Product lifecycle management is the power behind manufacturers leveraging the competitive advantages of digital thread/twin, generative design, additive manufacturing, industrial IoT, and augmented reality to drive innovation. Disconnected enterprise systems and silos throughout the product development process keep crucial data from those who need it most. Our out-of-the-box applications serve to orchestrate multi-system data, enabling your team to break down silos, reduce time-to-market, decrease costs, improve quality, and drive further innovation.
PTC’s PLM application suite combines the power of Windchill, the industry’s #1 PLM software with ThingWorx, PTC’s market-leading, purpose-built IIoT platform. The suite offers a mix of Packages, Add-Ons, and Apps to best suit your business needs:
Packages: Windchill packages at the Base, Advanced and Premium level
Add-Ons: Categorized by Enterprise Functional or Industry
Apps: ThingWorx Navigate View and Contribute role and task-based apps or ThingWorx Connected PLM customizable apps
Whether it’s Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed Service, or an On Premises approach, Datafrond offers flexibility in deployment options:
PTC Cloud – SaaS: Software architected, delivered, and serviced by PTC in a secure, dedicated Microsoft Azure cloud environment including implementation, upgrades, system updates, backups and disaster recovery, application management, service management, and technical support.
PTC Datafrond Cloud – Managed Services: Existing software managed by PTC Datafrond in a secure, dedicated Microsoft Azure cloud environment.
Your Own Cloud – Datafrond Managed Services: Existing software managed by Datafrond in a your secure, dedicated Microsoft Azure or Amazon cloud environment.
On Premises: Software managed on premises.
With breakthrough PLM capabilities, Windchill’s industry-leading software provides a single digital product definition for product and process data across the enterprise. With an open architecture to easily integrate with other enterprise systems and comprehensive functionality, you’ll enable your entire organization with a digital thread of information to speed time to market, improve product quality, decrease costs—and so much more.
Manage multi-CAD data in a single system using tight integration with Creo, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and other CAD tools
Make dynamic, coordinated changes across the enterprise to deliver accurate, real-time information
Design with platform structures and manage options and variants
Ensure manufacturing planning and product development
Continually improve the quality of Products with complete traceability from Design into Quality event management, compliance and training, equipment / asset tracking.
Increasingly businesses are looking to adopt business ready PLM Solutions preconfigured with industry practices which be rapidly tailored to meet the demands of a growing organization. Realizing this need, Datafrond developed a business ready, preconfigured and packaged Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution that contains end-to-end best practices in product development business processes.
PLM-IN-A-BOX is a proprietary solution from Datafrond, designed by Datafrond PLM experts to help small and mid-size enterprises to respond to product innovation challenge by proactively focusing on product-related processes.
PLM-IN-A-BOX process, methodology and implementation frameworks are registered patents with USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) assigned application number ‘13344601’, EFS ID ‘11772342’.
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