PDM, PTC Articles

Windchill® PDMLink™: Gaining Control of Your Product Development Process (670KB)

A PTC White Paper outlining PDMLink as a solution to the issues related to developing and managing digital product content in a value chain environment.

Windchill® DynamicDesignLink™: Enabling Flexible and Cost Efficient Mass Customization Through Design to Order (341KB)

A PTC White Paper outlining DynamicDesignLink's capabilities to enable discrete manufacturers to address the increasing demand for design to order products by shrinking and automating their application engineering cycle into a visually interactive Web-based and dynamic collaborative product customization experience.

Windchill® ProjectLink™: Collaborative Project Management (1,806KB)

A PTC White Paper outlining ProjectLink as a solution to the issues related to managing product development projects and collaborating with customers, partnrs and internal functional groups.

Why Architecture Matters for PLM, a PTC White Paper (261KB)

Software architecture matters. Why settle for long custom deployments that introduce integration and flexibility limitations, resulting in higher cost of ownership? In this paper, critical issues related to owning a PLM software solution, such as Windchill, are explored from an architectural viewpoint of Integral, Internet, and Interoperable.

PTC's Product Development System: Product Lifecycle Management for Manufacturing Companies, a PTC White Paper (384KB)

Over the next five years, global manufacturing is expected to invest upwards of $25 billion dollars in product development solutions. Why? Because, after making massive investments in infrastructure and the physical supply chain with mixed results, leading manufacturing companies are re-discovering ‘what matters most’ for business success in the 21st century. Within this new global economy, product development processes have been elevated as a leading competitive weapon. This competitive advantage originates from the need for an optimized product development system that delivers the appropriate footprint of capabilities on a technical architecture that accommodates the needs of the digital product value chain.

Forrester Research Brief - PTC Maps Case for PLM - Consultants Take Note (218KB)

To educate customers on the value of product life-cycle management (PLM), PTC recently introduced the Product First Roadmap. This communication tool helps link PLM activitites to business benefit, offering practice areas for strategy consultants.

Telecom White Paper, a PTC White Paper (378KB)

This paper describes the challenges and market trends facing the telecommunications industry today, the critical success factors required for market leadership, and the ways in which new Internet-based technologies can be applied to business processes to add value and deliver significant business benefits.

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