2. Content
❖ What is Product and Product Design?
❖ Product Development Process
❖ Typical As-Is Product Development Environment
❖ What is PLM?
❖ Which are PLM tools?
❖ PTC Windchill
❖ Key capabilities of Windchill
❖ Windchill Modules
3. Introduction to Product and Product Design
❖ Product
• A product is defined as a “thing produced by labor or effort” or the “result of an act or a process”.
• In manufacturing, products are purchased as raw materials and sold as finished goods.
• In marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need.
❖ Product Design
• This is the process of creating a new product to be sold by a business to its customers. It is the efficient and effective generation and
development of ideas through a process that leads to new products.
❖ Design Process
Design process involves three main sections: Analysis, Concept, and Synthesis – in a continuous feedback loop.
• Analysis: Here, the designers decide on committing to the project and finding a solution to the problem.
• Concept: The key issue of the matter is defined. The concept phase is where ideas for new features are considered.
• Synthesis: The designers brainstorm different solutions for their design problem. Once they have narrowed down their ideas to a select few,
they can outline their plan to make the product. Prototypes are built, the plan outlined in the previous step is realized and the product starts to
become an actual object.
4. Product Development Process
The product development process encompasses all steps needed to take a product from concept to market availability. This
includes identifying a market need, researching the competitive landscape, conceptualizing a solution, developing a product
roadmap, building a minimum viable product, etc.
6. What is PLM?
Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the Business Strategy of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its
conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal.
Product lifecycle management software enables geographically-dispersed, multi-disciplinary, teams to strategically collaborate
with partners and customers using trusted, up-to-date product information.
Product lifecycle management is the foundation for the digital thread, delivering supply chain agility and business continuity.
Data governance and traceability provided by product lifecycle management enables organizations to drive down costs,
accelerate time to market, and deliver the highest levels of quality and compliance.
Build a foundation for a wide range of new revenue and cost saving opportunities with out-of-the-box applications. Seamlessly
integrate our PLM system with ERP, MES, CAD, AR, IoT technologies, and more.
7. Which are PLM tools?
PLM software connects people, processes and data across the entire product lifecycle to a central repository of
information.
So, everyone from the conceptual designer to the end-customer is on the same page, sharing the same up-to-date product
definition/information.
• PLM Software in market:
➢ Windchill
➢ Teamcenter
➢ Enovia
➢ Aras
➢ Oracle Agile PLM
➢ SAP PLM
➢ Arena PLM
8. PTC Windchill
• PTC Windchill is a PLM software that provides a complete functionality to help organizations capture product structures from
computer-aided design tools, transform them into full engineering bill of materials (eBOMs), to manufacturing bill of materials
(mBOMs), to service bill of materials (sBOMs) all while retaining the linkages between different perspectives on the product.
• Windchill solutions break down organizational barriers, allowing teams to work faster and more accurately all while reducing time-
to-market and cutting costs.
• Windchill system can help streamline your product development and service information processes. It’s a system that can help your
organization create better products, with more variations, faster, at a lower cost.
9. Key Capabilities of Windchill
❖ Central repository for all product and process Information
Reduce rework and improve time-to-market by effectively capturing, configuring and managing all product information during
every step of the product lifecycle.
❖ Optimizing product performance across multiple dimensions
Bringing better-performing, more profitable products to market faster by analyzing performance in the earliest phases of
product development, where decisions have the most impact and are least disruptive.
❖ Tracking and managing quality throughout the product development lifecycle
Ensuring that product quality, reliability and safety are aligned with the requirements set for them over the course of a product’s
development and use.
❖ Optimize processes
Streamline key product development and service information processes to help you achieve the company’s business initiatives.
❖ Powerful and scalable
Coordinating groups around the world and easily expanding to accommodate additional sites, organizations, functions or
processes.
11. Windchill Modules
❖ Windchill PDMLink - maintains the integrity of your product information by storing master data in a secure area where you can
control, monitor, and record all changes.
❖ Windchill ProjectLink - provides a common workspace where you and your team can share and discuss documents and product
structures, hold meetings, and communicate and track progress on tasks.
❖ Windchill PartsLink - integral option for Windchill that allows you to standardize parts, perform high-speed parametric
classification searches, and promote reuse of components across your engineering organization.
❖ Windchill Quality Management solutions - is a fully integrated software suite considered the industry's most powerful reliability
analysis toolkit.
❖ Windchill MPMLink - integral solution for Manufacturing Process Management.
❖ Windchill FlexPLM - widely used for retail, footwear & apparel and consumer product companies
❖ Windchill Service Information Manager - allows companies to organize their service content, specify the content applicability
rules, create publications and automatically deliver the service information for every product configuration throughout the product
lifecycle, allowing users to find accurate and relevant information.
❖ Windchill Service Parts - enables the creation, management, and delivery of spare parts information. Leveraging engineering data
ensures that accurate and relevant service information is delivered to service technicians and customers.
