Owing to surging technological advancements and automation, the integration of ALM almost becomes a necessity. To remove inefficiencies and any hindrance in the software development lifecycle process, the integration of ALM is of utmost importance. With this, the future of manufacturing is going to change drastically with smart connected products, and smart connected manufacturing – where the products’ role will mean a lot more than its functionality but also include services as much as being integrated with other products or systems. It is common sense that when something works great in the market, people put up shop. So one must think of how to weed out the inexperienced and get value for your buck. PTC, having multiple offices globally, is a technology visionary and the company has thoughtfully created an entire suite of offerings which will be imperative for manufacturers of tomorrow. PTC claims to understand the future of manufacturing no better than any other company today.

A new family of subscription based PTC ALM solutions have been designed by the company to make it easier than ever to equip teams with the targeted capabilities they need to succeed. Powered by the PTC Integrity product family, these complementary solutions deliver greater value for practitioners, managers and the extended product development community. The subscription model and PTC expertise in manufacturing business is what makes the company unique in the market.

PTC, global provider of technology platforms and enterprise applications, provides solutions for smart and connected products, operations and systems. PTC’s enterprise applications serve manufacturers and other businesses that create, connect, operate, analyze and service products. PTC’s platform technologies help companies deliver new value emerging from the Internet of Things. An early pioneer in Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, PTC later expanded into product lifecycle management and service lifecycle management.

Equipping Enterprise Clients with a Blueprint for Successful IoT Projects
ThingWorx-Axeda Integrator unifies the ThingWorx AEP platform with the Axeda connectivity, device cloud and applications, providing a blueprint for successful IoT projects. With an ever-growing number of smart, connected products and sensors, the true promise of IoT is in integrating people, systems and things, and developing new innovative applications that disrupt the way industries work. The ThingWorx-Axeda Integrator unifies the strengths of ThingWorx and Axeda to deliver the most complete IoT solution stack in the industry, providing a unified experience for customers to develop solutions for smart connected products. The ThingWorx-Axeda Integrator enables Axeda machine data to be immediately available in the ThingWorx platform, and Axeda APIs to be accessed from ThingWorx Composer rapid application development tool. The Integrator’s out-of-the-box connector enables users to login into a single system to access data and web services in the Axeda products and streamline solution implementation.

Certifying a future for ThingWorx
PTC has a three part strategy for the future roadmap of the ThingWorx and the company’s solutions that they have to offer.

The first part of the strategy involves that in real-time product connectivity and condition monitoring to the existing PTC lifecycle management solutions as pre-built offerings to customers. PTC will offer true product lifecycle management by not only helping the customers develop the product but connect, monitor, operate and service them as well.

The second part of the strategy is promoting the ThingWorx platform Technology to allow customers develop their own innovative applications that will help differentiate their business and realize strong business value.

The third part is that PTC is developing new solution opportunities enabled by the connectivity and condition monitoring capabilities provided by ThingWorx.

James Heppelmann, CEO, PTC signs off on a positive note, “In terms of technology, we would continue to innovate and come up with new upgrades and updates of CAD products. We have Creo 3.0 which was launched recently and offers a lot of benefits the customers can appreciate.”