UPGRADES & INSTALLATIONS

UPGRADES & INSTALLATIONS

UPGRADES & INSTALLATIONS

UPGRADES & INSTALLATIONS

WINDCHILL UPGRADES & INSTALLATIONS

To be successful, your Windchill PLM solution must be implemented quickly, seamlessly, and adopted effortlessly over a wide range of disciplines

UPGRADE TO WINDCHILL 12

As the top trusted PTC partner of some of the largest and most innovative companies around the world, our Windchill consultants understand the business challenges you face.

While the exciting features of Windchill 12 offer great value to your organization, there may be barriers preventing you from moving quickly to leverage these.

THE RIGHT APPROACH MATTERS

An existing customized solution, out-of-date working practices, or a misaligned PLM strategy can mean significant burden on your IT, product and engineering teams. Aside from the fact that there is risk that your new, upgraded solution will not meet your market-driven business initiatives.

You need a way to reduce solution complexity, de-risk the upgrade, and modernize the solution so you can confidently move at the speed your business requires to develop new products faster.

Your concerns are real, which is why EAC offers specific services dedicated to helping you overcome these challenges.

EAC’S WINDCHILL UPGRADE SERVICES:

EAC OFFERS A COMPLETE SET OF SERVICES TO HELP MAKE YOUR UPGRADE SUCCESSFUL

EAC’s Windchill 12 upgrade services are designed to get your solution up and running quickly, so you can get back to transforming your business. Our experts can help you determine the right approach for the upgrade of your current PLM solution so you can see increased value from Windchill 12.

 

STRATEGIC OPTIMIZATION SERVICES: Our technical experts will perform a complete analysis of your current business processes identifying how they align to your current utilization of Windchill. This allows us to best define systems and process optimization opportunities. The value drivers that come from these opportunities will be realized during the Windchill upgrade to gain strong positive business outcomes for your organization.

REHOSTING TO CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS: More than ever, companies today are increasing their utilization of services hosted in the cloud, such as Azure or AWS, to host their enterprise services. If you find your organization in this category, Windchill upgrade is a perfect time to make this move with Windchill. EAC’s Windchill Upgrade team can help you make this transition utilizing the proven methodology utilized for many of the organizations we’ve worked with.

UPGRADE SERVICES: Our Windchill upgrade team will execute a dynamic upgrade with minimum impact to your business and resources. This includes a detailed analysis of your current environment to identify technical optimization needs, risk identification that is specific to your environment and methods to mitigate that risk, detailed upgrade planning to minimize downtime and rapid upgrade completion.

TRAINING & ADOPTION: End-user training and overall user adoption is key when ensuring the success of any upgrade or implementation for your organization. EAC’s upgrade team takes training and adoption very seriously and can provide you with personalized training courses that are tailored to your organization’s current processes and methods. This is a proven methodology to help increase user adoption and rapid user efficiency gains.

WHAT MAKES EAC DIFFERENT?

1500+

PLM ENGAGEMENTS STARTED

500+

TOTAL PLM UPGRADES

200+

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

250+

PLM MIGRATIONS COMPLETED

CAD Technical Drawing

FASTER RESULTS AT A LOWER COST WHILE DELIVERING THE CONFIDENCE YOU NEED TO QUICKLY DELIVER VALUE

Windchill represents a tremendous opportunity to achieve the vision of Smart Connected PLM. Don’t let your concerns keep you from experiencing the benefits of Windchill 12 – accelerate your time to value with our Windchill 12 Upgrade Services.

PICK YOUR BEST PRICING

Windchill Fast Track Upgrade

$9,995

Starting Price
Single Step Upgrade (i.e.: 11.1 to 12.0)
Single CAD Publisher
New Server Required for Upgrade
More than 15 Users in Windchill
Multiple Step Upgrade (i.e.: 10.2 to 11.1 to 12.0)
Mulitple Rehearsals
Oracle to SQL Migration
Multiple CAD Publishers
Replication Servers
Existing Change Management or Workflows
PTC Navigate Server Install
Minimal Downtime (upgrade over the weekend)
SSO Implementations
Customizations
ERP or Other Integrations
Windchill Standard Upgrade

$20,000

Starting Price
Single Step Upgrade (i.e.: 11.1 to 12.0)
Single CAD Publisher
New Server Required for Upgrade
More than 15 Users in Windchill
Multiple Step Upgrade (i.e.: 10.2 to 11.1 to 12.0)
Mulitple Rehearsals
Oracle to SQL Migration
Multiple CAD Publishers
Replication Servers
Existing Change Management or Workflows
PTC Navigate Server Install
Minimal Downtime (upgrade over the weekend)
SSO Implementations
Customizations
ERP or Other Integrations
Windchill Advanced Upgrade

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Single Step Upgrade (i.e.: 11.1 to 12.0)
Single CAD Publisher
New Server Required for Upgrade
More than 15 Users in Windchill
Multiple Step Upgrade (i.e.: 10.2 to 11.1 to 12.0)
Mulitple Rehearsals
Oracle to SQL Migration
Multiple CAD Publishers
Replication Servers
Existing Change Management or Workflows
PTC Navigate Server Install
Minimal Downtime (upgrade over the weekend)
SSO Implementations
Customizations
ERP or Other Integrations

CASE STUDY:

ALM POSITIONERS

EAC’s implementation team helped ALM Positioner’s transition to a digital workflow using PTC’s Windchill software. Windchill helped ALM save up to 4 hours per project by integrating eBoMs and mBoMs into their ERP system.

Jerry Held

GSI Group

We feel we have a partner in EAC, not just a consultant. EAC has learned our business and current processes and made recommendations for improvement where necessary. GSI Group is very satisfied with the services EAC has provided.

Neal Clevenger

VP of Engineering, Wayne Water Systems

Only 80% of our engineering data was traveling through our PDM software. Since implementing Windchill, we’ve freed up 10-20% of our heavy users time.

Valerian Coutinho

Systems Analyst, Accuride Corporation

EAC provided very competent and professional individuals both from a project management side and technically. Using EAC Windchill system as a management tool for the project was a big plus.

Patrick Hobbs

Product Design Engineer, Brinly-Hardy, Co.

I am very pleased with the level of commitment and dedication that EAC has shown throughout our project. From the beginning of exploring our options of a PDM solution that would work best in our environment, EAC provided the value and confidence that was needed to allow Brinly-Hardy to improve its Product Development processes. They have the knowledge and experience necessary to get the job done. They are willing to work non-conventional hours to ensure the job is completed on time.

Prabhu Ranganathan

Manufacturing Engineer, ATMI Inc.

EAC provided us with an excellent service, exceeding our expectations.

Colten Brunenn

Product Manager at ALM 

EAC’s implementation specialist was on site for several days at a time throughout the implementation process to help us customize the application to our needs. The specialist was giving us examples, walking us through the processes, showing us how it would work if we did it a certain way, and showed us how to make things easier. It opened our eyes to the capacity and abilities of what we could do with Windchill for our specific needs.

Brydon Sanders

Product Design Engineer at ALM

Before Windchill we had an archive of data that was not necessarily 100% accurate. So, when we were sorting data that we thought was right, we’d find out there was a problem after we made changes to it. EAC helped us customize a life cycle specifically for how small of a company we are to help facilitate changes and make the correct revisions. Everything is much faster when designing and validating the product.

Myron Pundt

VP of Engineering, ALM Positioners

When we started down the road with EAC looking at Windchill, our goal was to streamline the process so we could get automatic loads into our ERP system. EAC was instrumental in driving us to the right solution.

Greg Starr

Engineering Resource Manager, USSI

EAC provided a professional SOW and a technically competent team to both define scope of work and execute the installation of our Windchill PDMLink system.

Darin Virnig

Engineering & Production Manager, Virnig Manufacturing

Paperless [with Windchill] provides access on the floor which has increased accuracy and quality that will give us the competitive advantage we were looking for.

Neal Clevenger

VP of Engineering, Wayne Water Systems

I have nothing but good things to say about the training we received from EAC. The instructor did a good job keeping everyone’s attention throughout the course. I was pleased that he didn’t go straight from the book, he made sure that everyone understood the material.

Colten Brunnenn

Product Manager, ALM Positioners

EAC has defiantly impacted our growing abilities. As we gain production we need to be more efficient. EAC has allowed us to do that by tracking our products easier. Before, we were using folders to track them manually. We’d lose control, somebody would modify it, and you wouldn’t know. EAC has allowed us to really dive in and keep track of that to reduce the amount of people required to handle that much information.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Below you’ll find answers to our most commonly asked questions.

You can count on personalized support around the clock by email, live chat, or by joining a live webinar.

How does the upgrade get completed?

We implement a new production server with the latest version of Windchill. Then we move all data and configurations from the existing server over. We also recommend completing a discreet pilot and production pass for upgrades. That way key users can validate the new environment with the client software.