PTC (software company)

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PTC Inc.
FormerlyParametric Technology Corporation
Company type Public
Industry CAD/CAM/CAE/ PLM Software/ ALM/ SLM/ IOT
FoundedMay 1985;39 years ago (1985-05)
Headquarters Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Key people
Products
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$2.30 billion (2024)
Increase2.svgUS$588 million (2024)
Increase2.svgUS$376 million (2024)
Total assets Increase2.svgUS$6.38 billion (2024)
Total equity Increase2.svgUS$3.21 billion (2024)
Number of employees
7,501 (2024)
Website ptc.com
Footnotes /references
Financials as of September 30,2024. [1]

PTC Inc. (formerly Parametric Technology Corporation) is an American computer software and services company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was a pioneer in parametric, associative feature-based, solid computer-aided design (CAD) modeling software in 1988, including an Internet-based product for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) in 1998. PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) markets products and services and an Internet of Things (IoT) and augmented reality (AR) platform for partners and developers.

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Products

PTC has six core product families: Creo, Windchill, Mathcad, Integrity, Servigistics, ThingWorx, ServiceMax, Arbortext Editor. The company's technology is primarily used by discrete manufacturers to design, operate and maintain complex products. PTC's technology is also used to connect products to the Internet for the purposes of capturing and analyzing information from them. [2]

PTC Creo

The PTC CAD product provides a set of Computer Aided Design capabilities. PTC CAD is a suite of 2D and 3D product design software used to create, analyze and view product designs. PTC Creo software was released in June 2011 to replace and supersede PTC's products formerly known as Pro/ENGINEER, CoCreate, and ProductView. [3] Other products include:

PTC Windchill

Web-based database software that provides access to product information like MCAD and ECAD data files, process documents, and software engineering information. [5] The PTC Windchill product provides a set of PLM Product Lifecycle Management capabilities and consists of the following products:

PTC Integrity

The PTC Integrity product provides a set of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Systems Engineering capabilities and consists of the following products: [6]

PTC Servigistics

Service lifecycle management SLM software that is used by manufacturers to understand how service planning, customer service, and analysis of returned product data can improve service value over a product's life. [7] PTC SLM productset includes:

ThingWorx

A platform for the rapid development of applications designed for smart, connected sensors, devices, and products – or the Internet of Things. [9]

Vuforia

Vuforia is an Augmented Reality Software Development Kit (SDK) for mobile devices that enables the creation of augmented reality applications.

Kepware

History

1985 - Company founded by Samuel Geisberg, and Mike Payne formerly from Prime Computer, Computervision, and Applicon. [11]
1988 - Steve Walske named CEO. [12] Company shipped Pro/ENGINEER and was considered first to market with parametric modeling design software. [13] This positions PTC as a leader in the CAD industry until the mid-1990s when a new generation of low-cost competitors arrive in the market. [14]
1989 - Initial public offering. (Nasdaq :  PMTC) [15]
1992 - Caterpillar Inc. becomes PTC's largest customer. [14]
1996 - PTC acquires Reflex project modeling and management software technology [16] sold the following year to the Beck Group.
1998 - Company ships Windchill and is considered first to market with internet-based solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). [14]
1999 - PTC announces it has 25,000 customers. Major industries include aerospace, retail/footwear/apparel, automotive, industrial equipment, consumer products, electronics, and high tech. [17]
1999 - Acquired Division Group (Division Ltd, Bristol Uk, Division Inc) Virtual reality - dVision Head Mounted Display & Software [18] [19] [20] [21]

2002 - The company releases Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. [22] This is the first CAD system to support web-based services. [14]
2005 - Acquired Arbortext for technical publishing technology. [23] Acquired Aptavis for retail, footwear and apparel technology. [24]
2006 - Acquired Mathsoft for its engineering calculation software. [25] Acquired ITEDO for its 3D technical illustration software. [26]
2007 - Acquired CoCreate for its direct modeling technology. [27]
2008 - Acquired Synapsis for its performance analytics technology to improve environmental performance of products. [28]
2009 - Acquired Relex Software for its reliability engineering software. [29]
2010 - James E. Heppelmann announced as CEO effective October 1, 2010. [30] Company renames Pro/ENGINEER to PTC Creo and promises the market product design software that is scalable, open, and easy-to-use. [31]
2011 - Acquired 4CS for its warranty, service, support and service parts technology. [32] Acquired MKS for its application lifecycle management technology for all software development processes. [33]
2012 - Acquired Servigistics for its suite of service lifecycle management software. [34]
2013 - Acquired NetIDEAS hosting vendor for more technology deployment options. [35] Acquired Enigma for its ability to deliver technical content to aftermarket service environments. [36] Acquired Internet of Things platform developer ThingWorx for their software applications that connect and track network-enabled products. [37]
2014 - Acquired Axeda Corporation [38]
2014 - Acquired ATEGO Software, a leader in MBSE (model-based systems engineering) tool used in aerospace, transportation, and automotive industries (such as Alstom Transport and Rolls-Royce Defence) [39]

Companies acquired by PTC

Support of STEM Education

In 1999, PTC created a Global Academic Program designed to support educational initiatives in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills. The program aims to partner schools and universities with companies to assist students in developing real-world skills needed for careers in manufacturing, technology, and other STEM jobs. [60] The program also has a direct recruitment program intended to place students in jobs with PTC's commercial customers. [60]

PTC has also been a corporate sponsor of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) since 2008, providing participating students with access to PTC software for use in the FIRST Tech Challenge, FIRST Robotics Competition, FIRST Lego League, and FIRST World Championship. [61]

Awards and accolades

4th Annual Postscapes Internet of Things (IoT) Awards: [62] [63]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Computer-aided design</span> Constructing a product by means of computer

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve communications through documentation, and to create a database for manufacturing. Designs made through CAD software help protect products and inventions when used in patent applications. CAD output is often in the form of electronic files for print, machining, or other manufacturing operations. The terms computer-aided drafting (CAD) and computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) are also used.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CATIA</span> CAD/CAM/CAE commercial software suite

CATIA is a multi-platform software suite for computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE), 3D modeling and product lifecycle management (PLM), developed by the French company Dassault Systèmes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Creo Parametric</span> CAD software

Creo Parametric, formerly known, together with Creo Elements/Pro, as Pro/Engineer and Wildfire, is a solid modeling or CAD, CAM, CAE, and associative 3D modeling application, running on Microsoft Windows.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Product lifecycle</span> Duration of processing of products from inception, to engineering, design & manufacture

In industry, product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its inception through the engineering, design and manufacture, as well as the service and disposal of manufactured products. PLM integrates people, data, processes, and business systems and provides a product information backbone for companies and their extended enterprises.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">SolidWorks</span> Commonly used software for 3D modeling

SolidWorks is a brand within Dassault Systèmes that develops and markets solid modeling computer-aided design, computer-aided engineering, 3D CAD design and collaboration, analysis, and product data management software. It developed the world's first 3D CAD application that ran on a desktop PC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Computervision</span> Early company in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing

Computervision, Inc. (CV) was an early pioneer in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM). Computervision was founded in 1969 by Marty Allen and Philippe Villers, and headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Its early products were built on a Data General Nova platform. Starting around 1975, Computervision built its own "CGP" Nova-compatible 16-bit computers with added instructions optimized for graphics applications and using its own operating system known as Computervision Graphic Operating System (CGOS). In the 1980s, Computervision rewrote their code to operate on Unix-based platforms.

MKS, Inc is a subsidiary of PTC, Inc. It was previously a multinational independent software vendor that was acquired by Parametric Technology Corporation on May 31, 2011. MKS operated in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Systems Administration market segments.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mathcad</span> Computer system for mathematical calculation

Mathcad is computer software for the verification, validation, documentation and re-use of mathematical calculations in engineering and science, notably mechanical, chemical, electrical, and civil engineering. Released in 1986 on DOS, it introduced live editing (WYSIWYG) of typeset mathematical notation in an interactive notebook, combined with automatic computations. It was originally developed by Mathsoft, and since 2006 has been a product of Parametric Technology Corporation.

Pro/DESKTOP is a discontinued computer-aided design (CAD) program from Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), that allowed users to design and model in 3D and create 2D drawings. It can transfer a 3D design into a 2D engineering drawing format and also create photo-realistic views using Album Views. It is part-compatible with Pro/ENGINEER, and uses the Granite kernel, but otherwise is a freestanding CAD system.

Atego was a software development corporation headquartered in the United States and the United Kingdom with subsidiaries in France, Germany, and Italy. Formed from Interactive Development Environments, Inc. and Thomson Software Products, it was called Aonix from 1996 until 2010. It was acquired by PTC in 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Solid Edge</span> Computer-aided design software

Solid Edge is a 3D CAD, parametric feature and synchronous technology solid modeling software. It runs on Microsoft Windows and provides solid modeling, assembly modelling and 2D orthographic view functionality for mechanical designers. Through third party applications it has links to many other Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technologies.

The table below provides an overview of notable computer-aided design (CAD) software. It does not judge power, ease of use, or other user-experience aspects. The table does not include software that is still in development. For all-purpose 3D programs, see Comparison of 3D computer graphics software. CAD refers to a specific type of drawing and modelling software application that is used for creating designs and technical drawings. These can be 3D drawings or 2D drawings.

Creo Elements/View, formerly known as ProductView, is a suite of digital mockup and product visualization software applications from PTC.

MEDUSA, is a CAD program used in the areas of mechanical and plant engineering by manufacturers and Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies. The system's history is closely tied to the beginnings of mainstream CAD and the research culture fostered by Cambridge University and the UK government as well as the resulting transformation of Cambridge into a world-class tech centre in the 1980s.

PTC IntegrityLifecycle Manager is a software system lifecycle management (SSLM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) platform developed by MKS Inc. and was first released in 2001. The software is client/server, with both desktop (java/swing) and web client interfaces. It provides software development organizations with a environment in which they can manage the end-to-end processes of development.

NX, formerly known as "Unigraphics", is an advanced high-end CAD/CAM/CAE, which has been owned since 2007 by Siemens Digital Industries Software. In 2000, Unigraphics purchased SDRC I-DEAS and began an effort to integrate aspects of both software packages into a single product which became Unigraphics NX or NX.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">PTC Creo</span> Family of computer-aided design apps

Creo is a family of Computer-aided design (CAD) apps supporting product design for discrete manufacturers developed by PTC.

Siemens Digital Industries Software is an American computer software company specializing in 3D & 2D Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. The company is a business unit of Siemens, operates under the legal name of Siemens Industry Software Inc, and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

PTC Windchill is a family of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software products that is offered by PTC. In 2004, as part of their expansion in the area of collaboration tools, they arranged having "a hosted version of Windchill to small- and medium-sized customers." As of 2011, products from its marketer, PTC, were being used by over 1.1 million users worldwide.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Onshape</span> Computer-aided design software system

Onshape is a computer-aided design (CAD) software system, delivered over the Internet via a software as a service (SaaS) model. It makes extensive use of cloud computing, with compute-intensive processing and rendering performed on Internet-based servers, and users are able to interact with the system via a web browser or the iOS and Android apps. As a SaaS system, Onshape upgrades are released directly to the web interface, and the software does not require maintenance by the user.

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