PTC announced its latest wave of product innovations to help customers move faster, build smarter products, and unlock more value from their data. Unveiled this week at the PTC NEXT™ Chicago event, the innovations include two new cross-portfolio products, a new AI platform, 12 new AI agents, 10 new integrations, and major updates to every product in PTC’s portfolio, further advancing its Intelligent Product Lifecycle vision in ways customers can act on today.
When product data is fragmented, the effects are felt across the business: products are slower to market, quality suffers, complexity and cost increase, and regulatory compliance requires more effort than it should. These releases are designed to address these challenges.
New solutions, such as the PTC Orbit™ AI-first, cloud-native solution, connect data from PLM, ERP, CRM, IoT, EAM, and FSM systems into a single, unified asset record and apply AI to maintain data quality and make asset information and insights accessible across the enterprise. The PTC Jetstream™ cloud-native solution solves the long-standing challenge of collaboration across product data by enabling internal and external teams to easily share, review, and capture traceable feedback, all while staying integrated with PLM, ALM, and CAD and powered by AI.
PTC is also previewing its new AI platform, which, along with AI agents and assistants embedded across its portfolio, extends the value of product data across the enterprise. With the AI platform, PTC is establishing a new Intelligence Layer across its portfolio to support enterprise-wide transformation.
“In a constantly changing world, the manufacturers and product companies that win move the fastest without sacrificing cost, traceability, and meeting regulations,” said Neil Barua, CEO, PTC. “Every innovation we launch at PTC NEXT is designed to help our customers move faster, improve access to product data, and accelerate their transformations with the Intelligent Product Lifecycle.”
PTC NEXT is PTC’s twice-yearly innovation launch moment, with a Spring season and a Fall season. Each season consolidates all major product releases, so customers and partners can see the full portfolio picture at once, enabling them to build AI strategies and digital transformation roadmaps with a clear view of what is available and what is coming.
PTC NEXT Chicago, the Spring 2026 season event, is taking place this week, June 9-10, at the Swissôtel Chicago, where attendees are experiencing the spring product innovations, executive keynotes, hands-on demonstrations, and customer spotlights firsthand.
The new PTC NEXT On-Demand Experience Hub is now live, offering customers, partners, and our network an always-on place for news about PTC’s product innovations.
Spring Season Product Innovations Overview
- New Solutions:
- PTC Orbit: Provides manufacturers with a single trusted source for asset-centric data across their entire operations.
- PTC Jetstream: Enables internal and external teams to easily share, review, and capture traceable feedback.
- Creo® computer-aided design (CAD) solution: Introduces new AI-assisted engineering capabilities, enabling significant productivity and performance gains, with expanded support for model-based definition, composite design, simulation-driven optimization, advanced manufacturing, and electrification, helping manufacturers deliver their best designs in less time.
- Onshape® computer-aided design (CAD) and product data management (PDM) platform: Expands AI-assisted design feedback, next-generation model-based definition, robotics simulation, cloud-connected ECAD-MCAD collaboration, and ITAR/EAR compliance support to help teams design faster and smarter across mechanical, electrical, and government applications.
- Windchill® product-lifecycle management (PLM) solution: Delivers a modernized UI/UX experience, AI-assisted PLM workflows, expanded enterprise collaboration, and strengthened digital thread connectivity across design, manufacturing, and service engineering to help teams accelerate time-to-value and manage product data at scale.
- Arena® product lifecycle management (PLM) and quality management system (QMS) solution: Enhances AI-assisted search, component risk management, GovCloud analytics, and rich text communications to help teams make faster data-driven decisions, reduce component risk, and improve collaboration across product and quality processes through a cloud-native solution.
- Codebeamer® application lifecycle management (ALM) solution: Advances AI-powered assistance, configuration management with streamlined delta merging, product line coevolution, and end-to-end digital product traceability to help teams develop complex products faster with greater control and confidence.
- ServiceMax® field service management solution: Introduces trusted AI controls, adaptive scheduling automation, intelligent work plan dependencies, and smarter parts handling to help service teams reduce variability, improve dispatcher productivity, and deliver more consistent, cost-effective repairs.
- Servigistics® service supply chain optimization solution: Advances AI-powered service supply chain optimization with intelligent assistants, self-healing autonomous workflows, machine learning forecasting, and enterprise-wide SIOP collaboration to help optimize inventory, improve decision-making, and maximize equipment uptime and readiness.
- Integration Highlights Include:
- Product Lifecycle: New Windchill Connectors to Onshape (beta), ServiceMax, ERP systems
- Product Line Engineering: Codebeamer and Windchill connections to the Pure Variants™ ALM solution
- Digital Product Traceability: Windchill, Creo, and Codebeamer connectors
- NVIDIA Connectors: Windchill and Creo to NVIDIA Omniverse and Onshape-to-Isaac Sim
- Electronic Product Development: Onshape Connector to Altium 365
