This highly relevant global event for the PLM Professional boasts record attendance from locations all around the globe.
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & STOCKHOLM, Sweden 19 November 2020—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep AB announce the successful completion of PLM Road Map & PDT 2020 Virtual-Live. The event's theme was Digital Thread—the PLM Professionals' Path to Delivering Innovation, Efficiency, and Quality. The event took place over three half-day virtual sessions on November 17-19. The event comprised presentations made by PLM Professionals representing several industry verticals interleaved with short vignettes about key topics of interest presented by the event's sponsors.
Speakers and their presentation topics included:
- Digital Twin, It Requires a Digital Thread - Peter Bilello, President & CEO, CIMdata
- A&D PLM Action Group Multi-view BOM Solution Evaluation Benchmarks – Process, Results, and Industry Impacts - Javier Reinés, Configuration Management Expert, Airbus & Dan Ganser, PLM Staff Scientist, Gulfstream Aerospace
- 5G for Digital Twins & Shadows - Niels König, Chief Engineer & Head of the Production Metrology Department, Fraunhofer IPT
- Delivering Through Life: Digital Innovation in Maritime - Luigi Sidoli, Leader, UK & International Maritime Business Development, BAE Systems
- Digital Thread: Be Careful What You Wish For, It Just Might Come True - Marc Halpern, P.E., Ph.D., Vice President, Gartner
- Global Collaboration - Defining a baseline for data exchange processes and standards - Kathryn Bell, Collaboration Specialist, Pratt & Whitney Canada
- Looking Outside the Core of PLM to Deliver Value with PLM - Nigel Shaw, Technical Fellow, Eurostep
- Model-Based Definition Information Requirements for Type Design - Brandon Sapp, The Boeing Company & Ian Parent, Pratt & Whitney, Canada
- Connect, Trace, and Manage Lifecycle of Models, Simulation, and Linked Data: Is That Easy? - Alberto Ferrari, Raytheon
- Model-Based Engineering at Boeing - Jeff Plant, Director of Engineering Practices, Processes and Tools, The Boeing Company
- MBSE Data Interoperability - Architecture Model Exchange Solutions - Mark Williams, Lead Engineer, The Boeing Company
- What does it Take to Create the Digital Thread in Complex Systems Development? - Erik Herzog, Ph.D., Technical Fellow Systems Engineering, Saab Aeronautics
- Digital Thread—the PLM Professionals' Path to Delivering Innovation, Efficiency, and Quality - Fireside chat moderated by CIMdata's Dr. Ken Versprille with three industry leaders - Peter Bilello, President & CEO, CIMdata, Marc Halpern, P.E., Ph.D., Vice President, Gartner & Torbjörn Holm, Founder, Eurostep
Event sponsors made thought-leadership presentations in the live event and provided attendees with a series of "on-demand" presentations. Sponsors for the 2020 event were Anark, Aras, ESI, Plural Technology, PTC, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Technia, Vertex Software, and Zumen.
"Our aim with PLM Road Map & PDT 2020 was to offer a highly valuable global event tailored to the interests of the PLM Professional, providing them with the opportunity to learn from and with others across multiple industries," stated Mr. Peter Bilello, President & CEO of CIMdata. "With this mission in mind, we focused on creating a compelling agenda that tackled the Digital Thread head on. We are happy that this topic resonated with the PLM community, with 260 people in attendance, predominantly from the industrial end-user community, signing up for the event," added Mr. Bilello.
“PLM Road Map & PDT 2020 was delivered with great success and we are extremely pleased with the quality of presentations, the number of attendees, and the support from sponsors,” says Håkan Kårdén, co-founder and VP Marketing of Eurostep. “With the theme centered around Digital Thread it is clear that the conference was contributing to the definition of future of PLM, addressing the professional PLM community. Openness, standards, democratization of PLM, and the positioning of PLM at the enterprise level, were some of the highlights presented but there was much more shared at the event,” added Mr Kårdén.
For more information on PLM Road Map & PDT 2020 visit: https://www.cimdata.com/en/education/plm-conferences/plmrm-pdt-fall-2020. For 2021, the event will take place virtually in the Spring and we hope as a face-to-face event in the late Fall in Europe.
