Integrated Requirements Management for Systems Engineering

Marc Lind, SVP Global Marketing, Aras

Vehicle complexity continues to increase with no end in sight forcing even greater emphasis on systems engineering capabilities at OEMs and tier suppliers worldwide. Tracing requirements across an integrated configuration that includes mechanical, electrical, wiring, software, firmware, and other system-related items to validate satisfaction and compliance has become impractical and unmanageable with stand-alone system silos. The inherent warranty risks associated are forcing automotive companies to fundamentally rethink their approach to requirements management for systems engineering. Find out how breaking down the walls and bringing together requirements management and configuration and...

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...

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...

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...

New Age Collaboration and Design

John Mannisto, Director of Engineering, Simulation-Based Design, Whirlpool Corporation

Global companies need to use their size to their advantage. Drawing on the best of our global teams and their collective knowledge is essential, and we need to provide the tools and promote the behaviors that can make this happen. Social media is outpacing corporate collaboration, and we need to pay attention. Facebook and Twitter have taught us that if you provide fun, intuitive tools, people like to socialize. If we can leverage this behavior in the work place, collaboration will thrive. Our internal experiment, Whirlpool Commons, is...

“Built for It”, The Caterpillar Service Information Solution

Mike Perez, Strategic Projects and Services Manager, Technical Information Solutions, Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar has built its name on providing unmatched service to its customers throughout the product lifecycle. Technical information is the foundation for building customer loyalty and enables harvesting of the aftermarket. “Built for It”, The Caterpillar Service Information Solution presentation will provide attendees with a view into the Caterpillar technical information service model, the associated challenges faced in supporting over 3 million machines and engines with an average age of almost 20 years, and provide insight into some of the unique demands...

Advanced Information Technology Solutions: An Engine of Innovation

Greg Schroeder, Senior Research Engineer, Center for Automotive Research

Globalization, increasingly stringent regulations, and advanced automotive electronics are rapidly increasing the complexity of the automotive landscape. Advanced enterprise information technology (IT) solutions are an essential part of managing the increasingly complex automotive industry. These solutions are viewed as a way to intelligently leverage internal and external data sources, transform the brick-and-mortar workplace to the mobile environment, provide real-time collaboration around the world, and free the workforce from the tedious tasks that stifle innovation. This presentation will describe key automotive market trends that impact IT,...

Using Social Engagement to Drive Innovation

Megan Pukala, Assistant Brand Manager, Fortune 500 company

Innovation drives competitive advantage for today’s leading companies by seeding both the products and services that accelerate top-line growth as well as the cost and organizational efficiencies that deliver the bottom line. However, the large scale of these leading companies often includes processes and checkpoints that can slow the pace of innovation. One way big organizations have used “small” thinking to seed more disruptive and more frequent innovation is by encouraging and better-enabling employees to explore their own business-driving ideas outside of standard leadership-driven channels.

In her talk, Megan...

The “platformization” of PLM

Peter Bilello, President, CIMdata

The "platformization" of PLM is underway. It is the culmination of three irresistible trends: the evolution of personal productivity tools, the migration of discrete end-to-end lifecycle-management capabilities to the extended enterprise level, and greater cross-functional and extended enterprise collaboration. PLM platforms of the future will be the foundation upon which functional capabilities, data, and processes are enabled and executed—everything users need, when they need it, all in one place. The near-term goal is to enable the innovation essential to the creation of physical and digital products, systems (a combination of the physical and the...

Additive Manufacturing & Conformal Cooling

Lou Young, Jr., Director of New Business Development,Tooling & Manufacturing, Linear Mold & Engineering

This presentation addresses the capabilities of 3D metal printing and conformal cooling that previously were not possible through conventional machining. By using additive manufacturing, design capabilities are endless. Linear has developed an expertise in the design and build of tooling inserts with conformal cooling channels that help reduce cycle times and drastically improve part quality.

3D metal printing technology excels in cases in which part designs have varying wall thicknesses, tight dimensional tolerances, and challenging mold geometry. This permits even cooling and prevents...