Special Topics

S1000D "101": Specification Overview, Best Practices, and Tips and Tricks
Ian Boulton, PTC

This session is a condensed one-day event modeled after the two-day paid training offered by PTC University. Throughout this session, PTC subject matter experts will provide an in-depth review and background of the S1000D specification up to Issue 4 including S1000D business rules; authoring interactive technical manuals (IETM); automated publishing and managing applicability in S1000D for print, electronic and interactive output; and how to use and create associative technical illustrations from original CAD/Product Data. Detailed study guides will be made available to all attendees. This session will begin promptly at 8:30am and continue until 5:30pm and will include a lunch break.

Using Pro/ENGINEER Data for Technical Illustrations
Dieter Weidenbrueck, PTC

Reuse of existing 3D CAD models for technical illustration purposes results in enormous time savings. This session will demonstrate the integration between Pro/ENGINEER and Arbortext IsoDraw, and the process of creating associative technical illustrations from CAD models for further usage within the Dynamic Publishing System.

Improve Process Efficiency with Windchill Business Reporting
Vishal Arora, PTC

Join this session to learn about Windchill Business Reporting and the value it provides in understanding Key Performance Indicators. Windchill Business Reporting is critical to understanding your PLM business processes and offers an executive-friendly view of information. This session will cover techniques for extracting data out of Windchill and provide tips and tricks for authoring rich graphical reports in Windchill for use by themselves or as part of executive dashboards.

From Art to Part with the PTC Product Development System
Dennis Sauro, Kensey Nash Corporation

Kensey Nash has grown into an $80 million pacesetter in the medical devices industry. Learn how the right vision and the right product development tools have contributed to the meteoric rise at Kensey Nash.

Understanding PDS Security
Mike Kasameyer, PTC

You've invested a lot in developing your intellectual property, but you don't need to invest a lot to protect it. In this session, you will learn about the tools and techniques available to secure your product development system.

ECAD/MCAD Collaboration in Action
Jim Barrett-Smith, PTC

Join this session for an amazing demonstration of electro-mechanical co-design, showcasing new capabilities in Pro/ENGINEER which allow for much more efficient collaboration with ECAD software, resulting in better products, faster!

Leveraging Your Model-Based Designs with ProductView
Madhavi Ramesh, PTC

Learn about how Model Based Design 3D drawings can be used and deployed within ProductView - helping you reduce/eliminate the need to create 2D drawings.

FIRST Informational Meeting
Robin Saitz, PTC

Learn how you can get involved with FIRST and help inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers! During our sessions, you'll meet with some of the teams appearing in the Exhibit Hall demonstrations.

Latest Pro/ENGINEER Releases: Show Me the Value!
Michael Campbell, PTC

Come learn about the real, business value of adopting the latest releases, and what PTC is doing to help you understand and sell that value within your organization. Topics will include measuring the impact on your daily work of new capabilities and increasing product quality.

Large Assemblies and ProductView
Michael Rygol, PTC

Developing large and complex products? Come and hear practical methods and tips for optimizing the conversion of large CAD assemblies for highly efficient use within ProductView.

How Small and Mid-Sized Businesses Use PLM to Outmaneuver the Competition
Cory Huey, EAC Product Development Solutions

Small and mid-sized businesses have a distinct advantage over the Fortune 500 in this challenging economy. They are more nimble and capable of implementing process and systems changes that drive real efficiency. Through a real-world success story, we will examine how Industrial Scientific Corporation embraced PLM to drive out costs, increase collaboration, and improve their ability to react quickly to change. Learn about their pain points, strategies, and the ROI metrics they put in place.

Taking 2D Drawings Off the Critical Path Using Model-Based Definition
Vladimir Pezel, PTC

Model-based definition reduces the need for extraneous 2D drawings by creating richly annotated 3D CAD models and deploying this annotated content via a visualization tool such as ProductView. The lightweight annotated content is leveraged by downstream consumers to create manufacturing, assembly or inspection plans. Learn best practices for capturing and organizing PMI, processes for configuration and management of the technical data set in PLM and delivery and consumption of data by downstream users.

Social Product Development
Tom Shoemaker, PTC

Change is brewing in product development. Shifting workforce demographics, increased connectivity demands of a global team, and major advances of Web 2.0 technologies are converging to create an unparalleled environment of both risk and opportunity. This session will seek to look forward at possible ways that social computing technologies might impact the way product development is conducted.

Windchill Architecture and Hardware Deployment Resources
Victor Gerdes, PTC

PTC has enhanced its ability to validate and document various hardware architectures used in enterprise deployments with a new center of excellence - the Enterprise Deployment Center. Here, PTC works with its partners to provide best practices and recommendations on how customers, partners, and PTC implementers can best plan, architect, deploy, configure, and administer Windchill and Pro/INTRALINK systems.

Discover the Hidden Value in Support
Chris Lewis, Joe Quarella and James Winokur, PTC

PTC maintenance support customers may not be aware of the significant productivity gains they can achieve with the entitlements they already have. Our experts will help you discover the basic and advanced, proactive support features that add up to real savings – if you plan ahead. We encourage new PTC customers to learn about all of their maintenance support entitlements. Attendees will not only take away valuable information, but one lucky winner will walk away with a prize!

Using Mathcad Across the Product Development System
Alan Belniak, PTC

Come see how Mathcad worksheets can not only serve as the real-time basis for your designs, but also how they can effectively be managed and maintained within both Windchill and ProductPoint. With Mathcad inside the PDS, you can maintain revisions of both stand-alone and Pro/ENGINEER-referenced worksheets, search for content, distribute client-side viewable worksheets to extended team members, and much more!

Harness the Power of Mathcad and Pro/ENGINEER ... Together ... Today
Mark Walker, PTC

Whether Mathcad calculations are used to drive Pro/ENGINEER geometry, or geometric variances are evaluated within Mathcad against theoretical limits, there are many ways that Mathcad can be used to bridge the gap between theory and the CAD model. We'll review the basis for the current integration, highlight some customer successes, and preview some ideas that we're considering for the future.