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Continuing with its mission to provide best in class teaching and learning to customers and engineering students, PTC today announced that Purdue University is the latest university to join its PTC University Authorized Training Program to deliver PTC software training to the surrounding engineering community. The training will be administered by Purdue's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Center and led by Professor Nathan Hartman in the College of Technology. The PLM Center brings together experts from across the university to serve as valuable resources for industry. Since 2002, the PLM Center has been dedicated to promoting the advancement and implementation of PLM through research and education. The College of Technology's reputation for industry collaboration, use-inspired research and work at high technology readiness levels reaches around the globe. “The programs offered by the Purdue University PLM Center using the PTC University Authorized Training Program will be instrumental in our efforts to provide professional level courses

3D Systems announced today that it has acquired Belgium-based LayerWise, a provider of  advanced direct metal 3D printing and manufacturing services. LayerWise delivers quick-turn, 3D-printed metal parts, manufactured on its own proprietary line of direct metal 3D printers, for aerospace, high-precision equipment and medical and dental customers. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to 3DS’ cash generation. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “We are delighted to integrate our proprietary direct metal technology and processes into 3D Systems’ leading portfolio of products and services,” said Jonas Van Vaerenbergh, one of LayerWise’s founders. “With its culture of continuous innovation dating back to its founder Chuck Hull, the inventor of the first 3D printing technology, and its commitment to advancing direct metal 3D technology and medical device services, 3DS is the perfect fit for our company and strengthens our combined growth potential.” Since 2008, LayerWise has designed and built its own

Why Driving in Circles is the Right and Best Future for PLM Derek Piette, Product Management Director, PTC The long and relatively straight road of product engineering in the automotive and transportation sectors has served us well over the past decades and produced several innovative and compelling products that enrich our lives on a daily basis. The mega-trends of safety, personalization, connectivity, and security are seeing that road heading towards a cliff when it comes to not only how we manage the product lifecycle but what we consider the product lifecycle itself and how we implement processes and tools to address it. Layer on this the exponential rise of complexity in our products, whether due to regional or market variation, cost, and regulatory constraints or the growing importance of non-physical “parts” in terms of software components or the data generated from these products and the environment they operate within.This presentation will explore

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 change management processes across the enterprise enables the design and delivery of our next generation vehicles.

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 collaboration, and improve product information management along the entire product lifecycle.

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 his views on probable solutions to enable secure OEM-to-OEM collaboration while ensuring partnership objectives are met.

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 overhead of the traditional players forcing them to rethink how they need to evolve if they want to remain in the game. This presentation addresses one such theme referred to as “Systems Driven Product Development” (SDPD) and how manufacturers are embracing this as a leading practice to attack this challenge. The

Doug Akers, Vice President of Product Management, PTC Doug Akers is the Vice President of Product Management within the extended PLM segment of PTC and is responsible for the leadership of global solution definition and management activities as it pertains to the ALM technologies; he also manages the strategy and roadmap of PTC’s enterprise ALM products and solutions. Doug joined PTC in August 1995 and has held positions within customer support, marketing, and product management for both the Integrity and Interoperability businesses since that time. Doug holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Psychology from McMaster University.  

Marc Lind, SVP Global Marketing, Aras Marc Lind is responsible for worldwide marketing at Aras, a provider of next generation Product Lifecycle Management solutions for global companies with complex products and processes. Prior to joining Aras, Marc was co-founder of PartsDriver, a supply chain software company focused on the automotive market. Earlier in his career he led a new product development reengineering initiative at Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) that resulted in development cycle time improvements for global outsourcing operations. He holds a BBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is a member of Association for Manufacturing Excellence, APICS, and the Product Development and Management Association.  

Scott Whiteman, Senior Manager, Accenture Scott Whiteman is a Senior Manager supporting Accenture Product Lifecycle Services. Over the last 20+ years of his professional career, Scott has focused his attention within Product Lifecycle Management process and its supporting technologies. Scott was the founder of a start-up engineering services firm that supported close to 100 clients and has led the development of technical delivery centers across the globe. Within the Automotive and Transportation industries he has played integral roles in transforming the product development process.