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For a company like BAE data security is critical. Security Labels are a critical component to how BAE protects their data from access and mishandling.  In BAE’s line of business the personal and company repercussions of mislabeling or mishandling of data can be severe.  To help ensure users label and handle objects appropriately all security label and agreement information needs to be prominently displayed on the object’s “Details” tab.  Searching, switching tabs is not sufficient.  It needs to be obvious.  A Data Utility Class is perfect for this. By attending this presentation, learn how BAE have deployed additional safety measures to protect their data to include the use of a “no agreement” label as a default value and controlling label values programmatically via workflows. These measures help catch any mislabeling prior to release and the problem is corrected before it can cause harm.Presented by: Craig Raymond, BAE Systems and Steve Shaw, PTCSee all PTC L

PTC Windchill's packages are the heart of iRobot's improved vendor quoting process. The presenter will explain how they were able to redesign the process and drastically change the effort needed from days to hours. The presenter will share the history of the process and the changing needs of the company that led to the undertaking of this project. Within PTC Windchill, the presenter will highlight the different ways to interact with the package feature and achieved the goal iRobot wanted. Their main objective was to remove as much user frustration as possible, and make the process as repeatable as possible so that almost anyone in the company would be able to run it. By giving users a traceable mechanism to transfer data, it became easier to interact with vendors and customers. Customers and vendors are able to see what data has been sent out, who sent it, when it was sent. This made it easier to uncover issues with the data, and ensure quotes reflect accurate data. Finally, the presen

This demo presentation will be of the Alcon Change Management Process using CAD Driven Product Structure. The presenters will show live how manipulating CAD Structure in the work space automatically updates the product structure. The presenters will also cover best practices in place and what the challenges are a CAD designer faces to maintain a CAD driven product structure. The CAD driven demonstration will cover the process for creating WTParts for new and existing CADDoc. Defining the WTPart attributes and association types to generate Engineering Bill of Materials (eBOM).Presented by: Preeti Gupta, AlconSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Hear an overview of the technology and functionality employed by Doosan. The presenter will discuss a case study of how Doosan Portable Power (a mid-sized business unit of Doosan Infracore) used PTC Windchill ESI and PTC Windchill MPMLink to create an almost OOTB integration to Oracle MFG ERP.  This presentation will cover key project planning points and lessons learned.Presented by: Dan Ponjican, Doosan Infracore Portable PowerSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

For consumer products, packaging not only protects a product during shipment, but great, on trend packaging will drive consumer decisions at the point of sale and provides the company an opportunity to embed brand messaging. Keeping packaging relevant requires design and configuration speed. Reducing the cost of packaging requires a common specification definition of packaging and a process to reliably share information. The  presenters will discuss the pressures driving the need for a common packaging specification system, how his team developed speed, achieved scale and productivity cost savings.   Presented by: Katie Musser and Ron Harkins, Newell Rubbermaid   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Product Lifecycle Management is a key enabler in achieving operational efficiency and plays a pivotal role in achieving economical and fast-to-market solutions. In an organization like CCFS, which develops and delivers dispensers, data sharing and collaboration between internal CCFS functions, on-site and offsite design partners becomes a huge necessity. Additionally, challenges arise out of the need to have different environments that allow explorative design during the initial stages of the design and rigor in changes with matured product data. By attending this presentation hear how CCFS addresses these  challenges by utilizing PTC Windchill Project link, PTC Windchill PDM and PTC Windchill Quality.   Presented by: Gokul  Venkatesan, Coca-Cola   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Imagine 20+ US and global sites with thousands of engineers working on numerous new product introduction (NPI) projects with paper change/configuration processes and design data located on each designer's hard drive or better on shared network drives. Imagine again that each site implemented its own process and has its own way of managing its product data. Imagine one last time that the legacy system had to be rebooted every week to keep going. We've come a long way by implementing PTC Windchill PLM, Partlink/SUMA and Quality Solutions! The presenters will share their story of product life-cycle data management as a case study: Global Change & Configuration process: one team and one methodology to effectively manage product data for multiple P&L businesses Concurrent Engineering: effectively use global resources to develop new products simultaneously with real-time data and collaboration in a secure and export compliant environment Simplification of IT environment and integrati

What happens when a simple urgent change takes more time then senior management is willing to wait? At iRobot they spent nine months of rethinking the way the company wanted to approach changes.  During the presentation, the  presenter will discuss the approach they used to capture what the company wanted their change process to be, the changes they made to streamline the process and the usability improvements that helped them get the user community behind the changes. The presenter will discuss the main goals of the process were to: Reduce the number of gating tasks Remove serial tasks wherever possible Decrease the number approvers to the fewest number possible Provide a flexible process A flexible process required a significant amount of thought and planning to make a process repeatable, yet flexible. A customization was created to allow the user to specify which tasks must be completed for this change, the user could also specify who was to complete and review the work,

"Managing purchased parts is very important within most organizations. Are you interested in knowing more about how to manage purchased parts within your PTC Windchill? Do you know how PTC Windchill supplier management Part Request process can be simplified to request and approve new purchased parts with in your organization? Learn how to submit new part requests for purchased parts, how to get approvals and feedback from sourcing and component engineering groups, and how to release purchased parts and send to downstream systems. The presenters will help the audience to learn from their success and the techniques used to manage purchased parts using PTC Windchill Supplier Data Management module."   Presented by: Kristi Van Hofwegen, Daktronics and Sateesh Dendukuri, Datafrond   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

"Over the last three years, the presenters’ companies have reorganized from four business units, to two, to now operating as a single company with functional organizations. At the same time, evolving their system from a primary focus on regulatory compliance, to a focus on supporting business users' objectives on cost, collaboration, and innovation. In this presentation, the presenters will share their “taxonomy” project, and how they are evolving their PTC Windchill implementation to support their new organizational structure, while still maintaining the Global Regulatory compliance required of every medical device company.  The presentation highlights will include: Costs: reduce product development costs by simplifying creation and maintenance of product data. Risk: streamline compliance/reduce product risk by leveraging PTC Windchill capabilities such as business rules to validate data quality. Collaboration: improve IT business support by moving from a compliance focus, to a b

PTC Windchill workflows offer the tools and functionality to simplify the complex process of modeling business processes. But organizations continually need to be evolving business processes to keep pace with the changing world. And this is when they discover it can be difficult to update existing PTC Windchill workflows to support the changing needs of their business.  In this presentation, the presenter will discuss an approach to implementing PTC Windchill workflows in a way that naturally and easily supports the refinement and evolution of a business process over time – using state-based workflows. In this state-based approach, the business process is implemented as a separate workflow associated with each state (or stage) of the process. A state-based workflow approach can offer benefits that the traditional “lifetime workflow” approach can’t – especially when it comes to evolving a process over time. Attendees will learn how using state-based workflows provide a modular fram

This presentation is intended to introduce PTC Windchill users to the Desktop Integration (DTI) function and the  experience of deploying DTI at BlackBerry in PTC Windchill 10.1 for the purpose of managing/collaborating documents throughout our organization (and externally). The presentation will focus on Blackberry's deployment and post deployment activities working with both novice and experienced PTC Windchill users, and ther experience of  managing documents in the DTI environment. The information presented is intended to prepare others deploying DTI with FAQs, preferred PTC Windchill environment settings, and tips and tricks discovered during Blackberry's journey. Lastly, with a PTC Windchill 10.2 upgrade on the map for the beginning of 2015 the presenter will share their experience with DTI following the upgrade, and highlight the top enhancements that improved the DTI end-user experience.   Presented by: Alex Gioultouridis, BlackBerry and Steve Shaw, PTC   Se

Is your system uptime being tracked by management and/or customers? Do you have random issues appear and you just don’t know why? In this presentation, attendees will learn why and how monitoring and maintaining PTC Windchill 10.x will help reduce work load and issues while increasing uptime. The presenter, one of Raytheon’s primary deployment and system experts, will share lessons learned from prior issues, recommend methods of tracking maintenance, and how to successfully support a system where unplanned downtime becomes a thing of the past. Utilizing PTC System Monitor 3.0, recommended documentation from PTC, attendees will leave no longer feeling  maintaining PTC Windchill 10.x is a burden.   Presented by: Timothy Swett, Raytheon   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Why should you classify parts?  What is the value to your organization? One of the keys for classification is the use of a standard name for parts that helps with searching, publishing the part to other system, and user adoption. Attend this presentation to learn how Solar Turbines has successfully implemented PTC Windchill PartsLink including the ability to auto generate the part name based on the classification attributes (over 300,000 parts classified).  The presenters will discuss the implementation including how to select the right team, best practices for developing a classification schema, which parts to classify first and data cleansing.  This will also include a live demo of PTC Windchill PartsLink showcasing the auto part naming.  After this presentation, you too will be able to unleash the value of PTC Windchill PartsLink.   Presented by: Daniel Betry, Solar Turbines Inc.   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

In today’s global business environment, change is the norm. Effective Organizational Change Management (OCM) can result in driving benefit realization, ensure Return on Investment (ROI), and enable results and outcomes through employee adoption and usage of change. A systematic approach to OCM is beneficial when change requires people throughout an organization to learn new behaviors and skills. By formally setting expectations, employing tools to improve communication and proactively seeking ways to reduce misinformation, stakeholders are more likely to buy into a change initially and remain committed to the change throughout any discomfort or resistance associated with it. This presentation will examine the strategy, execution and lessons learned and experienced at Raytheon during the largest PTC Windchill deployment ever.  The presenters will share the steps taken to develop and implement a robust change management plan that addresses changing a culture with an emphasis on stak

Today’s material regulation landscape can easily be described as rough and tumble, much like a rugby game; new regulations are emerging and existing regulations have an ever expanding scope, leaving manufacturers with the question “how do I keep up?”.  With medical devices now in scope of certain environmental material regulations, the presenter will cover key benefits and Boston Scientific’s sustainable process: including a unique one-stop material data collection form, combined with PTC Windchill Product Analytics (WPA).   Presented by: Kathleen Crawford and Kathyrn  Usher, Boston Scientific Corp   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Recognizing the need to address organizational Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) and maintain its market leadership and reputation for quality, Hewlett Packard’s Enterprise Group did a corporate level assessment of its internal quality strategy and tactics, then engaged PTC to assess the state of the reliability engineering processes and tools. The PTC assessment uncovered opportunities to apply a best-practice approach by creating more integrated reliability analysis processes across the product lifecycle. The presenter will provide background on the motivation for the organizational assessment of quality strategies, current state of the Quality Lifecycle in EG, the findings from the PTC reliability assessment, the past and current solution initiatives, and the expected value to be realized.   Presented by: Jim Cosco, Hewlett Packard   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Would you like to connect PTC Windchill to Active directory to pull in user information? By attending this presentation hear the presenter walk you through the setup and configuration needed to connect Active Directory to PTC Windchill. In this case study the presenter will discuss some of the common pitfalls encountered, how to avoid them and different options available.   Presented by: Brian Reed, JBT   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Are your electrical engineers and designers documenting their designs with a combination of zip files, date stamps and network drives?  Attendees will learn how to use PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager to take electronics design data management from the days of renaming folders to a true PLM version controlled system within PTC Windchill 2.0.  The presenters will tell the story about how they have used PTC Windchill Workgroup Manager to check-in their Cadence designs and manage all of their design and release cycles within PTC Windchill 2.0.   Presented by: Duane Smith, L Srinivasan, and Patrick Cox, GE Appliances   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Is your company considering linking CAD objects to Parts in PTC Windchill? Properly linked BOMs provide powerful benefits and the functionality works well, but the change involved for end users, change managers, and support personnel can be daunting. The presenters will take attendees through the basics of linked data, with real-world perspective on what it takes to transition from a non-linked to a linked data environment. The presentation will include examples of the effort and pitfalls involved, along with examples of the significant benefits once successfully implemented.Presented by: Albert Anderson and David Nelson, Solar Turbines Inc.See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

During the proof of concept and the discussions on adopting a PLM Program at Embraer, the opportunity to leverage short and medium term benefits by implementing functionalities out-of-the box were identified, in addition to anticipating the adoption learning curve for specific business areas . The presenter will explain the Embraer strategy, the execution and the lessons learned in the implementation and the partnership developed with PTC.   Presented by: Alexandre Pasin, EMBRAER   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

As PLM technology moves forward, companies have the ability to quickly advance and automate processes. However, without a change in current behavior, goals and possibly even team structure, adoption of PLM can be challenging. Come hear from TE Connectivity, Daktronics, Vitamix on their advice and lessons learned instituting organization change management in their companies.   Presented by: Jay Nallani, TE Connectivity   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Planning for your next upgrade? What steps are available? What plans should you have in place?  Learn from PTC Windchill administrators from different industries about common best practices for planning and executing PTC Windchill upgrades.   Presented by: Iain Kashyap, Whirlpool Corporation, Matt Sheridan, PTC, Michael Brekke, Boston Scientific Corp, and Michael Johnson, SRAM   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Today Raytheon is an excellent example of a customer standardizing PLM onto a central system in order to establish a single source of truth.  With over 25,000 users, Raytheon is also one of the largest PTC Windchill deployments. Come hear from a panel of PTC Windchill Admin experts from across various Raytheon business units, as they share lessons learned and best practices around the largest data migration (from Intralink 3.x) and one of the largest user rollouts in PTC history.   Presented by: Daniel Rost, Danny Poisson, David Bujak, James Stephens, Susan Kilgore, and Trindy LeForge, Raytheon   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Aerojet Rocketdyne (AR) successfully completed a company-wide three year effort implementing a comprehensive PTC Windchill Implementation of 10.1. To ensure success, AR contracted with PTC Global Services and PTC Partners while working with PTC Research and Development and the Technical Committees.  The migration included four major systems (Team Center Unified, Team Center Enterprise, SAP and Documentum), multiple databases and integrating into our current production PTC Windchill PDMLink 10.1 environment used for PTC Creo CAD. PTC modules incorporated include PTC Windchill PDMLink, PTC Multi-CAD data management (PTC Creo, PTC NX, PTC AutoCAD, and PTC Mentor), PTC Windchill ProjectLink, PTC Windchill MPMLink (MBOM), ESI (Oracle), TechNotes and Arbortext. The presenter will explain the business drivers, scope of the implementation, strategic and tactical approach of pursuing minimal customization, data migration approach, integration and concurrent go-live with Oracle ERP, user tr