What is SaaS PLM software?
SaaS PLM software takes traditional enterprise PLM with its comprehensive capabilities and optimizes it with all the benefits of cloud computing and services. Users of SaaS PLM enjoy the same configurable workflows, change management processes, and BOM capabilities, alongside zero downtime upgrades, frictionless adoption of new modules, and built-in security. Windchill+ is the first of its kind: a feature rich PLM solution delivered entirely as a service for improved multi-enterprise collaboration and a fully connected digital thread.
Future of SaaS PLM Software: Delivering Industries’ Most Sought-After Goals
IDC forecasts a surge in adoption of SaaS PLM Software over the next few years driven by its unique ability to digitally transform product development and manufacturing processes. Businesses are relying on SaaS to redefine the customer experience and accelerate the creation of innovative products with a more agile, secure way of working. In this InfoBrief, IDC supports these and other claims with recent research, including global surveys on product innovation, SaaS adoption, success factors, and outcomes.
“SaaS PLM is the key to product development in a disrupted, global economy—it simplifies collaboration and streamlines information to improve design, manufacturing, and support processes.” – IDC
Advantages of Winchill+ SaaS PLM Software
The best way to describe the sum impact of SaaS PLM software is “speed”. Feature rich PLM delivered as SaaS offers many benefits beyond the capacity of traditional PLM software architectures and deployments. These benefits add value to users, administrators, and projects across engineering domains, divisions, suppliers, customers, and regulators. Windchill+ simplifies and accelerates business, administrative, and functional processes, leading to faster time-to-market, greater innovation, and improved quality.
Accelerated Time-to-Capability
With a few clicks you can expand functionality to meet shifting needs or adopt new features to explore opportunities. Zero downtime upgrades mean software deployment will never again interfere with innovation.
Embedded Best Practices
Replace tangled customization with out-of-the-box features and extensive configurability. With built-in best practices and standards, you’ll spend less time validating software and integrations and more time designing and creating value.
Ready-to-go Day One
Eliminate system configuration challenges leveraging a full stack offering with a secure, established infrastructure that is always on the latest version. Increase user and capability adoption and expansion to save time, money, and reduce risk
Introducing Windchill+
In the 2000’s, PTC redefined enterprise collaboration with Windchill PLM. This groundbreaking software introduced new levels of connectivity and integration, out-of-the-box functionality, an optimized user experience, and the potential to enable collaboration across global teams. Now PTC is revolutionizing collaboration again with Windchill+, which delivers all the convenience of SaaS today, while laying the groundwork for future innovation across the digital thread.
Success with SaaS PLM Software: Top Windchill+ Features
Utilize a combination of automated tools, streamlined self-service capabilities, and subsumption of many administrative tasks. Simplify or eliminate deployments and updates, vaulting, cloning/re-hosting, change management, security, and more.
With Windchill+, upgrades and updates no longer require lengthy and complex implementation processes. Zero downtime upgrades that are always compatible with your Windchill+ instance means you always have access to the most recent cutting-edge capabilities and quality of life improvements. With PTC handling these product enhancements, your administrators and users can focus on adding value.
Windchill+ shares the same codebase as Windchill, with all its award-winning features, functions, and ease-of-use. Rapidly expand users with capabilities such as enterprise change and configuration management, manufacturing engineering, MBSE/MBE, quality, risk, and compliance management, requirements and validation, and more.
IT teams can rest assured that moving from an on-premises PLM solution won’t compromise performance or stability, in fact, it improves it. Windchill+ offers frictionless provisioning and on-boarding, SSO support, on-demand transparent back-up and restore, decreased bug resolution time, and is always on the latest version with real-time product upgrades.
Enable secure interoperability across heterogeneous systems and applications with standards-based integration & data flow (OSLC, REST, STEP, etc.) to reduce the risk of unexpected third-party costs and challenges.
Rapidly and securely onboard users outside of your firewall. Access permissions for suppliers, customers, or regulators can be spun up quickly and users can immediately login and add value from anywhere, anytime—regardless of their geography.
Windchill+ SaaS PLM Software Packaging Overview
Windchill + significantly increases the value a company realizes with PLM by accelerating enterprise adoption and maturity. Rapidly expand PLM beyond core engineering with persona-based packages for the core and non-expert user.
| Users: | Engineering | Manufacturing | Quality | Service | Non-Expert Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View | |||||
| Windchill+ View access via web browser | – | – | – | – | |
| Search/view all Windchill content | – | – | – | – | |
| Download ANY non-CAD content | – | – | – | – | |
| CreoView Lite | – | – | – | – | |
| Participate in collaboration projects | – | – | – | – | |
| Access 9 Navigate View Apps | – | – | – | – | |
| Contribute | |||||
| All View functionality | – | – | – | – | |
| Windchill+ Contribute access via web browser | – | – | – | – | |
| Document creation | – | – | – | – | |
| Issue identification | – | – | – | – | |
| Reviewer/approver access | – | – | – | – | |
| Acess 2 Contribute apps | – | – | – | – | |
| Author | |||||
| All View & Contribute functionality (minus Apps) | | | | | – |
| Document management | | | | | – |
| Change process management | | | | | – |
| Project plan authoring | | | | | – |
| Dynamic document management & integrations | | | | | – |
| Markup collaboration (including PDF) | | | | | – |
| IP protection (security labels) | | | | | – |
| Document classification | | | | | – |
| Publishing capacity for Office documents | | | | | – |
| Storage allocation | | | | | – |
If you’d like to add onto the base author capabilities listed above, the following role-based bundles are available:
| Users: | Engineering | Manufacturing | Quality | Service | Non-Expert Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design Engineering Lite | |||||
| Create/manage designs in MCAD | | – | – | – | – |
| Publishing capacity for CAD | | – | – | – | – |
| Increased storage allocation | | – | – | – | – |
| Design Engineering | |||||
| All the functionality of Design Engineering Lite | | – | – | – | – |
| Part creation & classification | | – | – | – | – |
| Supplier part management / sourcing | | – | – | – | – |
| BOM structure | | – | – | – | – |
| Product Engineering | |||||
| Part creation & classification | | – | – | – | – |
| Supplier part management / sourcing | | – | – | – | – |
| BOM Structure | | – | – | – | – |
| Advanced Product Design | |||||
| Manage complex, configurable product platforms | | – | – | – | – |
| BOM transformation | | – | – | – | – |
| Manufacturing | |||||
| Part creation & classification | – | | – | – | – |
| Supplier part management / sourcing | – | | – | – | – |
| BOM structure | – | | – | – | – |
| Create associative manufacturing BOMs | – | | – | – | – |
| Author manufacturing process plans | – | | – | – | – |
| Deliver work instructions associated with process plans | – | | – | – | – |
| Quality Management | |||||
| Manage quality control processes related to product design | – | – | | – | – |
| Create and manage CAPA, non-conformances, complaints | – | – | | – | – |
| Document control & training tracking | – | – | | – | – |
| Part & BOM management (including classification) | – | – | | – | – |
| Audit Management | |||||
| Deliver quality control documentation | – | – | | – | – |
| Manage quality audit processes | – | – | | – | – |
| Part & BOM management (including classification) | – | – | | – | – |
| Service Information | |||||
| Manage tech pubs & part associativity | – | – | – | | – |
| Author multi-language documents | – | – | – | | – |
| Service information management | – | – | – | | – |
| Part & BOM management (including classification) | – | – | – | | – |
| Service Parts | |||||
| All ‘Service Information’ functionality | – | – | – | | – |
| Author corporate parts catalog | – | – | – | | – |
| Create associative service BOMs | – | – | – | | – |
| Automate generation of parts lists | – | – | – | | – |
| Author corporate parts catalog | – | – | – | | – |
| Create parts list illustrations | – | – | – | | – |
| Service parts creation | – | – | – | | – |
Windchill+ SaaS PLM Software Packaging Overview
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