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Arbortext Content Manager and Arbortext PDM Link are licensed on a per-seat, named user basis.

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Robust Solutions for Every Part of the Product Information Creation and Delivery Process

Windchill

Windchill is PTC's production-proven content and process management software. Fast, secure, and requiring only a Web browser to access, this business collaboration software enables companies to streamline product development processes and deliver superior physical goods and information products. Windchill is a single source of product information/content enables development efficiencies, reduces errors and rework. It offers complete product definition and collaboration capabilities expertly drive cross-enterprise understanding of information - regardless of source; Provides repeatable, end-to-end process support and automation speeds time-to-market and reduces development cost; and Can be accessed through a secure, industry-standard Internet architecture to deliver a safe, high-performing technology platform.

Windchill Data Sheet.

Windchill PDMLink

Windchill PDMLink focuses on Product and Process Control

Windchill PDMLink is a single, trusted central data repository that allows your staff to expertly manage all forms of digital product development data. Web-based for easy enterprise-wide access, this PDM system supports geographically dispersed teams while managing critical processes such as change/configuration management and release to manufacturing. Windchill PDMLink is a Web-based master product data management repository, enabling global access to current, accurate information from myriad sources. It seamlessly connects to multiple mechanical/electrical CAD applications, desktop applications, publishing tools, and Enterprise Resource Planning systems; Prevents costly design errors by controlling and automating typically chaotic product change management processes; Facilitates rapid development of new product configurations through reuse of previously designed product configurations; and Operates seamlessly with all Windchill ProjectLink for distributed, cross-enterprise collaboration on data acquisition and product information.

Windchill PDMLink Data Sheet.
Windchill PDMLink On Demand Data Sheet.

Windchill ProjectLink

Windchill ProjectLink is the web based project collaboration for product development

With Windchill ProjectLink, you can securely harness the talents and energy of the entire team, inside or outside of your firewall. Through a virtual workspace, Windchill ProjectLink provides access to the right product development and project management information at the right time, keeping the team aligned, on-track, and moving forward. Windchill ProjectLink automates key business processes such as New Product Introduction, Six Sigma, and Advanced Product Quality Planning; Integrates with numerous mechanical and electrical CAD solutions, Microsoft Office applications, and the Windows desktop; Accelerates time to market by providing real time visibility to current documents, parts, and plan information; Fosters innovation through real-time group collaboration, both inside and outside your firewall; Operates seamlessly with Windchill PDMLink for incorporation of product information in cross-enterprise activities.

Windchill ProjectLink Data Sheet
Windchill ProjectLink On Demand Data Sheet.

Windchill Options and Variants

Windchill PDMLink introduces support for managing product options typical of assemble-to-order development. With these new capabilities, customers now have a more streamlined approach to manage discrete lists of options for a product line and navigate the product by these option sets.

Options and Variants allows traditional publishing companies to blur the line between content management and authoring/publishing activities. Options and Variants allows you to create publication configurations of your source content in your content management system making it easier to develop and maintain content as well as publish it effectively. It gets more effective as your content approaches high reusability percentages.

For information about this module please contact us: info@single-sourcing.com

Windchill for LifeSciences—NetRegulus Quality

NetRegulus Quality is a comprehensive Global Quality Management solution that enables you to manage Quality information across the entire enterprise, spanning complete product life cycles, from pre-clinical information to post market activities. NetRegulus software offers a low total cost of ownership and makes it easy to expand as your needs change. In regulated industries, such as life sciences, manufacturers must satisfy extensive reporting and compliance requirements, which are constantly changing and evolving. As a result, collecting, interpreting, and sharing related quality information can reduce your company’s flexibility and slow down your operations.

Benefits include: Data Accessiblity - manage Quality data from any location in the world, using just a Web browser; Powerful Reporting - NetRegulus Reporting provides a simple, intuitive user interface, which puts the power of querying data into the hands of those that know your data the best; Flexible Configuration - modular architecture, configurable workflows, control of security zones, formatting to the field level, and user-controllable query tools let you design and adapt the system to your environment; Global Language Support - full language localization allows you to use NetRegulus globally, without the need for system validation every time you add a new language; Cost-Effective Deployment - purchase only the modules you need to reduce initial costs because the use of standard components in the system architecture further reduces validation time.

NetRegulus NetRM Nonconformance Module
NetRegulus NetRM Complaints Module
NetRegulus NetRM CAPA Module
Improving Global BOM Management for Life Sciences Companies

For information about this module please contact us: info@single-sourcing.com

Windchill Translation Management Connector

Manage your translated content as easily as you manage your source

This module connects Windchill to your Translation Memory or Translation vendor for easy delivery of content to be translated and retrieval of that content after it has been translated.

For information about this module please contact us: info@single-sourcing.com

Windchill for Aerospace and Defense

Windchill for Aerospace and Defense is Arbortext S1000D. For more information about Windchill for Aerospace and Defense, see Arbortext S1000D Resource Center, the Data Sheet, or contact us: info@single-sourcing.com

Windchill FlexPLM

Product Lifecycle Management Solutions for the Consumer Products, Retail, Footwear & Apparel Industries

FlexPLM addresses the industry-specific challenges and everyday business pressures for footwear or apparel manufacturers, consumer products companies, and retailers. FlexPLM offers a high-performance, Web-based platform that brings together globally distributed teams through a simple, yet complete user interface. FlexPLM provides line planning, specification management, merchandizing, and many other rich capabilities to accommodate your company’s complete assortment of products. FlexPLM provides a platform to address issues common to all manufacturers today, such as cost, quality, time-to-market, regulatory compliance and the need to coordinate a global workforce.

Benefits include: Reduced cycle time -- ensures on-schedule product launches and first-mover market-share advantages; Improved quality -- boosts brand value and customer loyalty, and enables premium pricing; Increased efficiency and process optimization -- drives team productivity and enhances breadth of portfolio; Improved regulatory compliance for market segments such as consumer products -- ensures adherence to mandates such as REACH and the Consumer Products Safety Act; and, Reduced direct material cost -- improves margins and profit contribution.

Windchill FlexPLM Adobe Design Module.
RFA PLM Express

Windchill Info*Engine

Seamless information access

Windchill Info*Engine provides a flexible, standards-based foundation for seamless data sharing between enterprise applications and user communities. Windchill Info*Engine improves accessibility to your information by extending enterprise information assets to a wide range of users and applications for context-specific usage.

Benefits include: Helps companies take advantage of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) with support for SOAP and WSDL Web Services Technologies, J2EE support, including standard JSP tag libraries, JMS, and Java Connector with automatic DAO and EJB generation; Application and technology adapters to meet the most popular integration needs; Robust transaction management: synchronous/asynchronous operation modes, transaction units, checkpointing, parallel processing, load balancing and failover; and, Sophisticated integration engine supports Java native and XML/XSL representations and data transformations.

Windchill Info*Engine Data Sheet.

Windchill ProductPoint

Windchill ProductPoint provides Social Product Development & Multi-CAD Support for Enhanced Product Development Collaboration

Engineering and technical teams generate much of an organization's most valuable intellectual property - customer requirements, engineering calculations, detailed CAD designs, product documentation. And the list goes on.

While these organizations have rich solutions for creating and evolving these complex forms of information, a key challenge remains: efficiently sharing them with the broader team. The value of this content, and the productivity of the extended product development team, would skyrocket if access to this information could be made easier.

Introducing Windchill ProductPoint, a Microsoft SharePoint-based solution for product development. Windchill ProductPoint offers an easy to learn, quick to deploy solution for sharing CAD and other structured data among teams.

For Windchill customers, Windchill ProductPoint will complement current deployments by optionally exchanging CAD data across existing Windchill systems. Plus, Windchill information can be presented in a familiar SharePoint browser, extending product development information to a broader audience.

Smaller companies currently using network folders or FTP sites to manage CAD files may find that Windchill ProductPoint alone is sufficient to meet their needs for protecting and sharing product data.

The benefits behind Windchill ProductPoint include: Enhanced CAD data sharing, CAD vaulting, CAD file management and work group collaboration through multi-CAD support including Mathcad; Management and versioning of CAD data offers advantages over network drive-based storage systems and FTP sites, thus enabling effective concurrent engineering; Minimal learning curve, due to familiar Microsoft environment; Inherits the easy and fast deployment characteristics of SharePoint; Provides a low total cost of ownership; Complements existing implementations of Windchill product lifecycle management solutions.

Windchill ProductPoint Data Sheet.
Windchill Integration to AutoCad for PTC SharePoint Products

Windchill WebParts for SharePoint

Access Product Information Instantly from within SharePoint

Windchill Web Parts for SharePoint gives companies broader access to product data, improving worker productivity by presenting essential Windchill information in a familiar SharePoint browser. Workers can easily retrieve key product information using flexible search parameters, and configure searches of important data for display in team sites. Users can work faster by building cross-application dashboards, so they can seamlessly access and edit documents regardless of their location, as well as view and mark up product viewables.

Benefits include: Robust integration between a best-in-class PLM solution (Windchill) and the ubiquitous SharePoint environment enables fast, easy data access and sharing; By leveraging your existing SharePoint infrastructure, you can proliferate product information more broadly to both casual users and extended product development teams; and, Faster, easier access to critical data enhances worker productivity and decision-making, thereby accelerating and improving the product development process

This product is not required for SharePoint access to Arbortext data.

Windchill WebParts for SharePoint Data Sheet.

Windchill RequirementsLink

Associate requirements management with change management

Windchill RequirementsLink lets you expand the powerful capabilities of Windchill to include the management of product requirements including change control and associating requirements with specific product structures and design content. By establishing bi-directional traceability between customer needs, market requirements and the underlying technical requirements, Windchill RequirementsLink helps ensure that customer and market requirements have been satisfied by designs and have been properly verified during development.

Benefits include the following: Improve productivity by easily understanding the relationships between requirements and product structures as well as leveraging a single, common change process for both requirements and product designs; Facilitate collaboration across groups and departments on the definition and selection of requirements; Improve communication by providing visibility of requirements to all teams throughout the product development process; Accelerate time-to-market with early identification of requirements that are not being met or don't have appropriate verification plans; Improve market success by monitoring how well a product complies with customer expectations

Windchill RequirementsLink Data Sheet.

Windchill PLM Connector

Exchange product information across different PLM systems

Windchill RequirementsLink Enables each organization to maintain product data management control over its intellectual property.

Windchill PLM Connector supports: Design collaboration for suppliers designing their sub-components in the context of OEM product design; Companies which need to integrate and manage the entire product which is designed by multiple groups or suppliers; Library sharing for companies that want their standard library components to be used by suppliers; Sharing design information with global manufacturing locations or partners; Usage flexibility for role-based licensing for ad hoc sharing as needed by individual team members or server-based licensing for regularly scheduled, automated information sharing. Windchill RequirementsLink improves efficiency of collaborative product development and design/manufacturing outsourcing processes.

For information on this module please contact us: info@single-sourcing.com

Windchill Business Reporting

Real-time access to the information you need to analyze and optimize your product development processes

Preconfigured for Windchill, and utilizing the proven, industry-leading Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) reporting framework, Windchill Business Reporting modules makes the report development and distribution process faster and easier. The Windchill business reporting solutions lets you rapidly develop and distribute product and process information across the enterprise. Decision-makers can easily visualize trends, patterns and relationships with graphical and drill-down reports of key performance indicators.

Benefits include: Improve decision making and process efficiency through visual and graphical representation of real-time information; Realize superior ROI with out-of-the-box integration between Cognos and Windchill; Improve report development productivity with optional drag and drop report authoring tools; Access, view and generate reports directly from within Windchill through embedded Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Software; Provide state and status of all problems and changes recorded against a specific product with pre-built reports; Use optional drag-and-drop Report Authoring to easily create reports, with integrated charts, images, and text; and Monitor report parameters against specified thresholds with optional Report Monitoring.

Windchill Business Reporting Data Sheet.

Windchill PartsLink Classification and Reuse

Integral parts management

Part duplication and part number proliferation is inefficient and expensive. By reusing existing designs via an online catalog, you can reduce cost and time to market. Windchill PartsLink Classification and Reuse - an integral option for Windchill PDMLink - allows you to organize internal design libraries and make them available to your engineering team through flexible, easy-to-use Web-based library searching mechanisms.

Benefits include: Design product or part classification schemas and develop content for structured product information systems; Support design reuse and provide decision support tools through parts classification and parametric search; Optimize the creation, use and reuse of designs at all points in the product development process; Increased engineering productivity, through parametric searches, graphical navigation, and built-in 3D visualization tools; and, Parts management drives faster time to market, better sourcing decisions, increased engineering productivity.

Windchill PartsLink Classification and Reuse Data Sheet.

Windchill Supplier Management

Manage, analyze and communicate critical supply chain information.

Optimizing supplier and manufacturer selection across multiple product lines, programs, and geographies is a major challenge facing product companies today, with huge implications on product cost and time-to-market. Windchill Supplier Management delivers the key capabilities that you need to meet the demands of complex, global supply chains by optimizing manufacturer part sources and vendor selection with approved manufacturer and vendor lists.

Benefits include: Shorten time-to-market by using only preferred manufacturers and vendors with good track records of delivering products on time and on schedule; Lower product costs by leveraging preferred suppliers; Lower inventory and spend costs by uncovering and eliminating hidden part duplication; Eliminate the use of "hard to get" or obsolete commercial parts in new designs; Prevent errors and re-designs by involving suppliers early in the design process; Improve supply chain communication and collaboration with a secure Web-based project; Improve quality by minimizing design and manufacturing errors with approved suppliers and manufacturers; and, Manage approved manufacturer and vendor lists (AVL / AML).

Windchill Supplier Management Data Sheet.

Windchill Archive

Archive and restore Windchill and Pro/INTRALINK information

The optional Windchill Archive Module provides the solution for long term retention of corporate data for compliance with corporate policies as well as industry and government regulations. It allows you to purge unneeded information from your database, to archive that information to long-term storage, and to easily restore the information when you need it. Archives are searchable to quickly locate and retrieve data stored in long-term archives.

Benefits include: "Ease of use" optimizes administrator productivity; Single user friendly interface; Selection criteria using a "Create Query" wizard; Capabilities to archive and restore of your interrelated product information. Windchill Archive Module supports documents, parts, and CAD documents; viewables and mark-ups; and, versions, iterations, views and creators. It understands data dependencies and minimizes purge conflicts to help assure data integrity.

Windchill Archive Data Sheet.

Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration

Connect enterprise systems

Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration (ESI) synchronizes processes and information, enabling optimization of product development while minimizing risk and total cost of ownership. Via bi-directional integration, Windchill ESI enables robust connection between PLM and ERP systems.

Benefits include: Provides turnkey SAP and Oracle Manufacturing integration processes; Synchronizes parts, documents, bill of material (BOM) structures, engineering change notification (ECN), product configurations; Improves product data quality and reduces errors through automated exchange of information; Accelerates time to market through improved process coordination between engineering and manufacturing; Bundled EAI technology enables a short time-to-benefit and connectivity to a broad range of off-the-shelf adapters; and, Open and documented SOAP over JMS web services facilitate connection to your choice of EAI technologies from leading vendors

For information on this module please contact us: info@single-sourcing.com

Windchill Integration for Rational ClearCase

Combines the power of Windchill collaboration & control with Rational ClearCase

This optional module, Windchill Integration for Rational ClearCase provides the tools to synchronize the appropriate versions of software, mechanical, and electronic data. It enables you to expertly manage your software source code with the rest of your product data, keeping it properly synchronized with the right MCAD and ECAD content.

Benefits include: Synchronizes mechanical, electrical, and software disciplines by relating what versions of software / firmware go with what versions of hardware and electronics; Provides project management, design reviews, version management and change management capabilities; Improves global change control with software defect tracking and released software artifacts under enterprise change control; Provides traceability of software and all other product data stored in various databases and systems; Improves management of highly dynamic software development process; and Improves geographically dispersed design, testing, and manufacturing through eternal collaboration while protecting IP.

Windchill Integration for Rational ClearCase Data Sheet.

Windchill Gateway for I-deas TDM

Use your familiar I-deas/TDM environment while leveraging the powerful process and content management capabilities of Windchill.

Windchill Gateway for I-deas TDM incorporates I-deas TDM data within Windchill. It provides the capability to capture and control your design information within a single enterprise environment, manage the data under a single product structure, and easily leverage that information across the extended organization in a controlled manner.

Benefits include: Improve collaboration by including I-deas TDM design data with the wider enterprise in terms of business processes and procedures; Improve data quality by managing data from multiple MCAD and ECAD/EDA systems in a single, controlled location under the umbrella of a single product structure; Increase enterprise efficiency by enforcing standard design processes across multiple design projects and organizations; and, Improve engineer productivity by reusing design data and reducing the number of design steps

Windchill Gateway for I-deas TDM Data Sheet.

Windchill Insight Integration

Associate compliance data for products and parts

Windchill PDMLink and InSight Environmental can now be integrated with the Windchill InSight Integration module. This module allows for the synchronization of critical data to determine the compliance of products and parts.

For information on this module please contact us: info@single-sourcing.com

Windchill MPMLink

The industry's first integral solution for Manufacturing Process Management

MPMLink ensures process plans, manufacturing bill of materials (mBOMs), and work instructions accurately reflect the current engineering design. MPMLink speeds up manufacturing process management (MPM) by providing a platform that is guaranteed to be in synch with engineering because manufacturing engineers can operate on the same design data. MPMLink has a significant positive impact on reducing product cost, improving the accuracy of manufacturing deliverables, and shortening development cycle time. Windchill MPMLink is an integral PLM application designed for manufacturing engineers. It gives them the tools they regularly need to digitally design and manage all of their process plan deliverables concurrently with design.

The benefits of MPMLink include the following: Reduce time-to-market by enabling concurrent product and manufacturing process definition; Enhance efficiency of manufacturing engineers by allowing them to digitally author and manage manufacturing process plans and the associated resources; Lower the cost of changes by streamlining change impact identification and propagation as well as reducing the number of expensive late-stage changes; Improve production ramp-up and productivity by using this MPM software to efficiently optimize manufacturing processes and dynamically generate 2D and 3D work instructions; Improve product quality by reducing scrap and rework; Lower Total Cost of Ownership by eliminating multiple legacy and MS Office-based solutions

Windchill MPMLink Data Sheet.

Windchill for CAD

The ability to leverage data created during the product development process is a strategic advantage for manufacturing companies. The heterogeneous CAD capabilities of Windchill allows enterprises to capture, control, and share complex design information from different ECAD/MCAD packages within a single enterprise environment, and even within a single product structure.

Windchill Workgroup Manager for Autocad combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the Autocad design tool.
Data Sheet.

Windchill Workgroup Manager for Autodesk Inventor combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the Autodesk Inventor design tool.
Data Sheet.

Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V4 combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the CATIA V4 design tool. For information on this module please contact us: info@single-sourcing.com

Windchill Workgroup Manager for CATIA V5 combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the CATIA V5 design tool.
Data Sheet.

Windchill Workgroup Manager for ECAD combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the InterComm Technology.
ECAD Data Sheet and Routed Systems Designer Data Sheet.

Windchill Workgroup Manager for SolidWorks combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the SolidWorks design tool.
Data Sheet.

Windchill Workgroup Manager for UGS NX combines the power of Windchill collaboration and control with the UGS NX design tool.
Data Sheet.

Pro/INTRALINK

Workgroup data management solution

With production-proven Pro/ENGINEER workgroup data management capabilities, Pro/INTRALINK is the industry-standard solution to manage concurrent design teams and the power of Pro/ENGINEER data associativity. Engineers easily perform engineering data management tasks, so they can concentrate on innovative product design. The result: more control, higher quality designs, and improved productivity.

Benefits include: Common working environment and methodologies for Pro/ENGINEER users that improve engineering efficiency; Centralized vaulting and revision control of Pro/ENGINEER models, relationships, and functionality for improved information security and accuracy; Individual and group level access control to control when changes are permitted, whom can make them, and communicating changes broadly; Powerful searching tools, product configuration reports, and easy copying / renaming of existing designs facilitates design reuse; and, Intuitive user interface improves productivity simplifies data management activities

Pro/INTRALINK Data Sheet.

PTC PLM On Demand

PLM Benefits Without The Hurdles

Designed to eliminate the hurdles of upfront investment, IT resources and longer deployments, PTC PLM On Demand Standard, delivered as a service and hosted by IBM, is your easy-to-use, comprehensive solution for small-and-medium sized businesses. Go live in days, access from anywhere and enjoy the security, performance, and scalability of IBM hosting. Enjoy all the benefits and capabilities of PLM - without all the hurdles..

Benefits include: Modular adoption with either standard Windchill PDMLink On Demand, Windchill ProjectLink On Demand, or the combined solution; Pricing optimized for SMBs - fixed setup fees and low monthly subscription that scales as your needs grow; Eliminates complexity, time, cost, and risk of installation, maintenance, and upgrades; Via Windchill, delivers a unique and comprehensive understanding of Pro/ENGINEER data and relationships; and, Unites engineering and enterprise data management, eliminating the need and cost of integrating separate applications

Windchill PDMLink On Demand Data Sheet.
Windchill ProjectLink On Demand Data Sheet.
IBM Hosting Infrastructure - PTC PLM On Demand