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PLM Road Map @ GPDIS | Scottsdale, AZ | 27 September 2022

Held in conjunction with The Global Product Data Interoperability Summit (GPDIS) - 28 & 29 September 2022

Digital Transformation and PLM – a call for PLM Professionals to re-define and re-position the benefits and value of PLM

27 September

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 8:05 a.m. | Welcome
Peter Bilello, President, CIMdata
8:05 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Opening Presentation: Digital Transformation’s Achilles Heel: Reskilling the Workforce for the Digital Age
Peter Bilello, President & CEO, CIMdata [Bio]
The success of a digital transformation ultimately depends on an organization’s workforce and its willingness to utilize and take advantage of newly enabled data-driven technologies and processes. When this is neglected, digital's true and complete power and benefit aren’t achievable. CIMdata’s research and experience indicate that digital skills transformation is one of a critical dozen evolving trends and key digital transformation enablers. While all twelve are critical, digital skills transformation is perhaps the most neglected and overlooked element. As a result, many organizations fail to ensure and appreciate that their workforce, who is undergoing a digital transformation, must acquire and utilize new skills that are fully aligned with the process and technology aspects of their business’ transformation. This presentation will outline the Critical Dozen, emphasizing the need for digital skills transformation, along with discussing the current state of enablement within industry, what success looks like, the key points of failure, and a four-step framework for digital skills transformation—design, develop, evaluate, and revise—that can be deployed to achieve the appropriate alignment.
8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. | An Update on the DoD’s Adaptive Acquisition Framework and Digital Technologies
James Colson, Learning Director, RAMS, Defense Acquisition University [Bio]
The OSD Digital Engineering Strategy and the new Digital Acquisition process present a massive shift in customer expectations and a reframing of the basis of competition. This strategy is developing rapidly and is now being embedded in acquisition contracts. This presentation will provide an overview of the new way of doing business with the DoD by providing an understanding their new Adaptive Acquisition Framework and the opportunities for efficiencies in acquiring defense systems. Additionally, it will provide an overview of the DoD's future efforts with Digital Technologies, including the adoption of Digital Twin, Digital Thread, and other modeling and digital technologies.
9:15 a.m. – 9:25 a.m. | Thought-Leadership Vignette: Elysium
Get Smart About Your Data
Annalise Suzuki, VP of Technology & Engagement, Elysium [Bio]
"Data resilience for sustainability" means we must find a way to ensure that we are sustainable from the digital data we harness. Not only do we need to get control of our data by identifying what we have, but we need to understand the power behind it to really maximize advantages within the transformation journey. In this thought leadership vignette, Elysium will share insights about identifying and understanding data value, data potential, and opportunities to elevate them as more valuable assets. Success stories of companies who accomplished just that will be shared in a variety of examples.
9:25 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Summary
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Networking Break
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | KEYNOTE: How to Transform an Enterprise
Carol Erikson, Vice President, Systems Engineering and Digital Transformation, Northrop Grumman Space Systems [Bio]
As the missions we enable become more interconnected, integrating internally and with our customers is critical. Realizing the vision of enterprise digital transformation requires many technical transformations, but, most importantly, means a cultural shift. For companies like Northrop Grumman, which has rich and diverse digital heritages, achieving full Product and Program Lifecycle Management is more than just migrating to a single monolithic platform; it requires integration and striking the right level of commonality across the enterprise. In this presentation, we will discuss how to strike that balance and approach the cultural shifts necessitated by digital transformation.
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | The Digital Thread is Really a Web, with the Engineering Bill of Materials at Its Center
James Roche, A&D Practice Director, CIMdata [Bio]
The Digital Thread has been a core element of the PLM vision for decades. The concept of linking multiple representations of a product, each tuned to the needs of various creators and consumers along the lifecycle, is powerful, and commercial PLM solutions have advanced to a point where the enablement of the Digital Thread is technically possible. But do these creators and consumer views lie neatly like beads along a single strand, or do some lie along the main strand while others are beads arranged in a web around one of the principal lifecycle views? The Engineering Bill of Materials (eBOM) is a principal lifecycle view. There are views of product intent from which it is created, views by which it is optimized, and other views by which it is realized and sustained. In this session, we will describe the Digital Web of product views at the front end of the product lifecycle with the eBOM at its center. We will then present and discuss the architectural principles for designing this structure of views to enable collaboration between creators and consumers along the product lifecycle within an enterprise.
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Digital Twin Continuity across the Product Lifecycle
Robert Rencher, Sr. Systems Engineer, Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing [Bio]
The Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) collectively sponsored a team of domain experts from AD PAG member companies to define objectives, requirements, and roadmaps for digital twin/thread solutions. In Phase 1 the team conducted research that identified a plethora of digital twin/thread concepts and definitions. A method of describing this phenomenon was prepared to organize and understand the definitions. In support of preparing the A&D industry’s digital twin/thread definitions, the team prepared constructs to describe the intended functionality and utility of the digital twin/thread. The resulting A&D industry definitions are the collaborative work of representatives from several leading A&D companies. The Phase 2 project deliverable consisted of a digital twin/thread position paper for the A&D industry. The purpose was to facilitate an industry baseline definition and understanding of the current capabilities of the digital twin/thread in the A&D industry. Phase 3 is in the process of evaluating the effectivity of current Business Architecture Frameworks and Methodologies in support of the architectural definition of digital twins and digital threads. This presentation will provide an overview of this project’s findings to date and implications to the current concepts of digital twins and digital threads.
11:45 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. | Thought-Leadership Vignette: PTC
Technology Disruption in PLM: The Transition to SaaS
Ian Boulton, Senior Director of Aerospace and Defense PLM, PTC [Bio]
In this vignette, PTC will discuss how the move towards Software as a Service (SaaS), driven by post-pandemic lessons learned, supply chain issues, and the A&D industry’s economic recovery, are simultaneously impacting the PLM market. In an industry where security, IP protection, and ITAR regulations govern much of what we do, we will discuss what you need to know to successfully plan and adopt your move to resilient, secure SaaS digital engineering solutions to meet the demands of the market and your customers.
12:05 p.m. – 12:10 p.m. | Summary
12:10 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Networking Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 1:35 p.m. | Welcome back
1:35 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. | KEYNOTE: Model-Based Engineering Diamond Adoption at Boeing
Don Farr, Senior Technical Fellow, Boeing [Bio]
Boeing introduced the MBE Diamond concept (symbol) at this forum back in 2018 and has made major strides in implementation across the Boeing Enterprise and adoption across the lifecycle of programs. The MBE Diamond concept depicts how things have evolved from the iconic System Engineering “V” to an integrated Model Based environment enabled by the digital thread and the authoritative source of data/information. One of the key enablers of Digital Transformation is the adoption and integration of industry standards throughout the digital thread. This presentation will provide an updated version of Boeing’s MBE Diamond and how we are applying to concept across our company and will touch on many of the different disciplines and phases of our programs. The upper half of the MBE Diamond represents the Virtual (or Model Based) aspects of Digital Engineering. This presentation will expand on Boeing’s use of virtual components in the generation of Digital Twins. In addition, a short discussion on how Boeing leverages the MBE Diamond in internal communication and training on the company’s Digital Transformation will take place.
2:20 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. | An A&D Roadmap for Enabling Global Collaboration
Robert Gutwein, Associate Director, PLM Collaboration and Data Exchange, Pratt & Whitney [Bio] & Neil Lichty, Digital Enterprise Capabilities Specialist, Boeing [Bio]
Collaboration among Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their product design and manufacturing engineering partners and suppliers is key to any major aerospace and defense (A&D) program. Process analysis by an A&D PLM Action Group (AD PAG) project team has shown that the exchange of product data, such as 3D-MBD, Bill of Materials (BOM), and Model-Based Engineering (MBE), between multiple OEMs and suppliers presents a challenge within the industry. Currently, the exchange methods for long-term collaboration between OEMs and suppliers are independent and exclusive environments and protocols, each unique and complex. Improving the consistency and efficiency of establishing and managing OEM-supplier collaboration can significantly improve cost, schedule, and quality across all phases of the product lifecycle. This presentation offers a new “Desired State” for OEM-supplier collaboration through the application of and adherence to a set of guidelines defined by the project team.
2:50 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Thought-Leadership Vignette: Aras
Enabling the Tool-agnostic Digital Thread for a Digital Twin Configuration
Marc Lind, SVP Strategy, Aras [Bio]
As aircraft and weapons systems include more connectivity, sensors, and intelligence, each product asset needs an accurate digital representation, a Digital Twin, for context to interpret the data streams. Without configuration context, the time series data generated in production and during ongoing operation lack analysis integrity and can lead to misdirected actions resulting in safety issues and liability. In addition, the ability to interpret and act upon these data often requires traceability to prior information from related revisions, the Digital Thread, in order to make decisions. To complicate matters, as artificial intelligence/machine learning are introduced to enable the smart factory and included in aircraft and other assets in the field, the necessity becomes even greater. This vignette will highlight the reasons why next-generation aircraft, UAS/RPAS/UAV, defense technologies, manufacturing equipment, vehicles, and other systems require the configuration context of the Digital Twin with a tool-agnostic Digital Thread and learn new approaches to realize these initiatives.
3:00 p.m. – 3:05 p.m. | Summary
3:05 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Networking Break
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Benefits and Challenges with The Application of a Digital Twin Framework for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing
Brian Kopacz, Engineering Technical Lead, Additive Manufacturing Center, Moog [Bio]
Additive Manufacturing via Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is a complex digital manufacturing technology with abundant input variables that can influence the quality of parts produced. At present, LPBF is essentially open loop, and the stochastic nature of LPBF necessitates the need for statistical analysis of in-process data to provide confidence in material performance. A wealth of data is generated during LPBF, but it can be challenging to capture and manage. By applying a digital twin framework and properly managing the data across the product and AM lifecycles, we can gain key insights regarding material performance that helps enable aerospace applications. This presentation discusses a proposed approach and key benefits and challenges of applying a digital twin framework for LPBF production of aerospace components.
4:05 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. | Summary
4:10 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. | Thought-Leadership Vignette: Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group
4:20 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. | Getting People to Care: The Case for Organizational Change to Support Digital Transformations
John MacKrell, Chairman, CIMdata [Bio]
Change is a challenging, often scary event. Many people don’t like change, and some don’t trust change. When you want to make any change in how people work, then you must be prepared to help the community in which you are imposing the change to accept it. Gaining acceptance for any new initiative such as the digital transformation of a business is a process that requires active planning and ongoing support, no matter what technology and process changes are being undertaken. The adage of “build it and they will come” does not always work. Without user acceptance of your initiative, it is bound to fail or, at least, not deliver the expected results and return on investment. In this session, we will examine the factors that raise the importance of helping organizations embrace change—particularly when related to any major digitalization initiative. We will then present a best practice approach based on helping our clients through their digitalization journeys.
4:50 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Conference Summary
5:00 p.m. | Conference Adjourns
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Reception & Drinks in the Vendor Fair

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