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Columbia SportswearPTC Supports Engineering Design at Columbia Sportswear
Columbia Sportswear, a consumer discretionary organization in the United States, uses Windchill from PTC to support engineering design for design engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Engineering design stays visible to adjacent teams through Windchill |
| Capability | Design engineers work from the same Windchill record for product design |
| Capability | Product design can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
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Columbia Sportswear grew product design faster than the local tools around it. From the United States, consumer discretionary teams still had to serve customers and internal partners who expected a straight answer. Design engineers were the ones stitching the picture together by hand.
Rolling out Windchill put engineering design on PTC. PTC provides product lifecycle management, CAD, and industrial IoT software used by manufacturers to design and service products. Columbia Sportswear keeps the product in the path where work already happens, so design engineers do not context-switch into a graveyard system used only for audits.
The visible result is steadier engineering design. Product design is easier to inspect, and adjacent groups can join design engineers without a guided tour of someone's desktop.
