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Digital Industry 4.0 – Digitize, Industrialize, and Optimize in Automotive and Transportation Scott Whiteman, Senior Manager, Accenture Digitization is on the top of the business agenda for Automotive and Transportation companies. It encompasses intelligent products that are connected in intelligent networks and manufactured in smart factories and provides opportunities for new services and extended business models. Intelligent products will require enhanced product lifecycle management capabilities in the future, as companies are looking for ways to accelerate product development and engineering processes to seize the opportunity. This presentation will explore a case study on how to optimize engineering efficiency, enhance internal and external collaboration, and improve product information management along the entire product lifecycle.

OEM-to-OEM Collaboration for Global Engineering Louis J. Pascarella, Principal Consultant, Geometric OEMs are creating and evolving their business partnerships in order to address evolving market environments which require robust information/context sharing, faster innovation cycles, and increased market agility. As OEMs evolve diverse and highly complex Product Development methodologies, associated business processes, and richer semantic information exchanges (e.g., MBSE) require increased data validation and security across their IT infrastructures.There is a need for a secure and scalable framework that provides a non-invasive collaboration hub for secure product data exchange between partners based on customized process orchestrations. In this presentation, Lou Pascarella will share his views on probable solutions to enable secure OEM-to-OEM collaboration while ensuring partnership objectives are met.

SDPD – the New Paradigm for Innovative Product Development Gerald Deren, Executive Director, Americas Business Development & Consulting, Siemens Strategic Industries Americas In today’s challenging and demanding world, companies face the monumental pressure of cost reduction, shrinking budgets, and having to do more with less. Additionally, threats of regulatory compliance, out-sourcing, take-overs, and moving more work to the supply chain have created a sense of competition or change in business strategy as a way to pick up the loss in other areas of their business. Additionally, numerous competing entrepreneurs have also sprung to life with efficient product development practices which lack the overhead of the traditional players forcing them to rethink how they need to evolve if they want to remain in the game. This presentation addresses one such theme referred to as “Systems Driven Product Development” (SDPD) and how manufacturers are embracing this as a leading practice to attack this challenge. The

Doug Akers, Vice President of Product Management, PTC Doug Akers is the Vice President of Product Management within the extended PLM segment of PTC and is responsible for the leadership of global solution definition and management activities as it pertains to the ALM technologies; he also manages the strategy and roadmap of PTC’s enterprise ALM products and solutions. Doug joined PTC in August 1995 and has held positions within customer support, marketing, and product management for both the Integrity and Interoperability businesses since that time. Doug holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Psychology from McMaster University.  

Marc Lind, SVP Global Marketing, Aras Marc Lind is responsible for worldwide marketing at Aras, a provider of next generation Product Lifecycle Management solutions for global companies with complex products and processes. Prior to joining Aras, Marc was co-founder of PartsDriver, a supply chain software company focused on the automotive market. Earlier in his career he led a new product development reengineering initiative at Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) that resulted in development cycle time improvements for global outsourcing operations. He holds a BBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is a member of Association for Manufacturing Excellence, APICS, and the Product Development and Management Association.  

Scott Whiteman, Senior Manager, Accenture Scott Whiteman is a Senior Manager supporting Accenture Product Lifecycle Services. Over the last 20+ years of his professional career, Scott has focused his attention within Product Lifecycle Management process and its supporting technologies. Scott was the founder of a start-up engineering services firm that supported close to 100 clients and has led the development of technical delivery centers across the globe. Within the Automotive and Transportation industries he has played integral roles in transforming the product development process.  

Louis J. Pascarella, Principal Consultant, Geometric Louis (Lou) J. Pascarella is a Principal Consultant with Geometric, focused on Product Creation Methodologies, Product Lifecycle Management and Application Management. He has been working with global automotive, aerospace, and software vendors for over 35 years in the areas of Visualization, CAD, PLM, and Software Lifecycle Management with a focus on strategy, planning, consulting, systems engineering, and knowledge capture & management. Lou has a strong background in PLM technology development and implementation (Teamcenter, Windchill, and ENOVIA), solution architecture, and enterprise middleware technologies (EAI, SOA).  

Gerald J. Deren, Executive Director, Americas Business Development & Consulting, Siemens Strategic Industries Americas Gerry Deren leads a team of Business Development & Consulting professionals and Solution Architects across Siemens PLM industry business units as well as new and emerging markets. Mr. Deren has spent the past 25 years primarily focused on Automotive, and Aerospace and Defense, and the last eight years dedicated to Space and Global supply chains. He also represents Siemens as part of the Stanford Global Supply Chain consortium and has been as a speaker on the topic of global collaboration and taken part in multiple panel discussions. Business Development & Consulting is responsible for capturing the voice of the customer and representing it through the solution development process and to provide back to the customers - insight into current industry and market trends, Value of change and Leading Practices. It is through this customer interaction that we are

Dr. Nicholas (Nick) Bell, CIO, Global Product Development, Information Technology, General Motors Nick Bell was appointed as the CIO, Global Product Development in December 2012 and is responsible for all IT applications development and support of GM’s Global Product Development function, as well as contributing to the IT Transformational journey in General Motors IT. Prior to his current position, Nick was Executive Director Vehicle Solutions IT. He has also served as the Global CIO for GM Information Technology, Manufacturing & Labor (from April 2010) and responsibility for GM IT’s “2010 Program” (re-contracting of out-sourced IT Global Service Contracts). Nick served as Chief Information Officer for General Motors North America from 2007 through 2009. In this position, Bell had accountability for all Information Technology and Systems for GM’s North American Operations. Bell joined GM in 2005, as GM North America region, Process Information Officer for Sales, Service & Marketing Systems, from Volvo Car Corporation,

Popular education program will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan from December 1-5. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 3 September, 2014 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to Ann Arbor, Michigan from December 1-5. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering. The three- or five-day program prepares PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. The program is facilitated by a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, participants receive a CIMdata PLM Certificate and become a member of CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community.  “We look forward to bringing our PLM certificate class to Ann Arbor, Michigan. This location has proven to be significant