Ask the Experts: Windchill and ProductView
Will Kohler, PTC

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

A Quantitative Approach to Windchill Implementation Using Six Sigma Methodology
Murugan Coimbatore Krishnaswamy, Alfanar Electrical Systems

Implementing Windchill can be a challenging project depending on the maturity level and complexity of the current business processes in your organization. This case study highlights a quantitative approach to implementation that leverages the Six Sigma methodology, tools, and techniques.

Enabling a Validated Global Product Development Collaboration System for Medical Devices
Joel Hembrock, Medtronic Xomed, Inc

This case study illustrates the approach taken by a medical device company to justify, plan, implement, and validate an environment to support a global product development collaboration capability. Key elements include the capture of the current-state environment, business drivers, phased implementation plan, and system implementation and validation.

Implementing Windchill and Realizing Value for the Enterprise
David Owens, Ingersoll Rand

Ingersoll-Rand Security Technologies has grown through the acquisition of numerous companies with unique, divergent processes. To overcome the resulting inefficiencies, the company began a three-year deployment of Windchill across multiple locations. This presentation describes the implementation process, outlines best practices and lessons learned, and provides data and metrics on return on investment.

Meeting Management for Product Change Reviews
Theresa Bailey, Schneider Electric

Do you need a better way to manage meetings for product and engineering change reviews? Come to this session to see how Windchill Meeting Management has been enhanced to support scheduled CRB reviews and to easily record decision history within the Windchill context.

ProductPoint: So Easy a Caveman Can Do It
Kelly Bryant, Teknovation, Inc.

Teknovation is a product development company that faced all of the data management struggles typical of small organizations. This presentation will explain why the company chose ProductPoint as the solution and how it is using this tool in the product development process.

Reaching the Summit: The Trek to PDMLink Implementation Goes Through Resource Management
Kathy Barnes, Medtronic

Hear how Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management & Neuromodulation planned for a large-scale implementation of PDMLink 9.1 from five separate Pro/INTRALINK Vaults. The discussion will cover what they did, the challenges they faced, and what they considered when making decisions. This presentation is intended to spark conversation and solicit suggestions for improvements.

Save a Boatload of Cash Using Classification
Lewis Lawrence, Weatherford

Attend this session to find out how Windchill PartsLink Classification will help you cut costs. Part reuse is just the tip of the iceberg. This session take you through proven practices from beginning to end, demonstrating how classification and attribute-driven processes can deliver great savings to your company.

Surviving Windchill Upgrades
Sandeep Jain, Varian Semiconductors

This case study presentation details how Varian Semiconductors was able to break the usability barrier by upgrading to the latest Windchill release. The discussion will address the challenges involved in the upgrade process, introduce best practices, and demonstrate how to bring value and efficiency to the engineering community with the enhanced functionality available in this new release.

An Integrated Approach to Managing Windchill Customizations
Todd Baltes, SRAM

Discover how to manage Windchill customizations using an integrated environment consisting of Eclipse, Subversion, and ANT. You'll see how these tools facilitate efficient development, reliable compilation and deployment, and accurate release management of your company's Windchill customizations.

Best Practices for Administering Windchill
Preeti Gupta, Alcon Labs

This presentation will cover the methodology that Alcon Labs uses to administer its midsize Windchill system. The discussion will provide tips and tricks used daily to monitor and finetune the system, along with new techniques introduced in 9.0/9.1 for administering Windchill in a Windows-based environment.

Best Practices for Creating and Managing CAD-Centric Product Structure in PDMLink 9.1
Frank Menendez, Alcon Labs

New link types offered in PDMLink 9.1 greatly simplify the creation and management of CAD-centric product structures within Windchill. This presentation describes and demonstrates innovative uses of these new link types to streamline the process of maintaining accurate CAD-driven structures.

Customizing the Engineering Change Process (Part II): Updated for PDMLink 9.1
Antonio Villanueva, Goodrich ISR Systems

Kansas has gone bye-bye along with template processors and custom workflow tasks. In are JSP, CSS, and task templates. This session will walk through the steps that Goodrich ISR took to upgrade the ECN process to PDMLink 9.1. The discussion will cover custom JSP task templates, printable ECN and BOM reports, and addition of new actions to PDMLink.

Data Migration: A Road More or Less Traveled
Jack Martinez, Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories now uses PDMLink to manage product-related documents and CAD files. One of the largest obstacles the company had to overcome was migrating Pro/ENGINEER configurations from one PDM system to another. This presentation will detail the approaches and procedures used, along with lessons learned, in the journey down this data migration road.

Mirroring Windchill PDMLink 9.1 Environments the Quick and Easy Way
Stan Balish, BAE Systems - IS

In this expert tips and tricks session, you'll discover how to quickly and efficiently rebuild, mirror, or re-host your Windchill PDMLink 9.1 Windows environment. This "complicated" task will be broken down into simple, easy-to-follow steps that even non-administrators can follow.

Migrating from Pro/INTRALINK 3.x to PDMLink 9.1: A Beginner's Guide
Miguel Fortis,

This session will take you through General Atomics Aeronautical System's implementation of Windchill PDMLink from start to finish. The presentation will cover system architecture, project timeline, do's and don'ts, as well as some tips and tricks.

Achieving Pro/INTRALINK 3.x Folder Access Control under Windchill 9.x
Ross Jessen,

Do you feel like you lost the folder access control you were accustomed to in Pro/INTRALINK 3.x when you moved to the Windchill 9.x platform? In this session we will demonstrate how you can restore some of this functionality through the use of Windchill access control domains. We will walk through how to manually configure access control domains to support folder access control, and provide a demonstration of software designed by Fishbowl Solutions to automate this manual process. Enabling this functionality through an automated process will save you time and allow for easier maintenance of the system.

Fishbowl Solutions
Kevin Johnson, PTC/USER, Inc.

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NetIDEAS
Kevin Johnson, PTC/USER, Inc.

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Windchill Roadmap Session
Will Kohler, PTC

Join this session for an update on the strategy and roadmap for the Windchill product family. This is your chance to get a full review of the strategic focus areas for future Windchill releases.

Managing Product Complexity with Windchill PDMLink
James Gehan, PTC

The management of product complexity is particularly challenging for industrial equipment and high-tech manufacturers that follow an assemble-to-order business model. Learn about recent and planned Windchill improvements for defining and managing product options in large products, mapping these options with Pro/ENGINEER CAD models, analyzing the structures, and using ProductView to mock up sets of options in 3D.

Windchill Infrastructure and System Administration
Bill Neuman, PTC

Take this opportunity to learn more about the product development roadmap for Windchill infrastructure and system administration. This session will provide an overview of enhancements delivered over the past year as well as improvements planned for future Windchill releases.

Windchill Multi-CAD Data Management
Steve Shaw, PTC

Are you wondering where PTC is heading with CAD data management? This session will provide insight into what new Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire and heterogeneous MCAD/ECAD data management capabilities you can expect in upcoming releases.

Windchill ProductPoint
Lee Garf, PTC

If you work in a small company seeking a next-generation product data management tool, don't miss this presentation. This demonstration of Windchill ProductPoint will provide a close look at the multi-CAD data management and visualization capabilities of this SharePoint-based solution.

Windchill ProjectLink
Francois Lamy, PTC

In this product update session, you'll discover the latest enhancements to Windchill ProjectLink for project management and collaboration. The presentation will describe ProjectLink's enhanced ability to streamline detailed project planning and its improved interoperability with Microsoft Project. The session will also give you a look at improvements planned for the future.

Deploying Windchill on Microsoft SQL Server
Victor Gerdes, PTC

Attend this session to find out more about deployment of Windchill on Microsoft SQL Server. The discussion will cover performance and scalability, security, manageability, and total cost of ownership, as well as describe new deployment resources.

Enterprise Integration and Customization
Bill Neuman, PTC

PTC has made several exciting enhancements in the areas of integration and customization. In this session, you'll learn what you need to know to take advantage of these advances to supercharge your customization productivity.

Introduction to Windchill RequirementsLink
Albert Siciliano, PTC

Windchill RequirementsLink establishes integral relationships among customer needs, market requirements, and underlying technical requirements, ensuring that your product is properly verified and satisfies customer and market demands. Come to this session to learn how this tool can help you manage, track, and cross-reference product requirements as part of the overall product development process.

Managing Hardgood and Softgood Products with FlexPLM and Windchill PDMLink
Quach Hai, PTC

Windchill PDMLink has proven capabilities for managing discretely manufactured hardgoods, while FlexPLM has proven capabilities for managing softgoods. Attend this session to see how to use these capabilities together. This session will be of particular interest to makers of high-volume products with short development cycles, such as toys, furniture, and jewelry.

Security Administration and Monitoring
Bill Neuman, PTC

With the increasingly global nature of product development, the security of your PLM system has never been more critical. In this session you'll learn about some of the most important practices for securing and auditing your Windchill environment.

Streamline Your Manufacturing Processes using Windchill MPMLink
Albert Siciliano, PTC

Windchill MPMLink streamlines creation and management of associative mBOMs, process plans, and work instructions, enabling concurrent development of product designs and manufacturing processes. Come to this session for a complete overview of this powerful capability, plus a look at improvements planned for the future.

Windchill Architecture and Hardware Deployment Resources
Victor Gerdes, PTC

PTC has enhanced its ability to validate and document various hardware architectures with its new Enterprise Deployment Center. Here, PTC works with partners to develop best practices and makes recommendations to customers, partners, and PTC implementers for planning, architecting, deploying, configuring, and administering Windchill and Pro/INTRALINK systems.

Windchill Performance: Configuration, Testing, Optimization, and Troubleshooting
Stephen Vaillancourt,

Ensuring acceptable system response times is critical for realizing the value of your Windchill system and for ensuring user acceptance and adoption. Join this session for a review of proven approaches to configuring, testing, optimizing, and troubleshooting Windchill system performance.