Full traceability of your products' life cycle
Manufacturing companies now require real-time information sharing, dynamic data visualization, and seamless collaboration across departments more than ever before. With a PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solution, you have easy and secure data access for teams across departments and locations, quality-focused processes and a data-driven approach to manufacturing at your fingertips.
With PTC's PLM solution, Windchill, you get a complete package to manage your products' lifecycle by providing end-to-end solutions for all your product-related data and processes.
Windchill's open architecture is your guarantee that the solution integrates easily with your other IT systems, e.g. ERP, Field Service, CAD and IoT. With Windchill you get, among other things, comprehensive out-of-the-box functionality and configurable role- and task-based applications.
Benefits of Windchill
How can one software solution streamline communication between different points in the value chain? In short: centralization. Your PLM solution becomes your reference tool through which data can be consistently managed and accessed by all stakeholders.
User friendly
PTC Windchill's intuitive user interface is easy to learn for both internal employees and external project partners.
Integration with other solutions
Manage data at scale with integration of multiple systems thanks to PTC Windchill's open architecture. It allows you to connect your ERP or other IT systems with Windchill.
Secure PLM platform
Protect your company's data and product information, regardless of whether you work with internal or external employees.
One repository for all product design data
PTC Windchill houses a variety of product-related data, from multi-dimensional data, to BoM's for engineering, production and service, version control and workflows.
Foster innovation
PLM solutions help eliminate silo structures by removing the traditional limitations that arise from working in different systems. Thereby you get a digital ecosystem that promotes innovation.
Change management
Change management is standard within PTC Windchill.
Accessible
With built-in rights management, only specific profiles can access the information entrusted to them. Furthermore, you can connect from any device via a web browser.
Reduce costs
PTC Windchill gives you a better view of the different parts and quantities needed to make a product, so you can react faster based on purchasing and inventory.
Capabilities of PTC Windchill
PTC Windchill manages all product-related information. Collaborate seamlessly on product designs with different teams and across various locations by integrating multiple CAD systems into one secure platform. This accelerates design cycles, reduces errors, and fosters innovation.
Maintain consistency throughout the entire product lifecycle by digitally connecting engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, sales, and service teams. This enhances efficiency and decision-making while reducing costs.
Ensure precision and accountability during the modification process by setting up automated workflows with built-in governance and traceability. This helps minimize errors, streamline processes, and ensure product integrity.
Ensure a uniform approach with real-time insight into product data for production planning, validate advanced manufacturing processes, digitize the shop floor, conduct quality control, optimize strategic purchasing, and support mobile service technicians.
Ensure a smooth flow of information between engineering and production by establishing integrated processes for manufacturing, regardless of location. This increases efficiency, improves product quality, and reduces lead times.
Quality, reliability, and safety are integrated throughout the entire lifecycle by applying quality control processes in design, production, and service. This enhances customer satisfaction, reduces defects, and minimizes risks.
Simplify product complexity and reduce costs by implementing a classification strategy to prevent duplicate parts, promote reuse, save costs, improve inventory management, and enhance product reliability.
Effectively manage different product variants and configurations by utilizing lifecycle management tools. This increases flexibility, enhances customization, and streamlines processes to meet customer needs.
Collaborate with suppliers while protecting intellectual property by securely sharing data and tracking deliverables in the global supply chain to improve supplier relationships, optimize supply chain efficiency, and mitigate risks.
These challenges are addressed with PTC Windchill
- On-time delivery: Delivering on time to customers is not always easy. With PTC Windchill, you can manage project status, streamline processes, and improve collaboration between the design and production departments.
- High costs: Finding ways to reduce costs remains a top priority for every manufacturing company. PTC Windchill provides better insight into the various components and quantities needed to produce a product, allowing you to better manage purchasing and inventory.
- Regulatory compliance: In specific manufacturing subsectors, PTC Windchill allows you to accurately document regulations and ensures compliance with safety and quality standards.
- Supply chain disruption: Having issues with the delivery of components or raw materials? With PTC Windchill, you can monitor relationships with your suppliers.
- Internal collaboration: Miscommunication and manual errors when transferring designs from the design department to production are a thing of the past with PTC Windchill. The solution automates and visualizes these processes, enhancing collaboration.
Integration with other business systems
By using open standards within Windchill, you can easily integrate the solution with other business systems, including CAD, ERP, and IoT. This way, you get a solid foundation for a product-driven digital common thread and a continuous feedback loop.
CAD compatibility: In addition to PTC Creo Parametric, Windchill is also compatible with other CAD tools. The integration makes collaboration between development and production easier and ensures fewer manual errors when preparing and converting BoM's, as PTC Windchill automates this.
Interface to ERP: Integration with the ERP system makes it possible to monitor stocks and production at project level. 9A Windchill - Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Connector from 9altitudes is a real-time, two-way integration that reduces time-to-market for custom and configurable products.
IoT for connected products and machines: By connecting PTC Windchill to an IoT solution like PTC ThingWorx, you can monitor and improve your connected end products and machines on the production floor. Through IoT, you gain insight into the performance and use of your products and machines. You can then use this information to optimize them.
How does NEDCON use Windchill?
Given the complexity of their products, NEDCON was looking for an engineering solution that would help them encompass that complexity and ensure transparency and quality. They ultimately chose the PTC solutions CAD Creo Parametric in combination with PLM Windchill.
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