Windchill Features

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Repository: Maintain a single repository for all product data and manage access rights This feature was mentioned in 22 Windchill reviews.
Taxonomy: Define product taxonomies, categories, and other types of classification 20 reviewers of Windchill have provided feedback on this feature.
Types: As reported in 21 Windchill reviews. Manage multiple kinds of product metadata such as descriptive, administrative, and rights management

Version Control: Based on 24 Windchill reviews. Tracks versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out
Alignment: Based on 25 Windchill reviews. Aligns product data from various sources such as ERP and PLM
Workflows: Include workflows and approvals to define who is responsible for which type of data 25 reviewers of Windchill have provided feedback on this feature.
Lifecycle: Manages product data across its lifecycle phases such as as-designed, as-planned, and as-built This feature was mentioned in 25 Windchill reviews.

Ideation: Based on 19 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Gather and analyse ideas for new products or product enhancements
Time-to-market: Based on 19 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Calculate the time to market for new products or improvements to existing products
Cost estimating: Based on 19 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide users with cost estimation tools for new products or enhancements
Product approval: Based on 23 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Deliver workflows that can be used by managers to approve or reject new products and features

CAD Models: Based on 25 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to create new CAD models or import them from CAD systems
CAD Options: Based on 21 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Support CAD options such as computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) or omputer-aided engineering (CAE)
Conversion: Based on 20 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides functionality to convert CAD models into bills of materials (BOM)

Supplier alignment: Based on 17 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to colalborate with suppliers and partners on product development projects
Communication: Based on 17 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Include features such as chat that internal and external users can use to communicate
Development: Based on 20 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Helps users and suppliers or partners colalborate on product development activities
Document Management: Based on 24 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows user to collaborate on creating and managing documents and files

Product Metadata: Based on 20 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Define and manage a taxonomy of product metadata that applies to the entire company
Data Quality: Based on 23 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Manages the quality of the product data and ensures its up to date
Version Control: Based on 23 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Tracks and audits versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out

BOM management: Based on 23 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide the ability to deliver product variations such as configure-to-order and engineer-to-order
Multi-level BOM: Based on 23 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Bills of materials can be combined, merged, and nested to create multi-level BOMs
BOM Types: Based on 22 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Manages BOM types such as manufacturing BOM (mBOM) or engineering BOM (eBOM)
BOM visualization: Based on 22 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide users with the ability to visualize the BOM in a 3D environment.

ECR Workflows: Based on 23 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Deliver workflows to approve or reject engineering change requests (ECR)
Change Management: Based on 24 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows user to manage changes to product configurations while maintaining the functional and physical attributes of a product throughout its lifecycle.
ECO Management: Based on 20 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Create and manage engineering change orders (ECO) based on ECRs or from scratch

Virtual Testing: As reported in 18 Windchill reviews. Users can create virtual environments to test product characteristics
Analysis: Based on 17 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Analyse multiple simulations to determine product strenghts and weaknesses
Optimization: Based on 17 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Simulation results can be used to improve product design and development

Reporting: Based on 21 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide users with the ability to report progress made throughout the product lifecycle.
Costing: Based on 18 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Track product costs and costs related to design and development activities
Product Intelligence: Based on 19 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide insights into product performance from multiple data sources

Quality planning: Based on 21 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide users with the ability to identify all functional needs of the product ahead of time and incorporate this information into each stage in the product development lifecycle
Traceability: Based on 20 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Ensures that all quality issues can be traced back to the root causes
Compliance: Based on 18 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Ensures compliance of items according to regulatory, safety, and environmental specifications

ERP: Based on 22 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Integrates with manufacturing ERP solutions
MES: Based on 18 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Integrates with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
PIM: Based on 17 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Integrates with Product Information Management (PIM) software
Maintenance: Based on 17 Windchill reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Integrates with software for maintenance such as Enterprise Resource Management (EAM)