It might be a viewer, it might be CAD, whatever. We're going to go to 3D.’ Therefore, everybody in the company who interacts with product data is going to need a PLM seat and they're going to need some type of a 3D seat. What's happening all forms of digital transformation is that companies are saying, ‘We're going to get rid of paper drawings and PDF files. When you're interacting with a 3D design, it's not one file - it can be dozens, hundreds or thousands of files, and you need a system to find them all and fit them together and present it to you so that you can understand what's going on.
PLM is moving from being a nice-to-have to a need-to-have, he argued, citing the use case of model-based enterprises where users are going to interact with 3D models:ģD models are too big to e-mail around. This service information is created using Arbortext and Vuforia. The technician will need access to similar types of digital product information, as what the factory used when creating the product. Spare parts are managed in our Servigistics software. If you want to change them, for example, you need to dispatch a truck to the customer site, carrying a technician and spare parts. Each time our customers get an order, their factories take a configuration of the digital product data that matches the order and use it as the recipe to produce the physical product, which is then delivered to the end customer. PTC is about the interplay of physical and digital, he said, with the latter being centered on when products are under development and exist in a purely digital form, authored in PTC’s Creo and managed in its Windchill offering:īeing purely digital at this stage products are easy to change and highly configurable. Yesterday additional insight into the strategic direction ahead came from PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann as the firm announced its latest quarterly earnings. More information would follow, it was promised. At the time the deal was announced last November, the stated intent behind the takeover was to bolster PTC’s closed loop Product Lifecycle Management (PTC) offerings by extending the digital thread of product information into downstream Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and FSM capabilities. Early last month, PTC competed its $1.46 billion acquisition of Field Service Management (FSM) giant ServiceMax.
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