What is PTC Windchill?
Windchill offers breakthrough Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) capabilities, unleashing more data to more stakeholders throughout your organization through a single source of truth for product data and processes. With it, your organization will improve product quality by connecting teams directly to live operational data. You’ll also reduce IT burden and overhead while ensuring accessibility and security with both on-premise and cloud deployment options. Windchill is a true end-to-end PLM platform that is IoT-ready.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
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96 Plan to Renew
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76 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love PTC Windchill?
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Inventory and Field Parts Management
Material Requirements Planning
Asset Management
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Ease of Data Integration
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Ease of Implementation
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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PTC Windchill Reviews
Jenish V.
- Role: Public Sector
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2026
Powerful PLM for Complex Engineering
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates PTC Windchill from other similar products?
PTC Windchill is a powerful enterprise-level Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system known for strong version control and change management, deep multi-CAD support, and robust integration with other business systems (like ERP). It manages product data as linked objects (not just files), which improves consistency and traceability across complex engineering processes.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of PTC Windchill is how it handles version and change control. Instead of just storing files, it treats parts and data as connected objects with clear revision histories and workflows. That means teams can clearly see what changed, why it changed, and who approved it, which really cuts down on mistakes and confusion — especially on complex products with many people collaborating.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The thing I dislike most about PTC Windchill is that it can feel complex and heavy to use at first. Because it’s designed for large companies and detailed engineering control, the interface and workflows aren’t always intuitive for beginners or small teams. That means it often requires extra training or support before people can use it effectively, which can slow things down early on.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Windchill is a highly capable PLM that works best when you plan for real company needs, invest in training, and scale it thoughtfully. If you’re prepared for that, it can pay off with stronger control over product data and collaboration across teams.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Santosh Y.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Feb 2026
PTC Windchill Review
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates PTC Windchill from other similar products?
PTC Windchill is very good for customization, and it has very good user interface.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of this product is user interface, very much comfortable for me
What do you dislike most about this product?
I have not felt anything dislike in this product
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I will highly recommend them to use this product, because it is user friendly and it is worth for money
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
RAJAN L.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2026
Good capabilities of management and change flow.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates PTC Windchill from other similar products?
As per my usage, Windchill has more capabilities in change tasks and workflow, review systems and track of the CCNs. I am using it daily to create BOM, accepting tasks and It is very easy to track the flow in windchill. Its a web based system so easily connect anywhere to track the CCNs and tasks, New CCN creation and attributes filling is quite good. I enjoys working with the windchill.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Create a CCN, creating BOM and after releasing from design stage, end to end tracking is possible, and that is my favourite. I can track that CCN is now with the Production person or the drawing is released to the vendor from purchase side. Its a very good for the tracking and data management point of view.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Overall is very good product, but I want it to integrate with excel smoothly so I can track and update my BOM within Excel on real time.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Its a very good, user friendly and web based data management software which is having good workflow management and data management capabilities.
Pros
- Unique Features
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
