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PTC Windchill

Composite Score

8.1 /10

CX Score

8.5 /10

46 Reviews Write a Review

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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Awards & Recognition

PTC Windchill won the following awards in the Product Lifecycle Management category

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0 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2024

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

2022

9 Top Rated Capabilities

8 Top Rated Features

2022

PTC Windchill Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

84 Likeliness to Recommend

8
Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

12
Since last award

74 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

8
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love PTC Windchill?

3% Negative

2% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 75

Workflow Management

Product Data Management

Production and Change Management

Design Management

Collaboration

Quality Management

Material Requirements Planning

Asset Management

Inventory and Field Parts Management

Analytics and Reporting

Manufacturing Scheduling

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 75

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

PTC Windchill Reviews

Karan G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2021

A Betterment in Product Management

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates PTC Windchill from other similar products?

This product is very much accurate and establishes a end to end Customer support for all sorts of processing. Well defined User interface that lets you to navigate easily and reduction in time consume for users to implement the tasks.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It helps in Easy navigation and simple usage of the user interface in product.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The usage of the product may vary with the version and the version update is done regularly.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would like to recommend this product as its very useful and efficient.

Pros

Reliable
Trustworthy
Unique Features
Effective Service

Harry P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2021

A perfect PLM solution

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates PTC Windchill from other similar products?

It is a PLM tool packed in with all required features and can help in intgerate all the data in the orgnisation at a single place

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Helpful to keep track of the quality,upgrades and changes done to any system at any point of time making it extremely useful during problem analaysis

What do you dislike most about this product?

The dasboards are a bit complex and the use of AI algorithms is required to reduce the query load times

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Makes data easily trackable and accessible making it a perfect complete PLM solution

Pros

Reliable
Trustworthy
Unique Features
Effective Service

Kenneth B.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: Vendor Management and Renewal

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2020

does what i need it to do at a good price

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates PTC Windchill from other similar products?

it has the best product life cycle algorithms over all competitors

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

it is thorough and quick

What do you dislike most about this product?

it can bog down and be slow on larger projects

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

use it. it's the best

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Unique Features
Effective Service

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Awards & Recognition

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

PTC Windchill Ratings

84 Likeliness to Recommend

8 Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

12 Since last award

74 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

8 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love PTC Windchill?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Workflow Management Includes ability to support flexible and comprehensive workflow-based capabilities.

Product Data Management Includes document control, centralized data repository, data sharing, and data storage.

Production and Change Management Includes product change management, production tracking, production planning, and production visibility.

Design Management Includes design visualization, visual scheduling, and computer-aided design (CAD).

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Quality Management Includes quality planning, quality control, inspection programming, and quality assurance.

Material Requirements Planning Includes bill of materials (BOM), quote management, and procurement.

Asset Management Solution centralizes an inventory of all corporate assets and integrates with a risk assessment of assets.

Inventory and Field Parts Management Refers to the strategic tracking, control, and optimization of parts, components, and materials throughout a product’s lifecycle.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Manufacturing Scheduling Includes employee time and attendance, production scheduling, and resource scheduling.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

PTC Windchill Reviews

Karan G.

A Betterment in Product Management

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Harry P.

A perfect PLM solution

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kenneth B.

does what i need it to do at a good price

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Workflow Management

Product Data Management

Production and Change Management

Design Management

Collaboration

Quality Management

Material Requirements Planning

Asset Management

Inventory and Field Parts Management

Analytics and Reporting

Manufacturing Scheduling

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation