Windchill® Agenda

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Application Orientation
Dave Eberle, PTC

This two-hour seminar will introduce the concepts, terms, features, and capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. From this session you will pick up the basic skills required to access and view information, such as logging on, accessing help, and locating and viewing product information.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Change Management
Scott Barkman, PTC

In this two-hour seminar, you will explore the out-of-the-box change management capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. The review will cover a fast-track change process, taking multiple roles while creating a change request, a change notice, and completing implementation tasks.

Installing Windchill for Pro/INTRALINK 3.x Administrators
Steve Dertien, PTC

Comfortable with Pro/INTRALINK 3.4, but worried about making the move to Windchill? Take a tour of the Windchill architecture and walk through the steps of a basic installation process. In this brief overview of Windchill system administration, you will learn about the extensive resources available, including PTC Global Services and detailed reference documentation. This session is intended for current Pro/INTRALINK 3.x administrators who are interested in gaining some more familiarity with the Windchill environment.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Application Orientation
Dave Eberle, PTC

This two-hour seminar will introduce the concepts, terms, features, and capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. From this session you will pick up the basic skills required to access and view information, such as logging on, accessing help, and locating and viewing product information.

Installing Windchill for Pro/INTRALINK 3.x Administrators
Steve Dertien and Ram Krisnamurthy, PTC

Comfortable with Pro/INTRALINK 3.4, but worried about making the move to Windchill? Take a tour of the Windchill architecture and walk through the steps of a basic installation process. In this brief overview of Windchill system administration, you will learn about the extensive resources available, including PTC Global Services and detailed reference documentation. This session is intended for current Pro/INTRALINK 3.x administrators who are interested in gaining some more familiarity with the Windchill environment.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Application Orientation
Dave Eberle, PTC

This two-hour seminar will introduce the concepts, terms, features, and capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. From this session you will pick up the basic skills required to access and view information, such as logging on, accessing help, and locating and viewing product information.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Change Management
Scott Barkman, PTC

In this two-hour seminar, you will explore the out-of-the-box change management capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. The review will cover a fast-track change process, taking multiple roles while creating a change request, a change notice, and completing implementation tasks.

PDMLink + Arbortext + ProjectLink–Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
Ron Welch, BAE Systems

This case study chronicles the integration of Arbortext with PDMLink and ProjectLink at BAE Systems. The presentation focuses on the technical aspects of integrating complex authoring tools into a global product development system, including the design decisions made, the reasons behind them, and their ramifications. The discussion also covers new capabilities resulting from the integration, as well as lessons learned.

Installing Windchill for Pro/INTRALINK 3.x Administrators
Steve Dertien and Ram Krisnamurthy, PTC

Comfortable with Pro/INTRALINK 3.4, but worried about making the move to Windchill? Take a tour of the Windchill architecture and walk through the steps of a basic installation process. In this brief overview of Windchill system administration, you will learn about the extensive resources available, including PTC Global Services and detailed reference documentation. This session is intended for current Pro/INTRALINK 3.x administrators who are interested in gaining some more familiarity with the Windchill environment.

Global Services for Windchill Migrations
Bob Rouleau, PTC

Considering moving from Pro/INTRALINK 3.x but not sure what to do next? Looking to get to Windchill 9.1? Presented by PTC Global Services, this session will offer advice about the best way to proceed. You'll learn what to consider when planning a move, you'll get an overview of PTC tools, and you'll hear how PTC can support you so you gain maximum value from your new Windchill solution.

Windchill Infrastructure and System Administration
Bill Neuman, PTC

Come hear more about the product roadmap for Windchill infrastructure, integration, and system administration. This will include an overview of enhancements delivered over the past year as well as those planned for coming releases.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Application Orientation
Dave Eberle, PTC

This two-hour seminar will introduce the concepts, terms, features, and capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. From this session you will pick up the basic skills required to access and view information, such as logging on, accessing help, and locating and viewing product information.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Change Management
Scott Barkman, PTC

In this two-hour seminar, you will explore the out-of-the-box change management capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. The review will cover a fast-track change process, taking multiple roles while creating a change request, a change notice, and completing implementation tasks.

Optimizing PTC Application Performance with Cisco ANS Solutions
Fernando Macias and Dan Knight, Cisco Systems, Inc.

This session will demonstrate how Cisco's Application Networking Services technology can significantly improve performance of Windchill and Pro/ENGINEER data transfers over a wide area network. With these solutions, global manufacturers gain the benefits of centralized application performance, including lower deployment and operational costs. Detailed test results and device configurations will be presented.

Streamlining Product Development: Reducing Cost While Improving Collaboration
Scott Carmichael, NxRev

This case study will explore how small and mid-sized companies like Acorn Product Development can utilize IT consolidation strategies to reduce cost and IT complexity while building a framework for improved engineering productivity and collaborative product innovation. The need to differentiate and improve competitiveness is more important than ever during an economic downturn. Learn how Acorn has sharpened their competitive edge and manages projects among geographically dispersed teams of engineers in Silicon Valley, Boston, and China while tackling challenges such as tighter time frames, cost, regulatory and quality requirements.

Windchill Roadmap
Will Kohler, PTC

Attend this presentation for a top-level recap of recently added Windchill enhancements, as well as an overview of upcoming functional and usability improvements planned for the Windchill 9.1 release stream and beyond.

Expect the Unexpected: Diary of a Pro/INTRALINK-to-PDMLink Migration
Michael Stertz, Siemens Transportation Systems Austria

Moving from Pro/INTRALINK to PDMLink is a highly complex project. This presentation will help you understand the problems, risks, and benefits based on lessons learned from a recent migration. The discussion will cover the entire process from start to finish, but focus primarily on installation and system management.

Windchill System Monitoring Featuring JMX
Vishal Arora, PTC

Simplify your life by learning about the system monitoring framework of Windchill. In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to configure a JMX monitoring client, set up thresholds for important system parameters, and define actions for the system to take when the thresholds are exceeded. This session is intended for current Windchill administrators who are interested in gaining some more familiarity with JMX and Log4J monitoring capabilities.

Requirements Management in Windchill
Mark Field, PTC

Learn about an exciting new set of capabilities in Windchill 9.1 for managing requirements. By establishing an integral relationship between customer needs, market requirements and the underlying technical requirements, Windchill can help ensure that customer and market requirements have been satisfied and properly verified.

Speed to PLM Success with NetIDEAS Windchill Hosting and Proven Use Case Approach
Joseph Iannacone, NetIDEAS

Two key components of any PLM initiative are the infrastructure design and the Business Process implementations. NetIDEAS’ DIACAP accredited infrastructure is ready for secure production deployments in days. However, this is only the first step towards a successful PLM deployment. Windchill, and PLM in general, offers a wide range of capabilities for many business goals. Where to start, what next, and how to get there are critical questions. NetIDEAS utilizes a proven Use Case approach which allows customers to balance their immediate needs and long term strategic business goals by leveraging the compartmentalized and robust functionality of Windchill. With hundreds of successfully deployed use cases, NetIDEAS will present the “Think Big. Start Small, Scale Instantly” approach and discuss examples from across our customer base.

Managing Product Complexity with Windchill PDMLink
James Gehan, PTC

Managing product complexity and variation is a particularly challenging problem for many industries, especially for industrial equipment and high tech manufacturers following an assemble-to-order business model. Learn about near-term Windchill capabilities for defining and managing product options in large products, mapping these options with Pro/ENGINEER CAD models, analyzing these structures, and utilizing ProductView to digitally mockup sets of options in 3D to speed evaluation of development changes.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Application Orientation
Dave Eberle, PTC

This two-hour seminar will introduce the concepts, terms, features, and capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. From this session you will pick up the basic skills required to access and view information, such as logging on, accessing help, and locating and viewing product information.

Go "Inside Intel": Worldwide Deployment of PTC Products
Matt Moore and Wayne Stevens, Intel Corporation

Come to this presentation to hear how a small team at Intel has been able to standardize the way mechanical software applications are evaluated, deployed and supported in more than 17 global sites. You'll also learn how the team managed the transition from Pro/INTRALINK 3.4 to PDMLink 9.0 with a minimal budget and with minimal impact on users.

Introduction to Windchill MPMLink
Albert Siciliano, PTC

Creating and maintaining mBOMs, process plans and work instructions that accurately reflect the ever-changing product design has typically been a cumbersome process for the manufacturing engineers. In this session you will learn how PTC’s Windchill MPMLink solution streamlines this process with an integral solution where product, process, and resource data are all managed in a single system, without the need for data duplication and hence enabling concurrent and collaborative development of product designs and manufacturing processes.

Windchill MultiCAD Data Management
Mark Lobo, PTC

Are you wondering where PTC's CAD Data Management Product Roadmap is headed? This session will provide insight into new Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire and Heterogeneous MCAD/ECAD data management capabilities planned for future Windchill releases.

Improve Process Efficiency with Windchill Business Reporting
Vishal Arora, PTC

Join this session to learn about Windchill Business Reporting and the value it provides in understanding Key Performance Indicators. Windchill Business Reporting is critical to understanding your PLM business processes and offers an executive-friendly view of information. This session will cover techniques for extracting data out of Windchill and provide tips and tricks for authoring rich graphical reports in Windchill for use by themselves or as part of executive dashboards.

Driving Organizational Change and Windchill Acceptance Through a Run Team
Neeraj Singh, ITC Infotech

A run team is a scalable, structured multifunctional ITIL-based support organization that has three tiers: one to educate and support the user community in their ability to adopt the application; another to provide the required administrative support to stabilize the application; and a third to tune the existing business processes. The goal is to manage the organizational change fallout from the introduction of a new application and in particular, the core process enablers.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Application Orientation
Dave Eberle, PTC

This two-hour seminar will introduce the concepts, terms, features, and capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. From this session you will pick up the basic skills required to access and view information, such as logging on, accessing help, and locating and viewing product information.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Change Management
Scott Barkman, PTC

In this two-hour seminar, you will explore the out-of-the-box change management capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. The review will cover a fast-track change process, taking multiple roles while creating a change request, a change notice, and completing implementation tasks.

Pro/ENGINEER-based Windchill 9.0 Systems–Brought to You Live
Mike Lockwood, Alcon

Linking directly to Alcon's systems, this live demonstration will address a variety of production, validation, and training issues related to Windchill 9.0. The commentary will cover topics ranging from use of contexts with varying LCs and business processes, to optimization of Pro/ENGINEER configurations, to customization of help and user resources, and beyond.

Installing Windchill for Pro/INTRALINK 3.x Administrators
Steve Dertien and Ram Krisnamurthy, PTC

Comfortable with Pro/INTRALINK 3.4, but worried about making the move to Windchill? Take a tour of the Windchill architecture and walk through the steps of a basic installation process. In this brief overview of Windchill system administration, you will learn about the extensive resources available, including PTC Global Services and detailed reference documentation. This session is intended for current Pro/INTRALINK 3.x administrators who are interested in gaining some more familiarity with the Windchill environment.

PTC’s SharePoint Solutions
Lee Garf, PTC

Learn how PTC is embracing Microsoft's SharePoint technology and extending its applicability to the world of product development. Topics covered will be Windchill ProductPoint, a PTC-developed native SharePoint-based solution for structured information vaulting and sharing, as well as Windchill Web Parts for SharePoint.

Requirements Management
Mark Field, PTC

Later this year PTC plans to release Requirements Management capabilities as an add-on module to Windchill. This session will introduce these new capabilities while explaining how to use them in the context of Requirements Management best practices, such as flowing requirements down and linking them to product designs, tracing relationships to requirements during change impact assessments, and leveraging these capabilities to support good requirements validation practices.

From Art to Part with the PTC Product Development System
Dennis Sauro, Kensey Nash Corporation

Kensey Nash has grown into an $80 million pacesetter in the medical devices industry. Learn how the right vision and the right product development tools have contributed to the meteoric rise at Kensey Nash.

Understanding PDS Security
Mike Kasameyer, PTC

You've invested a lot in developing your intellectual property, but you don't need to invest a lot to protect it. In this session, you will learn about the tools and techniques available to secure your product development system.

Lessons Learned: Migrating the ITT Global Vault from Windchill 8.0 to 9.0
Ron Watson, ITT

The ITT Global Vault team will provide details on its evaluation of the business value, planning, implementation, and post-launch of moving from Windchill PDMLink/ProjectLink 8.0 M040 to Windchill PDMLink / ProjectLink / MPMLink 9.0 M050. This presentation will include a comprehensive review of lessons learned as well as best practices for completing a successful migration.

Windchill Pro/ENGINEER Data Management Performance Validation and Improvement
Ram Krishnamurthy, PTC

Join this session to learn about the processes for validating and improving Windchill Pro/ENGINEER data management performance. Ensuring acceptable system response times for end users is critical to realizing the value of your Windchill system as well as to user acceptance and adoption of Windchill. This session will discuss proven approaches for measuring single user performance with the PTC Windchill Pro/ENGINEER data management benchmark and the first steps to take to improve system performance.

Windchill ProductPoint
Lee Garf, PTC

PTC's new SharePoint based solution supporting social product development. Learn about the current and planned capabilities that help product development teams work together, including multiCAD data management, ProductView services, and Web 2.0 features. The solution is appropriate for both small companies and teams within larger enterprises.

Turbocharge Your Design Simulation Process with Windchill and SimManager
Dave Nacy, MSC.Software

Any global company that uses finite element analysis, multi-body kinematics, or other simulation techniques is familiar with the difficulties of constructing a model across geography and time zones. This presentation explains how integrating Windchill with SimManager meets the challenges of managing simulation data and processes by providing a central place for design teams to access, share, and complete their work.

Installing Windchill for Pro/INTRALINK 3.x Administrators
Steve Dertien and Ram Krisnamurthy, PTC

Comfortable with Pro/INTRALINK 3.4, but worried about making the move to Windchill? Take a tour of the Windchill architecture and walk through the steps of a basic installation process. In this brief overview of Windchill system administration, you will learn about the extensive resources available, including PTC Global Services and detailed reference documentation. This session is intended for current Pro/INTRALINK 3.x administrators who are interested in gaining some more familiarity with the Windchill environment.

Requirements Management in Windchill
Mark Field, PTC

Learn about an exciting new set of capabilities in Windchill 9.1 for managing requirements. By establishing an integral relationship between customer needs, market requirements and the underlying technical requirements, Windchill can help ensure that customer and market requirements have been satisfied and properly verified.

Windchill MPMLink
Albert Siciliano, PTC

Join this session to learn about the latest enhancements to Windchill MPMLink and obtain details on the improvements planned for the future. The session will also provide an overview of PTC’s Windchill MPMLink solution which streamlines the creation and management of mBOMs, process plans and work instructions and enables the concurrent and collaborative development of product designs and manufacturing processes.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Application Orientation
Dave Eberle, PTC

This two-hour seminar will introduce the concepts, terms, features, and capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. From this session you will pick up the basic skills required to access and view information, such as logging on, accessing help, and locating and viewing product information.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Change Management
Scott Barkman, PTC

In this two-hour seminar, you will explore the out-of-the-box change management capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. The review will cover a fast-track change process, taking multiple roles while creating a change request, a change notice, and completing implementation tasks.

Feeding the Beast with Release-to-Production
Lewis Lawrence, Weatherford UK

Does your business need to more effectively manage how information is released from engineering? Learn firsthand how to save time and money by using a controlled release-to-production process. Take away valuable advice for effectively managing information flow in your business, taming the beast.

Windchill Roadmap
Will Kohler, PTC

Attend this presentation for a top-level recap of recently added Windchill enhancements, as well as an overview of upcoming functional and usability improvements planned for the Windchill 9.1 release stream and beyond.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Application Orientation
Dave Eberle, PTC

This two-hour seminar will introduce the concepts, terms, features, and capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. From this session you will pick up the basic skills required to access and view information, such as logging on, accessing help, and locating and viewing product information.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Change Management
Scott Barkman, PTC

In this two-hour seminar, you will explore the out-of-the-box change management capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. The review will cover a fast-track change process, taking multiple roles while creating a change request, a change notice, and completing implementation tasks.

eWR: Transitioning from Possibly Paperless to Truly Paperless
Matt Yacono, Alcon Laboratories

The Electronic Work Request (eWR) project transitioned an engineering business process to be fully electronic. Before the eWR project, the same business process had been made potentially paperless by converting its paper-form to a Word document. This presentation will cover why converting the paper form was not enough and the five phase development of the Windchill based solution that allowed us to become truly paperless.

Configuring and Customizing Windchill for the Data Consumer
David Mertz, Lockheed Martin

If your users want a simpler way to work with Windchill data, this session is for you. The presentation will describe the capabilities and quirks of several tools that will help you improve the end-user experience, such as adding attributes to the results page of the standard search page and using Report Manager to return custom reports with live URL-linked data.

Windchill System Monitoring Featuring JMX
Vishal Arora, PTC

Simplify your life by learning about the system monitoring framework of Windchill. In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to configure a JMX monitoring client, set up thresholds for important system parameters, and define actions for the system to take when the thresholds are exceeded. This session is intended for current Windchill administrators who are interested in gaining some more familiarity with JMX and Log4J monitoring capabilities.

Windchill Pro/ENGINEER Data Management Performance Validation and Improvement
Ram Krishnamurthy, PTC

Join this session to learn about the processes for validating and improving Windchill Pro/ENGINEER data management performance. Ensuring acceptable system response times for end users is critical to realizing the value of your Windchill system as well as to user acceptance and adoption of Windchill. This session will discuss proven approaches for measuring single user performance with the PTC Windchill Pro/ENGINEER data management benchmark and the first steps to take to improve system performance.

Automated Testing of Windchill PDMLink with Selenium and JMeter
Bang Pham, Andre Quillen and Thien H. Nguyen, Raytheon

If you want to perform more testing of web-based applications for less cost, you can learn how by attending this session. You will see how Raytheon has used the Selenium IDE and Selenium Remote Control systems to automate the testing of Windchill PDMLink reports and achieve significant savings over manual testing.

Configuration Management in Windchill
Eugene Kilmer, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Windchill offers a range of effective configuration management tools. In fact, they are comparable to and provide the means for following the CMII concepts developed by Vincent Guess. This presentation explains how any organization can use these tools to control not only what it produces, but also how it manages changes to those products.

Windchill System Monitoring Featuring JMX
Vishal Arora, PTC

Simplify your life by learning about the system monitoring framework of Windchill. In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to configure a JMX monitoring client, set up thresholds for important system parameters, and define actions for the system to take when the thresholds are exceeded. This session is intended for current Windchill administrators who are interested in gaining some more familiarity with JMX and Log4J monitoring capabilities.

PTC’s SharePoint Solutions
Lee Garf, PTC

Learn how PTC is embracing Microsoft's SharePoint technology and extending its applicability to the world of product development. Topics covered will be Windchill ProductPoint, a PTC-developed native SharePoint-based solution for structured information vaulting and sharing, as well as Windchill Web Parts for SharePoint.

How BAE Systems Integrates PTC and Adobe Solutions for a 3D Environment with Digital Rights Management

Transitioning to a 3D model-based environment necessitates ensuring product data integrity while controlling access and usage rights, especially when collaborating externally. Work is underway at BAE Systems to integrate Adobe Acrobat and Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite with PTC’s Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill, enabling rich, reliable collaboration without sacrificing security and control.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Application Orientation
Dave Eberle, PTC

This two-hour seminar will introduce the concepts, terms, features, and capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. From this session you will pick up the basic skills required to access and view information, such as logging on, accessing help, and locating and viewing product information.

Automating Workflow Processing for Migration and Testing
Jarrett Roberts and Wesley Cooney, Raytheon

Manual evaluation of workflows can be error-prone and expensive. This presentation describes the tools and techniques Raytheon has developed to automate the processing and validation of workflows. Attend this session to learn how you can apply these same techniques to perform migration of in-process objects and improve workflow testing.

Customization of Engineering Change Management in Windchill PDMLink 9.0
Benjamin Grover, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Are you looking for ways to "customize" your system without the headaches that come with true customization? This session presents a prototype tool that uses soft typing, info*engine queries, jsp, and PERL to enable administrators with limited technical know-how to create, manage, and produce engineering change reports.

Installing Windchill for Pro/INTRALINK 3.x Administrators
Steve Dertien and Ram Krisnamurthy, PTC

Comfortable with Pro/INTRALINK 3.4, but worried about making the move to Windchill? Take a tour of the Windchill architecture and walk through the steps of a basic installation process. In this brief overview of Windchill system administration, you will learn about the extensive resources available, including PTC Global Services and detailed reference documentation. This session is intended for current Pro/INTRALINK 3.x administrators who are interested in gaining some more familiarity with the Windchill environment.

Introduction to Windchill MPMLink
Albert Siciliano, PTC

Creating and maintaining mBOMs, process plans and work instructions that accurately reflect the ever-changing product design has typically been a cumbersome process for the manufacturing engineers. In this session you will learn how PTC’s Windchill MPMLink solution streamlines this process with an integral solution where product, process, and resource data are all managed in a single system, without the need for data duplication and hence enabling concurrent and collaborative development of product designs and manufacturing processes.

Social Product Development
Tom Shoemaker, PTC

Change is brewing in product development. Shifting workforce demographics, increased connectivity demands of a global team, and major advances of Web 2.0 technologies are converging to create an unparalleled environment of both risk and opportunity. This session will seek to look forward at possible ways that social computing technologies might impact the way product development is conducted.

Windchill Architecture and Hardware Deployment Resources
Victor Gerdes, PTC

PTC has enhanced its ability to validate and document various hardware architectures used in enterprise deployments with a new center of excellence - the Enterprise Deployment Center. Here, PTC works with its partners to provide best practices and recommendations on how customers, partners, and PTC implementers can best plan, architect, deploy, configure, and administer Windchill and Pro/INTRALINK systems.

Enabling Collaborative Engineering Across Multiple Distributed Sites
Michael Mongilio, ATK

With the continuing advances in information technology, more and more companies are realizing that product design teams can be formed by selecting expert team members from different geographic locations. In this presentation, learn about the collaborative framework that was established to help NASA bring together a team to develop an innovative design for a future manned spacecraft.

Global Windchill Deployments
Victor Gerdes, PTC

Join this session to learn about the options and trade-offs for a global Windchill deployment capable of meeting the wide area network (WAN) performance & scalability requirements of your company. This sessions will cover the impact of network bandwidth and latency on Windchill end-user performance, options for mitigating network limitations including the role and benefit of wide area network application services, WAN and Windchill remote file servers and Windchill replication.

Windchill ProjectLink
Mark Field, PTC

Join this session to learn all about the latest enhancements in Windchill ProjectLink.

A No-Frills Approach to Migrating from Pro/INTRALINK 3.4 to Windchill 8.0
Steven LaPha, United Space Alliance, LLC

If models are as critical to your business as they are in the aerospace industry, failure is not an option when it comes to migration. This presentation takes a detailed look at the successful approach that United Space Alliance took to performing a simple, small-scale migration from Pro/INTRALINK 3.4 to Windchill 8.0 under a tight schedule.

Monitoring Windchill Systems with Scripting
Mohammed Rahman and Eric Winrow, Boston Scientific

This presentation will introduce an easier way to manage a Windchill production environment that doesn't require 24/7 support personnel. The discussion will identify the most common Windchill system failures, which parameters to tune to avoid those failures, and how to automate proactive monitoring using UNIX BASH, WGET and EXPACT scripting language.

Global Services for Windchill Migrations
Bob Rouleau, PTC

Considering moving from Pro/INTRALINK 3.x but not sure what to do next? Looking to get to Windchill 9.1? Presented by PTC Global Services, this session will offer advice about the best way to proceed. You'll learn what to consider when planning a move, you'll get an overview of PTC tools, and you'll hear how PTC can support you so you gain maximum value from your new Windchill solution.

General Performance Tuning for Windchill PDMLink 9 in CAD-centric Environment
Preeti Gupta, Alcon Labs

Intended for Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill PDMLink administrators, this presentation will detail the methodology used to tune a Windchill system migrated from Pro/INTRALINK. The discussion will provide a wealth of how-to's, best practices, lessons learned, and other information to help you plan and execute performance tuning in a Windows-based environment.

Installing Windchill for Pro/INTRALINK 3.x Administrators
Steve Dertien and Ram Krisnamurthy, PTC

Comfortable with Pro/INTRALINK 3.4, but worried about making the move to Windchill? Take a tour of the Windchill architecture and walk through the steps of a basic installation process. In this brief overview of Windchill system administration, you will learn about the extensive resources available, including PTC Global Services and detailed reference documentation. This session is intended for current Pro/INTRALINK 3.x administrators who are interested in gaining some more familiarity with the Windchill environment.

Social Product Development
Tom Shoemaker, PTC

Change is brewing in product development. Shifting workforce demographics, increased connectivity demands of a global team, and major advances of Web 2.0 technologies are converging to create an unparalleled environment of both risk and opportunity. This session will seek to look forward at possible ways that social computing technologies might impact the way product development is conducted.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Application Orientation
Dave Eberle, PTC

This two-hour seminar will introduce the concepts, terms, features, and capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. From this session you will pick up the basic skills required to access and view information, such as logging on, accessing help, and locating and viewing product information.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Change Management
Scott Barkman, PTC

In this two-hour seminar, you will explore the out-of-the-box change management capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. The review will cover a fast-track change process, taking multiple roles while creating a change request, a change notice, and completing implementation tasks.

Building an Automated ProductView Publishing System Using the Windchill PLM Connector
Mike Crecelius, BAE Systems

The Windchill PLM Connector is a new software tool released by PTC in November 2007. It is a command line tool that exports a data package from a source PDM system, and then imports the data package into a target PDM system. This presentation demonstrates how to use the PLM Connector in cooperation with the command line ProductView batch publisher to automate the creation of nightly ProductView data sets for engineering design review.

Not Your Daddy's Virtualization: Innovating High End Computing at All Levels Using RGS
Israel Pabon and Brian Walrath, Raytheon

Technological challenges require engineers to work remotely with extremely large designs to rapidly implement field-driven changes in the design. Achieving this goal requires a new engineering process that maintains the highest level of security and protection of company's intellectual property. This isn't a vision of the future, but reality thanks to HP's RGS software. We will examine a successful case study at Raytheon.

Windchill Monitoring
Rudolf Oertel and Martin Kraegeloh, SULIS GmbH

Automating Windchill monitoring not only makes the administrator's job easier but also improves monitoring quality. This presentation will show you how to implement a cost-effective system for Windchill environments using the open-source software Nagios. Among the many benefits of this easy-to-implement system are early problem recognition, shortened response times, and storage of measured data to allow trend analysis.

Global Windchill Deployments
Victor Gerdes, PTC

Join this session to learn about the options and trade-offs for a global Windchill deployment capable of meeting the wide area network (WAN) performance & scalability requirements of your company. This sessions will cover the impact of network bandwidth and latency on Windchill end-user performance, options for mitigating network limitations including the role and benefit of wide area network application services and WAN and Windchill Remote File Servers and Windchill Replication.

Windchill PDMLink 9.0: Application Orientation
Dave Eberle, PTC

This two-hour seminar will introduce the concepts, terms, features, and capabilities of Windchill PDMLink 9.0. From this session you will pick up the basic skills required to access and view information, such as logging on, accessing help, and locating and viewing product information.

Ask the Experts: Windchill and ProductView
Will Kohler, Michael Rygol and Team, PTC

Do you have questions about specific Windchill or ProductView capabilities but do not know who to ask? If so, perhaps this session is for you. During this session, you will have the opportunity to discuss what's on your mind with a panel of Windchill and ProductView experts.

Build and Issue Management Using JIRA
Joe Priest, Synthes, USA

This session will review how Synthes used JIRA to manage bugs, issues, and builds during its Windchill implementation. Among the topics covered are an overview of JIRA, bug tracking, issue tracking, work packages, versions, and builds.

Windchill System Monitoring Featuring JMX
Vishal Arora, PTC

Simplify your life by learning about the system monitoring framework of Windchill. In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to configure a JMX monitoring client, set up thresholds for important system parameters, and define actions for the system to take when the thresholds are exceeded. This session is intended for current Windchill administrators who are interested in gaining some more familiarity with JMX and Log4J monitoring capabilities.