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Steve Partridge, Senior Customer Solutions Specialist, PTC Steve Partridge is a Senior Customer Solutions Specialist at PTC. In this role he works with clients to understand, design, and implement processes that address the complexities of systems engineering and their supply chain. Previously at MKS he was a Requirements Management Product Manager. Steve studied computer science at Sheridan College in Canada.  

 PDF Key takeaways: Program success begins in the proposal phase when the focus is on both minimizing risk and defining the right product in order to acquire new business. Companies must have the ability to respond rapidly to Requests for Proposal (RFPs) with confidence in their proposals. Delivering on commitments and defining the right concept to win profitable business requires integrating systems engineering with proposal development to support reuse of prior trade studies and early planning for production and maintenance. Introduction In today’s competitive global markets, aerospace and defense (A&D) companies need to do more with less. Because of budgetary constraints, programs are smaller than before, and companies are now seeking new business across the globe. As a result the volume of proposals is on the rise. Companies must respond more efficiently than before to requests for proposal (RFPs). Companies must compete with innovative design and production concepts that effectively address their prospect’s needs at a

Craig A. Brown, PLM Leader, Global Engineering Systems Development & PLM, General Motors Craig Brown has 35 years of experience in systems engineering, both in the automotive and aerospace industries. He manages engineering and IT teams developing tools to improve product engineering. These teams have received patents, engineering awards, and ROIs. Craig received GM’s Boss Kettering Award in 2003, using OnStar to monitor and report Vehicle Diagnostics. The acquisition of knowledge applied across product portfolios is key to the next wave of Product Lifecycle Management. Craig was appointed the GM PLM Leader in September 2012.

PTC today announced the availability of PTC Creo® Elements/Direct® 19.0 software. This latest version of the company’s direct modeling software delivers productivity enhancements in the core areas of modeling, drafting and data management. These enhancements are complemented by greater interoperability with PTC Creo 3.0 and other non-PTC CAD systems, via PTC’s Unite™ technology. “With PTC Creo Elements/Direct 19.0, we have introduced new multi-CAD import functionality to support collaboration, a key aspect of the modern product development process,” said Martin Neumüller, Director of Product Management, PTC. “PTC Creo Elements/Direct 19.0 also introduces new and enhanced capabilities and streamlined workflows to improve ease of use and productivity.” “The new import capabilities in PTC Creo Elements/Direct 19.0 will allow us to collaborate more effectively with companies using different CAD tools,” said Nobuaki Sugimoto, mechanical designer, Icom, Inc. Specific enhancements introduced with this release include: Enhanced multi-CAD collaboration Support for direct import of SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor data enables

PTC today announced the latest release of its PTC Creo® revolutionary 3D product design software. With PTC Creo 3.0, PTC introduces new Unite™ technology which significantly enhances the ability to use CAD files from a variety of systems directly in PTC Creo. PTC Creo 3.0 also empowers innovation through more powerful, seamlessly integrated concept design tools ensuring efforts undertaken in concept design can be fully reused in the detailed design process. Key productivity enhancements within the release further add to customers’ ability to focus on higher levels of innovation and product quality. “With PTC Creo 3.0, we continue to deliver on the PTC strategy. Our ground breaking Unite technology addresses the data and process-related challenges of CAD consolidation. By enabling designers to convert data ‘as needed, when needed’, and only converting the data that requires modification, organizations can save a tremendous amount of effort and cost,” said Michael Campbell, Executive Vice President CAD Segment,

Manufacturers, equipment operators and service providers are evolving their business models to drive higher customer value and profitably grow service revenue and market share by bringing new and differentiated product and service offerings to market. To enable these offerings, PTC today announced the PTC Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) System for product-smart service. The PTC SLM System provides an integrated set of innovative solutions that enable a service leader to plan, execute and optimize service across their entire network, regardless of task, role, product or geography. The arrival of the Internet of Things (IoT) era means manufacturers and service providers are facing new and complex challenges to stay competitive and grow profitably in a smart, connected world. Potentially every device in the office, factory or home, on the road, air and, sea, in cities and farms could be connected, drastically changing how products and systems are created, operated, and serviced. As real-time data is captured, organizations will need

At this week’s PTC Live Global (Boston, MA, June 15-19, Booth 304), Granta Design will be demonstrating a new materials data integration application for the PTC® Windchill® PLM system. This is the latest in the growing list of leading CAD, CAE, and PLM software supported by dedicated GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway™ applications. As a PTC ‘Gold partner’, Granta has already provided such applications for Pro/ENGINEER® and Creo®. This integrated, traceable access to corporate materials knowledge, together with tools to apply it, benefits engineers, managers, and costing, environmental, or other specialists when they review individual products or look across product families.  MI:Materials Gateway applications have become the standard way to provide fast, fully traceable access to the quality materials data required for accurate design, simulation, and product lifecycle management (PLM). Granta has worked with some of the world’s top engineering enterprises to develop best practice in managing, accessing, and applying materials property information. Materials data is

Luxion is pleased to introduce KeyShot 5 with integrated support for PTC® Creo®  3.0, for a seamless workflow in creating photographic 3D renderings and animated visuals throughout the product development process. With KeyShot 5, Luxion continues to provide the smoothest integration between modeling and rendering, allowing users of PTC Creo 3.0 to open their designs directly in KeyShot from inside PTC Creo, and push all changes to their model back into KeyShot, including the ability for Mechanism Animations created within PTC Creo to be directly imported into KeyShot. NURBS geometry import is now supported for fast, accurate NURBS ray-tracing inside KeyShot 5. With additional performance improvements in KeyShot 5 and the free KeyShot for PTC Creo plugin, incredible visuals are only minutes away. “We are very pleased to have Luxion as a PTC ® PartnerAdvantage ™ partner, bringing rich visuals to the PTC Creo platform with their 3D rendering and animation solution,” says Michael

Technology training firm InfiniteSkills Inc. this week released its "Learning AutoCAD 2015" and "Learning AutoCAD 2015 LT" Tutorials, introductory courses covering the basic drawing and editing skills in AutoCAD and providing a firm foundation in the core features of this industry-standard computer assisted design (CAD) program. Released in March, AutoCAD 2015 features a refreshed user interface designed to improve the design process, along with other time-saving productivity tools, including the new tab page, ribbon galleries, and command preview. Infinite Skills' Learning AutoCAD 2015 and Learning AutoCAD LT 2015 tutorials provide students and professionals with an expert-guided introduction to learning the essential features and best practices to begin creating and publishing AutoCAD drawings for professional practice. Course author Brian Benton is an engineering technician, CAD Service Provider, technical writer, and AutoCAD instructor. He has more than 20 years of experience using AutoCAD in multiple design fields. He has also served in various leadership roles

ETRAGE LLC today announced the release of the PTC Windchill – SharePoint Integration Application. With PTC discontinuing support for Web Parts for SharePoint in PTC Windchill 10.2, the ETRAGE PTC Windchill – SharePoint Integration application can pass key design information from system to system. Customers leverage the ease-of-use of SharePoint and the power of Windchill PLM, benefiting by delivering a cohesive strategy and streamline distribution of data throughout the enterprise. Key Benefits: Robust, bidirectional exchange of data between diverse SharePoint and Windchill PLM systems Transfer of BOM, drawings, part numbers, attributes and more Automatically detects Lifecycle or Revision changes; or at check-in of objects in Windchill Flexible, modular data transfer “backbone,” with SharePoint and PLM-specific plug-ins Transactional, with reliable retry mechanism in case of failure Observable in real-time; fast and scalable; database-portable Out-of-box functionality and flexibility at a competitive price For a demonstration of the PTC Windchill – SharePoint Integration Application, visit the ETRAGE booth, #506, at the PTC