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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    NI Multisim

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ANational Instruments offers Multisim, a simulation application for engineers, designers, and educators.

    $1,869

    per user

    PTC Windchill

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/APTC offers Windchill, the company's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform that includes BOM (a digital bill of materials) for cost and product quality control via parts-centric source of truth, dynamic and updated product change and configuration management to ensure up-to-date product information, industry standards and requirements validation and control, and role-based data access among other features.N/A
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    NI MultisimPTC Windchill
    Editions & Modules
    Base
    $1,869.00
    per user
    Full
    $3,267.00
    per user
    Professional
    $4,838.00
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    NI MultisimPTC Windchill
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    NI MultisimPTC Windchill
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    User Ratings
    NI MultisimPTC Windchill
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    User Testimonials
    NI MultisimPTC Windchill
    Likelihood to Recommend
    NI (National Instruments)
    For simulation of electrical and electronics circuits either in transient or normal mode or various other modes. To obtain plots between various circuit parameters and elements and also check values of various output parameters based on input parameters. It also has various examples in the library which make it easier to modify few params instead of designing circuits from scratch
    Incentivized
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    PTC
    This product is perhaps typical of something that seems as though it was conceived in the 90's and has seen various appendages since, none of which do their job particularly well. Nothing in this system is efficient and all its processes demand a huge, close to maximum possible level of human effort. No doubt many companies, such as my own are spend huge amounts of money for the debateable privilege of tripling their employees workload and making them as inefficient as possible to make the administration of the system seem more important than it actually is.
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    Pros
    NI (National Instruments)
    • It has various components available
    • Real time simulation of various circuits
    • Various types of simulations for a single circuits to obtain plots and values
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    PTC
    • It is compatible with all devices and operating systems such as web-based, Android, and iOS.
    • It allows user to customize its interface based on their requirement.
    • It provides a digital part list with all required data like Part Name, Part No., Weight, Material, etc.
    • Searching data is so facile that one can get data without any trouble.
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    Cons
    NI (National Instruments)
    • It's good but sometimes error during simulation won't be more specific
    • Has wide range of elements but some specifications aren't available
    • Nothing
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    PTC
    • Extract partlist should be directly in Excel because everyone time we have to convert it to Excel.
    • ECN report formatting need improvement.
    • Many times part no doesn't go to ERP even after ERP released state.
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    Usability
    NI (National Instruments)
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    PTC
    Windchill is an extremely verbose and unintuitive system, with masses of unnecessary duplication of fields, convoluted workflows, unclear roles and terrible search capabilities. It is one of the worst software products I have ever seen to propose solving something that is actually factors quicker to do with manual writing and paper work
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    NI (National Instruments)
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    PTC
    Windchill is having a great market share & its UI is simple & neat, integration with Creo & ERP system. These are the main reasons of considering Windchill by our organization.
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    Return on Investment
    NI (National Instruments)
    • Prevent components from being burnt out
    • Better design of circuits
    • Real time testing
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    PTC
    • Saves time as all of our drawings and business instructions and procedures are housed in a central location with check-in/out capability and version control.
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