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PTC/USER Global Summit 2026 Call For Proposals is  Open!

We’re happy to announce that our PTC/USER Global Summit 2026 Call for Proposals is open. We welcome submissions for a range of user stories and experience content to be presented at the conference.

 

We are looking for real experiences of how you are implementing solutions, overcoming barriers in your company culture, and filling gaps in the solutions you have.  

 

Particular interest is in your analysis stories. There’s value in hearing your story. 

 

Some sessions will focus on PTC development areas and current Technical Committee agenda items, but whatever you have going on now or have recently implemented or planned is of great interest to our audience.

 

Our partners and sponsors will also be presenting solutions and tips for using and implementing their products. We encourage sponsors to be true advisors and present real customer stories or practical implementation guidance.

 

Abstract topics and themes can include the following (the full list is available at the submission link below): 

✅ALM

✅Codebeamer

✅PTC Modeler

✅PTC RV&S

✅Augmented Reality

✅Vuforia Chalk

✅Vuforia Expert Capture

✅CAD

✅CADDS 5

✅Creo Elements/Direct

✅Creo

✅Onshape

✅Routed Systems

✅ECAD

✅Computer-Aided Engineering (Simulation and Analysis)

✅IIoT

✅Industrial Connectivity

✅KEPServerEX

✅Kepware

 

Additionally look for registrations opening soon!
 

Webinar: ThingWorx AI Strategy and Product Updates - Thursday, October 30th, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT  

Discover What’s Next in Industrial AI

Join ThingWorx experts for an exclusive webinar that will explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence within the ThingWorx Industrial IoT and AI platform.
In this session, you will learn about ThingWorx’s overarching AI strategy which focuses on delivering actionable insights and driving digital transformation across the product lifecycle.

Join webinar and learn more about:

  • Hands-on demos integrating LLMs with the ThingWorx 10.X
  • Enabling agentic automation using Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Enhancing industrial apps with real-time decisions, natural language, and computer vision AI

Whether you’re an IoT developer or an AI enthusiast, you won’t want to miss it!
 

CAD/Windchill Admin Roundtable Hosted by Badgerland UG -  Friday, November 7th, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

Join for 5 min or the whole hour.  Ask/answer questions of people in similar Admin roles. Badgerland UG is moderator, but all are welcome. 
 

PTC/USER of The Carolinas Fall Event 2025 at Top Golf Charlotte - Southwest  - Thursday, November 6th, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST

Join us in Charlotte, North Carolina, for an engaging PTC/USERs of the Carolinas community event designed for engineers, designers, and product lifecycle professionals. This gathering brings together local and regional experts to share insights, explore best practices, and demonstrate the latest capabilities in Creo and Windchill. Expect hands-on tips, technical discussions, and valuable networking opportunities — all in one afternoon. Be sure to stay afterwards for networking and complimentary Top Golf gameplay!

 

Lunch will be provided to all attendees!

 

Event Agenda:


CREO – “You Think You Know Sheetmetal?”
Unlock advanced and time-saving features in Creo Sheetmetal to improve accuracy and efficiency.


MBD & PLM
Moving Drawings Totally to Part Centric & MBD, Including Assembly Drawings.


AI for Creo and Windchill
See how artificial intelligence is enhancing design and lifecycle management workflows.


Lunch


Creo Rope Knots
Walkthrough of Rope Knot Modeling in Creo


Interoperability of Smart Assembly to maximize Capability


Reference Selector Best practices Creo


CREO For Solidworks Users and Solidworks Data Management in Windchill


Q&A wrap-up and door prizes


Networking and Top Golf Gameplay
 

HCL DFMPro at GPDIS 2025! A Remarkable Showcase!

HCL DFMPro at GPDIS 2025 – A Remarkable Showcase!

We are thrilled to announce that HCL DFMPro had a successful presence at GPDIS 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona!

A sincere thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth, connected with our team, and expressed interest in how HCL DFMPro is revolutionizing design for manufacturability.

The event provided an excellent opportunity to engage with industry leaders, exchange innovative ideas, and exhibit how our CAD-integrated solution empowers engineers to get it right on the first attempt.

We appreciate the enlightening discussions and the fantastic feedback. Here is to fostering smarter design and manufacturing choices – together!

Request DFMPro Demo: https://lnkd.in/dU9UMuxX

#hclsoftware #hcldfmpro #dfmsoftware #digitaltransformation 
 

Shrink your Windchill vault size by 50% !!

Shrink your Windchill vault size by 50% with Fishbowl’s LinkPurge

By Rick Passolt, Fishbowl Solutions – rpassolt@fishbowlsolutions.com

 

Did you know that 40-50% of your Windchill Vaults are likely outdated viewables? 

 

Many companies are using Fishbowl’s LinkPurge to flush outdated viewables, reclaiming about 45% of their hard drive space. 

Smaller vault sizes are beneficial for many reasons. Some of the key items are:

  • Lower Cost
  • Easier Maintenance, Rehost, Backup, Restore
  • Better Performance, Scalability

Contact us at plm@fishbowlsolutions.com to learn how LinkPurge: 

  • Freed up 5 terabytes of vault space for a leading provider of Medical products & services
  • Reclaimed 16 terabytes of vault space for a worldwide leader in innovative equipment and solutions for the outdoor environments.

Windchill viewing is powerful and pervasive. This lightweight viewing feature is one of the big benefits of Windchill. However, many files are never viewed…and rarely is it viewed if it’s an old, outdated version.  These viewables are taking up vault space and costing you money.

 

Fishbowl’s LinkPurge allows you to filter the viewables that will be purged.  For example, LinkPurge can filter based on latest iteration, non-default representations, markup existence, by container, by date range, and more.

 

And if a user ever wants to view a Creo View file that was deleted, Windchill has the republish button right there in their user interface… the file is republished on the fly and available for immediate viewing in Creo View.

 

Is a Windchill Upgrade on your roadmap?

Contact us at plm@fishbowlsolutions.com to learn why LinkPurge should be part of your preparation plan.  And you can request an Upgrade Quote from Fishbowl if you are interested in how our services and pricing stack up.

a valued PTC user, you’re invited to our Summer 2025 Savings Event—featuring great offerings on upgrades, renewals, and bundles across Creo, Windchill, and more. It’s a limited-time opportunity to enhance your toolkit, drive efficiency, and accelerate innovation
 

PTC Report Summary: Turning ALM Insights into Actions

Disconnected tools, misaligned teams, and constant firefighting - these are common challenges in product development. The PTC Report explores how Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) helps organizations resolve these issues, and now you can access a concise summary of the report prepared especially for the PTC community.


This summary distills the most important findings, so you can quickly understand how ALM translates into real improvements:

  • For technical experts, it shows how integrated requirements, testing, and release management lead to fewer silos and more reliable product delivery.
  • For managers, it demonstrates how ALM enables better decision-making, improved collaboration, and measurable ROI.

By focusing on both operational efficiency and strategic value, the PTC Report summary provides practical insights you can use immediately in your projects. It is not just theory

- it’s a clear roadmap showing how ALM adoption can transform daily work and long-term outcomes.
 

Run better design reviews with CoLab + AutoReview

Every engineer has been here.


The design review meeting that ends up being a "chase down last program's lessons learned" meeting. Then, jumping from PDFs to CAD to emails to Teams chats, it takes hours just to check off a few minor issues.


Not anymore.


With AutoReview, you can check your drawings and 3D models for the basic errors first.

 

👉Conformance to standards and guidelines
👉Inconsistencies in technical data
👉Conflicts with past lessons learned

 

Then, use the meeting for solving the big issues.

 

Let AutoReview do the basic checks, so your team can do more actual engineering.
 

CoreFace Update: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Connector is available!

We’re excited to announce that CoreFace can now seamlessly connect Windchill & Windchill+ with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

 

👉 Synchronizing Product master data, BOMs, Documents, Change Master and even Production Routings has never been easier – secure, fast, transparent and configurable!

 

Highlights of the new connector:
✅ Clean Core using SAP Standard APIs
✅ Bidirectional Integration: Data flows work in both directions - e.g. transfer of parts lists, product master data and changes from Windchill(+) to SAP S/4HANA Cloud and back.
✅ No-Code configuration: Intuitive user interface for quick adjustments - without any programming effort.
✅ Broad range of functions: The first version already includes the most important functions. These are the creation and update of Change Masters, Products and BOMs. It is also possible to transfer Process plans which correspond to Production Routings including Operations and Sub-Operations in SAP. Other functions such as the transfer of Documents are also available. Further features will be added in upcoming releases.

 

With this release, we’re adding another important connector to CoreFace which helps companies to integrate their Windchill system with their ERP – taking another step toward true digital transformation.

Curious to learn more? Reach out to us if you would like to see a live Demo! 

 
 

Elysium is excited to announce our new EX11.0 Release for Elysium 3D-SUITE.

New Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) Checker:

Our PMI Checker automatically verifies the completeness and accuracy of PMI in 3D CAD data, ensuring alignment with ISO and ASME standards while confirming both semantic completeness and graphical representation.

 

New Design for Assembly (DFX) Checker:

Instantly perform DFX checks on your model with freely defined parameters to identify assembly and disassembly issues caused by headspace interference, model collisions, and improper clearance.

 

New SOLIDWORKS Standalone Exporter:

The new standalone SOLIDWORKS exporter enables customers to export native SOLIDWORKS files within or outside of a SOLIDWORKS environment, increasing accessibility and flexibility for downstream use.

 

Smarter Issues Management in 3D HTML CAD Validation reports:

A new Issue Management function improves collaboration by allowing users to group detected differences, add comments, and assign approval statuses directly within 3D HTML CAD validation reports, streamlining communication across teams and accelerating review cycles.

 

Updated License Management System:

The update includes strengthened security during product usage and simplified license management for administrators.

 

Recent Presentation: Trusted and Traceable MBD | Realize Live 2025 (Annalise Suzuki & Evan Kessick, Elysium)

This session explores the essential digital capabilities needed to support a fully integrated Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) through trusted Model-Based Definition (MBD).

Full video here: https://vimeo.com/1091962942

 

Creating Machine-Readable MBD for Reuse | Purdue Symposium 2025

In this talk, Evan Kessick, Director of Model-Based Initiatives at Elysium, explores how machine-readable Model-Based Definition (MBD) enables data reuse, interoperability, and traceability across the enterprise.

Full video here: https://vimeo.com/1084088447
 

Webinar: SIGMA MBD – Prepare Today for Tomorrow’s MBD Success

Missed our webinar on SIGMA MBD? No problem, check out the Webinar Replay on YouTube.

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Whether you’re an MBD expert or just starting out, SIGMAXIM’s SIGMA MBD toolkit supports every stage of your journey.

Too often, teams wait until it's time to "go MBD" before thinking about how to get there—only to realize too late how much groundwork is needed.

A successful MBD transformation requires structured data, standardized processes, and alignment across tools and teams—prep work that needs to begin long before you add your first annotations.

That's where SIGMA MBD comes in.

Our proven, systematic approach helps organizations:

✅ Adopt MBD more smoothly
✅ Accelerate user adoption
✅ Maximize downstream value.

Whether you're just starting to consider MBD or already on the path, join us and learn how to build a solid foundation for long-term success re
 

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