ptcuser.org | 2004 world event

Partner presentations draw upon the resources of PTC/USER Industry Partners to discuss emerging technologies and products, and how they can address specific challenges. The following companies have committed to presentations for the 2004 World Event:

Gold Partners

Adobe Systems	How to Leverage Adobe PDF in Windchill Adobe PDF has become the de facto standard for the secure and reliable exchange of documents. Nearly every manufacturing company uses Adobe PDF to some degree, but very few harness its full potential value. This session will offer a practical view on how to leverage Adobe PDF through the Adobe Intelligent Document Platform and PTC Windchill. Adobe will explain the major components of the Intelligent Document Platform, the integration with PTC Windchill and how to streamline document processes such as design review and change management.

HP	Choosing, Configuring and Tuning Windchill on HP Server Architectures HP offers customers the most comprehensive server product line in the industry for PTC Windchill and Link products, incorporating the latest Intel Itanium and Xeon, HP PA-RISC, and AMD Opteron processor technology. HP also provides an extensive range of superior, adaptable networking and data storage products. In this presentation we will discuss ways to maximize the benefits of PTC Windchill with HP products. This discussion will cover the following topics: 1. Sizing architectures for different Windchill and Link customer requirements. Scale-out and Scale-up choices will be discussed. 2. Tuning Windchill for hp-ux and MS Windows servers. 3. Securing Windchill on hp-ux servers: hardening the server with Bastille hp-ux and securing with hp-ux Webproxy. 4. Reliability and recovery with HP Serviceguard and the Serviceguard extension for Oracle 9i RAC. 5. The Windchill Appliance Program. We will provide a CD with guidance on sizing, tuning and hp servers and software to all interested participants.

IBM	IBM Workstations and Servers: Moving into the 64-bit World for PLM The swift advance of technology continues unabated. This session will highlight the latest developments in the IBM eServer family ofworkstations and servers for Product Lifecycle Management applications from PTC, in both the UNIX and Windows environments. A key highlight will be the rapidly evolving area of 64-bit workstations with details of the new IBM IntelliStation A Pro featuring AMD Opteron processors.

Intel	From the Napkin in the Bar to the Read Me First: The Need for Collaboration in a Virtual Company As companies move from co-located Engineering and Manufacturing to a network of partners, the need for collaboration increases dramatically. We must replace departmental solutions, solving the same problem differently for each department, with an enterprise solution providing a common view and process company-wide. A case study will be used to illustrate one account of this transition, where we are coming, where we are today, and where we are going.

Sun Microsystems	Architecture Matters! Considerations for deploying Windchill and 'Link solutions. Sun and PTC share a common architectural vision based on the three I's: * Integral core technologies * Internet-ready design * Interoperability through standards Sun and PTC have invested in designing a reference configuration to define a scalabable, highly available, and secure environment for deploying Windchill on the Sun Platform. Sun will discuss architectural considerations and best practices as well as how the Sun Java Enterprise System (JES) can provide a strong foundation to meet your specific objectives for scaleabilty, availability and security for deploying PTC's Product Development System (PDS).

Silver Partners

Austin NC	IVYACCESS is an application born for companies using Pro/INTRALINK® to give them a free access to technical data by users from outside the designer team and to allow sharing data with other applications. IVYACCESS can be accessed by a web browser from any place and It needs no Pro/INTRALINK client license to work. More than this, you don't need to be an expert designer or an engineer to use IVYACCESS because it was developed for basic - web like usage. IVYACCESS provides a great management of inputs and of search queries thanks to customized search forms. More than this it allows users to see and print 2D drawings in PDF format and to take a look to 3D preview, to navigate BOMs and to regenerate models without using Pro/E on the client side.

Blue Ridge Numerics	Upfront CFD: Fluid Flow and Thermal Analysis for Pro/ENGINEER Users Historically, CFD/thermal analysis has never enjoyed widespread use by product development engineers. Thankfully, times are changing. CFdesign is busting down barriers and placing full-power analysis on the desktops of mechanical engineers. With its superb interface, parametric integration to Pro/ENGINEER, and greatly reduced software ownership costs, CFdesign is changing the market dynamics. The presentation includes a live parametric demonstration of CFdesign v7.0 (including the new turbo and translating machinery optimization module) for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0. Come see how CFdesign has altered the product development landscape.

Butler International	Worldwide Project Collaboration Using ProjectLink The Windchill ProjectLink solution is a Web-based workspace, which can be used by an organization to solve the problems of geographically and organizationally, dispersed project teams that are working on highly innovative design projects. Design involves many people and many discrete tasks that must be coordinated. By using ProjectLink as a tool Butler has not only been able to plan a project, but to also capture the changes that occurs in the execution of multiple projects at any time. This presentation will cover how Butler is enforcing internal procedures, policies and business rules by the creation of project templates, proprietary routes and workflows. Specific roles were added to the system based on Butlers particular business need or as part of projects customizations. By attending this session you will see not only an out-of-the-box design project collaboration solution provided by PTC, but in great detail, you will see how this solution can be integrated within an existing enterprise environment of an organization. We will show a strategy, a procedure and the methodology of using ProjectLink in such a way to solve particular problems as: working together over the internet world-wide, manage highly iterative collaborative design projects on time and in budget, monitoring the status of the projects execution and manage our documents with configuration control.

CAD Schroer GmbH	STHENO/Pro--the only 2D drafting system integrated with Pro/ENGINEER. We will discuss and demonstrate the practical use of 2D drafting within the Pro/E world, whether as a replacement for a 2D system, as a front-end for a concept design and layout tool or as a 2D tool for users downstream of the product design area. Fully integrated with Pro/ENGINEER 2001, Wildfire 1 and Wildfire 2, Intralink, Windchill and PDMLink, it simply is the only 2D tool that you should consider for your installation.

CADTRAIN	Today, there are many options available for learning how to use Pro/ENGINEER. This presentation will discuss the different approaches that have proven to be effective and ways to structure a successful learning program. We will discuss books, tutorials, videos, e-Learning courses, instructor-led training, distance learning, PTC’s Precision Learning, mentoring, on the job training, assessments and certifications. This will be an informative session that will cover the available training options and will provide real-world examples of how companies train their users to become productive with Pro/ENGINEER.

CGTech	Using Simulation Technology to Achieve Lean Manufacturing As competition, from sources both domestic and abroad, reaches unprecedented levels, manufacturers must run as efficiently as possible in order to remain profitable. Emphasis on lean manufacturing is no longer an abstract goal, but an absolute business necessity. Utilizing the advanced technology available in today’s sophisticated machine simulation software is one of the best ways metalworkers can reduce costs and improve process efficiency. This presentation will focus on the benefits of machine simulation technology, using practical implementation examples to outline effective strategies. Also included is a discusion of methods for improving efficiency by using knowledge-based machining software to optimize cutting.

Federation	The Power of Federation Combined with Windchill

ITC InfoTech	Value Creation Via the Collaborative Enterprise Organizations are today working in a very demanding and fast evolving market place. There is an imperative need to introduce competitive products - accelerating the time to market while maintaining that innovative edge to capture the consumer mind.The number of players in the product development chain has been multiplying due to pressures of globalization. While many organizations have tackled this by outsourcing their manufacturing, customer relationship, supply chain requirements -- this has primarily led to improving transactional efficiencies it has so far been minimal or zero in adding to the edge required to keep competitors at bay.A robust Collaborative Enterprise addresses the need for all the stakeholders in the product development value chain to effectively work as one single enterprise while maintaining their distinct identities as well as business focus leading to enhanced value creation.

NxRev	NxRev Inc. is a leading partner with PTC specializing in the selling and supporting of the entire suite of PTC software. Our expertise includes but is not limited to the deploying, implementing, utilizing, and optimizing of the entire family of PTC software. Along with offering a full suite of tools to capture and automate all product development process, NxRev also offers various options for training and education. These options range from in-depth custom curriculum to on-site and hands-on instruction. Through the selling and supporting of the Pro/ENGINEER family of software, we set ourselves apart as Product Development Solution Specialists. Our goal is to fully integrate companies’ development processes with the right tools to enable them to save time, focus on engineering, and turn their ideas into profit.

Polyplan Technologies	Bridging the Gap between Manufacturing and Engineering In the past 25 years, leading manufacturers have been digitizing their information and promoting collaboration between their core business functions, to drive product development process efficiency and profitability. Among the various initiatives carried out to support this goal two major information system pillars have stood out: systems that support product engineering and systems that support production execution. Though these pillars have brought some significant benefits to the manufacturers who have implemented them, even the most successful ones are still struggling to achieve the competitive leap they had initially envisioned and still have a remaining cultural and technical gap between manufacturing and engineering. This gap still exists because what ERP systems need to manage production execution does not directly come out of CAD/PDM systems. You need to transform the form/fit/function output of your CAD/PDM systems into the time/cost/quality input required by ERP systems. In this presentation, you will see how Polyplan's manufacturing process design workbench, embedded in your PTC PLM environment, will enable your organization to effectively bridge the gap between manufacturing and engineering. With the Polyplan cMPM™ solution, your users will systematically drive the manufacturability of product designs, smoothly control the impact of changes down to the shop floor, and reduce production ramp-up time and cost; to ultimately achieve the competitive edge envisioned since the beginning of the digital era.

Tibco Software

Torgon Industries	Opening Your Own Pro/ENGINEER Design Firm and Contracting Out Your Services Locally Have you thought about opening your ownPro/ENGINEER design firm and contracting out your services to local companies in your area? Many engineers and designers have tried on their own, only to achieve mediocre results or failed altogether. This seminar will illustrate some of the major things to consider when going into the MCAD business for your self and provide some valid points to think about before making the commitment. Drawing on his 10+ years of Pro/ENGINEER experience and his success as a top PTC Reseller and Product Development and Engineering Design firm, Jay Sussman will provide some strategic thinking, some tactical initiatives, and even startup kits anyone can apply to starting their own Pro/ENGINEER design firm or rejuvenating their existing design company.

Tri CAD/CAM Systems	Understanding the Product Development System Come and see why PTC’s Product Development System (PDS) has everyone talking. The CAD industry’s leading software, Pro/ENGINEER, and the PLM industry’s leading software, Windchill, have joined forces and are leading the pack in Product Development. The presentation will cover the three key elements of PTC’s PDS:Leading Technology. Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill are indeed leading the pack in their respective industries – see what is available to help you Create and Control your data, and also communicate and Collaborate with suppliers, vendors, and customers. We will also discuss the underlying architecture of these tools including their interoperability with each other.Process Optimization. Tri Cad/Cam Systems and PTC have the process & product knowledge to help you optimize your Product Development Process – and the PDS is built on bulletproof principles to assist you in this. Together with PTC’s tools & Tri CAD/CAM’s people – we can work together to help you optimize your processes.Adoption. It is necessary to have a rigorous, proven strategy for implementing the tools and processes of PTC’s PDS. PTC and Tri Cad/Cam will work together to not just “install” software but truly implement the software & processes of the PDS including installation, configuration, training, & maintenance.The PDS provides a complete solution to address people, process, and technology requirements. For the first time, customers have a comprehensive set of quality-tested capabilities that support end-to-end processes that can be implemented quickly and cost-effectively, with minimal risk!

Expert Presentations

Expert presentations are technical sessions offered by experienced members of our community. These persons possess unique, hard-to-find knowledge that in many cases is generally unavailable except at large corporations.

Several Regional User Group chairs stepped forward this year to assist us in evaluating the many abstracts submitted. We wish to thank them and acknowledge their invaluable efforts to ensure a high-quality experience for our conference attendees:

Mike Venegoni, Mark Andy Company
Craig Shott, Raytheon
Bruce Nemec, Concept2Reality
Grant R. Atkinson, Grant Atkinson Design
Scott Myers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Karl Zedell, Motorola
Rick Schimek
Ed Stevenson, Pelco

Administration Technology & Processes
Best Practice Session	Collaborating with an Outsourced Product Development Team	Learn strategies for designing and deploying flexible, streamlined product development collaboration processes for the extended enterprise.
Best Practice Session	Making the Case for PLM	You know your company needs PLM. After all, you are struggling with the day to day challenges of creating product information, managing that information, and making the information accessible to others in your company. This session will help you link your engineering activities to your company's business strategy using PTC's Product First Roadmap and make the case for PLM.
Best Practice Session	Migrating CAD Data into Windchill	Experts will discuss tools that are available and key decision criteria when migrating CAD data into Windchill. Migrating data from Pro/INTRALINK to Windchill will be the primary focus.
Best Practice Session	Pro/ENGINEER Data Management and Beyond!	Hear from the experts how to get control of all your product data, and provide controlled access across a distributed product development environment.
Best Practice Session	Pursuing a Virtual Prototyping Strategy	Reduce development costs and reliance on physical prototypes by learning how to create, control and share virtual prototype information.
Best Practice Session	Streamlining Change and Configuration Management	This seminar will cover how to improve product quality by incorporating a CMII closed-loop certified change process that can be used as is or tailored to accommodate your company’s needs. Learn how to define and manage multiple product configurations.
Best Practice Session	Using e-Learning to Drive User Productivity	Learn how to get the most out of your e-Learning options - a review of options, best practices and common pitfalls.
Expert User Presentation	Change Management and PDMLink By Jeff Zemsky, Plug Power	Is your Change Management in chaos? Are ECRs running amok? Before Plug Power could manage these issues successfully with Windchill PDMLink, it had to tackle the business process and initiate continuous improvement projects as the organization grew into a web-based change management tool. You can learn from our experiences, and develop metrics to help quantify improvements and identify pinch points.
Expert User Presentation	Demystifying Workflows in Windchill ProjectLink By Karen Wells-Newsom, Pelco	Unlock the power of Windchill ProjectLink to automate most processes within your company. Learn how to leverage the workflow development application and its features to create custom workflows that can automate and streamline your processes. Learn how to create effective instructions and documentation to support your workflow. The presentation includes a brief demo of routing a document on a custom workflow.
Expert User Presentation	Do's and Don'ts of Migrating from Intralink to PDMLink By David Graham, Pro/E Solutions	Are you thinking about moving from Pro/INTRALINK to Windchill PDMLink? Learn about the pros and cons of both Pro/INTRALINK and Windchill PDMLink, and how to develop and implement a migration plan. Our discussion topics will include migrations from a single Pro/INTRALINK database and Pro/INTRALINK databases using package replication. Find out about critical considerations, such as preparation of the Pro/INTRALINK database for migration, and the data transfer into Windchill PDMLink.
Expert User Presentation	High Performance Global Design with Pro/INTRALINK By Thomas Brosius, John Deere	Pro/INTRALINK is currently the PTC model data manager of choice for most companies using Pro/ENGINEER. Pro/INTRALINK has several features designed to help businesses that need to share Pro/E models at multiple design sites across the world. Unfortunately these features either impose a severe performance penalty or high administrative overhead cost. This presentation will describe the use of Oracle replication techniques that complement PTC's existing tools and provide a high performance Pro/INTRALINK environment that spans multiple sites with minimal administration. A case study will be used to illustrate the business dynamics that drove the development team to the eventual solution.
Expert User Presentation	Implementing a Standardized Multi-Site Pro/E Environment By Don Fye, Cummins	In 2003, Cummins successfully rolled out both new hardware and a PTC environment to all of its worldwide design and drafting users. This project involved over 300 Windows XP stations installed across four continents. Every Pro/ENGINEER installation uses a standard configuration, with local variations permitted. The architecture and procedures as well as the resulting benefits will be presented. Any company supporting more than one location should benefit from this information.
Expert User Presentation	Introduction of the PIONEER PLM System at LG Philips By Chan-Ho Kim, LG Philips LCD Co. Ltd.	The purpose of the LG Philips LCD Co. Windchill system implementation called PIONEER PLM is to achieve the corporate vision of becoming the number one LCD company in the world. The project is based on the development strategies of incremental building and package function compliance. During this presentation we will cover how the PIONEER PLM System is efficient and easy for the end user. We will show how we improved the system usage by integrating with other systems such as ERP, SCM, EAI and legacy systems. After the PIONEER PLM system went into production we achieved increased improvement in engineering quality, reduced development lead time and reduced costs. Come learn more about this implementation to see if it can help your company as well.
Expert User Presentation	Is Your Business Ready for a Model-Centric Engineering Process? By Howard Schimmoller, Lockheed Martin	This presentation will discuss the Lockheed Martin Mechanical Model Centric Design implementation from a corporate perspective, and the use of a capability maturity model to assess a business readiness to implement model centric design. The Lockheed Martin vision of Model Centric Design is to allow product definition data to flow seamlessly throughout the enterprise. In our vision, the three-dimensional solid model must be the portal to the product definition, geometric definition as well as access to process, specification, and key design characteristics. We will focus on the business lessons learned, and benefits and barriers will be stressed. Example lesson themes include supply chain impacts, customer readiness, long-term archival concerns, tool functionality gaps, and associated efforts of industrial standards organizations such as AIA, ASME, and ISO. We will introduce a high-level capability maturity model integration (CMMI) that can be used to assess the readiness of a business to implement model centric design. We will define levels of maturity of model centric design readiness and capability maturity measurements.
Expert User Presentation	Make Your CAD Administration Slicker with Some Automation By Edwin Muirhead, Weatherford UK	Automation can save time, money and effort for those who install and upgrade software or manage CAD users and licenses, We'll look at two scripting examples in action: a CAD License Tracker and a custom installation method (scripts will be made available). With automation and some imagination, you can ease your administrative burdens.
Expert User Presentation	Managing Windchill Customizations By Ron Welch, BAE Systems	This presentation will cover lessons learned by BAE Systems about how to best manage customizations to Windchill. It will cover strategies developed over the course of a multi-year Windchill implementation that involved (and continues to involve) a significant in-house software development effort. At the end of the presentation, attendees will have gained insight into how to successfully manage source code level changes to the out of the box Windchill codebase, while minimizing their risk of high software migration costs resulting from software upgrades.
Expert User Presentation	Mass Deployment Made Easy By Jean-Louis Beaulne, CAE Inc.	Deploying and maintaining software to workstations can be tedious and challenging for administrators. See how CAE deploys changes to 100+ Wintel Pro/ENGINEER and Pro/INTRALINK clients in just a few minutes. Thanks to this strategy, CAE's engineers always have the latest PTC configuration files and software components. This presentation explains the deployment strategy used at CAE in a Windows NT and Windows 2000 workstation environment. Topics covered:- Revisioning scheme.- Pushing the entire PTC package. This is usually used for major changes, such as deploying new builds.- Pull system: Incremental changes are made when the users startup the software to make sure the latest version is being used.- The techniques are implemented with batch files based on Windows's command shell (CMD). The multiple techniques used in the batch files will be explained.These techniques are free and can be customized to fit your company's procedures.This should be an eye opener for many people who need to deploy software. Also, anyone who can benefit from batch files in the Windows CMD shell will pick up many useful tricks to help make batch files more efficient, streamlined and flexible.
Expert User Presentation	PDMLink: From Quickstart to Production in Seven Months By Jane Demmer, John Deere	Learn the key steps of a successful implementation of Windchill PDMLink. The implementation process began with the utilization of the Windchill PDMLink QuickStart. The system was then further configured to enable the John Deere Power Systems' part release process. Data was published using the Pro/INTRALINK Gateway to create the WTParts. The training process--determining course content, creation of courses, follow up training, and system usage--also will be explained.
Expert User Presentation	Running Pro/INTRALINK in a High-Availability Environment By Duane Roach and Peter McKinney, Steelcase	Steelcase put both its QA machines and production machines into a high availability environment. We will discuss how we configured our servers so we could have production failover to the QA environment and still have the QA instance running. Learn about network requirements to support the high availability clustering and the necessary changes to Pro/INTRALINK to support both separate production and QA instances. If you are thinking of moving to a high availability environment, you don't want to miss this session.
Expert User Presentation	Using Scripting to Import Legacy Data to Intralink By Robert Mills, Akron Brass Company	Since its introduction in release 3.2, Pro/INTRALINK scripting has become a useful tool in automating many tasks. One of these tasks included importing a large collection of legacy (approximately 6,000) of Microstation drawings. Using a template created with the script interface and other programming tools, this was accomplished with relative ease and in a reasonable amount of time. Most system administrators and advanced users will find scripting a useful tool for many other tasks as well.
Product Update Briefing	Data Management	Wondering what's new with PTC's CAD data management solutions (e.g. workgroup managers)? Attend this session to learn about the latest Pro/ENGINEER and third-party MCAD and ECAD data management improvements.
Product Update Briefing	Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire and Pro/INTRALINK Customization	This session will highlight the latest options for Pro/ENGINEER customization and automation in the new release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. See how Pro/TOOLKIT allows your applications to integrate seamlessly into the new Pro/ENGINEER User Model. We will discuss expanded coverage of Pro/TOOLKIT feature types, new options for easy deployment of J-Link, and information on how to leverage PTC's Distributed Services Manager tool for your own enterprise needs. You will also have a chance to ask questions of PTC Product Line Managers.
Product Update Briefing	Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire System Administration	Hear what's new in the latest release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire in the areas of installation, compatability, licensing, hardware support, and other activities pertinent to system administrators.
Product Update Briefing	Product Development System	This session will discuss and demonstrate PTC's Product Development System. Learn how this system-based approach is being used to plan, design and deliver PTC solutions.
Product Update Briefing	Visualization	ProductView provides a wide range of visual collaboration tools and functionality. Learn about the capabilities of Release 7 visualization and see short demonstrations to illustrate key ProductView capabilities.
Product Update Briefing	Windchill Classification and Reuse	Windchill provides solutions for component re-use management inside and outside the enterprise. Learn how Classification and Reuse can be used in Windchill PDMLink, enabling component classification, classification management, and high speed reuse searching throughout the enterprise.
Product Update Briefing	Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration	Learn more about Windchill's Enterprise Interoperability. This session will provide an overview of the turnkey integration capabilities of the Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration module, which is new for 7.0. In addition, we'll discuss other new features in the Windchill suite of Enterprise Interoperability products.
Product Update Briefing	Windchill PDMLink and Windchill Foundation	Come see how Windchill PDMLink can manage your product development environment! In this session you will learn about the latest Windchill PDMLink and Foundation updates and see how the latest Windchill release further enhances the Product Development System with integral Control and Collaboration capabilities. Learn how Windchill PDMLink can not only manage all of your product information and associated bills of material, but also how it can automate and manage your critical product development business processes. You will also learn about the benefits of integral Collaboration with Windhill ProjectLink. This session also covers Windchill Infrastructure and Foundation TC topics.
Product Update Briefing	Windchill ProjectLink	Hear how Windchill ProjectLink enables globally dispersed product development teams to work seamlessly together on projects through Web-based workspaces. See the latest capabilities and learn how this collaborative project management tool helps design teams eliminate prototypes, reduce travel expenses and actually drive new business with customers.

Design & Manufacturing
Best Practice Session	Advanced Technical Tips for Surfacing and Styling	Jump start your Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire productivity with this informative session. Learn how to access the various free tutorials, techniques, and technical support resources directly from the web browser embedded in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. We will also show you some advanced surfacing techniques to make you more productive with ISDX (Style), Restyle, Warp and rendering.
Best Practice Session	Creating Modular Product Architectures	Discover how to reduce part count, reduce product complexity and enable a common platform design from product development experts.
Best Practice Session	Leveraging the Latest Enhancements in Structural and Thermal Simulation	The new releases of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire provide some of the biggest advances ever in Structural and Thermal simulation from PTC. This session will go into depth on how to use these improvements to simulate your design with greater accuracy and in less time than before. Topics covered will include modeling welded assemblies, customizing your environment for CAE (including results templates and HTML reporting), and using the new Bolt Fastener capabilities.
Best Practice Session	Mastering Selection, Flying through the Dashboard and Animating Your Assemblies	This seminar will demonstrate advanced selection capabilites in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. Once you've mastered selection, you will be shown how to fly through the dashboard using right mouse button shortcuts. After creating a few parts, you'll see how to quickly build an assembly using drag and drop, and explore assembly movement and interferences in real-time.
Best Practice Session	Maximize Your Manufacturing Throughput	Work smarter not harder with the new manufacturing process manager putting the complete NC process at your finger tips. Learn how to customize the process manager layout and create, cut, copy, paste, simulate and document NC sequences in this new environment.
Expert User Presentation	Paperless is Coming: Are You Ready? By Michael Sandford, Technical Documentation Consultants of Arizona	More and more, companies are going paperless, electing to communicate design intent with computer models and electronic data rather than paper drawings and documents. Until recently, there was little guidance towards implementing a standard paperless process. However, ASME recently released a new standard, ASME Y14.41-2003, entitled Digital Product Definition Data Practices. This standard establishes requirements for the preparation and revision of digital product definition data. This groundbreaking standard now provides a framework for the many CAD software packages to develop better modeling and annotation practices. We will examine the implications of this new standard.
Expert User Presentation	Alternate Method to Creating Wire Harnesses in Pro/ENGINEER By Frank Mohr, Caterpillar Inc.	We will discuss how wiring harnesses are created at Caterpillar Inc. using alternative design processes, including a custom Pro/TOOLKIT application called Electric Lines Design Process. This tool and process frees designers from concerns about using autoroute to try to follow a network through an assembly. The process and tools will automatically pack the wires into a sheathing bundle and validate that all the required accessory parts to a harness assembly have been included. Using a standard drawing layout, a designer can create a complete harness assembly drawing in under 10 minutes.
Expert User Presentation	Analysis & Design Automation with BMX, Mechanisms and Pro/MECHANICA By Christopher Kaswer, Timken US Corporation	Developing sophisticated, multi-body dynamic models can be time consuming and difficult. We've created a method to construct a dynamic model where the mechanical characteristics of the components are automatically changed when the geometry of the components change. These characteristics include spring rates, component stiffnesses, damping coefficients, etc. The significance is that template parts and systems can be created and made available to less experienced users, providing them with advanced analytical tools.
Expert User Presentation	Animated Cables: Putting Harness Family Tables to Work in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire By Eugene Elenev, ASML	Would you like to see how your cables move, or how much space they need, or if there are any bend radius violations? What about the situation when there are two identical harnesses, and one moves but the other does not? During this session, we'll answer those questions while you learn the basic steps necessary to create harness family tables. This new Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire functionality removes the complexity of many work arounds. We will also address top-down design in cabling and reporting of harness parameters.
Expert User Presentation	Another Tool for Top-Down Design, The Inheritance Feature By Randy Foster, P.E. Support	We will summarize the pros and cons and show some creative uses of the inheritance feature. This is a data-sharing feature introduced in Pro/ENGINEER release 2001 and has several advantages as well as disadvantages. It includes aspects of the external copygeom, merge, layout and family table functionality but offers some advantages not found in any of these. For example, use of inheritance in lieu of a skeleton may help you to better organize your top-down assemblies. Inheritance can offer some of the advantages of a layout, (global parameters and relations accessible from any part), and geometry sharing of a copygeom with added ability to pass patterns from the skeleton.
Expert User Presentation	Design for Sheet Metal Versus Sheet Metal Design By Phillip D. Vaughan, Stewart & Stevenson	Pro/ENGINEER has an awesome set of tools and applications to develop sheet metal parts. However, one of the most important elements in sheet metal design is to understand the manufacturing limits of the material being used. Just because a part can be modeled with Pro/ENGINEER does not necessarily mean the part can be manufactured or is the most efficient design. This is where the Design for Sheet Metal philosophy comes into play: the proper methods of designing for sheet metal parts for efficient manufacturing. This presentation will review common mistakes, basic material selection, bending formulae, tooling setups, part layouts, proper bend relief design, and fixture-less assembly design. There will be several live Pro/E demonstrations during the presentation.
Expert User Presentation	Framework Optimization for Structural Support System Design By Ron Harkins, Enser Corporation	When designing structural support systems for large or small machinery, nothing works like the symbiotic relationship between PTC's Expert Framework Extension and Pro/MECHANICA beam analysis. Learn how to develop a structural steel support system 10 times faster than conventional methodologies using EFX. Follow the top down design strategy as the objectives are changed mid-stream and witness how Pro/MECHANICA can be used to optimize the structure without compromising the design intent.
Expert User Presentation	Jell-O Molds and Cookie Cutters: Shrinkwrap is Not Just For Leftovers By John Randazzo, ASRC Aerospace	Sometimes you just don’t need an assembly with all of the bells and whistles. That is when you start to reach for your trusty friends, suppress or delete. But wait! Don't prune that model tree down to the trunk! If you need a part negative for packaging or CFD analysis, or you just need a representation of an assembly that’s easy on your CPU, come to this session. You will learn how shrinkwrap techniques may be just the cure for your complex-part blues. Save your time! Save the work you’ve already done! Don’t zap it --- shrinkwrap it!
Expert User Presentation	Large Assembly Management 101 By Enrick Gauthier, CAE Inc.	Pro/ENGINEER offers numerous tools to manage large assemblies (1000+ components) and large assembly drawings. We will review tools such as envelope parts, simplified representations, zones and many more. We will also provide a comparative study of the most commonly used large assembly management strategies. Finally, we will highlight many good modeling practices that greatly improve large assembly performances and ease management.
Expert User Presentation	Managing and Driving Models Using Skeleton Assemblies, BMX and MDX By Heinrich Bartels, Stewart & Stevenson	In the past, models have been managed using skeleton parts but this approach made it difficult to represent 3D motion. However, when using connection constraints (MDX) to connect skeleton parts within a skeleton assembly this motion can be accurately described. Dimensions from individual components of the skeleton assembly can then be driven into sub-components with inheritance features, which allows driving dimensions from the skeleton components to be shown on drawings. Upper level assemblies can readily be optimized by using the skeleton assemblies in conjunction with analysis features (BMX).
Expert User Presentation	Mapkey Magic By Jonathan Durston, Marconi	Learn the basic mechanics and rules of writing mapkeys. We will cover more advanced techniques, such as invoking config.pro options, running trail files, external programs & DOS commands and building options into your mapkey. This presentation will be instructional for new users, and give some new advanced tips & tricks for people who are experienced. The presentation will include live demonstrations of writing of basic mapkeys. Working examples and instructions will be made available to attendees. There will be something for everyone in this presentation.
Expert User Presentation	Optimal Synthesis of Mechanisms with the Pro/ENGINEER Environment By Dr. Andreas Vlahinos, Advanced Engineering Solutions, LLC, and Matthew Loew, Stewart & Stevenson	We will present a computer-aided design methodology that generates feasible and promising conceptual designs of mechanisms to accomplish a set of desired motions. The method automates and optimizes the iteration between synthesis and analysis of mechanisms by integrating Pro/ENGINEER's sketcher, MDO and BMX capabilities. The process will be demonstrated with an example of a load handling mechanism. The desired positions of the load, the region of allowable attachment points, and the keep out zone will be provided. The method will result in the dimensional synthesis of a linkage. The resulting linkage can be automatically optimized with behavioral modeling for the transmission angle, the reaction forces, or the motor power.
Expert User Presentation	Practical Simulation Technique - Top-Down Design with Mechanisms By Charles Pitzer, Pitzer Consulting	The introduction of MDO/MDX and the phase-out of Pro/MECHANICA Motion has led to new techniques for designing mechanism systems.This presentation will present the new techniques for laying out a mechanism in MDO/MDX using alternative top-down design methodologies.
Expert User Presentation	Product Development with FEA - A Linear Approach with Non-Linear Analysis By Dr. Yenkai Wang, ArvinMeritor	The goal of product development is to launch with minimum time and cost. To take advantage of the technological improvements in finite-element analysis (FEA) such as P-element formulation and automatic mesh generation to accelerate the design process, a methodology to linearize the nonlinear analysis has been developed. We will explore a case study, validated by laboratory tests, using Pro/MECHANICA on wheel hub assembly of a heavy-duty vehicle brake system. Based on the methodology, FEA guidelines become available to design engineers for routine practice. This results in increased product quality and performance, faster time to market and reduced product development costs.

Expert User Presentation	Simplifying Cabling Design with Pro/CABLING and Routed Systems Designer By Pete Pickett II, Mercury Marine	Successfully integrate Routed Systems Designer (RSD) into Pro/CABLING and use Pro/CABLING's autorouting feature to build your harnesses. This presentation includes tips on building a library in RSD, how to feed Pro/CABLING and how to quickly build a skeleton and network to autoroute on.
Expert User Presentation	User-Defined Features: From Mystery to Magic By Ron Grabau, HP	User-Defined Features (UDF's) are a great productivity tool yet many people avoid them. UDF's can be confusing and intimidating if you don't know what the options are and how to leverage them. By attending this presentation, you will be able to apply UDF's in ways you may not have considered possible. Increasing your use of UDF's will increase productivity and provide a way to apply and share standardized features within models.
Expert User Presentation	Using Wildfire A Different Way: Proving Form, Ridiculously Robust For Designers By Bart Brejcha, deeplabs.com & proetools.com	This live demonstration of advanced applications of Pro/SURFACE and ISDX will explore non-traditional uses of Wildfire. Most industrial design projects start by sketching or carving in foam. Sketching, tracing and retracing a concept so as to deliver multiple iterations and mature the shape or form of the concept is the normal mode for design projects. Once a form is established, industrial designers pass that form to engineers or other persons who must capture the form using Pro/ENGINEER. We call this capturing form. By challenging accepted notions regarding software tools, we shall demonstrate how to prove 3D form by intelligently harnessing the power of Pro/SURFACE and ISDX. Our philosophy, you don't know what it is you want until you see it, requires methodology resulting in extremely flexible, well built models. Our techniques support rapid generation of complex models with ease in minutes. One of several examples to be demonstrated will include a typical outdoor plastic chair (model constructed in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire) that can be quickly redefined into a design that sheds water without puddling. We will show that anyone can model more efficiently and prove form by leveraging well thought out parent-child constraints and a plan of attack.
Expert User Presentation	Wildfire Tips & Techniques: Live Demo for ISDX & ASX By David Grelewicz and Tony Dean, Nike	Come see a LIVE Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire demonstration revealing advanced techniques and methods using the tools and options available within the style functionality (ISDX). In addition to ISDX, advanced techniques and methods will also be covered within the Advanced Surfacing tools of the ASX extension within Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. Learn how to apply the software to solve your most complex design challenges.
Product Update Briefing	CADDS5 R14 / Optegra 8
Product Update Briefing	Industrial Design and Surfacing	This session will cover the advances in Surfacing and Styling in the new release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, including major improvements to the Restyle and Warp features, improvements in ISDX (Style) and photorendering and the ground breaking Pro/CONCEPT conceptual design solution. You will also have a chance to ask questions to PTC PLMs.
Product Update Briefing	Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Core Modeling	See an overview and demonstrations of some of the fantastic new modeling tools introduced in the latest release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. Come learn about new patterning capabilities, Copy/Paste and Undo/Redo. See the latest improvements in Assembly Design including kinematic dragging, the view manager and drag and drop component placement. Also learn about the new Annotation Features and 3D drawings capabilities as well as improvement to Sketcher. Learn about future plans, and ask questions.
Product Update Briefing	Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Data Exchange and Archiving	Learn about new capabilities in the latest release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. The highlight of this session will be the introduction of three new interfaces for UG, I-DEAS, and CATIA V5. We will also review new 2D import wizard capabilities, 3DSOLIDs import via DXF, customization APIs for Distributed Applications and talk about how Cross Release Interoperability between Pro/ENGINEER versions really works. You'll see how AutobuildZ creates 3D parametric solids from 2D drawings. Please come with your questions on data exchange topics.
Product Update Briefing	Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Drafting	Learn about the latest improvements in drawing functionality. Learn how to use the drawing productivity improvements provided in the new release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. Learn about the future direction of Detailing from the Product Manager.
Product Update Briefing	Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Manufacturing	Learn about the latest advances within Pro/ENGINEER's production application tools from the PTC Product Line Managers, including the new manufacturing process manager, support for tool attachment such as right angle heads and multi-tips tools for holemaking. Moldmakers are not forgotten with direct machining of STL data and the new slope based finishing toolpath.
Product Update Briefing	Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Routed Systems	Explore enhancements to Pro/CABLING and Pro/PIPING, as well as information about the Routed Systems Designer packages, including RSD Lite, which is included in the Flex3C package. You will also receive information about future development plans, and have a chance to ask the PTC Product Manager questions.
Product Update Briefing	Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Sheet Metal	We will discuss how general enhancements apply to sheetmetal design. You will learn about major advances in the Sheetmetal user interface, including Dashboard and Drag handles, in the latest release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. Take home some simple customization techniques that will save hours, and ask the Product Manager questions.
Product Update Briefing	Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire Usability and Training	This session will provide an overview of the new training and adoption tools available with the latest release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, as well as new capabilities addressing data quality. At this meeting, you will also receive information about future development plans, and have a chance to ask questions to PTC Product Managers.
Product Update Briefing	Simulation & Behavioral Modeling	Mechanisms Dynamics, Structural and Thermal Simulation, and Behavioral Modeling all see significant enhancements impacting functionality, usability and performance in the new release of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire. Don't miss out on presentations of these dramatic improvements from PTC product line managers, as well as the opportunity to ask questions and gain insight into future product directions.