Announcing our Global Summit Keynote Speakers: Steve Dertien, Brian Thompson, and Mark Lobo
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Prepare to be inspired! We are happy to announce our keynote speakers for Global Summit 2025. Here's a sneak peek at what you can expect.
PTC’s Steve Dertien will lead Marcel Hammond from Northrop Grumman Space, Preeti Gupta from Johnson & Johnson, and Cliff Hutton from Johnson Controls in a panel discussion about some of their most incredible engineering projects and initiatives. Q&A will be incorporated throughout the discussion.
Topics will span:
✅System engineering and requirements
✅Model-based design/model-based enterprise
✅PLM in the factory and ERP integration
✅End to end configuration management
✅Leveraging PLM & CAD data across functions with Navigate and AI.
Our keynote titled “2025 and Beyond: PTC’s Digital Thread Strategy and Innovation Outlook” features PTC’s General Manager of CAD, Brian Thompson, and General Manager of PLM, Mark Lobo.
They will present how PTC's core products—Creo, Windchill, Codebeamer, and ServiceMax—shape its strategy for 2025 and beyond. Central to this vision is the Digital Thread, enabling seamless data flow across the product lifecycle to drive greater customer value realization.
Topics will include:
✅The transformative impact of model-based product development adoption on the market
✅Innovations such as artificial intelligence, software-defined everything, and SaaS in product development.
Attendees will gain actionable insights into how these technologies enhance product development efficiency, unlock business value, and strengthen the broader PTC/USER community.
Don’t miss out! Register today to jazz up your knowledge, innovate in harmony, and transform tomorrow.
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The Global Summit 2025 Agenda is Live!
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Dive into innovation and explore the Global Summit 2025 agenda – now LIVE!
Get ready to embark on a journey of discovery at Global Summit! Our jam-packed agenda is now live, featuring a wide range of sessions covering the latest trends and technical information.
Our sessions feature emerging technology, innovation, and industry insights that provide valuable knowledge and practical skills.
Visit the Global Summit Agenda today and start scrolling so you can plan your experience.
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Book Your Stay: Hotel Reservations Discounts Expire on January 8th
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This year’s Global Summit will be hosted in the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. Set in the vibrant French Quarter, you’re within walking distance of Bourbon Street and only minutes from popular attractions such as Jackson Square and Mardi Gras World.
PTC/USER has reserved a discounted block of rooms for your convenience but you’ll need to reserve your stay soon. Reservations end on January 8th and the rooms are filling up.
Join us in this bustling, busy space and enjoy the many amenities that await. Book your stay today!
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Badgerland UG CAD/Windchill Hosts Admin Roundtable: Friday, January 10th, 11:00 AM CST
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Do you have a CAD or Windchill admin question you would like to run by a group of your peers? Join our CAD/Windchill session on Friday, January 10th at 11:00 am CST. All are welcome! Join for 5 min or the whole hour.
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Badgerland UG Lunch & Learn - Join Michael Bourque from the Boston Regional User Group (BRUG) and hear the his untold story of Creo - Thursday, January 16th, 12:00 PM CST
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Join Michael Bourque from the Boston Regional User Group (BRUG) and hear his untold story of Creo, see a demo of his favorite tips and techniques, and hear 10 things he'd love about Creo—and 10 things he'd wish they’d fix.
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Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Software for Aerospace and Defense Industry
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December 2024: New Release of Creo+
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Creo+ is everything you love about Creo with the flexibility and capabilities of SaaS. This December release focuses on enhancing usability and productivity, collaboration, and design, with a focus on composites, manufacturing, simulation and MBD. Creo+ updates quarterly, meaning users get early access to new enhancements before they arrive in Creo
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Learn more about Creo+ (https://www.ptc.com/en/products/creo/creo-plus)
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Transforming Your PLM Adoption Strategy with Rand 3D
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At Rand 3D, we understand that a successful PLM software rollout is more than just implementation—it's about empowering your teams to seamlessly integrate new systems and processes. With our proven track record, we help large manufacturers, regardless of the PLM platform, adopt tailored training solutions that fit their unique needs.
Take, for example, one of our customers—a leading industrial equipment manufacturer—that faced scheduling challenges, and system risks due to delays in training. Rand 3D developed customized, role-based eLearning modules, including simulated exercises, that supported over 3,000 employees globally. This solution minimized administrative burdens and boosted user confidence by ensuring comprehensive training before system access. Click here to read their project success story.
Ready to elevate your team's productivity with customized PLM training?
Contact us to schedule a quick call to learn more.
EMAIL: training@rand.com
WEB: Rand3D.com
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PTC's The Third Angle Podcast
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NASA’s Next Giant Leap: The Tech Behind the Artemis Mission
In this episode, NASA give us very special access behind the scenes at Kennedy Space Center. NASA has been pushing the boundaries of space exploration for decades, and today, the Artemis program is the next giant leap. With a mission to return humans to the moon and venture even further into space, NASA is embracing cutting-edge digital engineering to make this vision a reality
Watch the episode here:
https://www.ptc.com/en/resources/corporate/podcast/third-angle/episode-51
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TriStar Acquires New Vision
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We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of New Vision, marking an exciting new chapter for TriStar. This partnership unites our shared values and complementary strengths, paving the way for innovative solutions and enhanced services for our clients and stakeholders. Together, we are poised to deliver even greater value, expand our capabilities, and drive forward our vision for the future.
New Vision has been a cornerstone in the PTC System Integration and Consulting landscape for over 20 years, offering expert Enterprise Consulting and System Integration services. The company has continued to thrive by leveraging its deep expertise in implementing the Digital Thread for product development organizations—architecting and integrating enterprise product development data. At the heart of their success is a relentless focus on delivering an industry-leading Client Experience.
Jeff Stebbins, CEO of New Vision, states, “TriStar and New Vision have been long-standing partners, collaborating in numerous ways over the past two decades. The timing is ideal to combine our specialized capabilities in areas such as the Service Digital Thread (Windchill Service & Arbortext), Enterprise Software Development (Application Development & Integration), and our deep technical knowledge of Windchill PLM and Business Process Automation with TriStar’s already exceptional team. This partnership marks an exciting new chapter, bringing together complementary skills to offer a full suite of solutions that will help our clients accelerate their Digital Transformation goals in the years to come.”
Follow us on LinkedIn to stay up to date for future updates!
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tristar
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Optimize Your Design Process with HCL DFMPro
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Innoface: Your partner for Windchill-ERP integration
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As each company’s processes and workflows differ from each other, there is a need for a highly configurable standard solution. Innoface has the answer: CoreFace!
CoreFace is a cloud-based SaaS Integration Suite used to integrate Windchill or Windchill+ SaaS PLM to ERP systems such as SAP S/4HANA, MS Dynamics 365 FO and others.
With CoreFace we are fundamentally changing the way in which systems can be integrated.
Connecting Windchill to your ERP system has never been easier.
But who is behind CoreFace and what other solutions do we offer?
Headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, Innoface AG has been a specialist in developing interfaces to integrate PTC Windchill with ERP systems since 2001. With over two decades of expertise, we provide seamless and reliable solutions that enable efficient data synchronization and process optimization for businesses worldwide.
Want to learn more about us? Watch our introduction video here: Innoface AG - Company Introduction.
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Appearances Can Be Deceptive — Use Automation for Fully Featured Models!
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Appearances can be deceptive ―Learn to achieve Digital Continuity with Creo Automation.
Achieving Digital Continuity means leveraging fully-featured Creo models with rich, detailed data to connect every phase of your product lifecycle.
For companies producing Engineered-to-Order (ETO) products, creating precise variants for every order is critical. But when shortcuts result in “good enough” models limited to BOM structures or oversimplified designs, the result is broken Digital Continuity, leading to:
- Bottlenecks in manufacturing and sales
- Increased customer dissatisfaction
The Solution―Creo Automation!
Discover how SIGMAXIM’s automation tools integrate company and CAD rules directly into Creo, ensuring compliance with company best practices and eliminating downstream bottlenecks.
Learn how this integration helps you:
- Build fully-featured Creo models to produce deliverables for customers, manufacturing, and all downstream departments.
- Streamline your process by retrieving existing models or creating new ones on demand.
Interested in learning more?
Contact mkelleher@sigmaxim.com to be put on the waiting list for our upcoming webinar and learn how having rich 3D Creo data at your fingertips unlocks limitless possibilities
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Anark sponsors PTCUSER Global Summit 2025
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Anark has sponsored every recent PTC/USER Global summit event, and we look forward to the excitement in New Orleans January 27-30, 2025. We will be joined by customer and partners of the PTC/USER community that include Lockheed, Sandia, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Solar Turbines, BAE, Ericsson AB, Northrop Grumman, Schaeffler, TE Connectivity, MxD, Action Engineering and more.
Anark continues the conversations on the business and people benefits that accrue as organizations move from ad-hoc, file based, technical data distribution to the deployment of a modern technical data communication platform. We are especially excited about the partnership with PTC that has been ongoing since the late 2000s. Our combined efforts are providing value for supply chain enablement via our best in class Model Based approaches to 3D PDF together with Anark Collaborate Technical Data Platform solutions that both include automated publishing from Windchill and support of the latest Model Based Definition Creo versions as they are released.
Anark Collaborate provides data security, fine-tuned access controls, support for modern web browsers, mobile first strategies, traceable web-based markup and collaboration that substantially increases the productivity of users who also need to make information available to partners or suppliers who may be outside of the authoritative systems and data they create with their PTC investments. This approach to Technical Data Collaboration has been especially attractive for PTC members who are considering how to address the challenges of DoDI Digital Engineering 5000.97, a topic that Anark has been in the middle of since it was announced in December 2023.
Stop by the Anark booth to talk about how we can provide everything you need to accelerate innovation with you existing PTC investments.
www.anark.com
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