Airbus deploys PTC solution

BANGALORE, INDIA: PTC, a Product Development Company, has announced its strategic partnership with Airbus. Its product Windchill has been successfully deployed for content and process management as a key enabler for Airbus to manage product development data and processes within the complexity of its extended enterprise environment.

Additionally, Airbus is likely to use the PTC solution for new aircraft programs in the context of a multi-year partnership in which Airbus and the PTC R&D organization are working closely together on the implementation of the strategic enterprise PLM roadmap.

Airbus' product development strategy is to increasingly utilize Windchill solutions, which makes it easier to integrate and deliver new capabilities in the future and maintain new software versions, said PTC sources.

"Global manufacturing companies are trying to balance the pressure to be more efficient and cost-effective with customer demand for increased innovation, more product variants and shorter time-to-market," said Richard Harrison, president and CEO, PTC, " PTC Windchill has proven to be a successful and reliable solution for managing these highly engineered and enormously complex products."

"Like Airbus, companies of all sizes in all industries are increasingly adopting out-of-the-box PLM solutions from PTC to optimize total cost of ownership and overall project success," said James Heppelmann, executive vice president and chief product officer, PTC. "This type of partnership confirms the strength and maturity of the PTC Product Development System. Our customers gain competitive advantage when they can easily capture and integrate mechanical, electrical and embedded software information around a common bill of material, automate common processes, and enable collaboration between different departments and globally distributed teams."