PTC Announces Windchill ProductPoint - SharePoint Solution for Product Development

PTC announced Windchill ProductPoint, its new solution for capturing, handling, and sharing product development information. With Windchill ProductPoint, PTC will enable SharePoint to understand CAD (computer- aided-design) data, increasing the reach of the familiar SharePoint user experience, and enhancing its usage across broader product development teams. For OEMs and suppliers, a future release of Windchill ProductPoint is planned to support the sharing of information among other Windchill-based systems. Windchill ProductPoint benefits companies of all sizes, providing smaller companies with a steppingstone into product lifecycle management (PLM) and giving larger companies with a SharePoint strategy the ability to extend their product development system to broader user communities. Highlights of Windchill ProductPoint include: Multi-CAD SharePoint services offer basic functions for managing Pro/ENGINEER data as well as other CAD file formats, their structures, and inter-relationships, ProductView services enable visual product interaction with 3D thumbnails, visualization of lightweight product viewables, and Web- based markup tools for redlining designs, Visual navigation and interrogation of files dependencies, Windchill Portlets present Windchill information (e.g. task lists) to users in a familiar SharePoint portal, and Windchill PLM Connector enables sharing of CAD data across Windchill-based systems in support of customer or supplier collaboration, or internal collaboration among different divisions.