Author Archives: David Blair

Web 2.0 is everywhere, and social business software is quickly moving into the enterprise, but is there real value? What’s the ROI for a manufacturing company whose product development team is pumping out new product innovations every day? Social Product Development is what happens when you combine Web 2.0 and product development – but how do you justify an investment …

This past fall PTC released the latest iteration of Windchill SocialLink, a product focused on bringing Web 2.0 concepts to PLM to benefit product teams. Windchill SocialLink 2.0 exemplifies “social product development” and continues to separate itself from generic social software by focusing on product development processes and engineering use cases. Windchill SocialLink is highly integrated with the Windchill PLM …

People continue to thirst for better ways to connect and collaborate. With Windchill SocialLink new, modern, Web 2.0 approaches for enhanced communication are now available for product development. Windchill SocialLink provides engineers the ability to come together not only in “Communities of Practice” (think:  plastics, hydraulics, six sigma), but also in “Product Communities” linked to Windchill containers of product information (think: …