Setauket, NY and Boston, MA. May 4, 2021. XSB, a semantic data science company and member of the PTC Partner Network, today announced the release of the SWISS Connect Extension for the Windchill® Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software from PTC (NASDAQ: PTC). SWISS Connect harmonizes internal and external engineering data used within the aerospace and defense, textile, electronics, and automotive industries to reduce quality control problems and related delays due to referencing cancelled or inactive product specifications.

Operating as a bridge between PLM workflows and external content, SWISS Connect establishes change-aware connections between documents stored in Windchill and referenced external standards and specifications, automating the integration of required product and manufacturing information (PMI). The extension also significantly minimizes the time and manual labor previously required for change management and impact analysis, sometimes cutting validation times from hours or days to minutes.

“XSB and PTC have mutual PLM customers in the federal, aerospace, and defense verticals,” said Dave Duncan, Vice President of Product Management, Industrial Digital Thread Solutions, PLM Segment, PTC. “With this integration, our customers can easily link to the specs and standards referenced in their designs, enabling them to improve productivity and filling an important void in the digital thread. More importantly, engineers can be alerted when their referenced specs and standards change so they can determine if their designs need to adapt to those changes. We’re pleased with this new closed-loop quality connection to enhance our PLM offering.”

Enterprise documents, such as part, material, and process specifications, purchase descriptions, work instructions, and technical data packages contain references to a variety of internal and external standards and specifications. These references – and the critical data within them – are difficult to access because they are merely static PDF file attachments rather than integral parts of the digital thread. Since most engineering work is conducted on digital platforms, these disconnected silos of mission-critical information add cost, time, and risk to the product lifecycle.

Tanya Vidrevich, COO of XSB said, “By teaming with PTC, XSB is able to bring actionable engineering data, once locked in static legacy documents, into the digital product lifecycle; this integration establishes the SWISS open standard as an integral part of the Model Based Enterprise.”

The SWISS Connect Extension is now available in the Windchill Extension center at: https://windchill-extensions.ptc.com/.
About XSB, Inc.

XSB, Inc. is a semantic data science company known for its SWISS digital model data platform, which transforms static documents (such as MS Word and PDF) from standalone “dead-text” to a networked collection of interoperable, “change aware” data elements — text, tables, graphs, equations, and images. The underlying network of documents, data, concepts, and the relationships between them is organized in the SWISS Knowledge Graph which can be queried from other applications via the SWISS API. SWISS was developed in part with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (Defense Standardization Program and Defense Logistics Agency) and support from major Standards Development Organizations and aerospace & defense companies.

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Windchill is a registered trademark of PTC Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

XSB received a 5-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, structured as a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. The contract has a ceiling of $35M. Projects associated with the contract will be awarded as Task Orders; each having a defined scope, period of performance and funding.

“XSB has been a trusted R&D partner of DLA for nearly two decades,” said Rupert Hopkins, XSB’s CEO. “We understand that the Defense community faces unique lifecycle challenges. We are delighted to have the opportunity to continue to support DLA in identifying and implementing new capabilities to ensure quality and reduce risk across the supply chain.”

The mission of the WSSP, a DLA sponsored Research & Development effort, is to provide improved capabilities and methods for delivery of millions of weapons systems parts and services to DLA’s customers. WSSP partners work closely with stakeholders to improve internal DLA processes, provide new tools and methods, reduce costs and lead times, and ultimately improve warfighter support across multiple weapon systems and supply chains.

ABOUT XSB Inc.

XSB Inc. is a New York-based software provider of “Systems of Intelligence” solutions based on the attributes of manufactured products, such as parts, materials, processes, or even prices.

The Company’s applications use artificial intelligence (AI) to combine and standardize proprietary data sources internal to an organization, open data, and commercial data. The technology enables people, organizations, and machines to understand, share, and act upon large amounts of data and complex concepts.

The result is a dramatic savings of time and cost, reduced supply chain risk, and improved outcomes for Public Sector Procurement, Supply Chain Management and Engineering Document Automation.

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New York, NY. On April 2, 2019 thought leaders in manufacturing, energy and aerospace and defense were joined by STEM researchers from some of the country’s top research universities at NIST’s headquarters in Gaithersburg, MD for the 10th Annual MBE (Model-Based Enterprise) Summit. The focus of this year’s conference centered on how decentralization of manufacturing systems has amplified the problem of collecting and communicating the product and process specifications needed to make decisions about design, production, and supply chains tasks while delivering products to market. Here, XSB’s COO, Tanya Vidrevich, shared with her peers XSB’s vision for Engineering of the Future – the Digital Thread; and how SWISS is addressing this central problem. Her demonstration showed how SWISS is revolutionizing manufacturing, design and quality inspection processes across the supply chain by providing data interoperability in the Model Based Environment.

SWISS (Semantic Web for Interoperable Specifications and Standards) is an interoperable linked-data platform that transforms static engineering documents into “Smart Connected Documents” which know their meaning and their status, contain active links to all their references, and can notify users downstream when any part is updated that impacts other documents, applications, or processes. SWISS facilitates seamless interoperability not only between MIL Specs and non-government industry standards, but also between internal corporate documentation (like product specs, test plans, etc.) and the industry standards that they reference. With SWISS digital data, static documents become intelligent and actionable and help engineers do their work faster, with fewer errors, and less risk.

The goal of the MBE Summit is to identify challenges, research, implementation issues, and lessons learned in design, manufacturing, quality assurance, and sustainment of products and processes where a digital model of the product serves as the authoritative information source for all activities the product lifecycle.

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