Farnborough-based PTC and its partner PDSVISION have entered into a digital transformation collaboration with Electrolux Professional. The Swedish manufacturer of professional kitchen and laundry equipment is using PTC's Windchill product lifecycle management solution to reduce the complexity of its multi-CAD design processes. This is an essential development as the company configures its products based on the orders it receives, with thousands of customer-specific variants and options based on several product platforms. In addition, Electrolux makes around 5,000 product changes per year and has a couple of hundred ongoing product development projects across its three business units. The engineering, manufacturing and service departments rely on many different CAD and data management systems, including PTC's Creo, SolidWorks, CATIA and Autodesk.