

ThingWorx Navigate is a suite of role- and task-based applications designed to provide stakeholders across an organization with seamless access to product lifecycle management (PLM data and other enterprise information. By offering intuitive, out-of-the-box (OOTB apps that require minimal training, ThingWorx Navigate enables users to retrieve and interact with up-to-date product information efficiently, thereby enhancing collaboration and decision-making processes. Key Features and Functionality: - View and Download PLM Content: Users can access and download drawings, design files, part structures, and documents, ensuring they have the latest product information at their fingertips. - 3D Model Interaction: The platform allows for interactive engagement with part models in 3D, including cross-selection capabilities using attributes, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of product designs. - Change Management Participation: Stakeholders can review, approve, comment on, and provide feedback on change management tasks, streamlining the change approval process. - Custom App Development: Organizations have the flexibility to build custom applications using reusable components, enabling tailored solutions for specific use cases such as supplier collaboration, production planning, and quality reporting. - Flexible Deployment Options: ThingWorx Navigate supports both on-premises and cloud-based deployments, including Software as a Service (SaaS, offering adaptability to various IT infrastructures. Primary Value and Problem Solved: ThingWorx Navigate addresses the challenge of providing non-expert users with simplified access to complex PLM systems and other enterprise data sources. By delivering role-based, intuitive applications, it democratizes data access, enabling stakeholders from manufacturing, procurement, service, sales, marketing, and quality engineering to make informed decisions without extensive training. This approach reduces the time spent searching for information, minimizes reliance on specialized personnel for data retrieval, and fosters a collaborative environment where accurate, real-time product data is readily available throughout the product lifecycle.

Create 3D technical illustrations, animated sequences, and 2D drawings at scale, and with speed.

Creo Elements/Direct Drafting is a comprehensive 2D CAD system tailored for product designers and mechanical engineers. It offers an intuitive interface that facilitates the creation of detailed engineering drawings and technical illustrations. The software's robust assembly management capabilities allow users to visualize and manage complex assembly structures efficiently, streamlining the design and modification of parts and assemblies. Additionally, its strong multi-CAD collaboration features ensure seamless integration and reuse of existing 2D designs from various CAD systems. By automating development processes and providing customization options, Creo Elements/Direct Drafting enhances productivity and ensures design accuracy throughout the product development lifecycle. Key Features and Functionality: - Intuitive User Interface: Enables easy creation and modification of 2D designs, catering to both novice and experienced users. - Assembly Management: Provides a clear parts, assembly, and sub-assembly structure, simplifying the design and modification of complex assemblies. - Multi-CAD Collaboration: Supports importing and exporting files in formats like Autodesk DWG, DXF, and 2D IGES, facilitating seamless collaboration across different CAD platforms. - Customization and Automation: Allows users to tailor the software to specific needs and automate repetitive design tasks, enhancing efficiency. - Parametric Design Capabilities: Enables parameterization of drawings, allowing for easy creation of part or drawing families and efficient reuse of existing designs. Primary Value and User Solutions: Creo Elements/Direct Drafting addresses the need for a powerful yet user-friendly 2D CAD solution in the product development process. By offering robust assembly management and multi-CAD collaboration capabilities, it simplifies the design and modification of complex assemblies and ensures seamless integration with existing designs. The software's customization and automation features streamline development processes, reducing time-to-market and enhancing productivity. Ultimately, it empowers designers and engineers to produce accurate and professional technical documentation efficiently.

CADDS 5 provides a hybrid modeling environment that combines parametric, explicit, and derived modeling techniques. This flexibility allows engineering teams to optimize their design approach based on the complexity and maturity of different product areas—an essential capability for large systems such as ships, offshore platforms, and industrial plants. The solution includes deep, industry-specific capabilities for structural steel, hull design, piping, electrical systems, HVAC, and outfitting. Integrated data management and concurrent assembly functionality ensure design consistency across disciplines while enabling teams to work in parallel without overwriting or duplicating work. In real-world deployments, CADDS 5 is commonly used to: - Design massive assemblies with millions of parts - Coordinate large engineering teams across mechanical, electrical, and systems domains - Support long-running, regulated programs with stringent configuration control - Reduce late-stage manufacturing issues through early clash detection and design validation

Creo Layout is an easy-to-use 2D CAD app that lets your product design team create detailed concepts in 2D, complete with information such aPTC Creo Layout2s dimensions and annotations.

Providing developers and IT managers with an easy to use environment that speeds development by managing and streamlining critical change management and development processes.

PTC Service Knowledge and Diagnostics solution helps you create and leverage a knowledge repository so field service personnel, contact center representatives and even end-users can quickly and accurately diagnose product issues. You can solve highly complex and subjective problems more easily, with better consistency and in less time.

Servigistics employs advanced data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to tackle intricate service supply chain issues. Through cutting-edge algorithms, it enables organizations to optimize service levels, equipment uptime, and customer satisfaction, all while minimizing costs—ensuring the availability of the right part at the right place and price.

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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.