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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
Twitter
@PTC
38,536 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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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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Ease of use, i mean just like browsing something in internet we can use Windchill
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The folder management is systematic. Documents are easily accessible and compatible with AutoCAD.
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PTC Windchill Pros and Cons

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Ajay P.
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Manager - PLM Practice
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

Lightweight, Multi-CAD support, Great visualization, Robust Change Management Process, workflow, Lifecycle, and Access Control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

Older versions were not flexible; however, the interface improved significantly after Windchill 11 release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Collaboration, Efficiency, Faster time to market, Improved Product Quality, Lower rework cost and visibility around the enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anshuman S.
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Research And Development Engineer
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

The best part about Windchill is the ease in manitaining the lifecycle of a product through Change Request Change Notice and Non Change Controlled Change Notice process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

Windchill needs to create an automated system in order to send reminder to the task approvers as per the timer setup by the Change owner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

PTC Windchill helps in maintaining the lifecycle of a product and link all the related documents to a SKU to the part object. This helps me in easy tracking of the SKU. Additionally whenever there is a change in the documentation related to a SKU the product owners are also informed about the same through Windchill. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

It is very fast as compared to other PLM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

At some areas where we need to visualise the CAD objects it takes time and some time we nees to reload. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is the best PLM software in order to manage a product lifecycle from start to end of its life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rupesh P.
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

Workflow initiation, check in and check out process and easy and smooth integration with CAD software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

Nothing to dislike. Wonderful software available in market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I used this software for data management, workflow process and Change management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Its allows users to put best-suited comb Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

It allows users to pick the best-suited combinations of tools to the interface.

It easily integrates with other software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Lots of customization is available in PTC windchill.

Also, the software can contain brief data for any product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harmeet S.
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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

It provide Product Mangaement, Process Management and Product Change Management.

It allows user to customize & personalized interface based on their requirement.

It include in depth product related data such as 3D CAD, 2D Drawing, CAE results, test reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

Price for PTC PLM Premium is somewhat high than other Product Mangaement solutions.

Creation of WT parts is must to create Windchill BOM.

Customer support service need to improve as their response is very poor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is compatible with all operating system such as Android, iOS and web based.

It provide BOM with all details such Part Name, Part No., Weight,Material etc.

Data can be search im very facile manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

Worked on the integrated platform of creo ptc and windchill. It is very smooth and good linkages of parts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

Sometimes system errors are tough to solve. But that's a poke yoke Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reduces the efforts for tracking of child parts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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.

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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

It is effortless to use. It is essential to keep data in a proper manner and place. While working on large design projects, we find it very useful for quick search of data we need. We get the benefit of keeping data backup on the windchill. We often get storage issues, so it's a perfect option for large companies. It can also be linked with CREO to download or open CAD files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

The user interface is a little difficult for new users. Proper training is required before using it. Otherwise, there will be jumbling and loss of data. Freshers cannot handle it alone without guidance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's best to keep your data online and access it whenever required with a login ID and password. Its always not possible to carry colossal CAD PC everywhere it provide a view option for models also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PTC Windchill?

Below mentioned points which i liked while using windchill

1. Wonderful mechanism for check in & checkout

2. Can manage design document like customer approved drawings and other documents easily

3. During BOM creation structure making is user friendly

4. ECR & ECN workflow is as per standards and user friendly also

5. Multiple workspace can be easily created Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PTC Windchill?

Below mentioned points which i disliked while using

1. During viewing partlist option it is not easy to convert that in Excel

2. WT part and drawing can be separate but it should not be there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PTC Windchill:

This software is full package with all product lifecycle management specially for product design Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. Managing all design related data on Windchill

2. Managing all drawing and 3d cad data on Windchill

3. ECR and ECN release using windchill

4. It help me to eliminate to save any data in local space. I can manage all things on Windchill

5. I can access my design data from any location of my organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.