Data Management

Control the data that drives your products

Capturing and controlling product information is critical to your company’s success. But once you’ve secured your data, how do you coordinate the use of that information throughout each step of your product lifecycle?

Windchill PDMLink centralizes information sources. By consolidating scattered islands of information, Windchill PDMLink brings order to chaotic change processes and speeds the development of new product configurations. And its unparalleled visualization capabilities ensure that individuals anywhere in the organization are able to review complex product information in meaningful terms.

With Windchill PDMLink, you now have unprecedented control of data throughout your product’s lifecycle. When combined with Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration (ESI) software, you can also control the flow of product information to your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system during key release-to-manufacturing processes.

Product Capabilities:

• Provides a single, secure, source of all types of product information.


• Automates change and organizational-specific views of product information using configurable workflows based upon Institute of Configuration Management best practices.


• Enables fast adoption through interactive visualization and a streamlined, Web-based user interface.


• Seamlessly connects to multiple mechanical and electrical CAD applications, as well as Microsoft Word and enterprise systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning.


• Operates integrally with Windchill ProjectLink for distributed, cross-enterprise collaboration and control over product information.

Customer Benefits:

• Increases productivity by consolidating islands of information for global access of current, accurate product information from a variety of sources.


• Prevents costly design errors by controlling typically chaotic product change management processes.


• Facilitates rapid development of new product configurations through reuse of previously designed product configurations.


• As part of PTC’s Product Development System, Windchill PDMLink substantially reduces complexity, cost and risk of pursuing PLM initiatives.