NEEDHAM, MA – September 24, 2013 – PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) today announced that BISSELL is using PTC Windchill® to enable digital collaboration and product development across its entire engineering organization worldwide. The company’s strategic alignment around PTC Windchill has allowed BISSELL to improve sharing and coordination of product information between its global design teams and manufacturing partners. This has allowed the company to evolve its internal communications, external relationships with suppliers and customers, its business focus and its core product line development goals.

1. PTC Helps BISSELL Accelerate Product Innovation and Delivery
Company Uses PTC Windchill to Transform Global Product Development
NEEDHAM, MA – September 24, 2013 – PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) today announced that BISSELL is
using PTC Windchill® to enable digital collaboration and product development across its entire
engineering organization worldwide. The company’s strategic alignment around PTC Windchill
has allowed BISSELL to improve sharing and coordination of product information between its
global design teams and manufacturing partners. This has allowed the company to evolve its
internal communications, external relationships with suppliers and customers, its business
focus and its core product line development goals.
Since 1876, BISSELL has been developing cleaning tools designed to keep customers’ living
environments up to the highest standards. Over the years, the company has been at the
forefront of product development innovation, with everything from the original carpet
sweeper, to shampoos and carpet deep cleaners with built-in heaters. As the industry’s
business model has changed, BISSELL has maintained its leadership position by evolving across
multiple fronts including the expansion to global business, external partner collaboration, a
transparent Bill of Materials (BOM) and continuous cost reduction.
“Early on we recognized that a unified, consistent view of all product data would be imperative
to meeting our innovation, quality and accuracy goals. PTC Windchill makes this happen with its
robust PLM environment,” said Roger Johnson, VP, Product Design and Engineering, BISSELL.
“Where digital collaboration was once optional, now it is mandatory in the global engineering
enterprise. As the core of our product development platform, PTC Windchill has allowed us to
improve our workflow and process automation, doubling our throughput and facilitating global
expansion.”
And while all of BISSELL’s six global research and development centers rely on PTC Windchill,
other functions in the organization are taking advantage of the solution as well. Multiple
disciplines across the enterprise are now collaborating digitally – including professionals from
purchasing, testing, quality and analysis, as well as external manufacturing partners around the
world. This collaboration has resulted in a unified, consistent view of all product data and has
transformed the way the company functions and focuses, allowing for global business project
teams, consumer-driven attribute focus and increased on-time project completion.
“Work is done collaboratively as opposed to sequentially; information flows in parallel without
chaos,” continued Johnson. “Because of this, we can have more valuable conversations about
priorities instead of the process.”
Additionally, the company uses PTC Windchill to drive detailed planning with partners so that
ultimately they are equipped to deliver value through quality manufacturing.

2. “When PTC Windchill is at the center of the iteration process – as it is and has been at BISSELL
for many years – it not only allows companies to communicate better and drive detailed
planning with external partners, but it also enables improved execution and ultimately faster
product delivery to customers,” said Mark Hodges, divisional manager, PLM segment, PTC. “We
are proud to have been working with BISSELL for over a decade and are excited that their
strategic alignment with PTC Windchill has helped them to become a global industry leader.”
Additional Resources:
 PTC Windchill Resource Page
 PTC's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Resource Center
 BISSELL
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advantage. The company's technology solutions transform the way products are created and
serviced across the entire product lifecycle - from conception and design to sourcing and
service. Founded in 1985, PTC employs over 6,000 professionals serving more than 27,000
businesses in rapidly-evolving, globally distributed manufacturing industries worldwide. Get
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About BISSELL Homecare, Inc.
For 137 years and counting, Michigan-based BISSELL Homecare, Inc. has developed innovative
floor care solutions that make cleaning easier. As the top-selling brand in floor care appliances,
BISSELL understands that fuller lives often mean more messes, and that convenient cleaning
tools help us embrace life’s messier moments. Now in its fourth generation of family
leadership, the company supplies households across the globe with vacuums, sweepers, deepcleaning machines, hard surface cleaners and cleaning formulas. For more on BISSELL’s
complete line of floor care products, visit www.bissell.com.
Contacts:
PTC Corporate Communications
Julie Blake
781.370.5435
jublake@ptc.com

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Anand Savani
617.520.7290
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