Resources
Case studies with numbers, and notes we wish someone had written for us.
Case studies
- Tier 1 automotive supplierAutomotive, Mar 2026
Bringing 4,000 variants under control at a tier 1 supplier
Replaced a spreadsheet-driven option matrix with Windchill option and variant management, integrated with SAP.
- 4,000+
- sellable variants generated from rules
- 62%
- shorter change lead time
- Industrial machinery builderIndustrial machinery, Jan 2026
Moving Windchill to Azure Kubernetes with zero-downtime releases
Migrated an on-premises Windchill 12 environment to AKS with Helm-based pipelines and rehearsed rollbacks.
- 0 min
- user-facing downtime for routine releases
- 2 hours
- to clone a full test environment
- Medical device manufacturerMedical devices, Oct 2025
Audit-ready design controls for a medical device manufacturer
Implemented requirements, risk and verification traceability in Windchill and retired a folder-based design history file.
- 100%
- requirements traced to verification
- 3 days
- to assemble an audit package, down from 6 weeks
Blog
Operational notes on Windchill: upgrades, Kubernetes, customization, adoption.
Jun 2026
A Windchill upgrade readiness checklist
Ten questions to answer before you schedule a Windchill upgrade, learned from upgrades that went well and a few that did not.
Apr 2026
What we learned running Windchill on Kubernetes
Method-server sizing, vault storage, and why rollbacks need rehearsal. Notes from operating Windchill on AKS in production.
Feb 2026
Configuration before customization
Why we say no to custom code more often than customers expect, and when we say yes.
Tell us where Windchill is slowing you down.
A 45-minute call with a consultant who has run Windchill in production. No slides, no sales script.