PTC Brings AI-Powered PLM to Hannover Messe 2025

PTC is previewing its Windchill AI product lifecycle management (PLM) assistant, a generative AI-powered PLM offering, at Hannover Messe 2025. Windchill AI leverages all product data stored in Windchill to enable engineers to access information, make decisions, and develop their products more efficiently, the company suggests. Windchill AI will be demonstrated alongside PTC’s Codebeamer AI offering for requirements management and ServiceMax AI offering for field service management.

“Previewing Windchill AI at Hannover Messe, alongside Codebeamer AI and ServiceMax AI, demonstrates PTC’s commitment to advancing agentic AI use cases across the product digital thread,” said Kevin Wrenn, Chief Product Officer, PTC. “PTC’s agentic AI offerings enable engineers, field service technicians, and other roles to easily source product-related information, automate tasks and workflows, and make more informed decisions.”

The Windchill AI preview includes the Document Vault AI agent, which enables an engineer to extract relevant product-related information from documents stored in Windchill, according to PTC. Use of the Document Vault AI agent could include sourcing technical documents that highlight information for quality control, part specifications for comparison and decision making, and past test results and methodologies for quality assurance.

PTC will provide future updates on the general availability of Windchill AI.

For more on PTC’s agentic AI strategy, PTC invites anyone to read this blog from Ayora Berry, vice president of AI Product Development: How AI Agents are Accelerating Digital Transformation in Industry. Berry will also speak on a panel with Microsoft and ABI Research on Tuesday, April 1, at 10:00 a.m. CEST in the Microsoft Theater titled, “Implementing Generative AI Across the Digital Thread.”

PTC’s presence in Hall 17, Stand D40, will also include demonstrations of its Onshape cloud-native computer-aided design (CAD) and product data management (PDM) solution, including a 3D design review experience with the Apple Vision Pro.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.