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Devices continue to become smarter “at the edge” containing more sensors combined with increasing connectivity options. These technology convergences create new emerging IoT/M2M opportunities and the transformation of legacy technologies.  End users demand access to these technologies in an easy to buy easy to use experience.  This session discussed why enterprise and solution providers must plan on these trends and provided an  “easy button” on global connectivity and a way to monetize these offerings to satisfy the demands of customers.

Machine Learning….where do you start, what is success and when are you finished?  Turning the proverbial “data lead” into “data gold”.  During this session attendees heard about two examples from two different industries where machine learning was used to create solutions that improved asset performance, improved production and reduced maintenance expenses.

Barry-Wehmiller International’s (B-WI) business is providing scalable capabilities and solutions. B-WI offers enterprise, engineering, and technology solutions along with manufacturing operational support. Through unified visions and solutions, B-WI uses its global team to facilitate a connected enterprise. Specializing in optimizing the product development process, B-WI addresses customer’s most pressing product challenges by integrating people, data, processes and business systems across the product lifecycle. Through integrated PTC Product Solutions and PLM Solutions, during this session B-WI shared how it enables manufacturers to create, analyze, and manage product designs from concept and engineering all the way through delivery and service in order to bring products to market faster and more efficiently.

Whether you are already connected or thinking about connectivity for your systems, choosing the right platform will help reduce time to market and improve your customer’s experience. Start by finding the right partner who understands your market and can address the following items to fully leverage the Industrial IoT. This session focused on: - Understanding the right components such as speed or performance needed to support your application - Delivering technology to enable current and future connectivity requirements - Building the right infrastructure to support your products - Securing and hardening the platform and software stack

The focus of this session was to share details on Elysium’s data translation and verification capabilities to maintain quality data throughout the Digital Thread that included details on the support for PTC products and major CAD systems.

This session addressed different strategies, risks and techniques for organizing the migration of legacy system data to Windchill.

Most companies live in a multi-CAD world. Whether you have a mix of internal CAD tools, or you are collaborating with vendors or suppliers using other CAD tools, you need an environment to minimize disruption, and provide accurate, high value CAD data when and where you need it.  The optimal solution is different depending on your needs. Sometimes a STEP file is sufficient.  If STEP is not enough, Creo’s Unite Technology and Flexible Modeling capabilities may meet your needs.  If your requirements dictate that you must have a native, parametric model in Creo, or that you provide native, parametric data and associative drawings to a customer or supplier in another CAD format, manual re-modeling is not your only option. This session discussed some useful tips and technology to help users operate efficiently in a multi-CAD environment

All present and future connected IoT devices typically consist of hardware (sensors, processors, connectivity chips, etc) as well as software components. In the back end, the corresponding big data analytics and business logic can convert the collected data into meaningful service offerings. Customers who are interested in these services are looking for smartphone apps with an application management platform for an exciting user experience. Three critical success factors are required to provide such services: Flexible connectivity to collect the data from the edge, trusted digital identities for devices and users and the security to protect the exchange of valuable information from the device and allow secure software update and maintenance.  In order to keep up with future demands, production processes need to become intelligent, efficient, and sustainable. That is the reason why production is going digital – and security will become a key requirement. Globally connected industri

IoT presents one of the biggest opportunities for business transformation since the dawn of the Internet.  While the future for the IoT is a bright one, the journey to get there can be a long and arduous one without proper planning.  In this session, Mario Finochhiaro, Senior Director of Business Development for Xively by LogMeIn, highlighted the fundamental steps to becoming a successful connected product company, explored the benefits and challenges of creating IoT-enabled products, and provided real world examples of companies who have successfully navigated this journey.

As organizations globalize and shift from a CAD-centric to a Part-centric approach, they find that many of the artifacts that have traditionally been included on the CAD drawing are better defined using the Enterprise Part or within other repositories. This holds particularly true for information related to environmental and regulatory compliance – failing to do so has frequently necessitated mass drawing updates due to differing standards in various regions of the world. Presenting BOM or variant information in a tabular format to supplement the geometric views is another common practice. Manually adding this type of information is both a time-consuming and error-prone drain on your organization. Fishbowl’s Director of Engineering, Ross Jessen, discussed how Fishbowl’s System Generated Drawing Automation has been used by many organizations to essentially “de-feature” their CAD drawings and automatically add this type of information to what becomes the final “Specification Document”. T

IoT is transforming our world rapidly. Everything around us can be potentially connected leveraging IoT technologies. It’s about time we re-imagine how our age-old systems and services should function. During this session the presenter discussed how IoT will affect the future of emergency response services, reduce the response time and save lives.

Providing security users trust has become an increasingly important phrase in the development of applications designed to take advantage of the huge business opportunities associated with IoT. Jeep, Talking  Barbie, Nissan, baby monitors, and medical devices have all received widespread attention in the consumer, and trade press, for security vulnerabilities. Gartner, a leading industry analyst, has placed the need for organizations to focus on solutions for “IoT security” at the top of its recently released list of “The Top 10 Internet of Things Technologies for 2017 and 2018. This session discussed with attendees the four elements of a reliable IoT security solution.

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.