Role-based Add-Ons
PTC Windchill offers industry and role-based add-ons to empower expert users by enhancing traceable and associative product data within the context of their job functions or industries. These add-ons provide highly customizable workflows that automate previously manual processes, saving time and promoting standardized best practices across the enterprise.
Design
For mechanical designers, Windchill MCAD Data Management streamlines data sharing and collaboration by embedding Windchill capabilities into tools like Creo and other third-party MCAD software. This integration ensures secure and concurrent data sharing, preventing issues such as data overwriting or outdated information, ultimately improving efficiency in design processes.
Quality
Quality and compliance managers benefit from Windchill's Quality Management System (QMS) by enhancing product quality, reducing costs, and accelerating problem resolution timelines. The system comes with pre-configured ISO processes, document control with training tracking, audit management, regulatory compliance tools, and configurable workflows for non-conformance tracking and resolution.
Risk and Reliability
Reliability engineers leverage Windchill's Risk and Reliability tools to design products with enhanced quality and reliability. From risk assessment to failure analysis, these tools integrate seamlessly with change and configuration management capabilities, enabling engineers to predict reliability, evaluate risks, and enhance product reliability through data analysis.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing engineers can accelerate industrialization processes and improve collaboration with product designers using Windchill's Manufacturing Process Plans and Instructions. By creating and managing digital process plans and visual work instructions, engineers can enhance efficiency and accuracy in manufacturing processes.
Service
Service engineers and operations professionals can drive down costs and improve service accuracy with Windchill's Service Parts Information and Instructions. This tool helps in managing service information structures, creating interactive illustrations, and generating configuration-specific catalogs to enhance accessibility and usability of service data.
Software and Systems Engineering (SSE)
Software and system engineers benefit from Windchill's SSE applications that integrate embedded software and mechanical aspects of products within a comprehensive PLM and ALM system. These applications include requirements and test management, source code management, model-based systems engineering, and enhanced change management capabilities for improved product development.
Industry-based Add-Ons
Windchill offers industry-specific add-ons to address unique challenges and pressures faced by different sectors. From the Medical Device Suite (MDS) for regulatory compliance to the Aerospace and Defense Module (WADM) for managing complex product structures, these add-ons cater to specific industry requirements, streamlining processes and enhancing product quality.