--- title: Windchill Reviews meta_title: 'Windchill Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 121 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Windchill works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 121 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # Windchill Reviews **Vendor:** PTC **Category:** [Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/product-lifecycle-management-plm) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 121 ## About Windchill PTC's Market Leading PLM Solution, Windchill, is an application suite that manages all aspects of the product development lifecycle—from concept through service and retirement—by enabling a digital thread of product parts, materials, and configuration information. ## Windchill Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **smooth CAD integration** in Windchill, enhancing collaboration and organization across engineering teams. (4 reviews) - Users value the **strong product data management** in Windchill, enhancing collaboration and reducing errors effectively. (4 reviews) - Users find Windchill to be **user-friendly** , allowing easy file management and efficient collaboration on parts and revisions. (4 reviews) - Users value the **effective collaboration** features of Windchill, enhancing teamwork through centralized data and smooth CAD integration. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **strong product data management and version control** of Windchill, enhancing organization and collaboration. (3 reviews) - Users value the **high customizability** of Windchill, allowing tailored solutions that seamlessly fit unique business processes. (2 reviews) - Customization Flexibility (2 reviews) - Data Centralization (2 reviews) - Users praise Windchill for its **strong integration capabilities** , enhancing collaboration and ensuring effective change management. (2 reviews) - Users praise Windchill's **robust version control** , ensuring accurate collaboration and management of design data effectively. (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users struggle with the **steep learning curve** of Windchill, finding it complex and unintuitive, especially for newcomers. (3 reviews) - Users report a **learning difficulty** with Windchill, finding it complex and not user-friendly, especially for beginners. (3 reviews) - Users often find Windchill's **complexity** overwhelming, with a steep learning curve and cumbersome processes, especially for new users. (2 reviews) - Users find **difficult usability** in Windchill, struggling with its complex interface and steep learning curve. (2 reviews) - Users find the **poor interface design** of Windchill frustrating, particularly due to its complexity and outdated look. (2 reviews) - Users find that Windchill's **required training** can be extensive, especially for those unfamiliar with its complex functionality. (2 reviews) - Users find the **complex assembly check-in process** frustrating, often requiring significant time to resolve issues. (1 reviews) - BOM Management (1 reviews) - CAD Connectivity (1 reviews) - Complex Interface (1 reviews) ## Windchill Reviews ### 1. User-friendly and well Customized **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viky T. | Design Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** BoM Management and Revision Management and Customizable workflow with team template **What do you dislike about Windchill?** No dislikes. But need more translation of documents **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** As it' is having good data management and user friendly interface,Always go for Windchill PDMLink **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data management of our 3d data along with drawing with change management and Revision Management ### 2. Smooth easy interface **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anup P. | Mechanical Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Featured object filter in workspace is best.increase workplace performance **What do you dislike about Windchill?** There should be proper training available for new user. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** It's best tool for maintaining, searching, updating huge data set for number of users. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to handle drawings, models, in different library with all revision history. We can easy find which components used where. So it's managing all things properly. ### 3. It was a great opportunity to learn PTC Wind-chill. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Windchill?** It's modeling and simulation are insane. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Simulation results can't demonstrate the actual results. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Better performance **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Assembly and part modelling have been even better in newest version, which helped us for manufacturing. ### 4. Windchill is one stop solution for industries & their employees to work smoothly without data lost. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Data updation at tree level is best. It gives accurate life cycle and planning of products. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** The iteration levels are complicated to understand in initial level for user. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Windmill should be use to make advance level of data management. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** To manage common parts uses in various product range and it's planning are very useful for us. ### 5. Windchill review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Easy to configure attributes as per our products requirements with less customization **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Lack of free tutorials and customization **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Make sure what level of ootb features will be usefull for your organization and how much more customisation required to meet you requirement and compare with other PLM products and take decision which suits and benifits more for you. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintain digital information of product lifecycle information like cad documents, product process info etc ### 6. Very happy to share **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** veeraprasath v. | Design Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Good to use, user friendly. Very well with creo **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Ghost datas is very annoying for some times **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Change some icons to easy to visible and some attractive **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing i have done, Easy to use ### 7. From my experience PDM Systems are a must for all but the smallest CAD users. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Controlling of the engineering release process. Controlling design change and the ability to control the quality of data input and output. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Substantially steep learning curve. Creation of BOM’s could be easier. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** If you have more than a few CAD users then you need a PDM system **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing and controlling large CAD models and being able to share the data efficiently. ### 8. a good PLM software but require improvement for flexibility to integrate 3rd party application **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** it operate through local browser and creo browser **What do you dislike about Windchill?** i dont like user interface views, difficult to identify item **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** i have used for genral purpose not gone in depth ### 9. IOT based PLM solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Web based PLM solution which helps to customer Foundation to Advance journey like IOT AR **What do you dislike about Windchill?** ECAD integration is not good and well integrated **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enable Customer Digital transformation journey ### 10. Windchill PDM Link **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** It's easy to use and implementation is scalable **What do you dislike about Windchill?** It has not implemented the license part correctly **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Definitely recommend **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Part release . Close collaboration ### 11. PTC WIndchill Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi C. | -, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Its interface is very good , easy to work with **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Save a part is little tedious, if one part want to rename, its parent assembly should open **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creo data management ### 12. User friendly data management system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Windchill?** I am basically a designer so I found it very easy to handle 3D cad data and BOM structuring. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Desktop interface sucks sometime due to Microsoft compatibility with Windchill. Too many version upgrade of Microsoft may be the reason. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Trust me you would like the user interface. It is fast and efficient also considering technical support from customer service. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Attending to many internal trainings during new PTC upgrade. Created many tickets regarding visualization error. Solved a problem regarding use of ‘#’ while naming a file, it took almost 5 months to solve the issue. Now soon will be part of a team to introduce production work instruction creation in Windchill. ### 13. Best PLM Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Easy to manage PPL process and Data with user friendly **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Proper user document not available or not understanding **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Na **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's manage whole products data as well Process ### 14. It has been good **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Its an integrated system that combines so many aspects of the business together like design, production, manufacturing and quality. Its a very powerful tool as well as fairly effective **What do you dislike about Windchill?** it can be very complex to learn. The user interface is not very easy to use either. There are a lot of tabs and the user's knowledge to understand the nuances is must **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Windchill lets an organization to operate from different locations at the same time including remote locations. It definitely allows you to streamline in the processes ranging from R&D to manufacturing and quality especially in a manufacturing industry **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mostly use it to update quality reports or make design chances in the SolidWork drawings. I have put through several Change Notices on it. I appreciate how it allows you to add different personnel in the reviewer's list, integrating several different departments across the organization ### 15. Long time user of PTC products **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Windchill?** The innovative thinking of new releases **What do you dislike about Windchill?** It can take long time to get proper support for complex issues **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Have good support from PTC when you implement **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly connect our clients processes into one PDM system ### 16. Very complicated, old school **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Its a cloud solution that allows you to save version control documents with different employees in the company. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** It looks very old. Too many options, hard to navigate and understand the complex procedure of management processes. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Don't use this system! Its a can of worms **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows version control of document and history. Allows approval system. Provides a cloud of data storage that everyone in the company can access and monitor. Only 1 person can edit the document, so u cant have more than 1 person working on it. ### 17. It s a good tool for managing product life cycle. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Windchill?** I like the way it manages data in brilliant way and from design to manufacturing it integrates everything and makes the gap communicable, besides it gives chance to enhance and customise accordingly. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Not that much. But yeah the scope for customization is not that much great. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am getting business requirements and fulfill the requirements accordingly. ### 18. Documentation on a massive scale **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Easy to use. Search function is fantastic and the versions of old and new documentation can be easily segregated **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Some users struggle with interface. Uploading from an older system to wind-chill can take a long time **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Universally combining all of our documentation into one system across the entire company is great ### 19. Wind-chill plm **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Wind-chill helps the plan industry in a simplified way such that the basic understanding of java is enough to process the data **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Everything is good as far as I am concerned. They might improve the framework even more. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Wind-chill is a great tool to begin with. It might be useful as a good stepping stone **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data and quality assurance concepts for any product manufactured is studied with wind-chill and we got pretty positive results so far ### 20. Very useful for large projects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Windchill?** It has version control and acts like a cloud service of sorts. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** There's a learning curve and lots of functionality that can be overwhelming for a first time user. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to back up all files related to projects. It's sole purpose is to act like a library of documentation (a database). ### 21. A useful tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Windchill?** It provides ease of access to all my CAD drawings **What do you dislike about Windchill?** The search function can be a little wonky. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to house our sensitive CAD drawing for all of our parts. It compliments our program suite to give us a complete picture of our equipment ### 22. PLM tool with CAD integration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Windchill integrates well with CAD tools like creo and solidworks. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** The customization part is not so user friendly **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** In addition to PLM capabilities, it is very helpful for us in managing the documents ### 23. The Product Lifecycle management tool for connected products. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Salvador S. | PLM Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2018 **What do you like best about Windchill?** I would like the easy to use web interface and how fast you can change the data model using web tools that let you extend your Business Items and Attributes with zero downtime. The Thingworx Navigate Integration let you search and find product information quickly from Windchill, SAP, Salesforce and connected products as well. Designers can quickly access data on customer behavior usage patterns. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Workflow Template Administration let you automate your business process but it is not a simple task due to how the java interface was developed. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** I recommend, PTC Windchill because it is an affordable PLM solution especially when it is deploy it in the cloud. If you are considering close the Product Lifecycle with real user data, I think, it is the only solution available out there that let you do that. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windchill let you save your 3D/2D data in a safe vault to avoid losing your CAD data. Windchill publish your CAD data to a lightweight viewable automatically. The Creo-view format let no-CAD people to understand how the product has been designed. The software captures the evolution of a product from concept to retirement and prevents that people in the shop floor works with obsolete versions of the product. ### 24. difficult to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about Windchill?** large document database in a secure network **What do you dislike about Windchill?** requires a lot of training to gain appropriate access levels **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** it may depend on your company, but make sure you complete your necessary training to gain appropriate access prior to starting job duties **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** i use windchill to access wprk instructions, SOPs, etc necessary for ,y job ### 25. It works well once configured . ...although configuration can sometimes be the hard part. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about Windchill?** It has some good features for a PLM system. The approval process can be configured to the internal process (although sometimes it is not straightforward. You have to become a master of configuring the process). Great repository for our CAD files/drawings. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Many of the configurations are done on the server using command lines and updating directly to files. Configurations should be done on the UI and it seems a bit outdated doing it this way. Support is a hit or miss. Some support techs are good while others drop the ball and a ticket can stay open for several months. Overall, support seems to be inconsistent. The back end / table structure is not very clear and PTC does not provide a data dictionary and the tables used on a screen are easily understood. (fields names are not descriptive of the field). Therefore, we had to create manually some custom reports because the internal reporting is not very customizable. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Really evaluate before buying. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a PLM system in place to approve/reject drawings/3d and store them as a repository accessible to any engineer. It gives a great visibility of approved objects and stored / organized in the system. ### 26. Good for projects colaboration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2017 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Ability to use drawings of every employee in the company and sharing of drawings between every part in production cycle. It also helps to follow projects life cycle with possibility to see how many changes were made for project, check all files that are related to the project in mind all these things lets you control whole projects with quite a lot of ease. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Search is quite slow and quite fragile, every symbol/space/dash and so on can make your search useless which sometimes waste quite a lot of time. Software is quite difficult to use and requires quite intense training which could become costly for company. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** You need to make a plan at the start of how you parameters will be handled and plan out how projects will be named from the start. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** No need to share drawings through emails you can see who and what updated in drawings. ### 27. Created training material for Windchill 11.0 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Windchill?** I like that windchill 11.0 is very up to date and modern compared to their 9.3 version. Smoother interface. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** A lot of the functions are very different so training is required. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** This is a good piece of software if trained well on how to use it. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was developing training material so that engineers would know how to use the software. ### 28. PLM made easier **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Windchill?** The user interface was my favorite. it was very intuitive **What do you dislike about Windchill?** i disliked the default reports it generated - they were not as useful as customized ones **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** business problem we are trying to solve is siloed data across the organization. this product helped give access to data across the organization ### 29. Windchill review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mina N. | Application Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Windchill?** It is a great tool to help more than an individual to load their files **What do you dislike about Windchill?** That it does not force the employees to use the same format saving their folders. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** to give access to more than one employee to the same folder ### 30. Project assignments **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Makes assigning tasks easy! The company is always very responsive to changes. The interface is easy to teach. We use it every day! I don’t imagine that we would change anytime soon.Very user-friendly. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** The only thing I would change is that I wish there was a copy button for the different routes reschedule. It’s annoying to have to the same routing multiple times and we could just copy and existing route. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** More accountability for task holders. ### 31. If you have Creo, you may no have any alternative. Well... **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebastian K. | Entwicklungsingenieur, Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2017 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Compared to the other PDM I know, there is nothing that i find done really well in Windchill, other than considering the basic idea of accessing a PDM-Database without a dedicated client. It is a good idea to just use the Web-Browser, but it comes at price... **What do you dislike about Windchill?** 1. Even with the almost empty database it always is slow, though the support said everything looks normal. 2. The search function needs work - filtering the search result not possible, makes the function basically useless. 3. Configuration via XML-Files and the available menues is counter-intuitive - in my opinion PTC is straight out lying, when they state their products to be intuitive to use. 4. The menue is not really context sensitive - RMK is not doing enough. 5. Selecting stuff i a clickfest. 6. Discription and comand naming is in my experience misleading (may be it's because i am familiar with commands in Vault...) (the concept of files, parts, WC-parts is an example of that... -> a WC-Part is an Item.) 7. There is no easy acces to the interface of windchill. Customizing the views is a clickfest. Even the Windows Explorer knows drag and drop. 8. You don't even become the real admin on your own server - (at least) I am only a site operations admin (we are the only site), while the real server admin, who is the only one who can create Users, sits at the resellers office and cost's extra money... For Windchill 11 PTC is working on "Internet of things", as far as i know, while i consider the basic functions of windchill not satisfactory. And when I take a look at prices in comparison to Vault, that i know in depth, - Windchill is lost. But when u already have PTC, you don't have alternatives, that I know of. So if I had money to buy CAD & PDM for a small to medium business i would almost all the times go for anything else than PTC... **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** My company does science projects with radiation and fluids. I work in the department for machine developement, so we create vacuum chambers, and many related machines. Windchill should help to cooperate within larger products. I was the designated admin for a Windchill 10.2 PDM-Link-Server, until the project got frozen for financial reasons. I still have acces to the test-server, with some test data and the standard configuration - nothing special so far, since i lack the special admin training. I have in depth experience with Vault Professional, so everything I say can be seen in comparison to that. ### 32. End user experience is a bit clunky, but functional **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Easy search functions help me find the documents I need quickly **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Wish it was easier to navigate results of searches. Wish there was an “effective date” column instead of a “last modified” column. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wish there was a better visual representation of document relation that you didn’t need a specific viewing software for. ### 33. Windchill Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2017 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Keeps things organized, somewhat intuitive **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Steep learning curve, things seem to be hidden in nooks and crannies, takes a long time to load on IE **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** More training **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Documentation service for parts, standards, work instructions, etc. ### 34. Solid PLM system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kirk M. | NPD Engineering Manager, Medical Devices, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2017 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Windchill provides a stable platform for managing product data, workflows, and projects **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Getting technical support can be an issue. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing product data, work flows, project management, CAPA/NC management. ### 35. It is a good engineering tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Can generate BOM directly from 3D models. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** It is kind of expensive. The annual maintenance fee was also high. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build a complete BOM for a complicated machine, which contains more than 4000 parts. ### 36. Easy and secure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2017 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Security is not compromised to share information between different contributors on the project/assignment/tasks. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Interface not that friendly as other sharing software/pages. Interface can be arranged to show important information and leave specific options in submenus. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Rearrange options to notify other users , how to get route, links, etc, **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Confidentiality, sometimes information can be shared by email due to the importance of it. So Windchill have solved that sharing high importance issue. ### 37. Windchill gets the job done **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew C. | Technical Writer, Consumer Goods, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Windchill has great search features right out of the box, and has easy-to-learn, easy-to-use customization options. I enjoy being able to access the CAD data and models I need to complete my job, and Windchill keeps everything conveniently located. The change management features are also fully customizable, and do a great job of laying out the process to anyone who may not be as familiar with the software. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Certain features I find unnecessary, such as the thumbnail pop-out of 3D modeled parts. Also, there needs to be a better way to integrate the discussion forums into tasks and processes. The discussion forums can be a great way to pass along information, but they are not cross-referenced enough throughout the tasks and processes to be utilized to full effectiveness. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** I highly recommend this product. It is easy to use and easy to customize to your needs. Windchill Support staff has been diligent in working with us with any requests or needs we have made. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Windchill, for my role, is a way of storing and managing documents and document changes. As change management software, it has performed very well. It also gives me access to the data and documents that I use on a daily basis. Because I am able to look up information I need to complete my job, it saves me time and energy that would otherwise be used finding the people who would have that information. ### 38. Windchill PLM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dudeesh Durai Kanth R. | Senior Software Engineer, Construction, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2015 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Windchill is easy to configure. - Well feasible of Migrating data from different PLM/ERP tools to Windchill - Suitable for meeting most of the Business Requirements - Highly Integrated platform helps to solve lot of business cases - Best Product Support Team of PTC, help in solving issues during development and post deployment **What do you dislike about Windchill?** - Java Applets which makes the Workflow design tough and unsupported Java versions on Windchill Upgrades. - UI needs to be enhanced and to be made more User Friendly - User clicks needs to be reduced (to do their daily task) - Project Link needs to enhanced more along with PDM Link synchronization - Integration with Different ERP systems needs to be enhanced **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** - Java Applets which makes the Workflow design tough and unsupported Java versions on Windchill Upgrades. - UI needs to be enhanced and to be made more User Friendly - User clicks needs to be reduced (to do their daily task) - Project Link needs to enhanced more along with PDM Link synchronization - Integration with Different ERP systems needs to be enhanced **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Migration / Configuration - Migrating data from different PLM/ERP systems. Configuring Windchill to meet the Business Requirements. Benefits: Windchill could be used to meet most of the Business Requirements. ### 39. It's not the worst ePDM. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Ability to roll back documentation, track changes, and manage revisions, family tables, and naming conventions from within the interface, even completely independently of your CAD software. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** It's not very intuitive or user friendly, has a lot of problems separating dependencies (especially when working with an assembly wherein only certain parts need modified and/or checked out). **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Take any training you can, and make sure you know who your superusers are! **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** PDM and Product Lifecycle ### 40. Windchill is a good product, and is always getting better **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antonio C. | Windchill Business Administrator, Consumer Goods, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2015 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Windchill integrates model management and project management together very well. The change system that goes through Windchill is effective. It is an effective tool for managing parts, end items, CAD, and documents throughout the product life cycle from concept through obsolescence. Searching in Windchill is fairly simple and very powerful. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Windchill can operate a little slowly at times, and their tech support isn't always the best. Some users find it difficult to navigate, but ones who are reasonably tech savvy find it manageable and user-friendly. The reporting feature (QueryBuilder) is subpar, but is supposed to be improving. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Windchill is overall a good product. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing product lifecycles from creation through obsolescence. This includes changes to parts and models throughout the enterprise. We manage all of our documents, parts, and history in Windchill. ### 41. Daily user of Windchill **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Furniture | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Windchill?** I like that it is built into The Creo interface. No need to log into a separate software. You can also use a stand alone version in windows. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Defaults not good for every situation. Difficulty with versioning parts in Pro-e and making them locally modified. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Part and assembly database. ### 42. Good place to store files. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Windchill has a ton of functionality, and you can create paths from parts to subassemblies to assemblies. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** It can be very confusing to use since so many paths can be created. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Start organized and Windchill will help keep you organized. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been able to search for files created by other colleagues. It helps me find information. ### 43. A good product that can be utilized to control large amounts of data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John B. | Officer, Consumer Goods, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2015 **What do you like best about Windchill?** From the projects to the storage of data, it can hold whatever you need it to. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Because of the complexity of the product, it can sometimes be difficult for users to get around **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** As an admin, we talk to our users everyday on ways that this product can be improved. Some of the suggestions are as follows: A Windchill Light version that would give the light user the ability to get the information needed without having to deal with the sometimes cumbersome system. Another improvement which we are currently investigating is Windchill mobile. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Windchill to store and control our companies data. Being able to store all of data we have is a great tool. One stop shop. ### 44. Experience with this product is mostly in retreiving and storing product/project information. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2015 **What do you like best about Windchill?** What I like most is the ability to store information for an item or project in one location within multiple folders. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** During an upgrade to a newer version, some of the links between folders to comments do not seem to work like they used to. Now, instead of having a link to a comment section, I have to navigate manually. Not too big of a deal, really, but it is just more steps to take. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** I am not certain what level of training or supplier interaction our administrators received, but given the scope of knowledge that my own administrators have of the product, I would recommend that anyone considering this product search for and utilize any training they can get. The interface of this product is similar in feel (at least to me) to an excel sheet, but there are still small things that trip me up from time to time. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm not certain I am solving any business problems, but I do like the benefit of having work flows within this system. The majority of my tasks are workflow initiated and I like being able to see where in the flow my tasks are, what the predecessors are and what tasks are/can be held up by mine. ### 45. A User's Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Plastics | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2015 **What do you like best about Windchill?** It has improved a lot over the years and is more user-friendly; however, I can see it has some room for improvement, and, since things are changing, I can only assume there will be changes in the future. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** if I haven't searched for a few minutes, I'm required to refresh the page to be able to search again. This can be annoying as well as time waster. I can tell there are employees who avoid using it because they ask me to find documents for them. I can only assume that there are some that don't find it easy to use and, therefore, make less enjoyable for me. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** I have no recommendations for others. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** I manage instructions and related documents. My data, e.g., instructions, warning stickers, etc., may be accessed from one place. This makes it very convenient when other departments need to access my documents. ### 46. Timely Updates and Flexible Software **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tiberius F. | Product Development Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Windchill?** My likes are: Very stable, and reliable. Updated Bill of materials Management Role Based Apps **What do you dislike about Windchill?** My dislikes are: Without a dedicated IT system administrator, most small businesses would probably have to rely heavily on PTC for support. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** PTC Windchill manages all product content and business developments throughout the product and service lifecycle. PTC's software solution helps to streamline product lifecycle management . ### 47. Most reliable PLM tool available in the market **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2015 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Its ease of use. We use this tool in integration with PTC creo and it gives a best solutions for our ECN/ECR processes. Its attribute management along with WT parts, CAD data linking, project sharing, documents management are the best features and a great help. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Some times while working on server the response time is little longer which need to be improved Need to add more features like specific data sharing, user access capability improvements UI needs to be more user friendly. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using this for ECN/ECR ptocess Data management Sharing data with your suppliers and vendors Managing data with multiple geographical teams was a major problem but Windchill came to rescue and all the process and data management between multi geographical team is no more worry now ### 48. End User of Windchill for File Sharing **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Windchill?** Provides a central repository for all the files my colleagues and I need to use and track throughout the day. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** I have difficulty navigating the cabinet structure. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving the need to share files, and keep track of latest versions as well as previous iterations, among members of a large company. ### 49. PTC Windchill review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Windchill?** This software has many capabilities from being the vault for CAD files, word documents, and many other files types. It also allows for routing and approval & reviews. My company has used this for 8 years, and we now also collaborate with customers who also use the same product. We can use Windchill to submit supplier request for drawing change with the collaboration functionality. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** As with many large complicated software programs, there are occasional issues and very minor down time, but PTC support is prompt and are rarely down more than an hour. Some work functions (sales, quality, managers) who don't use this every day struggle to use because it is a complex program and remembering menu pics and methods can be a challenge. **Recommendations to others considering Windchill:** Automotive manufacturing is so complicated today & Windchill is a great tool. We did however build our own web based system to focus on the commercial side with ROI, market conditions, strategy, and system BOM in focus. Windchill is mostly and engineering tool, but is beginning to focus on other aspects. It's very difficult to have one software to meet the needs of all companies & sizes. **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have integrated company procedures with Windchill and use it for phase gate approval. Document revision control has been greatly improved. Windchill provides a centralized location for all documents related to specific projects. Because it's great as a vault, we also store customer drawings in Windchill so they are easier to find. Searching for documents has never been easier. ### 50. Windchill Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2015 **What do you like best about Windchill?** I am responsible for the accuracy of all parts and BOMs.. I like the way Windchill allows me to be organized. **What do you dislike about Windchill?** Some things are harder for the general user. For example:looking at comments and the vote of an ECR is difficult. Report writing could be a little easier **What problems is Windchill solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use the entire plm system. From the start of the lifecycle to the end. Also managing all the changes in between. The organization and ways to filter items is great. 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