All About PLM

Company Information:

140 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494
Phone:  781-370-5000
www.ptc.com

Company Contact:

Paul Cunningham
Executive Vice President, Sales
Phone:  781-370-5000
info@ptc.com

Public/Private:

Public, Nasdaq - PMTC

Product Family Description:

PTC products help companies create, collaborate on, and control digital product information. PTC provides PLM packaged solutions and custom technology including the of CAD/CAM, CAE, PDM, visualization, as well as supplier and customer collaboration.

PTC’s product suite includes:

Pro/ENGINEER
Pro/ENGINEER provides a suite of mechanical design automation tools that allow engineers to design, analyze, simulate, and evaluate mechanical parts and assemblies.

PTC's Windchill is a Web-native suite of collaborative software applications for the product development process. It helps companies establish a secure environment for product lifecycle management and integrate business processes and product data with dispersed divisions, partners, and customers. PTC's Windchill product family includes the following solutions:

Windchill ProjectLink
A Web-based project collaboration solution providing tools to coordinate globally dispersed product development teams. It provides virtual workspaces that enable teams to work together to create products and manage documents.

Windchill PartsLink
A B2B solution for suppliers of parts and components delivered through the Web that provides a dynamic, interactive selling environment.

Windchill DynamicDesignLink
This solution can help companies automate the design-to-order process.

Windchill PDMLink
A pre-configured data management solution for discrete manufacturing companies. It includes capabilities for capturing and managing product information throughout the product lifecycle.

Windchill Supplier Collaboration
This solution helps facilitate the flow of product data, engineering changes, approved vendor information, and RFQ's.

PTC’s Arbortext is a publishing software suite that supports the enterprise publishing process from creation through delivery.  Arbortext can help streamline and automate the information publishing process by leveraging both XML authoring as well as dynamic publishing capabilities. PTC’s Arbortext product family includes the following solutions:

Arbortext Editor
This word processing interface helps authors create and edit structured XML and SGML content for reuse and automated publishing.

Arbortext Architect
Provides configuration, development and prototyping tools that help application developers build and maintain Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and Schemas.

Arbortext Publishing Engine
Automatically extracts XML and SGML content from file systems or content management systems, assembles that content for different audiences, and publishes the assembled content automatically to print, Web, PDF, Microsoft Word, HTML Help and other media formats.

PTC’s Mathcad is used to document technical calculations and applied mathematics.

Primary Markets and Focuses:

Aerospace & Defense, Airlines, Automotive, Electronics & High-Tech, Industrial Products, Federal and Civil Government, Life Sciences, Process Manufacturing, Retail, Footwear & Apparel

Sample Customer List:

Airbus, Audi, BAE Systems, Boeing, Bose, Braun, Corning, Dana Corp., Dell, EMC, Fiat, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, HP, Hyundai, Ingersoll-Rand, Intel, ITT, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Omron, Playtex, Raytheon, Rossignol, Samsung, Seiko Epson, SKF, Siemens, Team Industries, ThermoKing, Toshiba, Toyota, TRW, U.S. Army, Volkswagen

Strategic Alliances/Partnerships include:

Accenture, Convera, Deloitte Consulting, Groove, HP, KPMG, Oracle, Rational, Siebel, Syntegra, TIBCO, WebEx, WebGain