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PTC/USER has rescheduled our March event to October 3-6, 2022.
The event will remain at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Orlando, Florida at Sea World.
For event pricing please vist the our event page.
The call for abstracts will stay open and look for registration to re-open in January 2022. Please continue to consider presenting at the event and submit your abstracts on the event page.
All registered attendees will have the option for a complete refund or hold over registration for the October dates. Dan Glenn will be reaching out to sponsors separately for 2022 budget planning.
Thank you all for hanging in there with us as we navigate these uncertain times. Stay safe and healthy and we look forward to seeing you soon! .
Have you checked out the new PTC/USER JOBS Forum? This is a great place to post new openings for PTC product SMEs. Companies like Raytheon, Edwards Lifesciences and Peterbilt are looking for great talent today!
The FlexPLM Technical Committee's goal is to support the voice of the customer, understand what is, and maybe is not, working with your FlexPLM system, and collaborate both with your peers and the PTC Product Management Team to improve the FlexPLM user experience. Based on the interest in topics, we can and have influenced PTC’s software roadmap via a partnership with PTC called a Working Group. We have several Working Groups in flight and a new one launching in late January. We are proud of our partnership with PTC and success; come join this no-cost experience and take advance of information at your finger tips.
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 to network with your peers in industry.
We welcome new members! Please apply for the PTC/USER FlexPLM Technical Committee or any other TC that may interest you via the PTC/USER portal!
Join PTC Thursday, October 28th at 10 am ET for Manufacturing Live – a half-day virtual event dedicated to driving transformation at scale.
This can’t miss event will feature:
- Three visionary keynotes, available in nine languages
- Two tracks tailored to the challenges business leaders and IT professionals face
- Sessions featuring experts from the National Association of Manufacturers, McKinsey, World Economic Forum, Volvo, Eaton, Solar Turbines Incorporated and Accenture
- The unveiling of PTC’s newest factory solution – Digital Performance Management
- PTC/USER Technical Committee Chair Eric Horn speaking on Weaving the Digital Thread into the Factory: Concurrent Engineering & Manufacturing
Can’t make the live event? Register anyway and get access to the recorded sessions to watch whenever it’s convenient for you!
Register here
Join the round-table discussion any time between 12 - 1 pm ET on Friday, October 29th to talk about CAD/Windchill administration with other admins.
Register here
Join PTC Tuesday, November 3rd at 10 am ET.
PTC is pleased to announce new releases of two products: Perc Ultra SMP 8.5 (for 32-bit platforms) and Perc 64 8.5 (for 64-bit platforms). These releases represent a significant effort by the Perc R&D and Support teams to improve the performance, usability, compatibility, and security of our products. As an example, the ROMizer tool now runs up to 6 times faster on an 8-core host system. These features and core capabilities PTC Perc customers have come to rely on over the past 20 years make it the #1 choice for your Embedded and Real Time Java requirements.
Learn more about all the enhancements to Perc 8.5, including the latest OpenJDK patches and updates, expanded host JVM version support, performance increases, and Perc Shell improvements in this virtual event.
Register here
Join PTC Tuesday, November 16th at 11 am EDT.
Are you able to analyze the performance of your designs before engaging with analysts or committing to production? Simulation is often relegated to a small team of experts within an organization, and its use within the product development cycle can be misunderstood and underutilized.
Join this free digital event to hear how organizations like yours have incorporated simulation into their development process to drive better designs. Learn how engineers can use simulation during the early stages of the design process to deliver their best designs in less time.
Session attendees will gain a better understanding of the following:
- The growing use of simulation in product development
- How companies are integrating simulation into their workflows
- Practical advice on how to integrate simulation in your design process
- Driving innovation at the intersection of simulation and emerging technologies
Register here
Join PTC Wednesday, November 17th at11 am EDT for this session on CFD for Creo Engineers, Designers and Engineering Managers.
It will include:
- Creo Flow Analysis Roadmap.
- Are you ready for Electrification in Creo Flow Analysis?
- How to Setup CFD in Creo:
- Getting Started.
- Advanced Capabilities.
- Complementing your existing CFD.
- Questions and Answers
Register here
Join us Friday, November 19th at 1 pm ET.
While many computer programs are built to solve specific needs, Windchill is a broad toolkit that can help your company in more ways than you might think. Join us to find out how you can help your company by simply looking inside the toolbox you already have. This webinar is designed for Windchill users, regardless of role.
Register here
Mathcad Prime 7 is here! Join PTC's product experts for a series of webinars dedicated to Mathcad Prime. Sessions include discussions about moving from Mathcad 15 to Prime 7, the new symbolics engine, finding resources and support, and more. We’ll conclude the series with an open Q&A led by PTC Mathcad experts who will be available to answer your questions. You can sign up for as few or as many as you like.
Register here
Level-up your Creo design skills at this free web conference replay hosted by PTC’s Creo experts. Choose from over a dozen different CAD topics. Listen to their favorite tricks and tips and learn how to deliver your best designs in less time.
Register Here
Also, check out this link to view numerous previously recorded webinars on a variety of Creo topics.
Join the PTC Voice of the Customer Rock Star Program
PTC would like to hear your feedback on their products, services and experiences. Share your needs so they can optimize their offerings and increase your long-term satisfaction when doing business with PTC!
Climb the charts
PTC Rock Stars is not about free PTC swag, gift cards or other monetary rewards. It’s about increasing the value you and your peers realize from PTC products and services. By using their products and doing business with them every day, you have become the experts whose opinion they value.
Share your feedback with them, earn badges and build your reputation among your peers in the global community of PTC users. The biggest reward, however, is the knowledge that you will have contributed to the PTC solutions of the future!
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Join PTC/USER and PTC’s Arnaud van de Veerdonk, Product Manager – CAD products, for an in-depth technical working group around a future release of Creo, focused on those companies who have to design and manufacture composite structures. Originally limited to the space and aeronautics industry, composites are now being used in a multitude of industry verticals, such as vehicle and equipment applications, including, panels, frames, interior components, and other parts. Other composite infrastructure applications include buildings, roads, bridges, and pilings. Designing parts and assemblies that leverage composites is a technically complex and challenging process, particularly when you have to perform modeling, simulation, and manufacturing planning within the design process.
PTC would like to engage with Composite design and manufacturing professionals in an interactive working group session to understand their most pressing business challenges and discuss required capabilities and functionality which is of primary importance to assessing a CAD solution. Attendees are expected to actively participate, contribute and share detailed information around Composite Design, Manufacturing and PLM, and will have the opportunity to influence PTCs investment/roadmap in this area.
.Click here to take part in this opportunity
As you may already know, Windchill Performance Advisor is a tool that is available to all Windchill customers and helps keep your Windchill instance running optimally by providing valuable insights about the specific use of each Windchill instance.
Valuable Insights for You
Valuable insights provided by Windchill Performance Advisor include:
- Tracking license consumption across multiple servers deployed on site, which enables you to optimize software costs and feature needs.
- Windchill Performance Advisor tracks configurations/customizations applied to Windchill environments that are deployed at your sites. Based on this knowledge of changes applied to Windchill environments, it provides tools that provide an impact assessment of applying available Windchill CPSs and/or Windchill Updates.
Windchill performance Advisor, starting in Windchill 12.0.2.0 and onward, is configured to automatically collect license usage data (this was by default starting June 23, 2021). You will no longer be able to opt-out from PTC collecting license usage data* unless you request an exemption.
The mandatory collection of license usage data applies to:
- Windchill 12.0.2.0 systems that are installed, upgraded, or updated, will automatically start collecting license usage data.
- Newly installed Windchill 12.0.2.0 systems will automatically start collecting license usage data
- See article for license usage data that may get inadvertently collected if a 12.0.2.0 license file is deployed on 12.0.0.0 - 12.0.0.3.
Note: In case of any concerns regarding PTC collecting licensing information please refer to section "Exemptions" in this document
Data PTC Collects
When considering what Data to collect, protecting the privacy of Users was made a priority, and by adhering to the principles of Privacy by Design and Privacy by Default we ensured that no data that relates to, or could reasonably be linked to, an identified or identifiable individual, is collected wherever possible. License usage data is anonymized at the source and PTC does not have the ability to identify individual Users from such data. The purpose of the collection of the Data is not to identify individual Users.
The following types of Data are collected by Windchill Performance Advisor:
- Performance-related properties that are set by Windchill Configurator
- List of Windchill modules installed and their versions
- Counts of various database tables
- Basic information about nodes in the Windchill installation
- Performance-related preferences and their values
- Assessment of customizations to the Windchill system
- Output from the License Usage Report
- Statistics around viewable generation
Data items like hostnames, IP addresses, ports, and user identifiers are anonymized before they are transmitted to PTC’s Performance Advisor. The anonymization is carried out via keyless hashing algorithms and is computationally impossible to reverse by PTC. No personal data or data that could be linked to an identifiable User is collected.
For more details on automatic license data collection, review this support article: https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS000346079.
New Strategy for PTC ECAD Windchill Workgroup Manager
PTC and the Windchill segment recently announced a new strategy for our ECAD Workgroup Managers that included the formal retirement of the PTC ECAD Windchill Workgroup Manager products.
PTC is working directly with our ECAD partners on the next generation of Windchill – ECAD integration options, of which Altium and xPLM have production-ready versions today:
In support of that, and to ensure your existing data is compatible, they are each developing a migration path to replace your existing ECAD integrations with their equivalent products.
Beginning with the Windchill 11.2.0.0 release (from June 2019), PTC will not be shipping the ECAD integrations (Windchill Workgroup Managers for Cadence, Altium, Zuken and Mentor-based products and the Windchill Gateway for Cadence ADW).
The current ECAD integrations will continue to be supported through the planned end-of-support dates for the respective Windchill releases. For example, ECAD integrations released with Windchill 11.1 M020 will continue to be supported until January 2022.
During this time, support for the current ECAD integration will be limited to 1) Critical SPRs and bug fixes and 2) New ECAD vendor versions. PTC will not plan to deliver any feature enhancements or add support for newly introduced products from the ECAD vendors.
Please feel free to contact your local PTC Support representative or Ruediger Scholz, Senior Product Manager, PLM segment (rscholz@ptc.com) if you have any questions or concerns.
For more details, on the Windchill release support timelines, please refer to the PTC Product Calendar. For more information regarding this update or for contact information for each partner, refer to these support articles: CS298492 , CS302844
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