Case Study: ILC Dover achieves 30% annual sales growth and reduces costly design errors with PTC

ILC Dover increased sales by 30% using PTC Solutions

ILC Dover, a designer and developer of flexible "softgoods" products for government and industry, needed to speed product development from design to purchase order, eliminate costly design mistakes, and provide centralized, remote access to project and product data. To meet these challenges they engaged PTC, adopting PTC Creo and PTC Windchill as core tools to modernize their CAD and PLM processes.

PTC implemented a migration from Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 to PTC Creo, including the Creo Advanced Assembly and Interactive Surface Design extensions for top‑down design and specialized surfacing, while PTC Windchill centralized CAD file management and cross‑department data sharing. The PTC solution cut drawing modification time and costs by 20%, reduced costly mistakes by 30%, enabled remote access for all teams, accelerated virtual prototyping, and supported product improvements that drove roughly 30% sales growth year over year.

ILC Dover

Bobby Jones

ILC Engineering CAD Team Leader