Build an end-to-end product closed loop using digital threads

With Digital Thread as its core, PTC connects data and processes throughout the product life cycle from design, manufacturing to service, eliminates data silos, ensures business collaboration and execution consistency, helps companies accelerate product innovation, improve quality and efficiency, and fully supports digital transformation and intelligent manufacturing upgrades.

CAD PLM IIoT AR ALM SLM

Why choose PTC?

Digital thread: traceable, shareable, and reusable

• PTC defines the Digital Thread as the authoritative data link throughout the entire product life cycle. Through a unified data model and business context, it ensures that all aspects of design, engineering, manufacturing and service are always accessible.Accurate, real-time and actionable data。

• The digital thread breaks the information separation between traditional systems and departments, aligns design intentions, engineering changes and business execution, and realizes product dataFull traceability, cross-team sharing and continuous reuse, thereby building a truly closed-loop business process and decision-making system.

Digital twins: bridging the physical and digital boundaries

• PTC's Digital Twin integrates product definition data from CAD/PLM and IoT operation and experience data to achieve continuous mapping of physical products and the digital world in a unified information model.

• By combining real operating status, performance data and engineering models, digital twins cover key scenarios such as engineering, manufacturing and services, support status monitoring, problem analysis and continuous optimization, and help enterprises achieve "correct design, arrival, and better operation" The whole life cycle value improvement.

core product family

Showcasing PTC’s comprehensive industrial software capabilities by domain

CAD field

Creo & Creo+

3D CAD for integrated design/simulation/manufacturing. It supports model-driven, real-time simulation, and generative design, and provides Creo+ (SaaS) for cloud collaboration and deployment management.

✔ Model-driven and associative updates
✔ Support composite and additive manufacturing processes
PLM field

Windchill & Windchill+

Unify product data and processes with PLM. Open architecture supports integration with ERP to provide distributed teams with secure data access, visualization and change traceability.

✔ Build an end-to-end engineering digital thread
✔ AI-driven insights and automation
IIoT field

ThingWorx

IIoT platform for industry. Connect equipment, people and process systems to drive real-time insights and efficiency improvements, supporting rapid expansion from pilot to enterprise scale.

✔ Pre-built applications accelerate business implementation
✔ Support local/cloud/hybrid deployment
AR field

Vuforia

Bring complex knowledge to life with enterprise-grade AR "visualization". Reuse CAD/IoT data to generate AR guidance, significantly improving on-site efficiency in training, assembly, and inspections.

✔ Expert Capture rapid experience accumulation
✔ Cross-device AR visualization experience
ALM domain

Codebeamer

Support large-scale software and systems engineering. Integrate requirements, risk, test management and end-to-end traceability to meet stringent industry compliance and R&D complexity needs.

✔ Configurable workflow and strong compliance support
✔ Seamlessly integrated into the engineering digital thread
SLM/Service areas

ServiceMax & Servigistics

Optimize service supply chain and asset availability. Servigistics optimizes spare parts inventory through AI algorithms, and ServiceMax enables asset-centric field service management.

✔ Improve first-time repair rate and spare parts turnover
✔ Reduce operating costs and risk of downtime
Agile R&D and cloud native

Onshape & Arena

A SaaS suite specifically designed for distributed, agile teams. Onshape enables file-free CAD+PDM real-time collaboration; Arena manages cloud PLM and QMS in a unified manner.

  • Onshape:Real-time collaboration and built-in versions support rapid iterative design.
  • Arena:Connect quality records and design records to support regulatory compliance.
  • Synergy advantages: Onshape and Arena are connected, making synchronization smoother.
underlying connection

Kepware

Provides an industrial protocol connection foundation to realize edge/server-level device and system interoperability.

Industrial connectivity base layer

Industry typical solutions

Aiming at core business challenges, build a digital transformation implementation path through product portfolio

Digital mainline closed loop from R&D to manufacturing

solution portfolio

Creo + Windchill + ThingWorx

business value

Unify product data and change processes, support cross-department collaboration and traceability, and reduce rework and information breakpoints.

Intelligent manufacturing and factory transparency

solution portfolio

Kepware + ThingWorx + Vuforia

business value

Aggregate equipment and system data to form real-time OEE insights and actionable AR field operation guidance.

Compliance research and development of software-defined products

solution portfolio

Codebeamer + Windchill

business value

Integrated management of requirements/risks/tests is aligned with hardware data to improve collaboration efficiency and ensure industry compliance.

Service supply chain and spare parts guarantee

solution portfolio

Servigistics + Vuforia (Remote Chalk)

business value

While improving service levels, we can accurately control inventory costs and improve the repair rate of front-line service personnel.

Cloud agile design and collaboration

solution portfolio

Onshape + Arena

business value

The fully closed loop of cloud-native CAD+PDM+PLM supports secure collaboration of distributed teams on any terminal.

Start your digital journey

Based on PTC's complete product matrix, we provide you with clear product portfolio and capability options to help enterprises promote digital upgrades.

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