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Digital Manufacturing Solutions

Fully optimized factories are elusive targets. Smart manufacturing solutions can unlock new levels of innovation, productivity, and growth through various continuous improvement strategies. Discover why continuous improvement is critical and listen to how our customers are solving their challenges.<br /> <br /> <img alt="" src="https://ptc-p-001.sitecorecontenthub.cloud/api/public/content/1d40790996ce4fc3beb93bb97bd39f38?v=2ae96255" style="width: 500px; height: 250px;" />

Build competitive advantage at scale


According to IDC, industrial companies are prioritizing digital manufacturing investments, yet many struggle to scale because their business goals are poorly defined. PTC’s digital manufacturing solutions are prescriptive, scalable, and proven to deliver maximum business impact.

Digital manufacturing: Turning challenge into opportunity

Global competition bites into margins and complicates your supply chain. Customers demand faster delivery of tailored solutions that require more complexity. Meanwhile, skilled experts are exiting the workforce. The industry is racing to adopt industry 4.0 practices and technologies to solve these challenges. How are you using digital manufacturing solutions to keep pace and remain competitive?



Reduce operational costs

Use connected monitoring and analytics to cut labor, materials, and overhead costs by up to 12%.

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Maximize revenue growth

Boost factory output by up to 30%, by cutting lead times, lot sizes, and your time to market.

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Increase asset efficiency

Improve asset utilization by up to 50% by reducing changeover times, unplanned downtime, and your WIP inventory.

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Harness continuous improvement to boost your competitive advantage

Real-time problem identification, root cause analysis, and closed-loop performance management are essential for continuous improvement. Explore how PTC´s solutions for manufacturing can revolutionize your operations.

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Plant benchmarking

Improve data collection and analysis across plants, equipment, lines, and more. Get a clearer picture of performance and make more meaningful improvements.

Digital workforce productivity

Adopt technology to empower your most valuable asset: the frontline employees on your factory floor. Supercharge your workforce for massive efficiency gains.

Improving OEE

Digital manufacturing can discover previously unmeasured KPIs to find—and solve—hidden inefficiencies. Minimize avoidable CAPEX, prevent downtime, and accelerate changeover.

Industrial connectivity

Access, optimize, and aggregate data from disparate legacy sensors and equipment to power digital manufacturing initiatives.

Extend digital thread into the factory

Begin manufacturing in parallel with engineering and remain updated with access and visibility to the latest design changes. Accelerate production and reduce non-quality costs via a seamless digital thread.

Plant benchmarking Improve data collection and analysis across plants, equipment, lines, and more. Get a clearer picture of performance and make more meaningful improvements. Digital workforce productivity Adopt technology to empower your most valuable asset: the frontline employees on your factory floor. Supercharge your workforce for massive efficiency gains. Improving OEE Digital manufacturing can discover previously unmeasured KPIs to find—and solve—hidden inefficiencies. Minimize avoidable CAPEX, prevent downtime, and accelerate changeover. Industrial connectivity Access, optimize, and aggregate data from disparate legacy sensors and equipment to power digital manufacturing initiatives. Extend digital thread into the factory Begin manufacturing in parallel with engineering and remain updated with access and visibility to the latest design changes. Accelerate production and reduce non-quality costs via a seamless digital thread.

Real-world results with digital manufacturing

PTC has partnered with leading manufacturers from across the globe to transform their operations using digital manufacturing solutions. Read their stories here.

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Moving from paper to glass for real-time data visibility

Discover how Ecolab used the ThingWorx IIoT Platform and Rockwell’s operational technology experience to uncover hidden issues in manufacturing plants, including downtime.

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Driving efficiency at Tofaş with ThingWorx and DVM

Discover how the implementation of ThingWorx and DVM has enabled Tofaş to experience a great increase in efficiency, safety, savings, and energy optimization.

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Rockwell Automation

Learn how Rockwell Automation continues to optimize operations and increase workforce efficiency

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Electrolux

Electrolux unlocked insights by using industrial connectivity to access and harness factory data from the shop floor.

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CIMC

CIMC enabled predictive maintenance by leveraging PTC’s industrial IoT solutions to lower plant operating costs and reduce energy consumption.

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Volvo

Leveraging a suite of PTC solutions for its own digital transformation, Volvo Group aims to improve workforce productivity, reduce training time, and increase quality control.

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Knorr-Bremse

Knorr-Bremse uses ThingWorx to transfer changes from product development to every workstation in production in a paperless, quick and error-free manner.

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Power your manufacturing solutions with PTC products

Digital Performance Management

A closed-loop problem solving solution, Digital Performance Management helps increase revenue by reducing operating costs, increasing service levels, and regaining lost production hours.

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ThingWorx

Trusted and recommended by industry experts, ThingWorx offers all the IIoT capabilities to quickly build and scale your manufacturing solutions.

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Kepware

An industry-leading industrial connectivity software, Kepware connects to legacy and disparate sensors and equipment on the factory floor to gather data for operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) factory transformation initiatives.

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Vuforia

With market-leading AR technology and an extensive application suite, Vuforia has become the go-to choice for manufacturers seeking to transform their operations.

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Tune in to The Lean Manufacturer podcast

The Lean Manufacturer podcast speaks with industry experts who share their insights on various critical manufacturing topics.

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Digital manufacturing resources

Ready for your digital transformation journey?

In Frost & Sullivan’s white paper you’ll learn why it’s crucial for industrial companies to choose the right digital partner to remain competitive.

In Frost & Sullivan’s white paper you’ll learn why it’s crucial for industrial companies to choose the right digital partner to remain competitive.

Charting the course of digital transformation

Discover a roadmap to manufacturing success in this infographic.

Discover a roadmap to manufacturing success in this infographic.

Accelerating performance management in manufacturing

Learn how Manufacturing Throughput as a Service (MTaaS) can improve your business outcomes. Listen to experts from EY, Dell Technologies, and PTC.

Learn how Manufacturing Throughput as a Service (MTaaS) can improve your business outcomes. Listen to experts from EY, Dell Technologies, and PTC.

Confidently prioritize manufacturing productivity improvements

Discover how to select the best solution to identify, quantify, prioritize, and track the success of manufacturing productivity improvements.

Discover how to select the best solution to identify, quantify, prioritize, and track the success of manufacturing productivity improvements.

Driving manufacturing efficiency with digital performance management

Learn how organizations use ThingWorx Digital Performance Management to recover lost production hours and achieve double-digit impact at speed and scale.

Learn how organizations use ThingWorx Digital Performance Management to recover lost production hours and achieve double-digit impact at speed and scale.

Are you ready for your digital transformation journey?

Discover how digitalization is driving the fourth industrial revolution by transforming businesses and creating value throughout the entire industry.

Discover how digitalization is driving the fourth industrial revolution by transforming businesses and creating value throughout the entire industry.

The key to manufacturing digital transformation

Digital transformation projects have a better chance of success if efforts can be simplified and standardized. Discover how to create a foundation that will set your digital transformation projects on the path to success with industrial connectivity.

Digital transformation projects have a better chance of success if efforts can be simplified and standardized. Discover how to create a foundation that will set your digital transformation projects on the path to success with industrial connectivity.

The Connectivity Journey: Building data visibility across OT and IT

Industrial connectivity is top of mind for manufacturing leaders because it brings IT and OT visibility to industrial data that is critical to meet digital transformation requirements.

Industrial connectivity is top of mind for manufacturing leaders because it brings IT and OT visibility to industrial data that is critical to meet digital transformation requirements.

Enterprise Connectivity: Unleashing the power of data in digital transformation

Industrial connectivity plays a pivotal role in enabling the Internet of Things (IoT) within the enterprise, offering a pathway to unlock valuable data insights and drive digital transformation.

Industrial connectivity plays a pivotal role in enabling the Internet of Things (IoT) within the enterprise, offering a pathway to unlock valuable data insights and drive digital transformation.

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