Kevin O'Brien

Kevin O'Brien, Divisional Vice President & General Manager, PTC

Kevin O’Brien is the Divisional Vice President and General Manager of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) segment at PTC. In this role, Kevin is responsible for PTC’s strategy, product, go-to-market and customer success for PLM offerings including Windchill and ThingWorx Navigate. Previously at PTC, Kevin led the build out of PTC’s award winning Internet of Things and Augmented Reality partner ecosystems.

Earlier in his career, Kevin spent several years as a product manager at PTC on the Windchill PLM offering before going for an MBA at Harvard Business School. He then spent a decade at Oracle in a series of global go-to-market leadership roles building several new growth businesses.

The Model-Based Enterprise: PLM as Backbone of A&D Digital Transformation

Digital transformation initiatives are underway across the defense ecosystem, which includes government entities - both military and civilian. Their goals include speed to new capability insertion, improved asset uptime, and lowered support costs. Their main task is getting their digital ‘house’ in order but, change of this magnitude is not always easy.

As systems grow more complex, multiple disciplines need to collaborate in order to design, build, and maintain them. By enabling the model-based enterprise, designing a system using models ensures early visualization and simulation, thus improving stakeholder communication.

The United States Navy – an organization with over 300,000 active duty personnel, hundreds of ships, and thousands of suppliers – is leveraging Windchill SaaS to expose an integrated and model-based view of all the information needed to maintain, support, and operate ships.

This session will cover how PTC has enabled its enterprise-wide digital transformation project, to improve fleet availability and readiness, create efficient processes for logistics and services, while reducing IT expenses.