PLM Summit North America 2009

June 23-24 2009

Miami Florida

The PLM America 2009 program will follow shortly.
Should you wish to get involved in next year's agenda, please contact Helen Selby

day one | day two | workshop

WorkshopOctober 15, 2008
08:30
Workshop registration
THE INTEGRATION WORKSHOP
08:55
Chairman's introduction
Successful integration is absolutely critical for ensuring a profitable PLM strategy: understand the "magic" that leads to successful integration . . .

Jeff Hojlo , Research Analyst, AMR Research
09:00
Understanding Best Approach To System Integration (SI): Defining The Complexity Of Integration Required For Your Company And Avoiding Costly Mistakes Further Down The Line!
Case Timberland
  • Embracing the Full Potential of PLM - Integrating Your PLM Application Into The Wider Business Strategy
  • Understanding Systems Integration to support a broader PLM footprint

Warren Siecke, IT Program Manager, Product and Planning, The Timberland Company
09:40
Specific Systems Integration: Avoiding Integration Challenges With CAD & Enterprise Applications, ERP, SCM, CRM
  • Correlating CAD and CAE applications/information, managing those processes and successfully integrating them into a PLM system
  • Integrating PLM seamlessly with your enterprise systems, including supplier details, inventory and stocking information
  • Building a concrete strategy that understands integration needs from the bottom up, top down

James Jackson , Development Systems Manager, Timex Group USA, Inc.
10:40
MORNING REFRESHMENTS & NETWORKING BREAK
11:10
Engineering intelligence: from concept to reality
  • Identifying an approach for collecting key performance data to provide engineering dashboards
  • Uncovering a few crash analysis examples conducted on full vehicles, cite various metrics measured for different crash analysis types, and applying sophisticated business intelligence methodologies to create dashboards
  • Analysing the methodology for defining CAE/Test types and providing consistent and unambiguous data collection mechanisms to analysts and engineers

Alhad Joshi, Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, Altair Engineering, Inc.
11:45
CLOSE OF THE INTEGRATION WORKSHOP
12:00
NETWORKING LUNCH
THE INNOVATION WORKSHOP
13:00
Chairman's introduction
Develop a PLM Strategy that Helps you Create New-to-the-World Products that Outstrip the Competition . . . .

Jeff Hojlo , Research Analyst, AMR Research
13:05
Front End Innovation Management – Validating the Quality Of Information, Capturing Intent, Allowing Effective Reuse Of An Asset Throughout The Lifecycle
Case Schlumberger
  • Evaluating the resources for new product development allowed through a collaborative PLM strategy
  • Creating maps for new product portfolios: including recognition, idea management, and product innovations
  • Accessing and leveraging the many potential breakthrough ideas
  • Translating customer needs into products!

Najib Abusalbi, PhD, Chief Architect, Operations & Production; Information Solutions, Schlumberger Technologies
Carl Spears, Portfolio Architect, Schlumberger SIS
13:45
Any Bright Ideas? - Optimizing Your PLM System And Process to Allow for Ideation Across All Departments
Case study:
  • Capturing new product ideas and intellectual intelligence from across the organization: bringing marketing, R & D, Engineering, Manufacturing and idea generators into the lifecycle
  • Establishing a framework that allows ideas to be captured, re-used and stored in historical data
  • Optimizing customer feedback into the ideation chain and establishing innovative ideas that match consumer desires

Donald M. DeLauder, Executive Director, Product Innovation and Advanced Development, MEDRAD Inc
14:25
AFTERNOON COFFEE & NETWORKING
14:50
Utilizing One of Your Most Valuable Allies – PLM - To Achieve A Higher Class Of Innovation
Case study:
  • Evaluating the resources for NPD allowed through a collaborative PLM strategy
  • Creating maps for new product portfolios
  • Accessing and leveraging the many potential breakthrough ideas

Karen Marks, Director of Operations, Global Science and Innovation, ConvaTec Inc.
15:30
Infusing Innovation into the Product Lifecycle
Proven approaches to making innovation a core capability across all phases of PLM
  • Understanding the opportunities for innovation at all points in the product lifecycle
  • Building a value driving core competency in Sustainable Innovation
  • Transforming your PLM implementation into an innovation engine
  • Putting the right product ideas into the product lifecycle

Jeff Boehm, VP, Marketing and Strategy, Invention Machine Corporation
16:10
CLOSE OF THE INNOVATION WORKSHOP

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