Agenda

1. 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Registration & Continental Breakfast in the PLM Collaboration Café

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2. 8:30 a.m. – 8:40 a.m. | Welcome
   Peter Bilello, President & CEO, CIMdata & Håkan Kårdén, Strategic Advisor, Eurostep
3. 8:40 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. | Opening Presentation: Value Drivers for Digitalization of the Product Lifecycle
   Peter Bilello, President & CEO, CIMdata [Bio]
   As PLM professionals, we must continually look to enhance the value resulting from the digitalization of our organization’s end-to-end product lifecycle. To do so requires keeping an eye on the evolving trends and enablers of digital transformation. A brief review of CIMdata’s Critical Dozen trends and enablers of successful digital transformation will be presented, along with a review of the criticality of organizational change management’s role in maximizing value delivery. Emphasis will be placed on why these topics are critical value driver prerequisites. Additional discussion will emphasize recent developments in the PLM solution space, such as AI adoption, that enhance the value that can be realized from investment in digitalization and evolving customer demands and/or market opportunities that are motivating investment in digitalization of the product lifecycle. Industry examples will be shared throughout the presentation.
4. 9:20 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | KEYNOTE: Design for Sustainability: Leveraging Design Engineering within an Optimization Culture
   David P. Genter, Director, Systems Design Engineering, Accelera by Cummins, Inc. [Bio]
   To produce new, more sustainable products, Design Engineering must be more fully leveraged, given its foundational impact on a product’s environmental footprint. While Design Engineering has long performed many “Design for X” (e.g., Design for Serviceability, Design for Manufacturability) initiatives, now another must be added to their responsibilities – Design for Sustainability (DfS), taking advantage of recent analytical tool developments enabling designs to be optimized without ever leaving the CAD environment. At Cummins, we have demonstrated that when personnel are dedicated to performing this type of design optimization, products not only have lower lifecycle CO2 intensity but also have significantly lower costs, paying back the fully burdened Engineering salary more than five times over in the first year, and continuing to deliver such savings in subsequent years. Other benefits include improving the ability to design right the first time, improving lifecycle profitability, and enhanced product performance. This presentation will show how Cummins has made DfS a practical part of their design process and culture, enabling their Design Engineering workforce to impact climate change while efficiently designing better products.
5. 10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. | Sponsor Thought-Leadership Vignettes
   Modular Management
   ESI
6. 10:20 a.m. – 10:25 a.m. | Summary

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   10:25 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. | Networking Break & PLM Collaboration Café

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8. 10:50 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. | A Strategy for the Management of Large Enterprise PLM Platforms
   Jorgen Dahl, Sr Director, PLM, GE Aerospace [Bio]
   The management of large Enterprise PLM Platforms can be a complex and challenging undertaking. Priorities have to be weighed to ensure the existing system works to its full capability while delivering technology modernization and future capabilities. Operational stability and usability are the two most critical aspects of any Enterprise PLM system. Assuming we have a functioning and sustained system, we next must focus on ensuring cybersecurity and controlled access to the data. At the same time, we have to zealously drive platform technology improvements to take advantage of virtualized infrastructure automation capabilities and stay ahead of PLM vendor obsolescence changes to meet the needs of business transformation and deliver new digital thread capabilities across the enterprise. As stewards of our platform solutions, we must drive strategic and proactive technology and process improvements to allow the business to scale and grow. This presentation will outline a strategy for developing Enterprise PLM Platform and management processes. It will talk about the initiatives and management systems that must exist and how each underlying platform technology advancement directly addresses business capability development needs while at the same time putting operational stability and usability front and center.
9. 11:20 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. | Applying Digital Thread in Commercial Aviation: The Digital Authorized Release Certificate
   Dr. Robert Rencher, Sr. Systems Engineer, Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company (speaking on behalf of the A&D PLM Action Group) [Bio]
   This presentation will discuss the commercial aviation success of incorporating digital thread in conjunction with the Authorized Release Certificate (ARC) regulatory requirement. Why is this important? Historically, the regulatory requirement of providing part lifecycle traceability was accomplished with paper documentation. The cost of compliance has been substantial and error-prone. Digitizing the documentation provided the ability to quickly search and find the supporting documentation. Using digital thread combined with distributed ledger technology has proven a successful digital solution. The digital thread has addressed the digitization, traceability, provenance, and accessibility of part data across the product lifecycle from design to final disposition. The concept and constructs of the digital thread introduced change to the business processes, system definitions, and technology used in support of the regulation. The ARC ecosystem’s use of digital thread demonstrated A&D ecosystem interoperability. In addition to looking at the incorporation of digital thread in conjunction with the ARC regulatory requirement, the presentation will update the AD PAG’s Digital Thread Benchmark, emergent digital thread patterns, and an A&D industry digital thread standards alignment strategy.
10. 11:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. | Revolutionizing Product Definition: How mabe Transformed Efficiency with Modularization and Digitalization
    Gabriel Vargas, Director Engineering Services, mabe 
    Maria Elena “Mary” Mata Lopez, Technical Information & Modular Architecture Leader,  mabe [Bio]
    mabe, an appliances and white goods manufacturer, was challenged in their product definition. They were unable to find the resources they needed to manage their catalog of products, SKUs (Stock Keeping Units). Even if resources were available, they would most likely not be able to afford to staff up. mabe also had to reduce the lead time for new product introductions to stay competitive. Something drastic had to be done! mabe had to improve efficiency in its product definition operation to significantly reduce the resources needed to introduce new products, maintain the existing ones, and shorten the overall lead time. mabe turned to modularization as the way to build efficient systems allowing them to derive product configurations to populate their product catalog instead of designing products one-by-one. As a result, information was now well structured and systemized, described by a unified product information model. This enabled the integration of the IT landscape, automating the process from portfolio planning to engineering BOM creation and manufacturing BOM and routing. Through digitalization and automation and a modular way of working mabe reduced the resources for New Product Introduction by 90% and Product Maintenance by 80% while reducing lead time from 1 month to 1 day for new SKUs.
11. 12:20 p.m. – 12:25 p.m. | Summary
12. 12:25 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Lunch: Welcome from our Lunch Sponsor Sinequa

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    12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Networking Lunch & PLM Collaboration Café

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14. 1:45 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. | KEYNOTE: Transforming Space Exploration: NASA's Digital Engineering Journey and Collaborative Future
    Terry R. Hill, Digital Engineering Program Manager, NASA’s Office of Chief Engineer [Bio]
    As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) takes on more ambitious and complex science and exploration missions, it is an imperative for the Agency to collaborate effectively with both domestic industry and international partners. Hence, the Agency is accelerating its use of integrated Digital Engineering (DE), including Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). This presentation outlines NASA’s journey in understanding what Digital Engineering Transformation portends for its spaceflight portfolio, the benefits of this transformation across the lifecycle of programs and projects, the requisite strategy that NASA needs to implement to realize the benefits and capabilities, and past and current pilot projects to demonstrate digital twins, toolchains, and IT modernization.
15. 2:25 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. | MBSE Collaboration with SysML 2.0: A Pre-Release Investigation
    Chris Watkins, Principal Engineer, MBE/MBSE, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation (speaking on behalf of the A&D PLM Action Group) [Bio]
    The Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) is an association of major aerospace companies that have committed to investigating methods of collaboration in the Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) workspace for many years. Current research focuses on SysML 2.0, the Object Management Group’s (OMG) major update to its SysML 1.X standard. This update aims to better enable MBSE model collaboration between organizations/tools through shared model repositories accessible by a standardized set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The SysML 2.0 standard is in final review, and tool vendors are already working to conform to the nearly released standard. This presentation will share the AD PAG’s most recent findings including a SysML 2.0 syntax/notation investigation, SysML 2.0 use case mappings to aerospace MBSE collaboration scenarios as defined by Boeing and Airbus, SysML 2.0 API investigation, and a summary of the AD PAG engagements with SysML 2.0 tool vendors. The presentation will conclude with a review of future plans.
16. 2:55 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Summary
17. 3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. | Sponsor Thought-Leadership Vignettes
    Dassault Systèmes
    Aras

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    3:20 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Networking Break & PLM Collaboration Café

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19. 3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Digital Engineering: Accelerated Product Development Enabled by Digitalization
    Uyiosa Abusomwan, Ph.D: Senior Global Technology Manager – Digital Engineering at Eaton[Bio]
    The push for high-speed innovation is delayed by speed bumps such as changes in requirements, supply chain bottlenecks, and ever-increasing product complexity. Navigating these market dynamics requires a novel approach to product development. Eaton, a $20B provider of intelligent power management solutions for consumer and industrial applications, is taking steps to address this challenge. This presentation will outline Eaton’s novel engineering strategy to accelerate product design. It will also highlight Eaton’s vision for Digital Design and discuss elements of that vision. Finally, the presentation will conclude with examples of product development in this new era.
20. 4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Sponsor Thought-Leadership Vignettes
    PTC
    Razorleaf
    DxP Services
21. 4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. | Safer Products Evolve as New Data Is Discovered: The Role of ALM, EDA, and PLM in Streamlining Mobility Product Lifecycles
    Craig Brown, Executive Consultant, CIMdata & ex PLM Leader at General Motors[Bio]
    Today’s products collect enormous amounts of measurements of a product’s usage in near real-time. Sensors and onboard computing are within the solution domain of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and continue to benefit from Moore’s Law. Surely, these data insights can lead to safer products. Companies developing complex mobility products containing more embedded software face increasing pressures for safety innovations. This evolution is often identified as the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV). Contextual data, which is easy to comprehend, is one key to success, pushing PLM and ALM solutions towards a systems focal point of applied knowledge and best practices during mobility product lifecycles. In this presentation, we will explore the reasons why it is more important than ever that ALM, EDA, and PLM cooperate to enable re-engineering and inventing streamlined processes and data flow across mobility product lifecycles. We will discuss the necessity and challenge of data sharing and knowledge exchanges across products. Data discovery between products and the environment within which they operate requires a higher level of integration to achieve on-going safe operations. The safest products learn as they discover insights via their experiential data.

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    5:15 p.m. – 5:20 p.m.| Summary Conference Adjourns for the Day

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    5:20 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Happy Hour - avoid the traffic and join us for drinks and snacks in the PLM Collaboration Café

Day 2 - 9 May