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We  are excited to be working closely with our PTC Gold Partner, Anark, on Supplier Collaboration.  Anark, whose Core software allows PTC customers to transform their engineering design, manufacturing, and maintenance information into advanced technical content and digital workflows, has posted a number of useful blogs on supply chain collaboration and cybersecurity.        In 'Supply Chain Collaboration: Top Five Strategies', Anark CEO Scott Williams challenges readers to stop doing the same things with supply chain collaboration and become more agile and responsive -  but how, with so many suppliers in the value chain?   To learn how, read 'Supply Chain Collaboration: Top Five Strategies'.

About this event: The CAD-Driven BOM The part-centric methodology orchestrated by Windchill is an integral component to the digital thread, enabling enterprises to realize their digital transformation goals.  A model-based approach of driving the creation of the eBOM from native CAD data delivers an automated mechanism providing a highly visual BOM to the extended enterprise.  Although this may sound simple enough, CAD design decisions don’t always match the way engineering expects the BOM to be structured.  Managing these complex associations while keeping information and changes synchronized, whether made in CAD or to the BOM, can prove challenging. Join presenter Steve Shaw, PLM Solutions Director, on March 11 th  at 10 am EST, for this Tech Tips session where he will: Explore the recent improvements to the tools and capabilities available in Windchill’s CAD integration and BOM management; Demonstrate how these tools and capabilities can help streamline the process, identify differences, and manage the connection between CAD and the engineering BOM; Explain how to synchronize all of the information back to the BOM for downstream consumption and visibility. You won’t want to miss it so Register Today! 

Couldn't make the webcast? No worries!  This Concurrent Manufacturing webcast replay is now available for viewing on PTC.com.    Here are a few more details: In this session, we will take a deeper dive on how Windchill Assisted BOM Reconciliation enables design engineering and manufacturing planning collaboration.    With easy access of upstream changes into the reconciliation tool, users can improve product data quality and speed up time to market with better configuration and change management.    

Register for Our Upcoming Cloud Tech Tips Webcast  The Path to PLM in the PTC Cloud: Migration Made Easy on Feb. 18th As you begin your journey to PLM in the cloud, there are key tenants which must be leveraged in order to ensure a positive, long-term experience: people, processes, and technology. By moving to PLM cloud, you can quickly scale up, lower cost of ownership, enable external collaboration, and decrease in-house burden. Productivity will increase because your admin’s impact will be elevated, as they spend more time on high value activities and less time on tactics.     To get started in cloud computing and make the best decision for the company, there are strategic questions IT leaders consider: Which cloud do I need? Which features do I use? What about upgrades and updates? What kind of control do I need? How will I manage my PLM solution and what are the impacts? Join Lisa Hayes, PTC Cloud Portfolio Lead and Vipul Gohil, Principal Quality Engineer on Feb. 18 th  at 10 AM EST as they take the guesswork out by highlighting these important deployment criteria – security, availability, functionality, performance, and support.    Register HERE and identify the best path forward to a successful transition so you can get back to your IT business initiatives.

Don't Miss Our Next Tech Tips Webcast Feb. 4th! Windchill Project Management: Take Supplier Collaboration to the Next Level  Registration Now Live Supplier collaboration within Windchill takes supply chain management disciplines - such as planning and designing for manufacturing - to the next level.  Through collaboration, focus shifts to joint planning, joint designing, coordination, and project management, thus reducing inefficiencies and enabling faster time to market.    Using Windchill to collaborate on designs with external parties allows for flexible functionality and better control over tasks and associations.  Getting an early view, while engaging with the iterative design ensures change management and traceability.  As an attendee, you’ll learn how to streamline processes by creating projects with the external team members that you choose, while sharing the information you want.   Join us on February 4th to learn how supplier collaboration within Windchill will improve productivity and higher quality while reducing costs.   Register Here!

We are happy to announce that PTC PLM has been named overall leader in a competitive vendor ranking.   PTC has found itself at the top of another competitive vendor ranking, this time in the Industrial Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software report by ABI Research (ABI). ABI Research developed this competitor ranking to offer an unbiased assessment and ranking of PLM vendors.  ABI ranked vendors based on the two key areas of innovation and implementation, with Windchill leading the rankings in innovation by helping manufacturers create and manage their Digital Threads.   For more info and to learn more, here are some links:    On Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ptc-windchill_ptcs-plm-is-named-1-overall-leader-in-competitive-activity-6753072919775068160-O3FL Our Blog on PTC.com: PTC Named Leader in Industrial PLM Software by Top Independent Research Firm (Again) | PTC For the Analyst Report:  ABI Research Names PTC Leader in Vendor Ranking | PTC Please feel free to pass this on.

The Registration Link is live:  https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/plm/webcast/tech-tips-navigate-9   Learn more about this webcast on November 19th at 10 am EST:   What if manufacturing had all the right data at the right time? With increased visibility through ThingWorx Navigate, engineering and manufacturing can work concurrently and close the gap, helping customers get to market faster.   Increasing visibility to enterprise data helps save time, reduce costs, and improves quality.  In this session, you will hear about enterprise collaboration & how Navigate’s product strategy is value driven.    In our next Tech Tips webcast, "Enterprise Collaboration with Thingworx Navigate,"  we will walk you through the power of reusable components - released in Navigate 9.0 - via a production planner persona demo.  We will also deep dive into the new capabilities included in the upcoming 9.1 release.      Explore the value Navigate can bring to your implementation to drive your Digital Transformation! Share this with your colleagues!    

Tech Tips webcasts are back!    What if manufacturing had all the right data at the right time? With increased visibility through ThingWorx Navigate, engineering and manufacturing can work concurrently and close the gap, helping customers get to market faster.   Increasing visibility to enterprise data helps save time, reduce costs, and improves quality.  In this session, you will hear about enterprise collaboration & how Navigate’s product strategy is value driven.    In our next Tech Tips webcast, "Enterprise Collaboration with Thingworx Navigate,"  we will walk you through the power of reusable components - released in Navigate 9.0 - via a production planner persona demo.  We will also deep dive into the new capabilities included in the upcoming 9.1 release.      Explore the value Navigate can bring to your implementation to drive your Digital Transformation!   Register here : https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/plm/webcast/tech-tips-navigate-9  

Engineering the “New Normal” with PLM on Cloud  HCL Hosts PLM Manufacturing Tweetchat Panel Session     From the Desk of our PLM Product Marketing Director, Nikhil Rai     Last week, Keith Berling, VP of SaaS Solutions, was a Twitter panelist on CTOStraightTalk which was hosted by HCL.  During the session, Keith discussed how PLM on PTC Cloud is transforming manufacturing and enabling collaboration in this current pandemic world. To see the entire Tweetchat, click here.    ​​​​​​​About CTO StraightTalk:  Straight Talk is a multi-media thought leadership platform for the peer-to-peer exchange of experience-based insights among senior technology leaders designed to help them find solutions to current challenges, drive business results, and advance their careers.   

Our own GM, Kevin O’Brien, will be one of the sponsored speakers for this upcoming virtual Product Innovation (PI) Digital Transformation (Dx) event, which spans such themes as Digital Product Design and Development, PLM, Digital Manufacturing, Data Integration, and more.     To learn more about PI DX and to review their agenda,  visit https://events.pi.tv/2020/dx/agenda

We are happy to announce two new blogs on ptc.com – Check them out!     Our first blog,  Coordinate Change Management for Faster Time to Industrialization, focuses on ERP and PLM orchestration and how to enable automatic product data transfer.   In our blog, Concurrent Manufacturing: Break Down Data Silos to Deliver More Value, we highlight how to break down data siloes by building a complete digital thread and the value collaboration between engineering and manufacturing brings.   Feel free to share the links with your colleagues. 

Windchill Extensions from SiliconExpert Ensure Design Viability By SiliconExpert and PTC   Garbage in.  Garbage out.  The familiar computer science concept refers to the fact that the resulting output is dependent on the quality of the input.    The same is true for industrial design.  Complex product designs are dependent on the components required to build them.  An otherwise beautiful design can turn to garbage when composed of parts that are non-compliant or become obsolete.      Windchill PLM software reduces the time to industrialization by digitizing and connecting your enterprise across the globe.  Product design is a complex process that requires information from a myriad of sources.     Windchill Extensions from SiliconExpert help ensure the long-term viability of your designs.   As a leading development and administrative support suite, SiliconExpert is unifying semiconductor and mechanical parts management from design to end of life.  SiliconExpert’s team of electronics engineers are available to answer system questions as well as maintain a current database of data points to ensure users are confident in the components which make up their designs.      SiliconExpert CONNECT    SiliconExpert CONNECT is embedded into Windchill, providing access to trusted design and component libraries.  It identifies potential risk from lifecycle classification and compliance information, while providing crosses, stock levels, and pricing data. This means your engineers get access to reliable data when they need it in order to drive their decisions and streamline design processes.    With SiliconExpert CONNECT, engineers can search and validate orderable part numbers using the SiliconExpert validation algorithm, resulting in a list of standard parts.  You can also analyze your bill of materials and identify parts that might put your design at risk.  With the click of a button, proprietary algorithms give you a thorough risk review by part and allow you to cross reference replacement parts.  All known form-fit-function cross-references and supplier replacements for a manufacturer part number can then be found.    SiliconExpert Synch    With SiliconExpert Synch, your engineer’s designs are synchronized with the parts in an information repository. Engineers can initiate synchronization from a part, a folder page or a search, and obtain new information regarding compliance, availability and price. This ensures their design has the most current data available.          SiliconExpert electronic engineers stand behind this information, since their relationships with suppliers enhance the accuracy of a part’s expected availability as well as its regulatory compliance.  When this information is updated, SiliconExpert Synch makes it possible for designs to update regularly as well.    State of the art technology and machine learning play a part in enhancing information. Through SiliconExpert, data points provide insights into material prices and availability in order to adjust parts’ forecasts.     Integration with Windchill provides visibility at every stage of the life cycle, ensuring the right parts for your design, saving time and money by preventing errors. This eliminates “garbage” from entering your designs and ensures pristine outcomes.    Try the SiliconExpert CONNECT Starter in the Windchill Extension Center and render live data in the Windchill interface, allowing your engineers to monitor a part or a BoM to check for compliance, obsolescence, end of life, and more.  The Starter extension is limited to 200 parts, but does not require a SiliconExpert license.  It’s a great first-look at the value SiliconExpert brings to Windchill.    To learn more about SiliconExpert extensions, visit the PTC Windchill Extension Center at  https://windchill-extensions.ptc.com/home

Join this webinar to get expert advice on how to plan and deploy PLM in support of your innovation efforts. Based on the eBook, “The PLM Deployment Handbook: Planning and Driving Digital Transformation”, Kevin O’Brien, Divisional GM of PLM, will ask author Chad Jackson, Chief Analyst at Lifecycle Insights, to provide: Examples of digital transformation initiatives Best practices for successfully implementing PLM Tips on how to integrate your functional systems Ways to improve product quality that drives customer satisfaction Register here: https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/plm/webcast/deployment-lifecycle-insights  

A complete bill of materials is the cornerstone of your digital transformation. Learn how taking small steps can have a huge impact. Take a walk through our virtual conference to see how your organization can gain: Increased change management efficiency with repeatable processes and traceability Increased parts reuse and decreased data duplication Single, up-to-date source of truth for product data Faster, more accurate response to internal/market pressures Earlier, improved cross-discipline enterprise collaboration In this virtual conference, you can choose from multiple presentations. Spend as much time as you want learning how to improve your BOM through digital transformation: BOM Structure BOM Visualization Change Management Component and Supplier Management Enterprise Collaboration BOM Transformation BOM Reporting & Analytics Connected PLM Production Planning Quality Click here to get started. 

This Expert Session will explain the type of changes that you can expect to affect your current processes around managing and securing your PLM application when moving to the Cloud.     For full-sized viewing, click on the YouTube link in the player controls.

This Expert Session will explain the steps PTC will take to move all of your data, application settings, configurations & customizations to PTC Cloud.       For full-sized viewing, click on the YouTube link in the player controls.

  The /Windchill/tmp/wrmfTransport directory get deleted randomly. Tried to exclude that folder from antivirus analysis but in vain. Can someone help on this please?    

Polaris strives to give a great end-to-end experience for its riders, from customized purchase options to enhanced safety features. To achieve this vision, Polaris is adopting a step-by-step approach to digital transformation through PLM. In this series of 10 technical demos, you'll see what Polaris has either currently implemented or is considering as a part of its PLM/digital transformation roadmap.    BOM Management and Global Platforms — Manage and link CAD data, bills of material, and visualization for a modular EBOM structure and generate options and variants for design verification and visualization Family Management — Plan product families and manage options, choices, and assignments in multi-year product structures Change Management — Manage change of a new option from EBOM to MBOM through process plans and work instructions Augmented Reality — Variant-specific AR design review and visualization and process plan visualization BOM Transformation — Associatively transform EBOM to MBOM and EBOM to SBOM with options and logic Manufacturing Process Planning — Concurrently develop mixed-model assembly process plans Role and Task-Based Access — Access digital product information based on the task and function within an organization BOM Costing Application — Create custom mashups of variant-specific cost tracking and roll-up Interference Detection — Develop variant-specific validations with DMU/interference analysis Visit: https://www.ptc.com/en/products/plm/everyday-innovation/innovator-spotlight-polaris/polaris-plm-demonstrations to check out this great demo series - we hope this gives you some inspiration in your own digital transformation initiatives.  

From Windchill 11.0 M030 onward, 32-bit Windchill Workgroup Manager client is not supported.   It means that installing the Windchill Workgroup Manager on 32-bit Windows OS is not supported and/or it may not be possible. Installing the 32-bit Windchill Workgroup Manager on 64-bit Windows OS is not possible For the detail, please refer to CS265512 - "Discontinuation of support of 32-bit Windows with Windchill Workgroup Manager 11.0 M030.

In this example Change Associations are used to define that a Prototype CN (Soft typed) will have a single Change Task - Prototype Change Task that is defined as the default change task for this type of Change Notice.   With Windchill 11.0 M010 and onwards you can define which Change Task types are allowed and created for a type of Change Notice.  This is allow followed with Change Task templates.  Together this helps to error proof your process and reduce clicks for the user.

With Windchill 11.0 one can use Query Builder queries to further refine search results.  For example refine the search to look at results based upon related objects.   This zip file contains two queries from 11.0 M020   Search with Parts - additional query to find parts that are on a Change Notice at a given state Reference Designator - Find parts on a BOM with a given reference designator.  For example - find a part (eg Name Capacitor*) that has a reference designator C16