PTC Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can easily create mdm links and bom structures.It is easier than adaptiv to search related parts,documents,objects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PTC Windchill Overview

What is PTC Windchill?

PTC's Market Leading PLM Solution, Windchill, is an application suite that manages all aspects of the product development lifecycle—from concept through service and retirement—by enabling a digital thread of product parts, materials, and configuration information.

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Product Description

PLM software supports the product development process, to integrate people, processes and systems. It provides a product information "warehouse" for organizations.


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PTC
Year Founded
1985
HQ Location
Boston, Massachusetts
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@PTC
38,521 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
8,137 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: PTC
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$1,458
Description

PTC enables manufacturers to achieve product and service advantage in the age of the Internet of Things. The company's technology solutions transform the way smart, connected products are created, operated and serviced.


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Recent PTC Windchill Reviews

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Shanmugaraj M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"I am reviewing about PTC windchill"
Ease of use, i mean just like browsing something in internet we can use Windchill
Bharath K.
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Bharath K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Good PLM software"
The folder management is systematic. Documents are easily accessible and compatible with AutoCAD.
Mohit G.
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Mohit G.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Perfect tool for PLM and change management"
I am using it to release all new drawings, revise existing drawings and manage the product lifecycle. Its an online tool which allows me to upload ...
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Shanmugaraj M.
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

Ease of use, i mean just like browsing something in internet we can use Windchill Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

I dont see anything that i dislike about windchill so far Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PTC Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?

Life cycle management of the doecuments that we are using for medical devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bharath K.
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

The folder management is systematic.

Documents are easily accessible and compatible with AutoCAD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

The files need to be manually deleted in the Workspace Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PTC Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping the documents on cloud with anyone wherever in the globe able to access within the company. Chances of deletion due to power loss is easily avoided. Saves space and data duplication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Altuğ O.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

We are working with many different teams about our analsys progresses, when the designers made any revision on the project or any update we can directly and we will see who made the changes and updates. Also we can open and download the datas easly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

Sometimes it can be very slow depends of the data size Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PTC Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data management problems we solved quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohit G.
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

I am using it to release all new drawings, revise existing drawings and manage the product lifecycle. Its an online tool which allows me to upload and revise my drawings and 3d models in it integrating with Creo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

It manages the changes very well in system and keeps all obsolete and latest revision copies in it. The engineering change request is end to end reviwed and released in windchill getting approvals from all concerned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PTC Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to keep all my design data at one place which is easily accessible for my entire team. It helps me to take all change related approvals through online mode without requesting to anyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rostislav Z.
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

The best thing about Windchill is that you are possible to work with it also via your browser (if you don't need to edit CAD data). It has also enormous amount of possibilities and export methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

It is extremely hard for newbies to work with. Very low user-friendliness. You have to click so many times just to open file or to do anything. Also every click could cause issues for you and you need admin for almost everything. And then there are bugs... so many of them. We had to delay our entire portfolio just because of Windchill. Biggest mistake of ABB is choosing this product, really. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PTC Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Windchill as our main PLM system with integration to our SAP system. This tool is global so we are able to share files across multiple countries. Otherwise it is bad and slowing us down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

There is PLM system that give access to all the user and there having facility to view that drawing is that in which state and you can download latest drawing. It have also acces to link your drawing with your engineer BOM and your manufacturing MES system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

There having no option to download drawing as per grouping you have to download drawing saperately. And some time when use data loader then its phase difficulty to use that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PTC Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before synerio we have to distribute drawing to individual team. And sometimes released drawing and revised drawing not available with the team so need to take print out and share with team. So it will give provide latest product state drawing and save Paper Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Subhair S.
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

Am using PTC Windchill for four years. Product Life cycle management is made simple using this tool. We use this software for Bill Of Material(BOM) creation, Check-in and check-out of CAD data, design documents, process management and design generation. The best part I noticed is we can able to customize its user interface, which is really helpful and user-friendly. We can able to do Engineering Change Request(ECR) and Engineering Change Notice(ECN) easily. It integrates and performs well with PTC creo. Product data can be searched and accessed from any department in our organization without any trouble. Drawing revisions can be made easily, and it notifies the change to all the users in the loop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

Errors sometimes occur while working on larger CAD models that result in hanging and closing the program; this seems uncomfortable while working. In order to create a Windchill Bill Of Materials, WT parts need to be created for all the parts. Otherwise am ok with PTC Windchill for PLM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PTC Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?

In our industry, we design and manufacture Heavy machinery. Wind chill helps us to maintain CAD models, Design data, process management, and BOM creation. It also helps us in ECR and ECN management. The product library is easy to access, and we can able to pick whatever is required. Any changes done to the document are notified to all the users, which is really helpful. Using PTC windchill project visualization can be done, and process planning and Cost Estimation(PPCE) are also made easier with the entire product data available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

- Easy-to-use.

- Customization as per user demand.

- User-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

- AI should be there.

- Many times an error occurs during check-in & check-out of data.

- High upgradation cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PTC Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?

Part Number creation, BOM Creation, Engineering Change creation, Data management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BIBIN K.
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Technical Illustrator
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

1. Light yet powerful CMS.

2. Can access account on multiple devices with current update.

3. Coupled with Arbortext Editor and isodraw, user can create all type of user, installation, disassembly documents with history saving option.

4. Can create multiple workspace and switch upon user need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

1. Light software & user friendly but application could freeze/close when working with heavy model workspaces.

2. Could give error when checkout/checkin if user have tried to login into diff system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PTC Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Application crashes while handling heavy 3d CAD models, 2D to 3D rendering or 3D to 2D rendering, PTC is working on it., If solved user can 100%rely on this tool.

2. Contour on 3D is an issue again, had many freeze/application close, hopefully PTC will resolve these in upcomming updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tushar C.
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Executive Engineer E-ll
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

PTC Windchill is a Product Lifecycle Management PLM tool where one can store and use each and every details of product and components from scratch to obsolete and to lifetime. I like the way its UI is designed, i can easily track, find history of all products. I am able to save save my 3D and 2D cad data, pdf, xml, office files also Auto cad files on Windchill. Using PTC Windchill i can release the whole project, product in system to access all departments within company. I am using PTC Windchill for Check In & Check Out, release of 3d &2d of components, attributes filling, BOM creation, project management, daily task, classification explorer etc. Workflow management, Version views, metadata creation, Nested and multilevel BOM creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

PTC Windchill is a web based application and not an individual app available for Windchill that i little dont like. Also sometimes catche creates problems and need to delete catche manually while using Windchill with Creo this is also one dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PTC Windchill:

I recommend PTC Windchill for product based companies to manage their products whole life cycle, useful for documentation also, saves almost all types of files at Windchill. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PTC Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?

In old days I am releasing project using emails for that beed to keep copies to each and every concern person of alll departments in company it was really a time consuming process this problem is solved by PTC Windchill as now I am only releasing project in Windchill and every user if Windchill in company got released notification and access of the same. Also it is very useful for BOM creation, Using Windchill i got quick access to all product library and easy to find one from billion and millions. Using Windchill for Engineering Change Management, ECR, ECN release, metadata promotion etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.