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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...

A Flexible Approach to PLM

Rolf Hüsemann, Manager, Engineering Systems & PLM, GETRAG FORD Transmissions

GETRAG's experience with PLM over time led to an interesting, non-traditional PLM implementation extending to multiple technical disciplines including mechanical, electronic, and software. A pragmatic approach to implement the PLM functionality was developed to support the dynamic environment GETRAG operates in. User and enterprise benefits have been delivered quickly with minimal process disruption. High user acceptance and flexibility of the solution have been achieved.

Model-Based Systems Engineering and PLM

Dr. Nicholas (Nick) Bell, CIO, Global Product Development, Information Technology, General Motors

The challenges in the automobile business are ever increasing with more stringent emissions and fuel economy targets combined with more and more conveniences for our customers. Accelerated development of these complex systems requires improved PLM and its virtual capabilities. PLM will accelerate product development when it enables well managed model-based systems engineering. GM needs our key suppliers in PLM, virtual engineering, and embedded systems development to integrate their solutions well. The systems engineers of the future need realistic, virtual models which can evolve as knowledge...

Global Product Development & the CAE Challenge

Dan Mekker, Manager, Gas Turbine Design Integrity, Siemens Energy

Understanding the demands of modern day global product development and realization from a design and simulation perspective, "The CAE challenge". Challenges include support for a global workforce and design anywhere philosophy; customer expectation for timely trusted innovative products; and advanced “model centric” engineered solutions. This presentation is a best belief guide, focusing on strategy and methodologies for lean product development (design, simulation, and manufacture) processes, advanced robust design methods, knowledge management, and transparency of information across end-to-end business processes. A gas turbine power generation machinery provider...