PTC Solutions Selected: CoCreate & Windchill

By DE Editors

PTC (Needham, MA) announced that ViewPlus Technologies, a manufacturer of assistive technologies including Braille printers, selected CoCreate solutions to speed time to market and increase its competitiveness. CoCreate, PTC’s explicit CAD, PDM, & collaboration software, provides companies with a lightweight and flexible approach to designing products. Using CoCreate Modeling, ViewPlus reduced the company’s design process by six months. CoCreate provides support for concurrent engineering enabling multiple engineers to work on a design at the same time without risk of overwriting each other’s work.

In a second announcement, PTC congratulated its technology partner, Audi Sport, on its recent win of the DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) Championship 2008. Audi Sport has used PTC’s parametric CAD/CAM/CAE solution Pro/ENGINEER for almost a decade to develop its award-winning Audi A4 DTM engine. This year, to address its heterogeneous CAD data management needs and enable collaboration among its different engineering departments, Audi Sport implemented Windchill, PTC’s content and process management software, as a common backbone to support its product development efforts. As a result of deploying the PTC Product development System (PDS), Audi Sport has experienced an additional improvement of product quality and process efficiency, realizing a 50 percent increase of evaluated design variants during product development. Windchill gives all users access to the most current version of any CAD data, regardless of the specific CAD applications they are working with.

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Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.