Connecting Engineering and Commercial Excellence for Complex Products

Configit and PTC enable manufacturers to manage product complexity by connecting Windchill (PLM) with Configit Ace® (CLM - Configuration Lifecycle Management approach), creating a consistent digital thread across the lifecycle.

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Partnership

Certified Integration: Windchill+ and Configit Ace®

The Configit Ace® and Windchill® integration is a certified partner solution, ensuring that manufacturers will only offer what can be manufactured and design what can be sold.

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Sales Channels with 100% Aligned Data

• Ensure that only deliverable configurations are sold
• Remove costly errors

Avoid Over-engineering

• Stop designing products that have limited or no market demand

Continue Working in Familiar Systems

• Domain experts continue working in their familiar or preferred systems to define the right options and rules

Create Shared Source of Truth

• Now it’s possible to validate the combined model
• Ensure no errors
• Faster time to market

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Whitepaper

Integrating PTC Windchill and Configit Ace®

Discover how PTC Windchill and Configit Ace® work together to connect engineering and configuration data, align product logic across the lifecycle, and create a trusted foundation for configurable products.

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The Challenge

Bridging the Gap Between Engineering and Sales

Disconnected systems create misalignment between product design and commercial execution. Engineering defines complexity, but downstream teams struggle to interpret and sell it accurately, due to:

• Explosion in product variants
• Manual translation from engineering to sales
• Increased risk of errors and delays

Solution Explained

Digital Thread: A Connected Flow of Configuration Data

As configurable products change over time, each configuration needs to be recorded and made available across the enterprise.

For Engineering, that is the “as-designed” configuration; for Sales, the “as-ordered,” Manufacturing, “as-built,” and Service, the “as-delivered” and “as-serviced,”

A digital configuration thread, therefore, is the collection and connection of these individual configurations into one shared product model, accessible throughout the organization, enabling manufacturers to trace back to understand how and why a certain product has changed over time.

digital thread - A Connected Flow of Configuration Data

Avoid Costly Errors and Delays

Ensure that what is offered can actually be manufactured

Avoid Over-engineering

Ensure that what is designed can actually be sold

Unlock Value with End-to-end Digital Continuity

With Configit Ace®, manufacturers can layer in commercial and sales intent, then drive that data to downstream systems, enabling robust data governance to manage complexity at scale.


Source: CLM Summit 2025 Recording

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Business Outcomes

Measurable Impact Across the Product Lifecycle

90%

Reduction in sales configuration time

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Errors

90%

Faster time to market

40%

Faster order handling

The Value of
Configit + PTC

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With Configit Ace®, we can now guarantee a Shared Source of Truth. This enables our product management organization to manage the complete product catalog in one central tool.

Peter van Meurs, Product Owner – CfLM, Philips

See It in Action:
How Philips Built a CLM Backbone with PTC and Configit


Source: Webinar on One Backbone, One Truth with Configit, PTC and Philips

PTC and Configit’s Joint Resources

  • Whitepaper

    PLM+CLM: Supercharge Productivity in the Product Lifecycle of Global Manufacturers

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  • CLM Summit 2025

    Mastering Customization Complexity: How to build a digital thread for configurable products with PTC and Configit

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  • Webinar

    From Engineering to Sales: Unlocking Value with End-to-End Digital Continuity

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