ThingWorx Navigate

What is PTC ThingWorx Navigate?

ThingWorx Navigate, formerly known as PTC Navigate, is a suite of product lifecycle management (PLM) apps specifically developed for PTC Windchill users where the non-expert, casual Windchill user can easily access and navigate through the product data they need to do their job.

The ease of use that comes with the simple interface on ThingWorx Navigate PLM apps helps users to finish projects faster and disrupt co-workers less which ultimately speeds up the product life cycle, time-to-market, and boosts productivity within your organization.

Utilize Your Data More Efficiently

ThingWorx Navigate enables stakeholders throughout the organization to easily access the rich data stored within the organization’s enterprise system – no training required. With out-of-the-box (OOTB) role and task-based apps that provide contextualized information as well as the ability to easily customize apps to meet organizational needs, ThingWorx Navigate helps users spend less time searching for data and more time doing what they do best: developing, manufacturing, selling, and supporting world class products.

Why ThingWorx Navigate

Provide non-experts with simplified access to PLM content and workflows
With its simplified user interface, users are up and running quickly, with little to no training
Flexible deployment options include the PTC cloud or on-premise

In addition to PLM data, provide a variety of information from other sources, such as requirements, analytics results, drawings and 3D models
Rapidly create job-specific, custom apps that include reusable components and can utilize “live” content from Windchill and other IT systems without the need to replicate the data

Because it’s a web-based application, you can seamlessly install and upgrade
Experience product information in multiple formats – whether on a screen or in augmented reality

Key Product Features: Role, Task-Based and Custom PLM Apps

View and compare drawings to quickly and easily identify differences
Simplified tailoring of standard apps for role-based configurations.

View and download document attachments/secondary documents
View models in 3D, including playback controls for viewing animations and sequences, cross selection capabilities using attributes, and support for local language

Broaden participation in digital change management workflows
Rapid application development environment with reusable components and Thingworx Flow connectors that combine data from multiple systems.

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It’s your product data. What do you want to do with it?

Product data is your organization’s most valuable asset. Decisions made with this information can greatly impact your business, including product safety and reliability, speed of innovation, on-time and on–budget delivery, and more.

Why ThingWorx Navigate?

Most enterprise software tools are inaccessible to a broad range of users due to costly licensing, intensive training, and the time it takes to integrate and customize them. Stakeholders who aren’t experts often access and exchange data from these systems of record using disconnected processes and tools. These workarounds create a new instance of the data that is no longer under change control, so subsequent updates to the system of record make the workaround, and any decisions made with it, at best irrelevant–and at worst inaccurate.

The democratization of product data:

ThingWorx Navigate is a revolutionary new set of applications from PTC that let more stakeholders across a company access and impact product data sourced from multiple systems of record in a simple, role-based interface. With a modern user experience that is as easy to use as a smartphone app, ThingWorx Navigate is ideal for any stakeholder throughout a product’s lifecycle that needs access to the latest, most accurate information to drive critical decisions. ThingWorx Navigate integrates directly with enterprise systems of record while delivering a highly intuitive user experience: ensuring accuracy, confidence, and the highest degree of fidelity to your product’s data.

Benefits of ThingWorx Navigate:

Connect to product data easily for…

Accurate decision-making: broad visibility into systems of record.
Higher product quality: decisions and actions driven by up-to-date information.
New insights: relevant data from multiple systems delivered in context.
Greater value: extend existing technologies to more users with better adoption.

Experience your data in new ways that are…

Intuitive: training-free, accessible, and modern UI.
Role-based: contextualize data from many sources based on the user’s needs.
Faster time-to-value: deploy in hours or days, not weeks or months.
Cohesive: provide one, familiar user experience across multiple systems.

Build new user experiences quickly for apps that are…

Extensible: to new data sources, new systems, and new user experiences.
Agile: deploy new UIs quickly–“try fast; fail fast”.
Seamless: data source changes do not impact the user.
Flexible: sources can be on the cloud, on premises, SAAS, or mixed.

ThingWorx Navigate apps include:

View Drawing
View Part Properties
View Part List
View Part Structure
View/Download Design Files
View & Measure in 3-D
View Requirements

Navigating PLM with ThingWorx Navigate

A suite of ThingWorx Navigate apps make PLM data housed in Windchill, PTC’s product lifecycle management solution, available to more of the enterprise in a highly consumable way, to extend the value of PLM to more product lifecycle stakeholders. By democratizing PLM data in this way, teams who impact the product throughout its lifecycle can easily access the real-time, change-managed, single source of truth for product knowledge, ensuring that every stakeholder involved in the product lifecycle is leveraging accurate information for their decisions.

Navigating requirements with ThingWorx Navigate:

ThingWorx Navigate’s “View Requirements” app provides a real-time window into evolving product and software requirements maintained in Integrity Lifecycle Manager. It’s a fast, easy way to share rich requirements information with all product stakeholders, to help ensure that everyone is working towards shared objectives.