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Welcome to the new PTC/USER!

New PTC/USER Website now live!!

Thanks to everyone for your patience during our transition. The new website is now up and ready for use. Here are some tips for logging in the first time:

  • Username – This is your email address, the old Usernames did not transfer
  • YOU MUST RESET YOUR PASSWORD – you will be sent an email in the process
  • Clear Cache or try using a more modern web browser if you are experiencing issues, IE 11 for example does not work

New Jobs Section – We are very pleased to be able to offer a new Job board to the community. All members will be able to post job openings. **Please note that we are still making tweaks to this area.

PTC/USER Emails – We respect your time and overflowing mailbox. We send out this Newsletter approximately once a month with a compilation of events and notifications that are most relevant to the community, remember we are users too. TC Members will receive emails as posts are made to their respective committees. These notifications can be controlled through Resource Center -> Profile image circle in upper right corner -> Account Settings -> Notification on the left side.

TC Highlight - We are adding a new section to our newsletter to highlight our TCs and the projects they are working on. We hope you find that interesting and useful and feel free request to join to participate. 

TC Highlight - Creo CAD

The PTC/USER Creo CAD Technical Committee covers many different facets of the core components for Creo part and assembly modeling and beyond.  Some of the functional areas discussed include general modeling, assemblies, and family tables.  There are also many small Working Groups that have come from Creo CAD TC meetings and discussions, including new capabilities such as multi-body, generative design, family table data management, and others.  

PTC/USER Technical Committees consist of customers like you who work together with PTC Product Managers talking about how the products work today and what can be done to make them even better. Joining a Technical Committee is a great way to have your voice heard and network with your peers in industry.

We welcome new members!  Please apply for the Creo CAD or any other TC that may interest you via the PTC/USER portal. 

Configuring Edge IOT Devices: Provisioning, Creating and Deployment Concept Review

PTC’s IOT product team is interested in your insights regarding provisioning , creating and deploying edge configurations to target Azure IoT edge devices. During our research session we will demonstrate the concepts using an narrated storyboard that illustrates a proposed workflow followed by an interactive discussion to collect feedback and answer questions. The session will last 60 minutes and will be conducted remotely using MS Teams. Participants who complete the session will receive a $50.00 e-gift card as an incentive.

Participant Experience Requirement:  Experience using Kepware (KEPServerEX, ThingWorx Kepware Server) and ThingWorx for connecting industrial devices and building industrial IIOT applications.

Register here

Coffee With a CAD Expert

Now more than ever, product design & manufacturing teams are expected to create products more efficiently & cost effectively, without sacrificing innovation or quality. Fortunately, Creo delivers the most scalable range of 3D CAD product development packages & tools in today's market. Its variety of specific features, capabilities, & tools help engineers imagine, design, & create your products better.

The meetings are open to anyone and take place every Thursday in Europe. The topic changes from week to week, so join in as often as you like. Visit the registration page to find out about the next Coffee with an Expert, and sign up to join us.

Upcoming topics include:

11 March Windchill on the Cloud
18 March CAD - Digital Thread
25 March PLM - Digital Thread

Onshape’s First Virtual User Conference

Engineers, designers, manufacturers, product developers, educators and students are invited to attend Onshape’s first virtual user conference on March 11. 


Onshape Live is meant for both longtime practitioners of cloud-based product development as well as curious onlookers re-examining their current design tools. I recommend everyone in the Onshape community attend, including:

  • Onshape Customers – Businesses of all sizes can learn about how to use Onshape even better and discover new features across Onshape’s Standard, Professional and Enterprise plans.
  • Prospective Onshape Customers – Engineering and manufacturing professionals can feel firsthand the power and excitement of our Onshape community.
  • Onshape Partners – Application developers and sales channel partners worldwide can learn about new opportunities for the coming year.
  • Educators/Students – PTC recently exceeded one million users for Onshape’s free Education plans. Hear directly from the head of PTC’s Global Academic Programs to learn how Onshape can improve the classroom or remote learning experience from middle school through graduate school. 
  • Media/Industry Analysts – Industry adoption for cloud/SaaS product development tools has been rapidly accelerated by the pandemic. What’s coming next?
You won’t want to miss it! 

Register here  (You'll need to use a different browser than Internet Explorer to register.) 

Tech Tip - The CAD-Driven BOM

The part-centric methodology orchestrated by Windchill is an integral component to the digital thread, enabling enterprises to realize their digital transformation goals.  A model-based approach of driving the creation of the eBOM from native CAD data delivers an automated mechanism providing a highly visual BOM to the extended enterprise. 

Although this may sound simple enough, CAD design decisions don’t always match the way engineering expects the BOM to be structured.  Managing these complex associations while keeping information and changes synchronized, whether made in CAD or to the BOM, can prove challenging.

Join presenter Steve Shaw, PLM Solutions Director, on March 11th at 10 am EST, for this Tech Tips session where he will:

  • Explore the recent improvements to the tools and capabilities available in Windchill’s CAD integration and BOM management;
  • Demonstrate how these tools and capabilities can help streamline the process, identify differences, and manage the connection between CAD and the engineering BOM;
  • Explain how to synchronize all of the information back to the BOM for downstream consumption and visibility.
You won’t want to miss it! 

Register here

Badgerland User Group - What’s New in Creo 7

The Join us for a webcast on March 12th at 12:00 pm CST, where EAC will be speaking on "What's New in Creo 7.0"

Zoom Link

Creating Manufacturing Impact with Enterprise PLM: An ABI Research Review

The Join us for a webcast on March 16th at 2:00 pm EST, where Principal ABI Analyst, Michael Larner, sits down with PTC PLM Divisional GM, Kevin O’Brien, to discuss this recent study that covered the increasing expectations on PLM software and how PTC Windchill is meeting and exceeding them.

Register here

Planning Your Model-Based Journey

Join your peers and industry experts for this comprehensive discussion of Model-Based Definition / Enterprise (MBD/MBE). You’ll hear from those with hard-won practical experience about how they began and scaled their transformation to a model-based process. You’ll also learn how to leverage the digital thread across the enterprise and use 3D modeling as the source authority for design intent with manufacturing, quality and your suppliers. The journey to reduce time-to-market, lower costs and improve quality begins with rich, high-fidelity 3D data.
  • Don’t miss out. Hear from PTC customers who will share lessons-learned from their MBD/MBE experience.
  • See how MBD can be extended across the enterprise with product lifecycle management tools.
  • Discover what it means to be a world-class Model-Based Enterprise.
  • Learn from the experts about how to secure executive support and get your MBD/MBE initiative off to a strong start.
Register here

Perfect Journey For High Quality Publishing XML Content In A Speedy Manner

Webinar | March 22nd at 11:00am ET
Perfect journey for high quality publishing XML content in a speedy manner

Many companies are looking for optimizing XML publishing capabilities to better support their customer needs. More and more product related documents, in different formats, with a variety of layouts, are needed. Required effort for that is often painful.

Arbortext Publishing Engine is a powerful solution to enable high-end publishing to different formats in a cost-effective manner. It greatly supports formats such as PDF, HTML, eBook and Content Delivery. Arbortext Styler provides excellent efficiency to create and maintain stylesheets required for that. All without programming.

In this webinar event,  DATACOPY a well experienced PTC partner will demonstrate the journey to easily move to the powerful Arbortext Publishing Engine. Beside some overview, Erwin Mueller will focus on live presentation for Arbortext Styler and Publishing Engine. Erwin is a Senior Principal Consultant optimizing XML high-end publishing solutions for customers across Europe for more than 2 decades.

Register here

Women’s Onshape User Group - Women Who CAD Update

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we are holding our next meetup on Wednesday, March 24th at 6pm EST. You can find out more and RSVP here! 
 
Two guest speakers will kick the meeting off by discussing success stories in their careers as women engineers, this will be followed by another technical presenter from Onshape. We would also like to focus even more on networking, so fun games and activities are planned for the end of the meetup. Feel free to pass this n:ews along to others and remember, they don’t have to be a heavy Onshape user to attend, all are welcome!  
 
Secondly, we have officially appointed a co-lead for the user group!  Micki Dupnik will be joining me on the leadership team. Micki Dupnik is a graduate of Boston University with a degree in Biomedical engineering, a minor in Mechanical Engineering and a Concentration in Technology Innovation. She has 8 years of CAD experience and is currently working as the lead mechanical design engineer at Vivonics Inc., a biomedical engineering technology development firm that specializes in developing innovative technologies that improve human health and performance from the initial concept through to viable products. Outside of the office, she is also a jazz vocalist and piano player. Post COVID, you can find her at Boston open mic nights. Please help me in welcoming Micki to the leadership team!
 
Stay tuned for more announcements regarding the speakers leading up to the meetup. Once again you can RSVP here. 

Katie Gosbee
Co-Leader of Women Who CAD Onshape User Group

LiveWorx Episode 1 - Work Methods Changing The Workplace

Work Methods Changing The Workplace 
Episode One | March 25, 2021

Collaboration. Continuity. Innovation. We’ve got it all in this episode.

Learn how the pandemic accelerated the speed with which companies adopted new tools for their workforce—and advanced what they see as possible in the future. From AR enabling better remote collaboration and faster knowledge distribution to SaaS delivering more agile product development, continuous innovation, and supply chain resiliency—technology came through just when we needed it the most. How we work will never be the same.

Tim “Mr. Future of Work” Salau, CEO and Co-founder of Guide, will discuss how in a dynamic future we must focus on what we can control as leaders and adapt to the constant state of change that will occur in society and the workplace. He’ll explore how technology trends are redefining the relationship between the employee and the organization.

Hear from PTC experts about the many real-world customers changing their workplace and work methods. Featuring Mike DiTullio, EVP & President of SaaS, Sarah Reynolds, VP of Marketing for AR & IoT, Mike Campbell, EVP & General Manager of AR, and Lori Austin, Senior Customer Success Coach for Arena, a PTC Business.

Get inspired by Mike Ekbundit, Director of Engineering Development at GE. His innovative partnership with high school students worked to design forest features that enhance the experience for the mobility-challenged. Using Onshape, students and professionals seamlessly collaborated from any location while creating, prototyping, and constructing full-scale designs. 

Topics Covered:

Augmented Reality Product Development
Collaboration Remote Collaboration
Empowering a Remote Workforce SaaS
Empowering Frontline Workers Worker Agility
Future of Work Worker Safety
Knowledge Distribution  

Unable to join live?  Register anyway and we will provide you access to explore the content on-demand at your own pace.

Read the announcement here: 

SSE Symposium 2021: Improving Quality and Productivity Across the Whole Digital Product

Extending PLM with Systems & Software Engineering | March 31, 2021 at 10 AM EST
Many manufacturers today are seeking to overcome design and development challenges which impact and delay their product innovation. Product complexity, changes to requirements, lack of virtual prototyping, and redundant test cases are hindering collaboration and leading to poor product quality.

This symposium aims to shed light on how to improve quality and productivity by extending PTC’s Windchill PLM solution with requirements management, model-based systems engineering, virtual product simulation and validation.

In this two-hour virtual event, PTC experts will be joined by speakers from DB Netz AG, Edwards Lifesciences and Tetrapak, who will discuss what it takes to successfully implement and integrate SSE into the PLM lifecycle. Attendees will learn how to:

  • Expand a PLM-enabled digital thread into requirements definitions and whole product system level design & simulation
  • Create data continuity with downstream teams for test authoring and results management
  • Ensure a successful deployment that establishes digital traceability based on learnings from PTC customers in various industries
There will be a short introduction of PTC’s Systems & Software Engineering solutions and how they extend into the Windchill PLM platform, followed by a deep dive into customer stories that illustrate real life examples. Exciting updates on partner offerings will be shared, including Cybellum’s latest integration to manage Cybersecurity for upcoming regulations. The Symposium will conclude with a presentation of PTC’s SSE Product Release Roadmap and future strategies.

Here are some highlights of what you can expect:

Presenter: Randolf Berglehner, Neovendi, for DB Netz AG

Presenter: Grace Michaels, Software Quality Manager

Presenter: Joachim Sjölander System Architect

Validating Model-based Specifications in their Real Context

Moving from Manual to Digital

Digital Engineering – Designing the system right for the future

DB Netz AG has developed a methodology to specify European context (EULYNX) rail infrastructure systems using executable Models in Windchill Modeler. These are validated using simulation with domain experts and then communicated to the DB suppliers. In order to ensure a true interface compatibility with the system context, DB is now extending the validation options by integrating the models into their real context using Thingworx.

In this session, they will demonstrate this using an example developed in the field, interfacing trains with infrastructure control devices. The DB approach to early lifecycle quality assurance, within the strictly regulated rail industry will also be explained.

For Edwards Lifesciences engineers with Digital Transformation vision, the goal is to accelerate innovations by reducing complexity, improving collaboration, and automating best practices, thus helping their patients. By being paperless, traceable, visible, integrated, and real, this presentation will focus on how, by becoming automated, Edwards Lifesciences is faster and streamlined as well as quality compliant.

TetraPak, liquid foods packaging and distribution leader, set out to build their Industry 4.0 capability so their systems were designed right for the future. In this session, System Architect, Joachim Sjölander will introduce TetraPak and their industry followed by a presentation on their equipment development journey.


You won’t want to miss this event 

Register here

2021 Spring Pro/Users Event - Carolinas PTC User Group Event

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PTC/USER is excited to announce the resumption of meetings for the Carolinas Regional User Group. This event will allow users of PTC products to hear updates on PTC product roadmaps, enjoy customer presentations, and network with other users. The agenda will be posted soon, and refreshments will be served.

Register here

Creo 6.0.6.0 has Released!

Key Highlights

  • New Shortcut option to designate multiple model annotations as control characteristics
Documentation Additional Information Download
  • Creo Parametric -> Release Creo 6.0 -> Creo 6.0 for Windows -> Most Recent Datecode

Creo 8 Beta Program

Creo 8.0 will be released in April 2021. As with previous years, PTC is running a brief sneak peek for customers who are interested in testing out the new updates and feature functionality with this release. All we ask in return is feedback on these enhancements and new capabilities. If you are interested, please sign up for the Creo 8.0 Beta using this link: https://www.ptc.com/en/products/creo/beta/

** No install required, all testing will be done on-line

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