Summary of April 25th 2002 meeting.
What PTC Solutions have done for RCR
Parts made and in-hand 65-80% sooner Many hours saved · Automatic updates Speed up the engine assembly process Allowed RCR to keep their structural analysis in-house
Richard Childress Racing, a PTC Performance Team, uses PTC solutions for the design-through-manufacturing process of their race cars. PTC provides the teams with software tools for mechanical design, reverse engineering, industrial design, surface modeling, and functional optimization. Richard Childress Racing also uses Pro/MANUFACTURING to generate and optimize NC tool paths for 3 and 5-axis machining of their entire custom race car components.
Celebrating 35 years of NASCAR racing, Richard Childress Racing fields five accomplished NASCAR teams and is a seven-time NASCAR Series Championship team. Since 1984, the Team has had 62 victories, 186 top-five and 267 top-ten finishes in 380 starts - all of which are Winston Cup records for that period.
Agenda
| 9:30am-10:00am |
RCR racing applications for PTC Products |
| 10:00am-11:00am |
PTC New Product Demonstration - Wildfire! |
| 11:00am-11:30am |
Question & Answers with PTC & RCR. |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Tour of the Richard Childress Facility - RCR building 29, engine building, fabrication shop and Okuma Technology Center. |
| 12:00pm-12:30pm |
Lunch with Richard Childress Engineers |
| 12:30pm-1:00pm | RCR Museum (optional) |
Summary
The morning started out with and introduction to Pro/E at RCR. Several of the Designers and Engineers show the group many different parts and how they used Pro/E to make the more efficiently as well as to optimize their designs.
The high light of the day was when Leo Greene from PTC gave a demo of 2002 - Wildfire. This was very exciting! PTC has scheduled the release of 2002 on June12th! Leo show many of the new functionality features that are going to be included in 2002. Photorender also has a lot of new functionality.
Next Leo answered the audiences questions and provided some tips& techniques. Leo also provided a detail explanation of some of the more advance functionality of Pro/E. He covered behavioral modeling, analysis features, optimization of parts, surfacing, ISDX, and many others. Everyone that was in attendance learned something they could take back to their office and use.
Before Lunch PTC / RCR gave away 6 sets of Tickets to the "Coca Cola 600" at Lowe's Motor Speedway on May 26th, with one set including pit passes!
After the demos we divided up into a few groups and toured a few of the RCR buildings, then reconvened for lunch.
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