CAD, PTC Articles

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Resolves the Problem with Flexible Components, a PTC White Paper (183KB)

Associative design tools started a revolution. Design teams actually started working concurrently, compressing design time. Tool designers and manufacturers got involved earlier, because their work always updated to the latest changes. There was no wasted time. The concept of a single definition of a design powered it all. A change made to that single definition propagated everywhere it was used.

Engineering Automation Report - PTC Strikes Back, a Cyon Research Report (99KB)

PTC is headed in the right direction with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. The company finally has products - Wildfire and Windchill - that show promise, and customers are starting to notice.

Competitive CAD Outlook, a PTC White Paper (19KB)

he war for a competitive advantage never ceases. Everyday companies make strategic business decisions to improve their position in the market. They examine the business value chain to improve product innovation, customer intimacy, and operational efficiency. For discrete manufacturers, product development is one of their key weapons in this war. As a result, now more than ever, CAD tools should be perceived as strategic business weapons that add critical value to companies that learn how to leverage an engineer’s creativity and translate it into corporate profits.

D.H. Brown Associates, Inc. - Productivity and PLM Foundations: PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire (457KB)

PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire delivers on its promise to allow organizations to begin the build-out of a full PLM system. The build-out is incremental and value-oriented. More important, it does not force companies to compromise on selecting best-of-breed products or to choose between personal and process productivity.

Peer-to-Peer Design Conferencing in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, a PTC White Paper (416KB)

In Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, PTC and Groove Networks introduce technology that facilitates the sharing of design data for collaboration, review and training purposes between co-workers, partners, customers and suppliers.

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