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Many companies see a future with a full engineering BOM that is the core for high-value PLM processes.  Learn how to plan for and then make the move from CAD data management only to an associative engineering bill of material.Presented by: Matt Sheridan, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Product lifecycle management is embarking on an era of unprecedented opportunity. Traditionally, PLM only manages the data, artifacts, and processes related to products and systems up until the time they leave the showroom floor. Once a product is handed off to a customer, PLM’s knowledge is in the dark, until now! The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to deliver a flood of information from smart, connected products in the field. This significant new understanding of actual product use, operating conditions, performance, and quality has the potential to dramatically improve product development. Tracking usage data can help product management fine-tune offerings to better meet customers’ needs. Over-engineered or underperforming parts can be identified and redesigned to ensure both performance and value. And detailed information about operating conditions during a failure can speed quality and safety improvements.  A company’s ability to leverage these new opportunities is reliant

A common executive goal for many companies is to reduce part proliferation through part reuse. The challenge often is determining the business value or ROI for this type of project. This presentation will discuss an approach to creating an ROI based on past customer experiences and a sample of best practices to include once the project begins.Presented by: Jim Sweeney, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

A well-tuned system is critical for companies to derive value from using PTC Windchill. This presentation will provide information on how best to deploy and tune a PTC Windchill system. The presenter will also provide tips and techniques on how to monitor, troubleshoot and fix performance problems when they arise.Presented by: Ram Krishnamurthy, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Smart, Connected Products means you must manage and review electronic information including boards, schematics, and routings.  Learn about the latest advances with electronic data management, best practices and cases studies from PTC customers managing ECAD data.Presented by: Mark Caradonna, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

In this presentation, attendees will learn how to leverage the PTC Windchill Retail PLM solution to enable end-to-end SKU development in PLM – from planning your product line, to capturing and communicating product family requirements, and then developing SKU–level BOMs that incorporate components with assigned materials and colors.Presented by: Francois Lamy, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

This presentation will cover an overview of recent PTC Windchill advances as well as future capabilities and PTC’s overall PLM strategy. Hear from Kevin Wrenn, Divisional GM, PLM Segment and Darryn Kozak, Vice President Product Management as they review the latest information around core product-lifecycle-management products: PTC Windchill PDMLink, PTC Windchill ProjectLink, PTC Windchill MPMLink, PTC Windchill Quality Management Systems and others.Presented by: Darryn Kozak and Kevin Wrenn, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

PTC Creo Unite is a breakthrough technology that when combined with PTC Windchill unlocks a tremendous amount of value to companies collaborating in a Multi-CAD design environment either within their own company or externally with design partners, suppliers or OEMs. The presenter will provide some deeper insights into managing PTC Creo Unite technology using PTC Windchill. The presenter will also showcase some specific best practices around collaborating in a Multi-CAD design environment that are further enhanced with the introduction of PTC Creo Unite.Presented by: Mark Lobo, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

During this presentation, the presenter will cover executing the Change Management process starting from an creation of an issue to implementing the change into production. Multiple paths will be discussed as well as different capabilities that can be leveraged during the process such as Change Notice Templates, Business Rules, Mass Change and more. Attendees will gain an understanding on ways to help users execute the process efficiently while meeting business needs.   Presented by: Jeff Zemsky, PTC   See all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

More and more companies move to model-based design processes to improve product quality, to improve review processes and to remove paper as part of green efforts. Learn about capabilities PTC can offer to help move your organization toward model-based designs.Presented by: Michael Rygol, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Many companies are adopting product modularization approaches. In this presentation, learn the major processes and best practices for managing product platforms. Learn about new approaches to developing platforms and customer-driven variants using PTC Windchill and PTC Creo.Presented by: James Gehan, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

The cloud is an attractive alternative to traditional ‘on premise’ infrastructure.  This presentation will demonstrate how PTC Windchill and other PTC products may be deployed within cloud based infrastructures.  A brief overview of the Cloud will be provided along with a demonstration of a real world implementation of PTC Windchill running in the cloud. A short review of lessons learned will followPresented by: Adam Suber, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Improving search is a constant goal. The faster designers, engineers, reviewers, manufacturing engineers can find information the more efficient they are, the fewer new parts need to be created and the overall cost of products and product development is reduced.  Learn how PTC is continuing to advance search in PTC Windchill.Presented by: Vikram Sinha, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

PTC PLM offers customers tremendous flexibility with different types of parts …WTParts, Supplier Parts, etc… learn more about these and how to use them in your business.Presented by: Graham Birch, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

In this presentation the presenter will give an update on the new features in PTC Windchill MPDLink and discuss how to increase PTC Windchill MPMLink value with the Internet of Things (IoT).Presented by: Jean-Claude Niyonkuru, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Many product development companies today use multiple, disconnected Quality Management Systems across their organizations to address quality issues and their associated Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs). Without a single, centralized source for tracking and fixing these issues, key stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle lack visibility into quality data and processes, which can result in high Cost of Poor Quality, repeat issues, and safety risks.  The key to making this valuable quality data work better for your organization is to ensure it is accessible across the enterprise to the stakeholders who need it most: product engineers, management, and other teams throughout the lifecycle whose work impacts, or is impacted by, quality data and processes. This presentation will explore how a QMS CAPA solution that is seamlessly integrated with PLM technology enables better collaboration between Quality and Engineering teams. The presenter will discuss how it provides stak

Learn how the PTC PLM Cloud can help your company quickly leverage the power of PLM at a lower cost and risk to enable you to focus on the core business, and more effectively and efficiently collaborate with design and manufacturing partners.Presented by: Matt Sheridan, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

This presentation will cover an overview of recent PTC Windchill advances as well as future capabilities and PTC’s overall PLM strategy. Hear from Kevin Wrenn, Divisional GM, PLM Segment and Darryn Kozak, Vice President Product Management as they review the latest information around core product-lifecycle-management products: PTC Windchill PDMLink, PTC Windchill ProjectLink, PTC Windchill MPMLink, PTC Windchill Quality Management Systems and others.Presented by: Darryn Kozak and Kevin Wrenn, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

This presentation will survey the top ten improvements made to PTC Windchill from an administrator’s perspective. The presenter will cover both system and business administrative areas and discuss topics including migration, re-hosting, promotion tools, application and database clustering and high availability, system monitoring, user administration and reporting. The presentation is designed specifically for administrators and will focus on the top ten improvements being made to PTC Windchill in the coming release!Presented by: Walid Saad, PTCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

With potentially billions of dollars at stake – the ability to maximize the financial impact of product innovation has never been more important.  The speed of digital disruption is accelerating, investments in R&D are increasing, as is the need for PLM information to ripple throughout the extended enterprise.  To improve your PLM investment returns, join Accenture – a Global PTC partner since 2000 – for trends and insights on how to optimize PLM for business outcomes, enable more impactful end-to-end processes, unify hardware and software design data and part with lessons learned from years of leading complex, global PLM transformations.Presented by: Kevin Prendeville, AccentureSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

Having your PLM and ERP systems out of sync can create challenges throughout the inventory and order management process. Learn how KPIT solves the integration challenge by connecting Windchill PLM to ERP.  Discover a proven, economical solution that facilitates real-time, bi-directional flow between your Windchill PLM and ERP. Eliminate the uncertainties around data integrity between Windchill PLM and ERP systems. Enable Change Management from Engineering down to Production and Warehousing. Why You Should Attend Learn how manufacturers realize value with iLink. It integrates your two mission critical IT systems, can integrate multiple PLM instances with a single ERP, and drives your total cost of ownership to the lowest levels possible, all while facilitating a seamless, two-way conversation between your ERP and PLM systems.Learn Top Five Benefits of Seamless Integration .No additional hardware or middleware requiredSupports major PLM systemsBi-Directional - not just an Item/BOM/C

Collaboration in product development, especially across the borders of different engineering disciplines requires transparency in the processes and structures. Simply adapting the best practices from mechanical into electrical engineering in most cases is not sufficient enough due to different requirements and standards regarding the design and documentation. The presenters will take a closer look at the connections between electrical and fluid power design in automation and control configuration. Attendees will see how logical dependencies will be mapped to structural information and how the EPLAN platform for interdisciplinary engineering can be integrated into Windchill to generate electro-mechanical product models.Presented by: Arnd Paulfeuerborn, EPLAN Software & ServicesSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

PLM data delivers tremendous value for those that have access to the PLM system, however, those without direct access are still relying on inefficient data consumption methods. How do attendees delivery the value of PLM data to those who cannot access the PTC Windchill system directly? In this session presenters will explore three cases studies showing how valuable PLM data was shared with end users lacking direct access to the PTC Windchill system.Presented by: Shawn Lothrop, Boston Engineering CorporationSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

This presentation is focused on IT managers and heads of enterprises, who are planning the application of comprehensive project management as an integrated PLM element of enterprise management. Learn about the practical examples of the implementation of PTC Windchill ProjectLink that delivers planning, project management and execution capabilities at mechanical engineering company (large equipment for electric power plants). The main purpose of the presentation is to introduce attendees to methods of use and adaptation of PTC Windchill ProjectLink: planning and control of the execution of project schedules, using PTC Windchill ProjectLink (EPP model) for simple and complex projects, the generation of detailed and consolidated project reports and accounting of actual costs of design sub-divisions.Presented by: Vladimir Kovalevsky, Pro TechnologiesSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations

The automated generation of a Bill of Material from CAD Data is a primary benefit of the PTC Windchill PLM system. The presenters will take you through the steps on how to do this rapidly and efficiently in your organization. Attendees will gain an understanding of what the techniques are to automate generation of WTPARTS in a useful way. Beginning with an MCAD Assembly that includes an ECAD sub assembly, the presenters will generate a complete BOM. This includes driving the ECAD assembly BOM from the Schematic CAD data with the Unified Workgroup Manager. The presenters will also engage in short discussion of New Part Introduction (NPI) Process.Presented by: Linda Mazzitelli and Scott Claes, CLAESdotBIZ LLCSee all PTC Live Global 2015 - PTC Windchill and PLM Presentations