PTC Windchill System Integrator Partner
About Element Consulting. Element Consulting is an independent PTC partner that has implemented, upgraded, integrated, and rescued PTC Windchill since 2003: 100+ PLM implementations, a senior-only team of about sixteen, headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa. Managing Partner Eric Horn is a PTC Certified Windchill Implementation Practitioner. The firm works mainly in aerospace and defense, federal and national-security programs, medical devices, and industrial equipment, including ITAR-controlled and government-cloud delivery, and does not resell software.
Element Consulting is a PTC System Integrator partner with PTC Certified Windchill Implementation Practitioners on staff. We implement, upgrade, integrate and rescue PTC Windchill for manufacturers in regulated and engineer-to-order industries — 100+ implementations since 2003.
We don’t sell PTC licenses. We implement the platform, connect it to the rest of the enterprise, and make sure people use it.
The partnership
Partner type | System Integrator |
Certifications | PTC Certified Windchill Implementation Practitioner |
Partner since | 2003 |
Areas served | United States, all states |
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PTC’s implementation model is partner-led. In June 2022, PTC sold a substantial portion of its PLM professional services business to ITC Infotech (now DxP Services), and PTC’s Windchill+ Success Path directs customers to select an implementation partner, describing PTC’s own role as an Implementation Assurance Service on partner-led engagements. That’s the model we work in — the partner does the implementation; PTC stands behind the platform.
What PTC Windchill is
Windchill is PTC’s enterprise PLM platform: the system of record for product data, BOMs, configuration and change across engineering and manufacturing. It’s delivered on-premise or as Windchill+ SaaS, and it integrates with CAD (Creo and multi-CAD), ERP, MES and quality systems. [What Is PTC Windchill? — our full explainer]
Where we work in Windchill
PDMLink — the core: product data, CAD management, release and change
MPMLink — manufacturing process management: eBOM-to-mBOM, process plans, work instructions
ProjectLink — program and project coordination
Windchill+ — PTC’s SaaS delivery; migration from on-premise
Windchill ESI — the enterprise systems integration framework for ERP
ThingWorx Navigate — role-based access to Windchill data
Configuration and change management — ECR/ECN, effectivity, baselines
What we do with it
Service | What it means |
|---|---|
Implementation | Discovery, configuration, migration, integration, adoption — 4 to 9 months for a mid-size manufacturer |
Upgrade and migration | Version upgrades, Windchill+ migration, cloud moves — rehearsed, verified, zero-outage |
ERP–PLM integration | Windchill to SAP, Oracle and Dynamics 365, using ESI, middleware or custom, fitted to your configuration |
MPMLink | The engineering-to-manufacturing handoff done properly |
Rescue and optimization | Live deployments that stalled, under-adopted or drifted |
Configuration management | CM infrastructure for programs where hardware and software revisions move at different speeds |
Organizational change management | On staff, not a training deck — adoption is the deliverable |
