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PTC Delivers Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire World's First "No Compromise" System for Product Design and Development

"Simple- Powerful- Connected"

Needham, Mass. - February 10, 2003 - PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the product development companyTM, today announced it is shipping the production release of Pro/ENGINEER WildfireTM, a breakthrough version of its industry-leading product design and development software. It is the world's first completely integrated system for product development and the core of PTC's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions.

With Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, PTC provides customers with a "no compromise" approach, eliminating tradeoffs that have long-frustrated designers and engineers. Users no longer have to choose between ease-of-use and powerful capabilities allowing engineers to focus on their products, not the technology they use. And, they no longer need another application to connect to others. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire is the industry's first offering to seamlessly connect product development with enterprise business processes, both within organizations and across extended value chains.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire provides seamless connectivity from within the familiar Pro/ENGINEER work environment to PTC's Windchill family of collaboration solutions. Designers and engineers now have the ability to create, collaborate and control right at their fingertips. This total integration enables product developers to improve quality, reduce time-to-market, reduce costs, improve information exchange throughout the process, and explore innovative new approaches for creating and building products.

"We are dedicated to helping customers achieve top and bottom line value through a clear focus on what matters most ? Their products," said C. Richard Harrison, PTC president and chief executive officer. "Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire gives companies the ability to place products and product development at the center of their businesses and unleash the hidden value within the product development process. In today's relentless competitive and economic environment, this is how companies can generate value, whether it's revenue growth, profitability or both."

"In delivering Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, PTC has given companies a comprehensive, systematic way to extract real value from the product development process," said research director Ken Versprille, Ph.D. of D.H. Brown Associates, Inc.. "Their customers will benefit from a well-conceived technology foundation that lets them share exceptionally rich digital product information over the Web with a wide range of users from all disciplines. PTC is providing the kind of industry leadership required to deliver on the promise of PLM within the enterprise and across the supply chain."

Customers Confirm Key Benefits

"Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire has raised my efficiency level," said Dennis Steffen of Plantation Key Design, a Florida-based consultant developing electrical and medical products. "The new Wildfire user interface exceeded my expectations," he added. "The streamlined user interface and direct modeling capabilities give users the option to make decisions when they really should be made. Before I had to think out the model before I designed it. Now my models have incredible flexibility which enables me to be more creative."

Steffen, the author of Inside Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, (Thomson Learning) equates that efficiency with organizational productivity. "For product designers and engineers, productivity equals success. We can complete more projects in less time. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire's new user interface lets the user focus on creating great designs without getting distracted by command navigation or performance limitations. Even better, the seamless connection to the Web means I can connect to other users and Windchill solutions for project collaboration and product data management in a smooth and intuitive way, all within my design environment."

Marc Hendrickson, design documentation manager at TEAM Industries, an integrated provider of power train and chassis components, articulates additional benefits. "Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire collaboration can solve the confusion of inconsistent naming conventions and provide added benefit to tracking product lifecycle states enabling better communication for advance quality planning and preparation between the TEAM engineering department and our offsite manufacturing plants."

"We're very excited. We think we'll be able to do some rather remarkable things with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire," said Mike Brattoli, senior product design technician at Moen, Incorporated, the world's largest manufacturer of plumbing products, and the leading faucet maker in North America. "This broader and deeper set of tools will allow us to produce more concepts up front. As a result, marketing, sales, and the consumer research teams get better feedback from testing a broad range of new product ideas and have greater input into the product design process.

"Pro/E Wildfire will allow us to streamline all processes for internal and external communication at Moen. This will help us make sure the right thing goes out the first time, which will help relieve the production crunch and simplify the supply chain through earlier and more frequent communication.

"We originally chose Pro/ENGINEER for its flexibility, and it has been instrumental to our product success at Moen," Brattoli concluded.

A New Paradigm for Product Development

To ensure that Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire meets the needs of customers, PTC invested more than three years in research and development, incorporating hundreds of enhancements requested by users and assuring compatibility with previous releases.

During development, the company instituted rigorous quality control, tracking more than 30 quality metrics and performing 1,400 hours of quality testing at 17 customer sites. Existing customers were provided with three pre-release preview versions of the product for additional quality assurance monitoring.

The result is a software product that has all the critical capabilities necessary to serve as the cornerstone of a complete PLM solution.

Simple - Users spend less time learning the software and get up to speed quickly. With an entirely new user interface and flexible workflow, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire is now simple to learn and use, whether for experienced users who want to get the job done fast, or for newer or infrequent users who need guidance. Powerful ? Users throughout the process have the power to develop their products completely, regardless of part/geometry complexity or the size of the product assembly. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire enables companies to take products from concept to production with comprehensive modeling capabilities, complete associativity throughout, and secure data exchange. 

Connected - Users can more efficiently communicate with co-workers, customers and suppliers through the incorporation of Web services into the underlying architecture of Pro/ENGINEER. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire offers fast, simple and secure design collaboration tools and fully integrated Web technology to easily access global product information. Also available is the most secure and comprehensive "contextual collaboration" capabilities, based on Groove Networks technology, which has been fully integrated with the Pro/ENGINEER user environment.

Why Compromise?

"With Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, engineers and designers no longer have to compromise one of their critical objectives for another. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire is the first comprehensive product development software solution that meets all of today's competitive environment demands," said James Heppelmann, PTC Executive vice president, Software Solutions and chief technical officer. "We're providing customers a full range of associative CAD, CAM, and CAE applications combined with a revolutionary new Web services architecture ? All in a way that redefines ease-of-use. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire truly demonstrates PTC's commitment to helping our customers develop world-class product development processes and products."

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Pricing, Training and Support

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire fully featured packages are priced beginning at USD$4,995. Many of the new capabilities of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, including personal productivity and process productivity enhancements as well as native Web services, are included in existing packages and are provided to existing customers on maintenance.

PTC is surrounding Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire with a complete set of new training and productivity-enhancing offerings. Because Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire is so much easier to learn than prior releases or competitive offerings, PTC was able to reduce the duration of core training courses by over 50%. Experienced users can take a two-hour Web-based overview training primer at no additional cost as well as two-day instructor-led update training with supplemental Web-based material. New users can enroll in five-day instructor-led core training with supplemental Web-based material.

PTC has also developed a set of new tools to help users more smoothly transition to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire and become proficient as quickly as possible. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire adoption tools include an interactive "menu mapper" that shows users menu commands and icons from the previous two releases of Pro/ENGINEER mapped to the new commands in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. Other adoption aids include a quick reference card, getting started tutorials and release notes containing a complete description of the enhancements in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. 

About PTC

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) develops, markets, and supports software solutions that help manufacturers win with superior products. PTC is the world's largest software company with a total commitment to product development. The company services more than 33,000 customers

www.ptc.com

 

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