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Globally, organizations need to focus on reducing product cost, improving product quality and speeding up the time to market. While many organizations spend money and efforts in improving manufacturing efficiencies, the solution lies in the design stage. More than 80% product cost in design is allocated right at the design stage .Identifying potential manufacturing issues right at the design stage can save a lot of time and effort. Also the cost to correct issues due to manufacturability are higher at a later stage. Therefore, it is imperative that product designs should be validated with each design iteration to ensure cost targets and manufacturability requirements are met right from the initial stages of product development. Design engineers need to go through multiple iterations to understand the cost impact. Designers should be provided with adequate tools to make decisions and trade-offs about product cost. Key elements which influence the decision are cost drivers which should b

How to save time and money with innovative model based engineering. In this session, Software Factory showcased the benefits of it's very unique and huge solution portfolio: R&D, Consulting, Implementation, Hosting and Support all from one supplier.

Remove geometry from your 3D CAD models with the click of one button. In this session the presenter shared how a company with a 1.8GB file can simplify it to a 320MB file and reduce the file size from 3200 to 35 files.

IoT is a new computing era and this presentation will discuss the following business needs:   Tons of different devices spread across diverse environments Data and processes tied up in existing enterprise and manufacturing systems The need to integrate the people into the processes in a form that's much deeper than today The need to make decisions in real time A Platform that will continually change and adapt to business changes to market demands A Platform that is secure, reliable, easily maintainable and run from the edge to any cloud (public or private)

Engineering companies have invested 30 years of effort into authoring CAD and PLM data. Theorem Solutions offer software products that add value to this data by facilitating its extended use. These products re-purpose data for use in downstream processes and enable: creation of documents with 3D content and metadata, creation of lightweight data usable by low cost 3D viewers, creation of data in a format shareable with suppliers and customers, creation of Model Based Definition data for use in manufacturing and Inspection processes, creation of data for use in design in context activities. This session explained what capabilities are available to create Engineering Documents containing 3D PDF data from Creo Parametric.

IoT promises to connect the things that automate our world with decision makers, empowering them with on-demand access to Actionable Intelligence. This revolution will make connectivity and data analytics mainstream, enabling all companies to run more efficient, effective businesses, and deliver levels of service to customers that were not possible before the connected world. Today organizations often have unconnected and/or remote assets that are sensing or controlling real-world processes, producing what is known as ‘dark data’. The quickest way for companies to benefit from the Internet of Things is to modernize existing equipment with connected capabilities, and unlock the value hidden in dark data.  Modernizing legacy equipment avoids re-engineering, extensive upgrades or costly replacement, but can be difficult; are there any products are available today that can accomplish this?  Most IoT products on the market today only address part of the information delivery value

The service parts business of any OEM offers great opportunities to drive customer loyalty as well as high-margin revenue growth.  PTC’s Servigistics solutions deliver tremendous value by optimizing parts inventory, pricing strategies and results. Barkawi Management Consultants broke down 5 key factors that can help maximize the value of a PTC SLM investment. With a PTC practice that consists of many former Servigistics executives and engineers with collective experience in over 100 successful Servigistics projects, our experts guided you through how to generate the fastest and best results possible from PTC SLM solutions.

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