PTC Windchill vs. Teamcenter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PTC Windchill
Score 7.1 out of 10
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PTC 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
Teamcenter
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Teamcenter is a product lifecycle management system designed to help organizations integrate and standardize product development processes across functional silos.N/A
Pricing
PTC WindchillTeamcenter
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PTC WindchillTeamcenter
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
PTC WindchillTeamcenter
Considered Both Products
PTC Windchill
Chose PTC Windchill
It has wonderful features and excellent customised facilities. It has wonderful integration with CREO and ERP. These features make this software my choice.
Chose PTC Windchill
PTC Windchill is a PLM complete system for a larger company. You can connect all areas of your company to a single source data system. It helps solve the age-old question, what is the best way to get the most important information into the hands that need it. It helps organize …
Teamcenter
Chose Teamcenter
I was not part of the evaluation team that decided to use Siemens PLM Software, and I have also not been exposed to many other PLM software packages.

I have previously used PTC Windchill PDM software which I found to be a lot easier to navigate, to use, and to perform tasks in. …
Chose Teamcenter
I felt that Teamcenter fulfilled the needs of most business better than the Windchill PTC and SAP PLM. When comparing the quality of ongoing product support, Teamcenter was the preferred choice in my opinion. For feature updates and roadmaps, I prefer Teamcenter over SAP PLM.…
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PTC WindchillTeamcenter
Small Businesses
PTC Creo
PTC Creo
Score 8.3 out of 10
PTC Creo
PTC Creo
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
PTC Creo
PTC Creo
Score 8.3 out of 10
PTC Creo
PTC Creo
Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
PTC Creo
PTC Creo
Score 8.3 out of 10
PTC Creo
PTC Creo
Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
PTC WindchillTeamcenter
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(5 ratings)
8.2
(24 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(8 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(17 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
PTC WindchillTeamcenter
Likelihood to Recommend
PTC
It provides in-depth product information such as Technical Data, CAD model, 2D drawing, ECR document, ECN document. Integration between windchill and creo is seamless. In addition to it, it provides necessary tools for data transfer, distribution, reviewing, and publishing of product data. Moreover, one can manage the complete product life cycle just on the web.
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Siemens AG
It is a system with good integration capabilities, it is necessary to use it every day to manage the entire life cycle of a product, the data is well established, it has a large number of CAD formats, we share data with great agility, which allows us to work as a team and solve any problem that arises, we keep our designs under control and share with our work team solutions based on data extraction thanks to Teamcenter. I recommend it for small and large companies, it is the ideal solution to maintain a product life cycle with great stability.
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Pros
PTC
  • VIEW PARTLIST.
  • ECN and ECR.
  • Design data storage and smooth access.
  • Workspace management.
  • Assy structure making.
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Siemens AG
  • It is an easy-to-use tool and integrates many capabilities to manage CAD better than any other tool.
  • It is used by many companies with a great global presence and that has generated confidence for us when we decided to try it, the results have been satisfactory.
  • The user interface of this tool is not complex, it is easy to navigate and integrates a lot of functionalities that speed up our work significantly; as well as functionalities such as sectioning, displacing, moving, positioning, transforming, among others that have a lot to do with CAD management.
  • It works via the web through the browser, so it is not necessary to download any application that takes up space and more resources on the computer.
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Cons
PTC
  • Data synchronization with off-server data can be difficult in several cases.
  • It's okay if the WT section and the drawing are distinct, but it shouldn't be there.
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Siemens AG
  • roles definition and authorization can be made more user friendly
  • process schedule definition requires more of IT skills than an actual use case, there can be dashboards to define such processes and it can be automated effectively
  • organization of workflows can be handled better and there should be automated reminders for tasks within the workflow
  • the user interface is pretty outdated, still menu based and has lot of scope for improvement
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Likelihood to Renew
PTC
No answers on this topic
Siemens AG
Because of our current customer needs, we will most likely maintain use of Siemens PLM products for some time. Aside from the initial software cost, we pay for yearly maintenance. Maintaining our yearly maintenance licensing with Siemens, we receive access to all of the latest software releases, as well as premier technical support
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Usability
PTC
No answers on this topic
Siemens AG
As previously mentioned, due to the intense amount of features and modules present in the software, the usability of the software suffers greatly. Many of the features are not used in our context, and many of the modules are not purchased, but the options are still present on the interface leading to a lot of clutter, much of which is never used. The interfaces suffer from a lack of design and tend to feel like a conglomerate of Windows 98 elements.
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Support Rating
PTC
No answers on this topic
Siemens AG
It is an information bank for multinational companies. You can share and find any information or data about projects and different products. You can upload any report or data on any event or process and anyone from anywhere in the world from the same server and you can access it.The latest release of Teamcenter, has added support for three more authoring applications, enabling you to extend PLM document and process support to new users. Customers implementing Microsoft Office Online Server and Teamcenter Office Online Server provide their users with immediate access to content in the Active Workspace universal viewer. Users can check out the file with a single click and start editing in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
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Alternatives Considered
PTC
PTC Windchill is a PLM complete system for a larger company. You can connect all areas of your company to a single source data system. It helps solve the age-old question, what is the best way to get the most important information into the hands that need it. It helps organize your company information.
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Siemens AG
It is best to schedule projects and basic designs and execute a 3D plan with essential changes in details along with product planning, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. It was easy to deploy at the first instance they provide very smooth and easy customer care support which is available 24/7.
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Scalability
PTC
No answers on this topic
Siemens AG
It's a very robust and mature tool. The only thing that would make it better is the have a version embrace the cloud, which I'm sure is underway, but it's complicated, so it will take more time. But when it's done, look out. It will be near-perfect!
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Return on Investment
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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Siemens AG
  • You will definitely get Return on Investment if you know how to use it and where it is helpful most.
  • It helped us very much in developing a product faster and more efficiently.
  • You can make your decision based on reports and DTA of other similar products or based on experience of other plants.
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ScreenShots

Teamcenter Screenshots

Screenshot of Active Workspace, the User Interface (UI) to drive Teamcenter. With no install required, it is a visual UI to navigate through products and processes, with tooltips to guide users along the way.Screenshot of With flexibility in how a BOM is managed and defined, it can provide an up-to-date source of information that eliminates the need for standalone spreadsheets and systems. Teamcenter X provides a flexible BOM management strategy that enables a single, accurate product definition for all who interact with the BOM.Screenshot of Teamcenter X search and analytics capabilities provides a streamlined product lifecycle management (PLM) search experience to help quickly find data. Teamcenter X visually presents search results in logical groups so users can drill down through product structures and relationships.Screenshot of Communicate and express product design intent, and visualize product data in its entirety using 2D and 3D visualization and markup capabilities. The user can also visualize and interrogate Product Manufacturing Information (PMI).Screenshot of Manage documents in conjunction with product development. Integrated PDF for viewing and markup.