2009 Call for Papers

Thank you for your submissions! The Call for Papers for 2009 has concluded.

You'll be notified by early February 2009 whether or not your paper has been accepted by the review committee.

Expert Presentations vs. Partner Presentations

If you're submitting a partner presentation, please be sure to check the appropriate box on the abstract submission form.

Agenda and Suggested Topics

The agenda will reflect the major PTC product areas: Pro/ENGINEER®, Windchill® and Arbortext®, Mathcad, CoCreate and ProductView™. We will also have an additional track focusing on Product Development and Process Improvements, and will cover topics that cross over product family boundaries.

These topics are only suggestions; we welcome your ideas for other topics not listed here.

• Arbortext Topics
• CoCreate Topics
• Pro/ENGINEER Topics
• Windchill Topics
• Mathcad Topics
• ProductView Topics
• Product Development and Process Improvement Topics

Arbortext Topics

• Data Modeling with DTDs or Schemas
• DITA
• Multichannel Stylesheet Development
• Simplifying XML Authoring
• Reusing and Repurposing Content in Publications
• Producing Variable Documents
• Localization of Publications
• Link Management in Publications
• Developing Technical Illustrations with Arbortext IsoDraw
• S1000D
• Service and Operating Manuals

CoCreate® Topics

• CoCreate Modeling
  • CAD Data Exchange
  • Design of Electro-Mechanical Products
  • Mold Design
  • Plastic Part Design
  • Sheet Metal Fabrication
  • Simulation
  • Stylized Product Design
  • Tooling Design
• CoCreate Model Manager
  • Adopting CoCreate Model Manager
  • Migrating to CoCreate Model Manager
  • Large Assembly Management
  • Best Practices for Success
  • Business Process Improvements

Pro/ENGINEER® Topics

• Integration of third-party tools with Pro/ENGINEER®
• Solid Modeling
• Mastering Pro/ENGINEER
• Surfacing and Styling
• Simulation
• Sheet Metal Fabrication, Mold Design
• Electromechanical Design using RSD and Pro/ENGINEER
• ECAD-MCAD collaboration
• Digital Human Modeling with Pro/ENGINEER
• Large Assembly Management
• CAD Data Exchange
• Upgrading to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0
• Driving Pro/ENGINEER Designs with Mathcad
• Tooling Design & Machining
• 5-Axis machining with Pro/TOOLMAKER
• Plastic Part Design
• Creating Weldments
• Pro/ENGINEER Tolerance Analysis
• Protecting IP with Pro/ENGINEER (DRM)
• Collaborative Design with Pro/ENGINEER

Windchill Topics

• Release to Manufacturing
• Classification and Reuse
• Best Practices for Administering Windchill
• Pro/INTRALINK® to Windchill PDMLink Migration
• Migrating to Windchill PDMLink from Foundation
• Managing ECAD data in Windchill
• Managing Software Source Code
• Pro/ENGINEER Data Management
• Multi-CAD Data Management
• Change Management and Configuration Management
• 3rd Party Integrations
• Windchill ProductPoint and extending SharePoint to product development

ProductView Topics

• Digital Mockup
• Enterprise Visualization
• Immersive Visualization and Virtual Reality
• ECAD/MCAD Collaboration
• ECAD Interoperability
• Large Model Publishing and Visualization
• Visualization in Manufacturing
• Visualization as an enabler for Enterprise Collaboration
• Best practices for Heterogeneous Visualization
• Controlling Visual Intellectual Property
• Repurposing Visualization Data
• Visualization from Model Based Definition as a means of reducing/eliminating 2D drawings

Mathcad Topics

• Simulation
• Data Exchange with 3rd party applications
• Mathcad-Pro/ENGINEER Integration Customer Case Studies
• Best Practices for Standardizing Calculations
• Supporting Standards Compliance with Mathcad
• Converting Calculations from Excel to Mathcad
• Managing Mathcad worksheets in Windchill
• Mathcad programming techniques
• Image and Signal Processing
• Dynamics Analysis (ODEs and symbolic transforms)
• Improving Validation and Verification using Mathcad
• Techniques for integrating with Mathcad
• Data Analysis

Product Development and Process Improvement

• Program Management (e,g, New Product Introduction, Technology Development)
  • Program process standardization
  • Program deliverables control
  • Program dashboards
• Change and Configuration Management
  • Standardized, automated change processes
  • Common change process across disciplines
  • Change management across Engineering and Manufacturing
  • Defect and Non-Conformance Management
  • Partner Integration into Change Process
• System Design/ and Top Down Design
  • Architecting products for modularity
  • Interface definition management
• Detailed Design
  • Drawingless design/ removing 2D drawings from the critical path
  • Integrated cross-discipline BOM management (e.g. Mechanical/Electrical/Software)
  • Cross-discipline collaboration (e.g. Mechanical/Electrical/Software)
  • Multi-MCAD design
  • Distributed design
  • Efficient design review
• Variant Design and Generation
  • • Creating and managing product variants
• Verification and Validation
  • Frontloading simulation
  • Simulation data management (e.g. test request, simulation methods management, simulation configuration management, data archival)
  • Prototype test configuration management
• Design/Manufacturing Outsourcing
  • Design data sharing
  • IP security
  • Work practice standardization
  • Partner Integration into change process
• Component and Supplier Management
  • Part classification
  • New part introduction standardization
  • Supplier management
• Tooling and Factory Equipment Design
  • Tool design automation
  • Automated machining
  • Tool design project management
• Technical Publications
  • Service manual structured authoring and publishing
  • Service manual content management
  • CAD based illustrations for service manuals
  • Automated service manual delivery
  • Parts catalog structured authoring and publishing
  • CAD based illustrations for parts catalogs
  • Parts catalog delivery
    

Business Initiatives

• Electro-Mechanical Product Development
• Environmental Regulatory Compliance
• Global Product Development
• Fast Fashion Integrated Digital Environments
• Modular Product Architecture
• eLearning
• Paperless Product Development/3D Drawings/Model Based Definition
• Digital Prototyping
• Lean Product development
• Achieving Business Value with PLM
• Medical Devices Quality Management
• IT Consolidation

Tell Us What's Important to You!

You can shape the conference agenda! Tell us what topics you would like to see at the World Event. to e-mail us.