Windchill Features

Maintain a single repository for all product data and manage access rights

Define product taxonomies, categories, and other types of classification

Manage multiple kinds of product metadata such as descriptive, administrative, and rights management

Tracks versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out

Aligns product data from various sources such as ERP and PLM

Include workflows and approvals to define who is responsible for which type of data

Manages product data across its lifecycle phases such as as-designed, as-planned, and as-built

Deliniate minimum requirements for a new product or service.

Consolidate all requirements information and progress to a central location.

Track each requirement over its lifetime, including creation, progress, and modifications.

Allows key stakeholders to relay requirements to product or service development teams and other interested parties.

Foster intra-company collaboration between teams working on product or service development.

Create, adjust, and test requirements automatically.

Gather and analyse ideas for new products or product enhancements

Calculate the time to market for new products or improvements to existing products

Provide users with cost estimation tools for new products or enhancements

Deliver workflows that can be used by managers to approve or reject new products and features

Allows users to create new CAD models or import them from CAD systems

Support CAD options such as computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) or omputer-aided engineering (CAE)

Provides functionality to convert CAD models into bills of materials (BOM)

Allows users to colalborate with suppliers and partners on product development projects

Include features such as chat that internal and external users can use to communicate

Helps users and suppliers or partners colalborate on product development activities

Allows user to collaborate on creating and managing documents and files

Define and manage a taxonomy of product metadata that applies to the entire company

Manages the quality of the product data and ensures its up to date

Tracks and audits versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out

Manage the process of evaluating documents or requests submitted for approval

Provide the ability to deliver product variations such as configure-to-order and engineer-to-order

Bills of materials can be combined, merged, and nested to create multi-level BOMs

Manages BOM types such as manufacturing BOM (mBOM) or engineering BOM (eBOM)

Provide users with the ability to visualize the BOM in a 3D environment.

Graphical representation of data

Deliver workflows to approve or reject engineering change requests (ECR)

Allows user to manage changes to product configurations while maintaining the functional and physical attributes of a product throughout its lifecycle.

Create and manage engineering change orders (ECO) based on ECRs or from scratch

Manage the end-to-end lifecycle, from initial setup/development to deployment and maintenance

Plan, schedule, and execute organization's accounts and assets to ensure compliance with policies and laws

Capture, organize and track product-specific data and information in a centralized location

Create, manage and track all task activities and progression

Collect, organize, and track inventory/product data including item numbers, descriptions, etc.

Manage the end-to-end production process for manufacturing operations

Focuses on improving processes by collecting data and spotting bottlenecks or other challenges.

Plan and coordinate all the resources, costs and time needed to execute assignments

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Create, save, and store files

Overview of all programs that help compare initiatives, align projects with strategic goals and identify risk

Track and manage schedules and meetings via an integrated calendar

Collaborate on creating a product by sharing and adjusting designs through a shared portal

Enables creation, management, and tracking of product requirements & features during product production/development

Manage all supplier data and operations

Users can create virtual environments to test product characteristics

Analyse multiple simulations to determine product strenghts and weaknesses

Simulation results can be used to improve product design and development

Provide users with the ability to report progress made throughout the product lifecycle.

Track product costs and costs related to design and development activities

Provide insights into product performance from multiple data sources

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

Ensures that all quality issues can be traced back to the root causes

Ensures compliance of items according to regulatory, safety, and environmental specifications

Integrates with manufacturing ERP solutions

Integrates with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Integrates with Product Information Management (PIM) software

Integrates with software for maintenance such as Enterprise Resource Management (EAM)

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Converts images into a textual description, identifying key elements.

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Converts images into a textual description, identifying key elements.

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Evaluates the breadth and depth of integration with common software development and project management ecosystems.

Assesses whether the product supports configurable, structured attributes for each requirement beyond free-text descriptions.

Assesses the product's ability to organize requirements into multi-level structures for large and complex projects.

Assesses support for safety-critical and regulated engineering industries through templates, workflows, or compliance accelerators.

Assesses the completeness and integrity of the change history for audit and regulatory compliance purposes.

Evaluates the product's ability to automatically flag traceability links that may be invalidated by upstream requirement changes.

Assesses whether the product enables structured stakeholder review and sign-off processes with configurable workflow steps.

Assesses the granularity of permission management across teams and stakeholder roles.

Assesses whether the product can link requirements to downstream artifacts in both forward and backward directions.

Assesses whether the product can predict and communicate the scope of change impact across linked artifacts.

Assesses whether the product can automatically generate visual matrices showing which requirements are covered by tests, risks, or designs.

Assesses whether stable requirement states can be locked for comparison and compliance purposes.

Automated or logic-based workflows that assist in the creation of electronic documents

Track what was updated, who made the changes, compare two revisions, and revert or perform another revision

A record of all activities within the system, including user access, changes made, etc.

Graphical representation of data

Create, save, and store files

Manage all supplier data and operations

Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Synchronizing data between two or more devices/systems and automatically updating changes to maintain consistency

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

A set of indicators that tracks the performance of networks, applications, systems, teams, etc.

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location

Add customized logos and colors to align with company branding

Manage and support multiple languages

Material list of manufacturing parts and associated costs

Identify component attributes like servers, hardware, software, and manage relationships across all services

Create, save, and re-purpose templates for emails, forms, etc.

Track parts inventory levels and manage re-stocking

Create and manage digital catalog of products/services with their details, specifications, and price

Assemble applications and processes by dragging over and arranging pre-built components

Public or private sharing of digital files such as documents, audio/video, images, and more

Track and monitor efficient handling of all changes/transitions

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Manage and edit content taken from multiple CAD sources and create an integrated single design

Intended to be used by manufacturers

Manage and store data in a database

Collaborate on creating a product by sharing and adjusting designs through a shared portal

Handles digital content throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage to distribution and archiving

Import and export data to and from software applications

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Manage and track all stages of a product lifecycle, from its conception, design, development, and deployment

Assign categories, labels, tags, or attributes to documents for organization, search and storage

Manage inventory, communication, marketing, orders & more across warehouses, stores and online channels

Collect and maintain structured information that describes data or content

Process to track, record, and analyze expenses that occurred over the entire duration of a given project

Enables creation, management, and tracking of product requirements & features during product production/development

Leave comments and notes on documents for others to view

Material list of manufacturing parts and associated costs

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Store and organize documents in a centralized system

Set & manage permission levels based on user roles and restrict access to only authorized individuals

Import and export data to and from software applications

Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Arrange tasks based on the level of priority or urgency

Reporting on how each user, task or process has advanced since its initiation

Monitor task progress and planned accomplishments to better manage project status

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Customize data fields to support various needs and use cases

A record of all activities within the system, including user access, changes made, etc.

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Assemble applications and processes by dragging over and arranging pre-built components

Process to track, record, and analyze expenses that occurred over the entire duration of a given project

Leave comments and notes on documents for others to view

Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location

Graphical representation of data

Create, save, and store files

Define the exact requirements needed by all stakeholders in the requirements process

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Manage the end-to-end lifecycle, from initial setup/development to deployment and maintenance

Store and organize documents in a centralized system

Manage and track all internal and external communication conducted via calls, email, text, or chat

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Track, manage and store the applications of potential future members, customers or candidates

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Receive data and information in real time

Track revisions and updates made to files and navigate between different versions

Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction

Leave comments and notes on documents for others to view

Customize data fields to support various needs and use cases

Track the status and progress of tasks

Estimate or forecast of a future scenario based on the study of present trends

Receive system updates as soon as any changes are made

Monitor and track bugs and issues in the system.

Create, manage, or update project workflows.

Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Arrange tasks based on the level of priority or urgency

Monitor the progress of projects from start to finish

A digital list of items that need to be completed

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements

Creation, administration, and evaluation of assessments or tests

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Track and monitor efficient handling of all changes/transitions

Configure existing workflows to meet your organization's needs

Iterative project Management approach that involves technologies such as Kanban, Scrum, XP, APF, XPM and more

Alter the layout and content of reports

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Create budgets based on historical data and future projections

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Create, manage and track all task activities and progression

Create, save, and re-purpose templates for emails, forms, etc.

An @mention is a way to tag or notify a specific person about a message/post

Assemble applications and processes by dragging over and arranging pre-built components

Reporting on how each user, task or process has advanced since its initiation

Organize and schedule projects

Ability to handle several projects simultaneously

Import and export data to and from software applications