CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
14 June 2004
Company News
2004 PTC/USER World Event-Americas Attracts Attendees From More Than 20 Countries Around the Globe
PTC and PTC/USER, an independent, not-for-profit corporation organized by PTC users, announced that the annual PTC/USER World Event-Americas, taking place June 13-16 in Nashville, will host customers from more than 20 countries around the world. The event will feature more than 80 technical and business seminars, tutorials and demonstrations presented by expert PTC users, partners and PTC staff. Highlights include a keynote session presented by David Holden, team engineer with NASCAR's legendary Richard Childress Racing and an exhibit hall with more than 90 demonstrations of the latest tools and technologies from Industry Partners such as Adobe Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, and Sun Microsystems.
At the event, PTC will provide corporate and technology updates from President and CEO Dick Harrison and Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer Jim Heppelmann. PTC will also announce the winners of the 12th annual PTC Design Awards Competition and annual Global Alliance Partner Award.
With adoption of PTC's Product Development System (PDS) continuing to grow, this year's event will provide users an opportunity to participate in hands-on training and best practices sessions focused on key PTC solutions, including the newest versions of PTC's design software, Pro/ENGINEER WildfireT 2.0, and new collaboration and control solution Windchill® 7.0. Pro/ENGINEER WildfireT has achieved record customer adoption of an estimated 52% percent since its introduction in February 2003. PTC has also achieved success with Windchill® 7.0, growing the Windchill customer base by almost 15% in just six months since its introduction.
At the end of the conference, PTC will announce the overall winner of the twelfth Annual PTC Design Awards Competition, to be voted on by participants at this year's event. More than 350 entries were submitted this year-and an expert panel of independent judges have already selected category winners based on several criteria, including the entries' comprehensive use of PTC solutions, creativity and technical merit.
The eight individual category winners in the running for the overall PTC Design Award are:
• Consumer: SQUARE 1 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT-Sprung "Hat-Trick" In-line Skate
• Education, K-12: Mechanical Engineering School-Locomotive GE-9 -44CW
• Education, College and University: University of Limerick-Battleship Bismarck
• High-Tech Electronics: PLUG POWER L L C-Plug Power GenCore 5T
• High-Tech Electronics: Daktronics, Inc.-Toyota Center Multi-Sided Centerhung Display
• Heavy Equipment: John Deere-John Deere 3235 C LWFM
• Life Sciences: Product Development Technologies-Portable Lancing Device
• Transportation: BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS, INC.-EVINRUDE 40- 90HP E-TEC Outboard Motor
More information about the category winners and their design submissions is available online at http://www.ptc.com/appserver/mkt/ptcawards/winners.jsp
PTC will also be announcing the winner of its annual Global Alliance Partner Award. The award recognizes one of the 73 global alliance partners that has been an exemplar for promoting value in the Product Lifecycle Management market place. The global alliance partner program is now in its sixth year of creating an ecosystem of the extended PLM marketplace. The ecosystem supports the strategic consulting, hardware and software platform, and applications implementations of PTC's product development systems solutions.
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