• PTC/USER Global Summit 2025 - Save the Date (January 27-30)
• Webinar: ThingWorx and Vuforia Products Highlights Brought to You by PTC/USER - Tuesday, July 9th, 10:00 AM CDT
• Webinar: What’s new in HCL DFMPro 2024? - Thursday July 11, 12:00 PM EDT
• Webinar: What’s New in Creo Illustrate 11.0 - Tuesday, July 16, 9:00 AM CDTh
• BUG CAD/Windchill Admin Roundtable: Friday, – July 19, 11:00 AM CDT
• Webinar: Sustainability: Design for Energy Efficiency Live - Thursday, July 25th 10:00 AM CDT
• Enabling Manufacturing Concurrency between PLM and Production Systems
• NEW Update to Everyone’s Favorite Windchill App
• Top 6 Windchill System Maintenance To Dos
• PTC/USER Newsletter Archive
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It's official! We have chosen the date and location for the PTC/USER Global Summit 2025. We are thrilled to announce that it will be held in New Orleans at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel from January 27-30. Call for abstracts and registration will be opening soon!

ThingWorx offers a full range of new and updated features that enhance our core platform capabilities and help increase uptime, reduce cost, and improve efficiency across the enterprise. We will be covering these topics in the webinar.

•    Smart Connected Products (SCP) Accelerator demo
•    Digital Performance Management (DPM) example
•    Remote Service Edge (RSE) for no-code edge development
•    Vuforia Studio/ThingWorx use case with work instructions
•    Vuforia Expert Capture AI trained step check

 

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HCL DFMPro, a design for manufacturing software, has come up with several exciting improvements and enhancements to its core functionality and certain usability aspects in 2024.

In this webinar, learn about these enhancements and get a live demonstration of these functionalities and other aspects of HCL DFMPro.

DFMPro is well integrated within CAD platforms like Creo Parametric, SOLIDWORKS, NX and CATIA which ensures that users are able to identify and rectify designs for manufacturing checks within their own CAD platform. 

Register for the webinar: https://dfmpro.com/events/whats-new-in-hcl-dfmpro-design-for-manufacturing-software-2024/?utm_source=ptc&utm_medium=email

Join this live webcast to review a summary of the significant features added in the 11.0 release of Creo Illustrate. This release includes continued advancements of 2D capabilities. Many customers support hybrid programs for 2D and 3D illustrations, so we continue to bring in more 2D components.

 

Digital illustration tools are essential in connecting engineering, technical authoring teams, manufacturing teams, and frontline workers who need to quickly understand service information and work instructions. Creo Illustrate 11 can do even more to help teams turn complex engineering data into focused content.  

 

PTC experts will join Creo Illustrate customers to unveil the updates in Creo Illustrate 11. Now more than ever, businesses need speed and accuracy in training tools, service information and work instructions.  

 

Join Jeff Coon, Director of Product Management at PTC and Deb Williams, Senior Sales Director, Arbortext, as they share the key functionalities and updates in Creo Illustrate 11.0: 

• New Options for Insets
• Ability to Modify 2D Elements
• Support for Layers and Groups in 2D Figures
• Ability to Copy Transforms Between Parts
• Enhanced Admin Tool Features 

Register Here

Join for 5 min or the whole hour.  Ask/answer questions of people in similar Admin roles. Badgerland UG is moderator, but all are welcome.

 

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In this webinar series session, you'll discover the pivotal role of choosing materials that demand less energy for manufacturing and recycling, adding a new dimension of sustainability to enhance your design process significantly. Don't let this opportunity slip by. Join us on July 25th at 10AM CST and uncover practical strategies to infuse sustainability seamlessly into your engineering designs. Uncover how modal analysis, thermal analysis, and Creo Flow Analysis empower engineers to craft environmentally conscious designs that are both efficient and sustainable.

 

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As one of PTC's top systems integrators, Kalypso: A Rockwell Automation Business kicked off a series of partner showcase events featuring success stories with some of their most sought-after services solutions. In April, Kalypso joined forces with Fresenius Medical Care to highlight the work they are doing with Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) for medical device manufacturers. This single-day event was held at PTC’s offices and wrapped with a private tour of their Corporate Experience Center (CXC). Over 45 customers from 12 companies all across North America came to learn, understand and network with leaders and peers.
 
In partnership with PTC, Kalypso is spearheading digital transformation in the industry. The work with PTC's connected PLM solutions, MPM included, is helping to connect engineering and manufacturing while optimizing process plans in ways that will change the future of digital. 
 
This event is just one of several planned for FY24 and beyond that helps bring to life how companies can achieve faster, more accurate and efficient operations, making traceability as straightforward as following a digital trail. There is a strong importance placed on collaboration and innovation as we look to shape the future of product manufacturing and with the collective efforts in place, we are on the brink of unprecedented advancements. Checkout Kalypso's latest MPM in action video to learn more about how we are bridging the gap for our clients and how we can support you wherever you are in your digital transformation journey.

At FELCO Solutions, our commitment to providing the highest quality solutions is unwavering. We are excited to announce the release of Object Validator 12.0, a groundbreaking app designed to enhance the speed, accuracy, and integrity of Windchill objects within the release process. This update is compatible with Windchill versions 11-13 and introduces a new interface along with several powerful new rules.

 

What’s New in Windchill 2.0?

 

When you access the new interface, you’ll see fields that automatically populate based on your various selections. You will also see that the rules are now listed for you to select from and all of the rule configurations are cached which will significantly speed up the validation process. Additionally, we have added:

●    A rule to validate if the family table has been verified.
●    A rule to validate past lifecycle states of objects.
●    A rule that validates a WTDocument has its associated WTPart in the validation.
●    Object Validator to the Review and Problem Report wizard.
●    A rule that checks the IBA values of associated items.
●    Functionality to verify that the Change Task Affected Items table is not empty.
●    A rule to validate Release Target is set on Change Task Affected Items.
●    A rule that will check for Associated Annotations.
●    A rule that validates a WTPart has an associated Describe By Document.
●    The ability to set the Change Task validation to validate Resulting or Affected objects.
●    The ability to call a REST Web Service to validate objects.

 

Upcoming Events!

 

Stay tuned for exciting announcements from FELCO Solutions, including a DevOps webinar for Windchill utilizing Maven and Docker. More details on this event and how to register as well as the latest enhancements to our Windchill App Manager and PLM Integrator will be coming soon.

 

Don't miss out on the exciting developments at FELCO Solutions. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out. We look forward to hearing from you!

Keep your Windchill system humming with our easy-to-follow maintenance guide! From keeping tabs on server health to balancing your user licenses, we've got the insider tips to ensure your system runs without a hiccup. Dive in and keep your workflow as smooth as possible with these simple, yet effective, Windchill maintenance rituals.

 

Read the guide here.

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