SMBs opt PTC Pro/ENGINEER

NEEDHAM, U S: PTC, The Product Development Company has announced that Pro/ENGINEER continues to gain momentum as the parametric CAD/CAM/CAE solution of choice for small and medium businesses (SMBs). SMBs continue to adopt Pro/ENGINEER for its ease-of-use and the powerful capabilities that are required to compete in an ever-changing business environment. As a result, the PTC reseller channel continues to experience upward momentum. PTC reported $195 million in total channel revenue in fiscal 2007, growing 14 percent from the previous year and representing 21 percent of total PTC revenue.

“SMBs face the same complex product development challenges as their larger global counterparts. To be successful in this environment, SMBs must make well informed decisions about their technology investments,” said Matthew McGovern, director, vertical market strategy, marketing, PTC. “SMBs must choose solutions that will not only match their current corporate strategy and product development needs but will also grow with them and help them to achieve future strategy and business initiatives. PTC offers flexible pricing and packaging for Pro/ENGINEER to help SMBs focus on their business and product development objectives and not be disrupted by having to change CAD solutions as they grow their businesses.”

Big Dog Motorcycles, based in Wichita, Kansas, is the leading manufacturer of custom, American V-twin motorcycles. Dissatisfied with its previous CAD solution, the company wanted a single, comprehensive, 3D CAD solution that could handle the complexity of its product and support its development of more innovative products in increasingly shorter timeframes. To meet Big Dog Motorcycles’ requirements for complex surfacing capability and the handling of large assemblies, Sequoia Etc, a PTC Platinum reseller, deployed Pro/ENGINEER Interactive Surface Design (ISDX) and Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Assembly (AAX). Using PTC Solutions has enabled Big Dog Motorcycles to decrease design time for the first fuel tank by 70 percent using Pro/ENGINEER ISDX and promote accurate vehicle-down design working from master models of the entire bike. “With Pro/ENGINEER ISDX, we are able to go through multiple iterations quickly. Pro/ENGINEER AAX automates our CAD model assembly process, reducing errors by allowing all designers to work from the same master model,” said Marvin Bachman, new product development manager, Big Dog. “Pro/ENGINEER is a powerful tool that gives us scalability and enables a top-down design process all in one solution."

PTC provides PLM 

PTC solutions for the small and medium business (SMB) market are designed to provide easy-to-use, yet scaleable 3D CAD/CAM/CAE solutions for manufacturing companies at an affordable price. In addition PTC provides dedicated product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions for the unique product data management and collaboration requirements to the midrange market. PTC currently serves over 35,000 SMB customers in 41 countries through more than 320 Value Added Resellers (VARs).

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