Collaborative Product Development
Manage and execute part-centric global product development.
What is Collaborative Product Development?
Collaborative product development is a powerful PLM capability that enables seamless project and design collaboration for globally distributed teams. Today, discrete manufacturers deal with dispersed teams working in siloed systems, where stakeholders often lack access to the most up-to-date product data.
These collaboration barriers lead to development delays, costly rework, quality issues in production, and slow response times from manufacturing partners. These challenges are amplified in companies growing through acquisitions, where the effort to align teams and inherited tools can triple. Collaborative product development delivers value through real-time connectivity, enabling the enterprise to access, contribute to, and protect proprietary data anywhere, 24/7.
Benefits of collaborative product development
Collaborative product development delivers increased productivity, self-service, governance, accuracy, and visibility while minimizing time-to-market, manufacturing disruptions, poor product quality, and production cost. For everyone in the value chain who relies on real-time product data, there are several benefits.
Production planner
See up-to-date product data coming from a single source of truth, enriched with ERP data and manufacturing.
Advanced manufacturing
Validate production processes and build accurate prototypes with access to the latest drawings and documents. Also, submit problem reports before going into full scale production.
Shop floor worker
Replace printouts and paper plots with large, shared screens and get updated data online for a paperless factory.
Quality engineering
Focus on test and validation procedures. If you find an issue, submit problem reports to engineering on the spot.
Sourcing manager
Enhance manufacturer-supplier interaction and supply the required parts at the best price/quality. This process also benefits engineers in the design process.
Service technicians
Access up-to-date drawings and service manuals when needed from anywhere.
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Collaborative Product Development Case Studies
Discover how industry peers are leveraging PTC’s PLM software for collaborative product development.
Volvo CE: PLM-Enabled Digital Thread
Volvo CE replaced disconnected systems with a Digital Thread to manage product complexity and enable seamless concurrent design and manufacturing.
HP: Taming Product Complexity
Explore how parts classification and data governance have helped HP drive down development costs and significantly improve speed to market.
U.S. Navy: Secure Multi-Site Collaboration
Windchill’s 100% web-based architecture integrated seamlessly with existing security infrastructures, enabling secure remote work and multi-site collaboration for the U.S. Navy.
Collaboration Across the Digital Thread
Visit our PLM On-Demand Hub to hear from global leaders like Bosch, Cellcentric, Vestas, and ZF. Learn how they leverage the Digital Thread to connect their network of engineers and non-engineers across the entire organization.
Soluções de colaboração da PTC & OMC
Learn More About Windchill
Windchill simplifies product development through groundbreaking capabilities that unite dispersed teams, ensuring a Single Source of Truth for both product and process data. By enabling collaborative product development, Windchill provides all stakeholders with the critical information needed to make informed, data-driven decisions.
Explore Windchill Navigate
With role- and task-based applications, Windchill Navigate provides downstream stakeholders with direct access to up-to-date product data. Non-expert users can easily access the rich data stored within the enterprise system—no specialized training required.
Talk to a Windchill Expert
Empower stakeholders across your organization with quick and easy access to critical product data. Windchill, PTC’s premier PLM solution, breaks down organizational silos, leading to:
Improved Time-to-Market: Faster, more accurate product launches.
Decreased Costs: Lower operational overhead and minimized engineering waste.
Enhanced Product Quality: Superior integrity throughout the product lifecycle.
More Time for Innovation: Focus on creativity instead of data searching.
Windchill delivers the performance and scale required to manage massive datasets, featuring subscription pricing that ensures you only pay for what you need. Furthermore, with seamless integration to the ThingWorx IoT platform, data from smart, connected products in the field can be leveraged to power a high-fidelity Digital Twin.
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