Unlock Efficiency with ThingWorx Manufacturing Apps
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ThingWorx® Navigate™
It ’s your product data. What do you want to do with it?
Product data is your organization’s most valuable asset. 
Decisions made with this information can greatly impact  
your business, including product safety and reliability, speed  
of innovation, on-time and on–budget delivery, and more. 
To realize the business benefits of good decisions – The democratization of product data:
and to avoid the repercussions of bad ones– 
it is essential that stakeholders throughout your ThingWorx Navigate is a revolutionary new set of 
organization can access the most up-to-date applications from PTC that let more stakeholders 
product information whenever they need it. across a company access and impact product 
data sourced from multiple systems of record 
Why ThingWorx Navigate? in a simple, role-based interface. With a modern 
user experience that is as easy to use as a 
Most enterprise software tools are inaccessible  smartphone app, ThingWorx Navigate is ideal for 
to a broad range of users due to costly licensing,  any stakeholder throughout a product’s lifecycle 
intensive training, and the time it takes to integrate that needs access to the latest, most accurate 
and customize them. Stakeholders who aren’t information to drive critical decisions. ThingWorx 
experts often access and exchange data from these Navigate integrates directly with enterprise systems 
systems of record using disconnected processes of record while delivering a highly intuitive user 
and tools. These workarounds create a new instance experience: ensuring accuracy, confidence, and the 
of the data that is no longer under change control, highest degree of fidelity to your product’s data.
so subsequent updates to the system of record 
make the workaround, and any decisions made  Benefits of ThingWorx Navigate:
with it, at best irrelevant–and at worst inaccurate. 
Connect to product data easily for… 
• Accurate decision-making: broad visibility into  
systems of record.
• Higher product quality: decisions and actions 
driven by up-to-date information.
• New insights: relevant data from multiple 
systems delivered in context.
• Greater value: extend existing technologies  
to more users with better adoption.
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Experience your data in new ways that are… 
Features of ThingWorx Navigate: 
• Intuitive: training-free, accessible, and modern UI. 
• Role-based: contextualize data from many  
sources based on the user’s needs.
• Faster time-to-value: deploy in hours or days,  
not weeks or months.
• Cohesive: provide one, familiar user experience View Document View Design Files
across multiple systems.
Build new user experiences quickly for apps  
that are… 
• Extensible: to new data sources, new systems, 
and new user experiences.
View Drawing View & Measure in 3D
• Agile: deploy new UIs quickly–“try fast; fail fast”. 
• Seamless: data source changes do not impact  
the user.
• Flexible: sources can be on the cloud, on 
premises, SAAS, or mixed.
Navigating PLM with ThingWorx Navigate: View Part Properties View Parts List
A suite of ThingWorx Navigate apps make PLM 
data housed in Windchill, PTC’s product lifecycle 
management solution, available to more of the 
enterprise in a highly consumable way, to extend the 
value of PLM to more product lifecycle stakeholders. 
By democratizing PLM data in this way, teams who 
View Part Structure
impact the product throughout its lifecycle can 
easily access the real-time, change-managed, single  
source of truth for product knowledge, ensuring  ThingWorx Navigate apps include: View Drawing, 
View Part Properties, View Part List, View Part 
that every stakeholder involved in the product Structure, View/Download Design Files, View & 
lifecycle is leveraging accurate information for  Measure in 3-D, View Requirements
their decisions. 
Navigating requirements with 
ThingWorx Navigate:
ThingWorx Navigate’s “View Requirements” 
app provides a real-time window into evolving 
product and software requirements maintained 
in Integrity Lifecycle Manager. It ’s a fast, easy 
way to share rich requirements information with 
all product stakeholders, to help ensure that 
everyone is working towards shared objectives.
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ThingWorx Navigate is:
• Tailorable: simple controls limit or expand what 
can be viewed and searched based on selected 
properties and attributes of the data.
• Context-driven: apps extend PLM data to include 
information from ERP, CRM, MES and other  
enterprise systems.
• System-agnostic: back-end systems can 
be updated independently so the user is 
uninterrupted by upgrades, replacements,  
data migrations, and other updates. 
• Secure: data is only served based on the security 
permissions of the user in the system of record.
• Mobile-ready: with ThingWorx Mobile Builder,  
apps can be accessed via users’ device of  
choice–smartphone, tablet, PC–and preferred  
platform–Microsoft, iOS, OSX, Android. 
• Modular: using the developer toolkit,  © 2017, PTC Inc. (PTC). All rights reserved. Information described herein is 
fully customized apps can be created from  furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, 
the ground-up that leverage existing ThingWorx and should not be taken as a guarantee, commitment, or offer by PTC. PTC, the PTC logo, and all PTC product names and logos are trademarks or 
Navigate capabilities. registered trademarks of PTC and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and 
other countries. All other product or company names are property of their 
• IoT-enabled: when combined with products or respective owners. The timing of any product release, including any features 
or functionality, is subject to change at PTC’s discretion.
equipment connected to the Internet of Things 
with ThingWorx, tailored or fully customized  J8989–ThingWorxNavigate–EN–0417
ThingWorx Navigate apps can include IoT data. 
Learn more about ThingWorx Navigate at  
ptc.com/navigate
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