PTC Windchill is a family of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software products that is offered by PTC.[2][3] In 2004, as part of their expansion in the area of collaboration tools, they arranged having "a hosted version of Windchill to small- and medium-sized customers."[4][5] As of 2011, products from its marketer, PTC, were being used by over 1.1 million users worldwide.[6]
Developer(s) | PTC |
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Initial release | 1998 |
Stable release | 12.1.2.0
/ December 19, 2022 |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux |
Available in | English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Polish,[1] Portuguese (Brazil) |
Type | Product lifecycle management |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www |
Windchill was originally developed by Windchill Technology Inc., which was co-founded by Jim Heppelmann, the current President and CEO of PTC. When PTC acquired Windchill Technology, Heppelmann joined the company as senior vice president.[7] Windchill was released in 1998 and was promoted as the first to market with an internet based PLM offering. In 2001, Windchill ProjectLink was added as a project collaboration offering, and in 2002, Windchill PDMLink launched to enhance product data management.[8]
In 2004 the parent company announced plans "to simplify its product management applications."[9]
Windchill's implementation has been described as multi-tier. Although it can run on a single server, when "serving thousands of end users on a global scale" it commonly uses three tiers: Client, Application and Database tiers.[10]
Windchill software skills are taught in universities worldwide.[11][12]
Version | Release Date |
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Windchill 4.0 | November 1999 |
Windchill 5.0 | May 2000 |
Windchill 5.1 | November 2000 |
Windchill 6.0 | |
Windchill 6.1 | November 2001 |
Windchill 6.2.6 | December 2002 |
Windchill 7.0 | January 2004 |
Windchill 8.0 | June 2005 |
Windchill 9.0 | September 2007 |
Windchill 9.1 | December 2008 |
Windchill 10.0 | March 2011 |
Windchill 10.1 | March 2012 |
Windchill 10.2 10.2 M010 10.2 M020 10.2 M030 |
September 2013 December 2013 May 2014 March 2015 |
Windchill 11.0 11.0 M010 11.0 M020 11.0 M030 |
December 2015 June 2016 November 2016 June 2017 |
Windchill 11.1 11.1 M010 |
January 2018 May 2018 |
Windchill 11.2 11.2.1.0 |
June 2019 December 2019 |
Windchill 12.0 | June 2020[13] |
Windchill 13.0 | June 2023 |
The Windchill user base ranges from individuals to large corporations.[14] Most customers are in the following manufacturing market segments: Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Electronics & High-Tech, Industrial Products, Medical Devices, Retail, Footwear & Apparel. Commercial sales are made through a combination of a direct sales force as well as an indirect sale channel. Directly competitive products to Windchill include Empower PLM by Omnify, Teamcenter by Siemens, ENOVIA by Dassault Systèmes and Agile by Oracle.[15]
Studierenden werden intensiv in Creo Parametric von PTC sowie mit dem PLM System Windchill PDMLink geschult