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Best-In-Class Organizations Need a Best-In-Class PLM Solution. Learn more about PTC Windchill Software, what it does, and how it can help your business.
Best-In-Class PLM Solution for Best-In-Class Organizations
What is Windchill?
TriStar is a trusted PTC partner, helping manufacturers implement and optimize Windchill, PTC’s industry-leading Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform. Windchill connects product data, people, and processes in a centralized environment, creating a single source of truth for engineering information across the entire product lifecycle. Its open, scalable architecture integrates with enterprise systems, helping organizations improve collaboration and maintain accurate, connected product data.
Windchill provides comprehensive PLM capabilities out of the box while role-based applications deliver a modern experience tailored to each user. Engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and service teams can securely access the product information they need to make informed decisions, improving collaboration without adding unnecessary complexity.
As manufacturers continue their digital transformation, Windchill serves as the foundation of the digital thread by connecting requirements, design, engineering changes, quality, manufacturing, and service. Automated workflows, enterprise integrations, and embedded AI capabilities help teams improve productivity, maintain traceability, reduce risk, and bring products to market faster.
Whether you’re managing complex product structures, supporting model-based engineering initiatives, or preparing your organization for AI-driven product development, Windchill provides the connected foundation needed to improve product quality, increase visibility, and accelerate innovation across the enterprise.
PTC Windchill Software Capabilities
How Can Windchill Help Your Business?
Product Development
Accelerate product development by connecting product data, requirements, engineering changes, and documentation in a single PLM platform. Windchill improves collaboration, maintains traceability, and helps teams move products from concept to production with greater confidence.
Software & Systems Engineering
Bridge the gap between hardware and software development by connecting engineering data across disciplines. Windchill supports model-based engineering initiatives, improves collaboration, and helps teams manage increasingly complex products throughout development.
Model-Based Engineering
Simplify collaboration with a common modeling language that connects every document, parameter, and system in one view — supporting systems engineering best practices across mechanical, electrical, and software disciplines.
Service Management
Keep service teams connected with accurate product information, technical documentation, and engineering updates. By extending the digital thread beyond manufacturing, Windchill helps improve service quality, reduce downtime, and support products throughout their lifecycle.
Manufacturing
Connect engineering and manufacturing with release-controlled product data, automated workflows, and real-time collaboration. Windchill helps manufacturers reduce errors, improve production readiness, and accelerate new product introductions.
Product Design
Integrate CAD data directly into your product lifecycle to improve design collaboration, configuration management, and change control. Windchill helps engineering teams manage product structures, maintain data accuracy, and ensure everyone works from the latest product information.
Enterprise Packages!
| Select Your Package: | Windchill Base | Windchill Advanced | Windchill Premium | Extensions |
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| Standard Capabilities | ||||
| Core PDM | | | | – |
| Visualization (AR, 3D, 2D) | | | | – |
| Design Collaboration | | | | – |
| Project Planning/Execution | | | | – |
| Document Management | | | | – |
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| Component Management | ||||
| Parts Classification | – | – | | – |
| Supplier Part Management | – | – | | – |
| Data Management and Visualization Extensions | ||||
| Creo, SolidWorks, NX, AutoCAD etc: Starts at $833 |
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| Enterprise Visualization Extensions | ||||
| Visualize Model and Drawings: Creo View MCAD and Add-Ons: Starts at $650 |
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| Visualize ECAD Data: Creo View ECAD and Adapters: Starts at $1,910 |
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| Visualization Toolkits (Office, WebGL, Java): Starts at $6,170 |
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| Interference/Clash Detection: Starts at $3,290 |
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Enterprise Packages!
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Your Trusted PLM Partner: Why Manufacturers Choose TriStar
With more than 500 Windchill implementations and decades of hands-on experience, TriStar doesn’t just deploy PLM software—we help manufacturers build connected engineering environments that deliver lasting business value:
- Deep Windchill Expertise: Our team of more than 25 PLM consultants brings extensive implementation, migration, and optimization experience, helping manufacturers successfully deploy Windchill across organizations of every size.
- Built Around your Business: Every implementation is tailored to your engineering processes, product development workflows, and business objectives. From configuration management to enterprise integrations, we help ensure Windchill works the way your teams work.
- Solutions Beyond Standard PLM: Proprietary Wincom extensions and additional module functionality extend Windchill beyond its out-of-the-box capabilities, from engineer-to-order automation to geometry-based model search.
- Support at Every Stage: From implementation and training to consulting and long-term support, our team works alongside yours to maximize user adoption, improve system performance, and help you get the most from your PLM investment.
- Experience Across Regulated Industries: Medical device, aerospace, defense, automotive, and industrial manufacturers rely on TriStar to implement PLM solutions that improve traceability, strengthen quality processes, and support evolving regulatory requirements.
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