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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84 Likeliness to Recommend
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94 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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+88 Net Emotional Footprint
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How much do users love PTC Windchill?
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Asset Management
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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
Chirag K.
- Role: Public Sector
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2026
I most like to use PTC pro e, creo so on..
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates PTC Windchill from other similar products?
Its interface & user friendly environment to use and easy to adopted by new user.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Parametric modeling along with Bom. Family table
What do you dislike most about this product?
Piping modeling. Its could be improved
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommended to impove piping modul in advance stage.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Vaishnav J.
- Role: Public Sector
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2026
Powerful and Reliable PLM, but Complex to Learn
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates PTC Windchill from other similar products?
Very satisfied. From day-to-day use, Windchill feels more like a system of record for product data rather than a file vault. Parts, assemblies, drawings, and documents are treated as linked objects, so changes propagate correctly through BOMs and revisions. This object-based structure is stronger than many PLM tools that still feel file-centric.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
From practical use, the biggest value is how Windchill manages revisions, versions, and change workflows in a structured way. Once a part or assembly is released, it’s very clear which version is approved and which one is still in work. This reduces confusion and prevents wrong data from being used in manufacturing. I also really appreciate the tight integration with Creo. Check-in/check-out, BOM updates, and revision tracking happen smoothly, which saves time and avoids manual errors during design changes.
What do you dislike most about this product?
For new users, the system can feel overwhelming. Simple tasks like finding the right part, understanding versions vs revisions, or navigating workflows take time to learn. The user interface is functional but not very intuitive compared to more modern, lightweight PLM tools. Another downside is that performance can slow down when working with large assemblies or during peak usage, especially if the server or network setup isn’t optimal. This can affect productivity in day-to-day engineering work.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Windchill is powerful and reliable, but it works best when users are trained, processes are defined, and implementation is planned carefully.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
- Client Friendly Policies
