Technology Magazine February 2024 | Page 94

PTC
“ In factories , manufacturers have thousands of workers , all of whom can have a different expertise and skill set ,” said James Zhang . “ This evolving workforce has a big challenge in the manufacturing industry .”
As the VP of Market Development for PTC ’ s IIoT solution , James Zhang ´ s job is divided into turning the high impact , fast-time value use cases into outbox capabilities – together with PTC ’ s Research & Development team . This helps customers to gather fast value and high value , in a short period of time at scale . The second part of Zhang ’ s job is go-to-market strategy , where he works with the field and ecosystem to assist customers and unlock value from PTC ’ s technologies .
“ PTC has some of the best technology available in the industry . The utilisation of our technology is to solve specific problems out of hundreds of use cases , which are the highest impact and also fastest time to value for our customers .”
There are two challenges in Zhang ’ s work , which he sees as the best part of the job .
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