Integration between Makersite and PTC’s enterprise PLM product, Windchill to accelerate sustainable product development

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PTC and Makersite to accelerate sustainable product development

This article was first released on PTC’s website on 7th January.

We believe that the most sustainable business practices are those that align environmental responsibility with financial success, ensuring long-term adoption and impact. That’s why we’re excited to share the latest step in our journey toward enabling smarter, more sustainable product development: an upcoming integration between PTC’s enterprise PLM product, Windchill, and Makersite, the leading AI-powered platform for product lifecycle intelligence. 

This integration will help manufacturers who are looking to balance product performance, environmental impact, and compliance demands. By bringing together fragmented supplier data and allowing teams to analyze product footprints for parts and BOMs directly within Windchill, this integration will empower product development teams to make informed decisions faster and more efficiently than ever before. 

Why this matters for product development 

Product teams face increasing pressure to deliver innovative designs that meet complex sustainability and compliance targets. Yet, achieving these goals often requires navigating disconnected systems, incomplete data, and time-consuming analysis. Together, PTC and Makersite are working to remove these barriers by combining the power of our Windchill PLM solution with Makersite’s robust data foundation and AI-driven insights. Engineers will no longer need months of effort or specialized expertise to gain these insights. For the first time, they’re available in real time, directly within the tools engineers already use.

Key benefits of the integration 

The Windchill-Makersite integration will unlock new possibilities for product development teams through: 

  • Bi-directional integration: Windchill will provide bill of materials (BOM) data to Makersite and Makersite will return a supply chain and environmental analysis of the BOM. 
  • Unified insights: Compliance, supply chain risk, and life cycle analysis (LCA) use cases will be brought together at the portfolio level via a singular data model within Windchill. 
  • Cradle-to-gate analysis: Analysis and measurement for part and BOM footprints, including supplier hazardous material compliance and carbon footprint. 

By embedding sustainability and compliance insights directly into the design process, we’re helping product development teams to effortlessly prioritise sustainable product development. 

Data-driven insights at the core 

The Makersite Data Foundation, powered by AI and backed by over 140 materials, process, and supplier data databases, will serve as the backbone of this integration. With this resource, product teams will be able to seamlessly access the data they need to optimize designs for sustainability and compliance, all within their existing Windchill workflows. 

As Neil D’Souza, CEO, Makersite shared, “Our mission at Makersite has always been to harness the power of data in making product lifecycle management tools smarter and more intuitive. Partnering with PTC not only amplifies our commitment to this mission, but also enables a collaborative approach that allows us to serve our combined customer base to the absolute highest standard.” 

Advancing sustainable product development together 

PTC are deeply committed to empowering their customers to lead in a rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape. This collaboration will provide manufacturers with the tools and insights they need to innovate confidently and sustainably. 

If you’re ready to embrace a smarter, data-driven approach to product development, the Windchill-Makersite integration will be released in Spring 2025.