CoCreate® Agenda

Invitation from the President of PTC/USER

Dan Glenn, PTC/USER President and
Group Manager (Integrated Engineering and Manufacturing Solutions)
Solar Turbines Incorporated

On behalf of PTC/USER, the official independent user organization representing PTC customers worldwide, I would like to welcome you to the PTC/USER community. Read more...

Exhibit Hall Grand Opening

The PTC/USER Exhibit Hall features over 100 demonstrations of the latest tools and technologies from our Industry Partners. Whether your needs lie in technical publications, data management, visualization, finite-element analysis, rapid prototyping, computer hardware or other resources, our partners stand ready to help you turn your product into reality.

Welcome to Long Beach Reception

Continental Breakfast

Come enjoy continental breakfast with your friends in the Terrace Theater foyer of the Long Beach Performing Arts Center.

PTC/USER Welcome
Dan Glenn, Solar Turbines

Dan Glenn, President of PTC/USER, will welcome attendees to Long Beach, CA for the 19th annual member conference.

PTC Corporate Update
Dick Harrison, President and CEO, PTC

Dick Harrison, PTC CEO and President, will welcome PTC/USER attendees with an insightful look at the state of product development and specific insights into how PTC is helping customers win with great products.

Connecting the Dots: Linking Business Initiatives and Product Development
Jim Heppelmann, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, PTC

You’ve heard about globalization, IT consolidation, and lean product development. Maybe your company is embarking on one or all of these initiatives. Maybe your company globalized long ago, but never looked hard at how its product development processes need to change to be successful in this new world. During his presentation, Jim Heppelmann will discuss PTC’s point-of-view on these business initiatives and how PTC’s process framework and product development system can help companies thrive while addressing these initiatives head-on.

Refreshment Break

Refreshments will be served in the Terrace Theater foyer.

Product Development Survival, A Live PTC Demonstration
Brian Shepherd, PTC

Today, Product Development is moving fast, exposing those who are not prepared. Constantly changing requirements and suppliers, global collaboration, and protecting intellectual property demand unique skills for survival. PTC can help your company navigate the wilderness by evolving Product Development for success.For the first time, Brian Shepherd, PTC’s Divisional Vice President of Product Management, will host a live demo of PTC’s Product Development System (PDS), working to safeguard a typical manufacturing company’s survival against the elements. Will they make it? Be there to find out.

CoCreate Welcome Luncheon

The PTC/USER Board invites CoCreate community members to join us for a special welcome luncheon. This is your opportunity to meet with the Board and share your thoughts and concerns.

PTC/USER Exhibit Hall

The PTC/USER Exhibit Hall will be open during today’s luncheon.

Luncheon

Lunch will be served in the Exhibit Hall. You are invited to dine at your leisure.

CoCreate Roadmap Session
Martin Neumueller and Brian Shepherd, PTC

Discover the new and exciting capabilities CoCreate 2008 brings to our customers. We’ll cover the release highlights across the entire CoCreate product family and share with you our future direction. You’ve all heard the news that CoCreate is a new PTC product line. Come learn how that gives you access to other PTC products today and how we plan to integrate with the PTC Product Development System in the future.

CoCreate 2008 CAD & Data Management
Berthold Hug and Paul Liu, PTC

Dive into the 2008 release of CoCreate Modeling, CoCreate Drafting, CoCreate Model Manager and CoCreate Drawing Manager. This session will focus on the new and enhanced CoCreate 2008 capabilities available within CAD and product data management products and how the 2008 release will bring greater productivity to your company’s design process.

Refreshment Break

Refreshments will be served in four locations: Level 1 near the 100-series breakout rooms; Level 1 in the Promenade Foyer; Level 2 in the Grand Foyer; and in the Seaside Foyer.

Enterprise Deployments of CoCreate on SQL Server
Vipul Shah, Microsoft

This session demonstrates how CoCreate can be configured to run on SQL Server to deliver high throughput, provide enterprisewide replication, and integrate disparate data onto a single storage platform. This is also your chance to learn about new features of SQL Server 2008—the next generation of the Microsoft enterprise database management system—that enhance scalability and security for PLM users.

Designing Plastic Parts for Manufacture
Wayne Foslien and David Szostak, PTC

Learn from the experts how CoCreate products can help to increase design quality and productivity as companies design plastic parts for manufacture.

Introduction to Windchill for Content and Process Management
Will Kohler and Graham Birch, PTC

Product development is a game of ever-evolving content (MCAD, ECAD, Software, documents...) and intertwined, cross-functional processes (change management, design outsourcing, detailed design...). See how Windchill helps keep it all under control and learn about PTC’s plans to integrate CoCreate with Windchill.

CoCreate Model Manager
Wayne Foslien and Arnold Mueller, PTC

Learn how to manage CoCreate Modeling and associative Annotation drawings with CoCreate Model Manager. This workshop will cover saving, loading, and searching for data, viewing and managing database details, and customizing the add-on module CoCreate Task Agent.

Achieve Faster Design Cycles
Tim Nugent, Pulse Global

Tim Nugent, founding partner of Pulse Global and contributing columnist to Machine Design magazine, will share insight into his product development firm’s techniques to using CoCreate Modeling and CoCreate Surfacing to rapidly iterate and evolve innovative product ideas quickly. Learn the same expert techniques that allowed his Southern Californian design firm to successfully take two products through the complete product development process in only 3.5 weeks on ABC’s hit show ‘American Inventor’ and make your own product development process faster.

PTC/USER Exhibit Hall

The PTC/USER Exhibit Hall will be open during tonight’s reception, sponsored by PTC.

PTC Community Appreciation Reception

Join PTC, our partners and your peers for cocktails, hors d’ oeuvres and networking in the Exhibit Hall. Reception is 6-8 pm with exhibits open until 9 pm.

Continental Breakfast

Come enjoy continental breakfast with your friends in the Terrace Theater foyer of the Long Beach Performing Arts Center.

High Expectations–Changing Lives through Design, the Cirrus Design Story
Patrick Waddick, Cirrus Design Corporation

See page xx for presentation information and speaker biography.

Customization and Deployment Strategies for CoCreate Modeling and CoCreate Drafting
Greg Gonzales, Agilent Technologies, and John Scheffel, Avago Technologies

We will provide an overview of the customization and deployment strategies that can be used for CoCreate Modeling and CoCreate Drafting. Cases ranging from single installations to large corporate deployments will be covered.

Discover the CoCreate Productivity Modules
Paul Liu and Wayne Foslien, PTC

Discover, learn, and test drive six different productivity add-on modules that extend CoCreate Modeling with a complete set of flexible design, validation, and simulation capabilities – CoCreate Advanced Design, CoCreate Sheet Metal, CoCreate Cabling, CoCreate Finite Element Analysis, CoCreate Surfacing, and CoCreate Part Library.

Refreshment Break

Refreshments will be served in four locations: Level 1 near the 100-series breakout rooms; Level 1 in the Promenade Foyer; Level 2 in the Grand Foyer; and in the Seaside Foyer.

How CoCreate Enables Engineers to be the Heroes of the Product Design Process
Kurt Botsai, RKS

Kurt Botsai, VP of Innovation for industrial design consultancy RKS, presents a look at how the flexibility of CoCreate allows engineers to make changes on the fly with accuracy and confidence – and even with the client watching over your shoulder. By taking attendees through an in-depth case study, Mr. Botsai will show how CoCreate empowers engineers to overcome design challenges and become the heroes of the design process.

PTC/USER Exhibit Hall

The PTC/USER Exhibit Hall will be open during today’s luncheon.

Luncheon

Lunch will be served in the Exhibit Hall. You are invited to dine at your leisure.

Find, Reuse, and Control Standard and Commercial Parts
Tim Thomas, PARTsolutions LLC

PARTsolutions is integrated with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire and Pro/INTRALINK to help you find, reuse, and control your standard and commercial 3D parts. Using the complex example of SMS Demag Inc., a global developer, designer, and builder of metallurgical plants and rolling mill technology, this session will demonstrate how PARTsolutions can complement your design and data management implementations while providing full control over which individuals or teams have access to which parts.

Interactive, Auto-Solving Rubik’s Cube Inside CoCreate Modeling
Andy Poulsen, Aspiration Innovation

Watch and be amazed as we use the CoCreate Integration Kit to demonstrate an intelligent, interactive, and auto-solving Rubik’s Cube inside CoCreate Modeling. Learn how you can use the highly flexible CoCreate Integration Kit to tune and customize CoCreate Modeling to your company processes. You will understand the basics of the CoCreate Integration Kit with a high-level overview of how to attach design process information on your 3D models to streamline design and manufacturing processes.

Discover the CoCreate Productivity Modules
Paul Liu and Wayne Foslien, PTC

Discover, learn, and test drive six different productivity add-on modules that extend CoCreate Modeling with a complete set of flexible design, validation, and simulation capabilities – CoCreate Advanced Design, CoCreate Sheet Metal, CoCreate Cabling, CoCreate Finite Element Analysis, CoCreate Surfacing, and CoCreate Part Library.

Design of Electro-Mechanical Packaging
Steve Flippen, PTC

This session will walk users through detailed examples of how to streamline the design of electro-mechanical packaging and how to directly leverage ECAD data within mechanical design using CoCreate products.

Refreshment Break

Refreshments will be served in four locations: Level 1 near the 100-series breakout rooms; Level 1 in the Promenade Foyer; Level 2 in the Grand Foyer; and in the Seaside Foyer.

Introduction to Arbortext IsoDraw
Dieter Weidenbruek, PTC

Learn about technical illustrations and how you can improve the process of creating technical illustrations with Arbortext IsoDraw to enable you to leverage CoCreate and other product design information in your technical publications.

Accelerate Product Development and Improve Supplier Communication
Mark Johnson, LI-COR Biosciences

Learn how LI-COR Biosciences shaved 1 to 2 weeks off their product development schedules with the CoCreate product family. By providing secure 2D and 3D CAD data access to their internal buyers and external suppliers, LI-COR eliminated 3-4 days from their 4-6 week prototype procurement cycle. See a demonstration and learn how you can implement CoCreate Model Manager, an integrated product data management system, to improve communications and manage CAD design data in product development, both internally and externally.

CoCreate Model Manager
Wayne Foslien and Arnold Mueller, PTC

Learn how to manage CoCreate Modeling and associative Annotation drawings with CoCreate Model Manager. This workshop will cover saving, loading, and searching for data, viewing and managing database details, and customizing the add-on module CoCreate Task Agent.

Introduction to Mathcad
John Callan and Sandy Joung, PTC

Learn how to easily solve and document the critical engineering calculations that drive your CoCreate 2D and 3D CAD designs. This 45-minute presentation provides an overview of how Mathcad helps improve engineering design productivity and knowledge capture.

PTC/USER Exhibit Hall

Tonight is your last chance to visit your favorite PTC and Industry Partner demonstrations.

Continental Breakfast

Come enjoy continental breakfast with your friends in the Terrace Theater foyer of the Long Beach Performing Arts Center.

Starting a RUG
Ed Stevenson, PELCO

Are you interested in launching a regional user group (RUG) in your community? Ed Stevenson, Director of Regional User Groups for PTC/USER will discuss the benefits of starting a local RUG.

Making One Whole: The Intersection of Beauty, Passion and Hope with Digital-Age Product Creation
Scott Summit, Summit ID, LLC

See page xx for presentation information and speaker biography.

CoCreate Model Manager Best Practices
Wayne Foslien and Arnold Mueller, PTC

Join this session to take away best practices for installing CoCreate Model Manager and gaining adoption across your design team. Also learn essentials for configuring the add-on module CoCreate Task Agent to complement design processes with backend services for task automation.

Test Drive CoCreate 2008
Steve Flippen and Paul Liu, PTC

Attend this hands-on workshop to test drive the hot new capabilities of the CoCreate 2008 release. Take home the skills to be immediately productive with the latest release of the CoCreate product family.

Refreshment Break

Refreshments will be served in four locations: Level 1 near the 100-series breakout rooms; Level 1 in the Promenade Foyer; Level 2 in the Grand Foyer; and in the Seaside Foyer.

CoCreate Ask the Experts Panel
Product Managers for the CoCreate Product Family,

Do you have questions about the best way to complete a specific task in a CoCreate product? Or questions about any of the CoCreate products that you haven’t had a chance to ask? Join the CoCreate product team for this discussion!

Luncheon

Lunch will be served in the Exhibit Hall. You are invited to dine at your leisure.

Introduction to Pro/TOOLMAKER
Francois Lamy and Rob Hawkins, PTC

Pro/TOOLMAKER delivers the fastest, optimized, high-speed machining toolpaths. In this 45-minute overview you will learn how to quickly turn your CoCreate 3D CAD designs into physical mold, die, and prototype parts.

Test Drive CoCreate 2008
Steve Flippen and Paul Liu, PTC

Attend this hands-on workshop to test drive the hot new capabilities of the CoCreate 2008 release. Take home the skills to be immediately productive with the latest release of the CoCreate product family.

Tips & Tricks: CoCreate Modeling
Berthold Hug and David Szostak, PTC

Experts will share tips and tricks for getting the most out of the basic and advanced design capabilities of CoCreate Modeling. This session will take users through typical working examples of developing products using an explicit approach to 3D design. Add the experts’ tricks to your bag of tricks.

Refreshment Break

Refreshments will be served in the Terrace Theater foyer.

Awards Ceremony and Grand Finale

Come to the exciting closing session for our conference! Find out who won the voting for the Best Presenter Awards, get a glimpse at next year’s conference venue, and see an unbelievable presentation that you just can’t miss!