PTC Windchill vs. TrackWise

It provides in-depth product information such as Technical Data, CAD model, 2D drawing, ECR document, ECN document. Integration between windchill and creo is seamless. In addition to it, it provides necessary tools for data transfer, distribution, reviewing, and publishing of product data. Moreover, one can manage the complete product life cycle just on the web.

Trackwise is an excellent tool to track activities and action items. We specifically used it to track quality management systems such as NCRs and CAPAs and include action steps and sign-offs. I would not use it to track projects that have significant data uploads.

Incentivized

• Part Number Creation, BOM Creation
• Engineering Change Notices
• Release of part numbers in to ERP system
• check in/check out of CAD & 2D data
• Document control & management

Incentivized

• It has a great structure for child-parent relations. You can easily review your record and also the child records associated with the parent record.
• Ability to create customized dashboards for your queries.
• User friendly interface and ability to customize desktop layout.
• Ability to create and customize reports in the required file type.
• Capability to link records.
• Easy to define user roles and group categories for user permissions.

• Extract partlist should be directly in Excel because everyone time we have to convert it to Excel.
• ECN report formatting need improvement.
• Many times part no doesn't go to ERP even after ERP released state.

• Query was limited and slow

Incentivized

The user experience is great and I would recommend other's to use trackwise for it's customization flexibility

Windchill is an extremely verbose and unintuitive system, with masses of unnecessary duplication of fields, convoluted workflows, unclear roles and terrible search capabilities. It is one of the worst software products I have ever seen to propose solving something that is actually factors quicker to do with manual writing and paper work

It is easy to use. Easy navigation. Flexible to customize. Real-time analytics help to track the record cycle time. Can be used by multiple departments for various business processes.

I did not interact with the support team.

Incentivized

It can be compared directly to any CMS at the base level. SharePoint/Drupal are in this category and support document versioning, search, collections. Furthermore, certainly in SharePoint you can build flows and manage system logic through power automate, SharePoint lists and power apps. Furthermore, it is possible to assign a multitude of roles/groups to SharePoint. SharePoint can present documents in-frame, it can search and so on. Where Windchill proposes to improve upon the CMS is in providing the roles and flows, in this case, specific to a QMS. Unfortunately it does not include the grass roots level build of something like SimplerQMS which incorporates even the generation of the required documents in phase through templates and suggestions. Windchill proposes to address the niche problem of an eQMS, without really providing anything that is implied by the "e" for electronic, meaning faster and more efficient. No, everything in Windchill is manual, intensive and convoluted. I don't have a good word to say about it.

Trackwise is better than Arena. You need sign-offs before moving to the next step. While in Arena, you can complete the whole task and request sign off later. Not sure which is better for everyone, but I prefer to sign off before moving to the next step.

Incentivized

• Saves time as all of our drawings and business instructions and procedures are housed in a central location with check-in/out capability and version control.

Incentivized

• Got rid of paper tracking.
• Saves time by easily searching data base.

Incentivized