Where is Windchill at with AI integrations?

[avillanueva]

I've seen the presentations for the last PTC/User conference and what is online. AI is making its way into search, requirements management, service and parts classification. Any place else? Also, does anyone have an idea when some of this will be productized (what version)? I understand initially, the projects were closed betas. Will all of this necessitate cloud usage or Windchill+?

[HJ1]

As your topic contains "integrations", in those presentations, has there been anything about what I read from the doc "Licensing basis for Windchill and FlexPLM products" dated May 2025:

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Without limiting the foregoing, without express written permission from PTC, the Customer is expressly prohibited from using (directly or
via an application created by Customer or a third party) the application program interface of the Licensed Product to extract data from the
Licensed Product for the purpose of training, fine‐tuning, or creating an artificial intelligence (AI) model or building a data source such as a
Retrieval Augment Generation (RAG), whether for internal use or external distribution.  In the event that Customer receives such permission,
all users of any application(s) that leverage such AI model or data source must have a Registered User license to the Licensed Product,
regardless of whether such users in fact access the Licensed Product directly (and in the event Customer acts in contravention of the
foregoing restriction, the requirement to assign a Registered User license to such users shall not be PTC’s sole remedy).

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[avillanueva]

Not quite what I was asking. I was looking to see if what PTC was showing at the conference and early demos would be productized at some point. Its been a year and at the pace this is all moving, its an eternity.  Interesting licensing legal statement. I had not read that. Seems like they are trying to prevent a customer from slapping an AI agent on Windchill and using it to respond to queries from non-Windchill users. That would certainly be a license violation on its face. I guess that did not stop Google from scraping the entire web.

[dheidebrecht]

There is a great article here: How AI Agents Are Accelerating Digital Transformation in Industry | PTC

[avillanueva]

Thanks, I read that and that is what got me started. It was dated almost a year ago. There was some interesting demos like Windchill AI Search shown. The big question is when that will be seen in real product, what version, and what other things are needed to set that up?  At that time, it was just futures stuff.