A Practical Architecture for Integrating PTC Windchill+ and Configit Ace®
How can manufacturers connect engineering product data in PTC Windchill+ with commercial, manufacturing, and sales processes?
This whitepaper explains how PTC Windchill+ and Configit Ace® integration can create a shared configuration foundation across the enterprise. It shows how engineering knowledge can be reused across ERP, sales, manufacturing, and service while keeping product configuration data aligned and validated.
What you’ll learn:
• How Windchill+, ERP, and Configit Ace® work together in a reference architecture for product configuration.
• Why PLM alone is not enough for enterprise-wide product configuration, and how Windchill+ and Configit Ace® extend engineering knowledge across ERP, sales, manufacturing, and service.
•How Configit Ace® creates a Shared Source of Truth from engineering, commercial, and manufacturing data.
• How Configure-to-Order (CTO) supports validated, production-ready configurations.
•How Engineer-to-Order (ETO+) handles non-standard customer requirements.
• How engineering reuse can expand the standard configurable product offering.
•How configuration data can be validated across systems to identify conflicts, dependencies, and change impacts.
The whitepaper also includes a reference architecture for PTC Windchill+, ERP, Configit Ace®, and downstream sales applications, plus CTO and ETO+ process flows.
