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    PTC Windchill

    Score7.3 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

    Vuforia Chalk (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVuforia Chalk was a communication tool for the organization’s experts to provide real-time assistance to technicians facing complex or unfamiliar challenges. It combined augmented reality (AR) with real-time communications to connect a field technician with an expert so that the expert can see and discuss the situation in the field. The product was discontinued in 2025, and is no longer available.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
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    Happy with the feature set
    80%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    PTC WindchillVuforia Chalk (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Arena PLM and QMS
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    SAP Integrated Product Development
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    PTC WindchillVuforia Chalk (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    1.0
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    User Testimonials
    PTC WindchillVuforia Chalk (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Discontinued Products
    Best suited for: - Team of remote support is a great visual way to address technical issues; Especially when talking about production environments. - Team of Project developers, a great tool to do tests remotely when multiple people from the customer need to connect, Vuforia Chalk support group calls and differentiates each person based on the color of annotations. Less suited for: - IT teams, which its support is mainly focused on SW issues.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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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    • Remote support for technical issues in the factory environment.
    • Remote support for Factory Acceptance Tests, when traveling is not possible.
    • Remote support for issues in the industry, when traveling is not possible.
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    Cons
    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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    • Web-version used to be a bit limited, in terms of users and features. Is on the roadmap to improve in future versions
    • No subscription version limited to 3 minutes calls.
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    Usability
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    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
    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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    Discontinued Products
    • Savings in mobility (traveling) when performing determined Factory Acceptance Tests.
    • Customers like the possibility of engaging in Augmented Reality Solutions.
    • Remote support is faster and easier, with a visual tool to see and do annotations in the screen.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Vuforia Chalk (discontinued) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Chalk is available on mobile and tablet.Screenshot of Chalk leverages video-calls to share the same view of an issue.Screenshot of Both users can mark up the screen with annotations.Screenshot of Chalk uses advanced augmented reality to make annotations "stick" to the digital 3D environment.Screenshot of Chalk drives expertise at scale.