What is PTC Windchill?
Windchill offers breakthrough Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) capabilities, unleashing more data to more stakeholders throughout your organization through a single source of truth for product data and processes. With it, your organization will improve product quality by connecting teams directly to live operational data. You’ll also reduce IT burden and overhead while ensuring accessibility and security with both on-premise and cloud deployment options. Windchill is a true end-to-end PLM platform that is IoT-ready.
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83 Likeliness to Recommend
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93 Plan to Renew
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74 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+87 Net Emotional Footprint
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How much do users love PTC Windchill?
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Reliable
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Feature Ratings
Workflow Management
Product Data Management
Production and Change Management
Design Management
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Quality Management
Material Requirements Planning
Asset Management
Inventory and Field Parts Management
Analytics and Reporting
Manufacturing Scheduling
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PTC Windchill Reviews
Mohit G.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2024
Must Use PLM product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates PTC Windchill from other similar products?
It integrates with PTC Creo and SAP softwares easily for end to end design data management, engineering change management and releases design data converting it from 3d to 2d pdf files through SAP to the end user. It is easily customizable and windchill team customizes it as per end user company admin inputs for smooth functionality.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It keeps full history of all parts, sub assemblies and assemblies including previous versions, iterations and revisions which helps me to see the previous changes in design in no time. It has a good option of creating promotion requests to get the data reviewed from seniors before releasing it for production.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Me and my whole team is using it on daily basis for more than 6 hours a day and we are very much satisfied with the features that windchill offers.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are looking for a complete product life cycle and quality management system then you may definitely consider windchill as it offers lot of features and has a very user friendly interface.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Saves Time
- Respectful
- Altruistic
Sejal P.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2026
Best Tool for CAD and PLM
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates PTC Windchill from other similar products?
Well structured and defined by bounderies. Out software provide too much flexibilities that sometime create issue at later stage.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
it can work with VBA Macro excel. So automation can be done easily
What do you dislike most about this product?
I thnik search and filter option.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Just go for it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Jossue R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2025
Integrated product. Great Search capabilities.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates PTC Windchill from other similar products?
Comprehensive, integrated and quality centric
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy of use. Objects interconnected, Workload Management, Notifications.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Cost of license
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Data Quality, Change Analyst Roles, Training
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
