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What are best practices? How can LAMUM (License Asset Manager with Usage Monitoring ) help you best manage expensive CAD/CAE tools?  How many licenses do you really need?  Is annual subscription or perpetual best?  What are the right graphs, tables and charts for analyzing usage? This session addressed all these questions and much more!

This session reported on the latest capabilities in the applications of Creo and Windchill, and illustrated the benefits provided to design, simulation, and product development communities.

The logistics sector is one of the top sectors among early movers in IoT technology adoption. The challenges of logistic operations and management can mostly be overcome by the use of IoT technologies. In this session, the presenter first gave an overview of two specific logistics sector operations and identified their  unique challenges. Then, the presenter discuss the state of IoT hardware and software platform capabilities - usability, scalability, repeatability, and limitations. Finally, the presenter discuss commercial solutions developed for the real world cases: CNG distribution (CNGTrack) and AdBlue Additive distribution (LogiTrack), and the transformation of conventional logistics operations by IoT.

Raytheon and Virtalis presented how they are leveraging leading edge Virtual Reality technologies like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Immersive Cave systems and their special 3D Stereoscopic software (Visionary Render) to achieve engineering breakthroughs. Topics discuss during this session included:   -  Streamlining your engineering design reviews -  Reducing or eliminating physical prototypes - Developing optimized rather than just proven designs - Cross-department collaboration - Catching design problems early

Across more than 950 companies globally, Hitachi sees the markets for its products and services evolving to ask for more on-demand, and outcome based solutions.  While societal trends are fueling the need for new business models, technological advances such as IoT, predictive analytics, and augmented reality are enabling digital transformation to make new business models feasible. During this session, David Parsons shares how Hitachi’s Lumada IoT core platform works with Thingworx, Vuforia, and PLM capabilities to demonstrate how advanced technologies can transform service business models and substantially reduce capital and operating costs.   The case example revealed practical ways to realize these benefits and address several key challenges associated with maintaining Hitachi’s scanning electron microscopes including:   -  Monitoring machine operations using remote IoT technologies - Diagnosing issues by sharing product knowledge across product and service teams

True value creation in IoT comes from monitoring and analyzing a system and then modifying its behavior to create a more effective and efficient desired outcome. Connecting systems from the network edge to cloud-based processing and resources offers IoT system developers an opportunity to rethink overall system design, optimization and security.   Use of smart partitioning techniques and technologies in the signal chain allows IoT developers to re-architect their systems to create value for customers and end users. As the pace of IoT system deployment accelerates customers need to rapidly develop and deploy applications.   This session explored the areas of value creation, system partitioning and rapid application development of IoT systems.

This session discussed these technology changes and how it will impact your engineering environment.   Atendees learned important tips and tricks on processor selection, graphics card selection, memory, storage, networks, mobiles and more.   This session helped us gain a deeper understanding on some significant new innovations in the last 12 months, which we will need to consider in order to stay competitive in 2017. Atendees also heard how to make their configuration choices to ensure the best performance for what you are willing to spend. This session covered performance data as well as the best practices for proper set up. This session was geared at a beginner to intermediate level.

An engaging presentation that provided insight into a large scale transformation of the product development process and the leadership that must be established for success.  Dave Rush, from Accenture provided a perspective on the challenges involved in establishing a Lean Agile way of working for complex systems engineering and the need to establish an integrated product development tools environment to enable it.

During this session attendees from engineering and manufacturing companies gained a deeper understanding on the necessary underpinnings of a successful IoT initiative.   Attendees heard with the right strategy, platform, and connected things you will be ready to generate additional value, increase revenue, and expand your market presence.

Glassbeam, along with a panel of leading customers, discussed real-world success stories on how machine data analytics is driving extensive business transformation.   Attendees heard success stories from Springpath and Gridscape, along with a conversation focused on overcoming once insurmountable hurdles – to transform complex log file data into structured formats – and combine it with sophisticated machine learning technology to enable companies to derive valuable business insights from their connected products.

Collaboration in product development especially in a discipline comprehensive way, needs transparency in processes and structures. Therefore, integration of electrical and fluid documentation into PLM processes is part of the task list in a lot of companies.   In this session the presenter demonstrated how EPLAN can be integrated into Windchill by using best practice examples to illustrate the necessary preliminary work for either EPLAN and Windchill required and showed how EPLAN data and structures can be implemented in Windchill.

All companies need automation but no company has perfect data! But how do you make the implementation of automation as slick as the automation itself by automating the actual implementation?   In this session, the presenters discuss how to:   - Map your processes to avoid analysis paralysis  - Scrub your data and fix all the little problems to avoid major headaches  - Prepare your data for automation bu using automation  - Keep your future data consistent for automation requirements

Attendees learned about the new, exciting - a unique, new, highly-efficient, and easy-to-use authoring application for creating use-case specific experiences -- and ThingServer which manages and brokers global access of ‘Thing experiences’ including delivery of 2D, 3D and augmented reality content to ThingBrowser along with data from sensor-enabled IoT products and enterprise business systems.

How do you connect the Internet of Things with the Customer Success Platform? Izzy Park, Product Manager from Salesforce IoT Cloud shared how companies of all sizes are connecting data from their devices, sensors, websites and more using the latest Salesforce technology and turning this data into meaningful actions for their customers.

How secure is your product data? Are you sure your users are who they say they are? How many of your users share login credentials? You need a WiKID secure Windchill system.   In this session attendees learned how Boston Engineering deployed the WiKID two-factor Authentication system to enhance the Out Of the Box Windchill security features.

The IPv4 address space is exhausted.The regional Internet registries are now only handing out IPv6 addresses. But, how does IPv6 enable access to the 20+ billion devices that are estimated to be in the IoT by the year 2020? And, since IPv4 isn't going away any time soon, how do we make IPv6 work side by side with IPv4? In this session, the presenter described IPv6 addressing and its operation. Plus, show techniques for writing one application to  support both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols simultaneously.

How is Salesforce connecting the Internet of Things with the Internet of Customers? Charlie Isaacs, VP, CTO of Customer Connections of Salesforce discussed how customers are innovating with IoT. Charlie  demonstrated industry use cases and applications by Salesforce and PTC.

Patrick Ryan present for the first twenty minutes. Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) is an early adopter of industrial augmented reality (AR). After many pilots and projects, the company is preparing the first large scale roll-out of AR technology for industrial use. In this first half of the presentation, Patrick discussed the use-case approach and terminology from the NNS perspective, and how return-on-investment and technology-readiness-levels are assessed and managed prior to a deployment. Several specific examples of new AR projects at NNS were illustrated. Patrick concluded with a discussion of principle challenges associated with industrial augmented reality. Dan Arczynski presented for the second twenty minutes. Index AR Solutions, is an AR engineering services and AR software company that develops and deploys augmented reality-based solutions on mobile devices to solve industry client challenges.  Launched in January 2014 by former NNS and HII executives, Index has teamed u

Orbital ATK core business is to support the motors of various systems, which includes an assessments of the performance of the motors today and into the future. To facilitate these assessments information about the environmental exposure, is collected and analyzed to form performance predictions. The company  has been developing a modular system which can capture this information from disparate technologies and integrate the information into usable data which is then processed to produce the performance predictions. As part of development of this system, different methods for collecting and transferring the data within the system have been investigated. This session summarized a proof-of-concept to investigate one such method that uses the ThingWorx IoT platform to collect, manage, and parse sensor data from remote assets. The presenter also shared the lessons learned developing an IoT system utilizing the ThingWorx platform on a real-world example from the rocket industry.

Wearables have had a sharp rise in popularity over the past few years. However, there’s still a lot of uncertainty surrounding how consumers are using them in their daily lives and if they are actually as beneficial as we believe. The main problem facing the widespread adoption of wearables is not that the technology isn’t advanced enough to make them useful; it’s that the products fail to provide enough value to make consumers continue to wear them once the novelty has worn off. However, integrating other aspects into the mix, such as new TV controls and personalized options, can help create more value for using wearables and increase more enriching TV experiences as well.  In this session, the presenter discuss the future of wearable design and detail how wearables integrated with new TV technology can create more value for both consumers and companies alike. Plus, the presenter discuss the future of wearable design and detail how wearables integrated with new TV technology can

Today’s Connected Products require streamlined processes for managing their software and content. A crucial step in the Connected Device lifecycle is software deployment and the activities related to the release, installation, activation, deactivation, updating and removal of software components or content.  Learn how the ThingWorx Software Content Management Utility enables a securer and cost-effective way to manage the distribution of that content to your connected devices. Furthermore hear how it provides you with an optimized process for package deployment and real-time visibility to your Connected Products deployment status with full audit history.

Safety-critical product development is a critical competency for automotive systems that integrate embedded software, electrical and electro-mechanical components.This presentation explained  the functional safety and automotive SPICE processes in use at DRÄXLMAIER, a leading international automotive supplier. The presenter reviewed the Integrity process model that serves as the hub of our safety-critical framework, explained the mechanics and value of their reporting approach, and discuss the evolution or our approach over time.

Data security is not a new problem, companies face significant challenges in traditional environments when trying to protect critical intellectual property and sensitive customer or employee information. IoT presents different challenges, unlike the traditional enterprise, information is typically travelling on untrusted networks, and through a range of different business partners and ecosystems. To take advantage of the key benefits of IoT- scale and speed - we need to think about data security differently. Security has to be delivered as close to the creation of data as possible and policy needs to be applied so that different parts of the ecosystem can access the information they need without compromising the data payload. In addition to the data problem, we need to be sure that our applications are communicating with the right devices - device identity and integrity is a key component of a secure IoT platform. Many of the current security challenges we see today are as a result of

Learn about the overall journey of how an IoT solution starts from concept and ends up deployed in production and providing value for end users. The presenter talked about the whole life cycle of an IoT solution from the beginning stages of discovery, through justification, development, deployment and finally operating an IoT solution.

The focus of this panel discussion was to share the story of Embraer’s PLM project using the PTC Integrity platform during structural test processes. The project was developed in a highly complex environment, and is the first PLM project at Embraer to use PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager software.The panelists discuss the project management and lean development practices they incorporated during the project, and shared insights into lessons learned for successful implementation of Integrity Lifecycle Manager in PTC Windchill environments.