Rahim Alsaffar, Lead Engineering Specialist at Johnson Controls Automotive Group

Mr. Alsaffar will discuss how collaboration technology, people and processes help deliver high-volume products at the lowest cost in the shortest time, with unrivaled quality. Rahim has over 15 years of combined product development and product design operations experience, with a recent focus on leveraging technology to improve quality.

Mike Brinich, Manager, EOS Solutions

Creating an On Demand user experience has been an incredibly valuable development in the area of data exchange because it personalizes the user experience, making it easier to access and understand information. Mapping products, like Google Maps or MapQuest, have revolutionized how users find and understand driving directions because it personalizes a visual learning experience by delivering information On Demand.

Hosted by: Jennifer Herron, President & Founder, Action Engineering

Model Based Enterprise (MBE) establishes methods to achieve a fully integrated and collaborative environment founded on a 3D digital product definition. This workshop will provide an update on Model-Based Enterprise and Model-Based Definition activities and highlights, and provide useful information about implementing MBE/MBD in large and small companies alike. Presentations will also discuss policies and standards the government is putting in place to support digital product delivery through government and industry. The Workshop concludes with an interactive round-table discussion with distinguished guests from key government agencies.

Presenters: Ric Norton, DLA-LIS (Defense Logistics Agency) and DEDMWG (DOD Drawing and Modeling Working Group); Roy Whittenburg, Project Manager, UTRS; Rich Eckenrode, president, Recon Services; and Jennifer Herron.

Panelists: Round Table Panel, led by Jennifer Herron, of distinguished guests from key US government agencies, including: Paul Huang, Materials Engineer, U.S. Army Research Laboratory; Gary Grant, US Air Force; Ben Kassel, Mechanical Engineer, US Navy - NAVSEA; Paul Gill, Manager, NASA Product Data and Lifecycle Management Initiative; Howard Harary, Deputy Director for Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, NIST; and Ric Norton, Defense Logistics Agency

Lyle Fischer, Technical Marketing Director, Capvidia USA

This presentation will discuss issues caused by insufficient CAD model validation. It will be demonstrated based on the implementation at Triumph Interiors, manufacturing aircraft windows. The process starts from CATIA V5 data provided by Boeing. The CAD model is translated into SolidWorks for generating a tool path in SolidCAM. The geometry is translated correctly and the translation process is validated with a specialized validation software. In spite of that the parts are rejected by the customer due to poor finishing quality. The problem is caused by model topological change, which occurred in the translation process and results in surface splitting in SolidCAM. By setting correct validation criteria the problem could have been detected prior to manufacturing. This is an illustrative example how correctly installed CAD validation procedure can save costs and help to maintain high quality standards.

Stephen Bodner, Vice President of Manufacturing & PLM Solutions, Autodesk

Manufacturing in 2020 will be radically different from what we see today. This will be driven by several trends, such as consumer expectations of product personalization, instant gratification, and a heightened consciousness of the total environmental impact of the products they buy and use. Manufacturers will need to compete in a market where mass-customization, additive manufacturing and agile manufacturing ecosystems are the norm. Companies must begin to transform themselves now by understanding the technologies and process methods available today that will put them on a path to be able to thrive in the future.

This presentation will discuss possible customer, business and manufacturing trends up to 2020, and present some visionary examples of trend setters. We'll compare manufacturing today and tomorrow, and discus the future automation of manufacturing silos. And finally, we'll discuss some of todays enabling technologies, such as the impact of the cloud as an enabling substrate, and present a possible roadmap to get us there.

Max Jensen, Senior Developer, ME Systems Development, The Boeing Company

Many of the manufacturing processes at Boeing are automated today, but there still remains a significant amount of manual labor used to assemble aircraft. And each aircraft for a given model can be different based on the options that customers have selected for their aircraft. Boeing has implemented a 3D based planning and manufacturing execution system that automatically manages and updates the correct parts list, work instructions, and corresponding manufacturing 3d content that will match the configuration of a specific aircraft as ordered and defined by the customer with little or no re-planning effort by a manufacturing engineer.

Jason Hosch, Senior Industrial Engineer, Intel

Intel is currently converting existing factories to the next generation of semiconductor manufacturing technology while simultaneously building two new state-of-the art facilities. To remain a step ahead in a very competitive environment, Intel is moving toward using 3D CAD and BIM for construction in these facilities. Collaboration between the owner, the design firms, the general contractor, and the construction trades is essential in making this process work. The final piece of the puzzle is to integrate the information and geometry from the equipment suppliers into the process. This presentation will cover a workflow for incorporating vendor data and geometry into the designs, the benefits of using data directly from the vendor, improvements that can be made by the 3D CAD industry can help improve the information flow, and the differences between using BIM for new construction vs. a retrofit of an existing facility.

Tom Curtis, VP United Rotorcraft Division, Air Methods Corp., and David Fedler, Founder, Summit of Everest Group LLC

A common challenge among US product manufacturers is to improve margins on their existing North American business models while at the same time, increasing their flexibility to design and produce innovative, custom products for international growth. This presentation focuses on the case study of Air Methods, the most experienced operator in the air medical transport industry and their United Rotorcraft division. Air Methods decided to implement a virtual engineering environment to face the challenge of improving margins and increasing flexibility for growth – all under the stringent certification requirements of the FAA and demanding commercial and defense customers. Learn how the DMAIC process was used alongside an innovative “people first” strategy to drive significant, measurable improvements in these critical areas.

Moderated by David Opsahl, Executive Director, 3D PDF Consortium

A new generation of widely popular light-weight 3D file formats are becoming commonplace in global manufacturing - 3D PDF, DWF, JT, 3D XML, XVL - and they are poised to add real value in supply chain and downstream interoperability and collaboration. How should I decide which one is best for my requirements? When do you need a full-precise sold representation, and when will a “light-weight” 3D format do the job? When are industry standards the best choice, or when might a very popular but proprietary 3D format work as well. Or perhaps a hybrid is best? What factors should be considered when assessing the trade-offs between cooperatively developed industry standards and a proprietary, but widely used, data formats? And when are both approaches appropriate? This panel is a rare opportunity to participate in an interactive discussion with experienced users of some of the more common formats. This is your chance to answer some of the tough questions in your collaboration and interoperability strategies as they pertain to sharing 3D product data.

John Sperling, Director of Product Management, Aras

Visualization implementations within PLM have traditionally relied on proprietary formats and applications that do not enable modern social capabilities in the enterprise. The advent of 3D-PDF opens the door to a new approach which leverages the ubiquity of PDF and brings together new enterprise social capabilities in a highly secure manner to allow dramatic process transformation. New approaches to PLM visualization that combine social as part of the corporate security model build on the traditional view, markup, collaboration, and work package generation in a modular fashion. This presentation will explain the vision of how secure social will be brought together with PLM visualization to deliver a new level of global collaboration.

James DeLaPorte, Partner and Business Transformation Leader, NexTec

The success or failure of any major business transformation is ultimately decided by the people who are experiencing it. People often complain that they don’t know what is happening, express fear about losing their jobs, and feel demoralized as to the future of their contributions. This is true in acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, and MBE imlementations. This presentation provides a unique insight into the organizational behavior and cultural changes that need to be considered when implementing MBE to insure success and avoid failure.

Chad Jackson, President of Lifecycle Insights and author of the popular Engineering Matters newsletter (www.engineering-matters.com)

Everywhere you turn nowadays, it seems like folks are buzzing about social technologies. It all started in our personal lives, however, organizations are increasingly thinking about how it can be used for business purposes. Many outstanding questions remain however. What technology enables it? Who uses it? When do they use it? Does it need to be managed as a change initiative? In this session, we'll look at not only the potential benefits involved in applying social technologies to product development, but also the outstanding challenges as well.

David Rich, Director of Business Development, Windows Azure, Microsoft Corp.

The cloud is ideally suited to support collaboration, however, meaningful collaboration includes may require access to sensitive data. This talk will review opportunities and challenges related to use of valuable IP in a public cloud infrastructure, particularly with respect to Microsoft’s approach to the Cloud and IP Protection.

James Ackron, Product Manager, CT Core Technologies

A large general machinery company wanted to develop an automated process to generate simplified 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) model from existing master models and manage the results in the PLM application. The current manual process was time consuming with inconsistent results. Moreover, it was difficult to keep in sync the master models to the simplify models due to the time checked out from the PLM application. In addition, the large general machinery company wanted to protect its Intellectual Property (IP) by removing the internal components, thus creating the envelop information, while reducing the size of the model by sixty-five percent.

Robb Bush, Technology and Innovation Marketing , Global Center of Excellence, SAP

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Hosted by: Chad Jackson, President & Founder, Lifecycle Insights Inc.

The second annual Collaboration Management Forum will cover topics of particular interest to executives managing processes and people for more effective global collaboration in product development and manufacturing. This year’s Management Forum will be hosted by Chad Jackson, a recognized authority on design and engineering in new product development, with over fifteen years of experience in the industry (www.engineering-matters.com/about-author). The following topics are currently on the agenda for this year’s forum:

Moderated by Brad Holtz, President, Cyon Research

Back by popular demand, the PLM Vendor Panel is a highly intereactive discussion with the majopr PLM vendors about their strategies and solutions for enabling collaboration in product development and manufacturing. This is always a highly interactive session, so bring those questions you always wanted to ask the PLM vendors.

Bryan Fischer, President, Advanced Dimensional Management

Engineering standards play a critical role in product development, product definition, and affect the product throughout its lifecycle. The importance of standards increases by an order of magnitude as companies move to implement 3D Model-Based Product Definition and Model-Based Enterprise concepts. Current and future efforts to replace 2D drawings with 3D datasets are highly-dependent upon engineering standards, particularly Product and Manufacturing Information (PMI) standards and related data modeling standards. Successful implementation of 3D MBD and 3D MBE requires a clear understanding of the current state of relevant standards to establish a baseline, manage expectations, and plan a clear path toward success.

Gary Caille, Director - Solutions Services Group, Colorado State University

Working with a university on a project can be either a very rewarding or frustrating experience. The outcome is entirely dependent on understanding the research university culture, and setting and managing your expectations. At the university, good management practices are taught but not necessarily implemented. Cost, schedule and performance are concepts at a university and adherence is completely individual faculty member dependent. Asking a state university to procure something is like asking the State Government to buy something...same rules. On the plus side, academic faculty are not intellectually constrained by process and bureaucracy, thereby creating an atmosphere that fosters creativity and innovation. Students have not fully grasped the limitation that some things just can't be done. Finally, by working with students, industrial organizations are enhancing our future workforce and can "try before they buy" if they are looking to hire. This session will discuss how to manage and execute large, deliverables-based programs in a university setting?

 

Howard Mason, Corporate Information Standards Manager, Office of the CIO, BAE Systems

Information is a key asset for all the players in today’s global supply network. With the increasing emphasis on through-life support by both customer and supplier, the same information is also critical for tomorrow and the entire product lifecycle. As information systems evolve ever faster, industry in the US and Europe is turning to joint efforts to define and deploy the key information standards that they need to protect their investment in information. This presentation will discuss the new era of collaboration between US and European aerospace industries and information interoperability across the supply network and through the product lifecycle, with real-life practical examples.

Lars Peder Hansen, Senior Systems Consultant - CAD/PLM, Grundfos Group, Denmark

For many years manufacturers have been challenged to find ways of leveraging product information assets in ways that deliver value far beyond the traditional boundaries of design engineering. While some organizations have achieved limited success in this area, only recently has ubiquitous access of 3D data by everyone in the organization become cost-effective. This presentation will describe how the Grundfos management team came to understand the value of making product data assets widely available, how they are implementing that solution, and the benefits they expect to receive.

Rob Fisher, Director of Marketing, Madison Electric Products

Attendees leave this session with a greater understanding of the real power and size of the social consumer and how to tap into that vast knowledge base for new ideas and products development. We will start off with some basic definitions, stats and characterize the social landscape of todays consumers. Then we'll discuss how and why Madison Electric created the Sparks Innovation Center, the industries first crowd sourced new product development portal. We'll discuss rebranding efforts and the need for relevant ideas for new products, then delve into detail about how the program works, from idea submission, to vetting of ideas both internally and externally and finally to actual production and launch. The audience will walk through a step by step process - how to identify your core customers/partners in the social space and how to best connect with them through the digital communication channels. This will also include a brief review of tools and networks.

This session will leave attendees with the following take-aways:

Keith Hunten, Senior Staff Aerospace Engineer, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and Jotne EPM Technology for the past 2 1/2 years have been developing an advanced open standards system for Simulation Data Management (SimDM) using the STEP standard ISO 10303-209 ed2 (AP209 ed2). The objective of the SimDM project is to help eliminate most of the current constraints on long term data retention and sharing of CAD and CAE information using this internationally-recognized standard format. This presentation will describe the approach used to design, develop and test this system that will enable cost-effective data sharing, streamlined processes and improved efficiencies between organizations that create, modify and archive complex engineered products.

David Briggs, Associate Technical Fellow - 787 Engineering Information Delivery, The Boeing Company

The Boeing 787 program uses a 3D Model Based Definition design process and has the requirement to distribute this data to a worldwide supply chain and customer base. This talk will describe the system developed to share 3D design data in the 3D PDF and STEP neutral formats to meet the interoperability challenges of the 787 program.

Richard Zuray, Technical Principal - CAD/CAM/CAI and Quality Engineering, The Boeing Company

Regulatory agencies require guaranteed longevity for a variety of digital data objects, (i.e. aircraft type design data, etc.). This type of data must be preserved and be accessible in a usable form during the operational life of the product. Failure to meet this requirement can lead to potential litigation costs associated with being unable to retrieve and use the data. Preservation and accessibility of design and PDM data is very important for design re-use. It is critical that the data is retained and accessed with appropriate security mechanisms in place. It is important to ensure that the retrieved data is in a usable form. This presentation will give an update on LOTAR progress in the various working groups and activities being worked to address this important topic.

Rob Fisher, director of marketing for Madison Electric Products

How Madison Electric Products broke new ground in the electrical industry by leveraging social media to crowdsource product development and position the company as innovative and forward-thinking.

Kevin Fischer, Senior Engineer - Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Rockwell Collins; Phil Rosche, Senior Associate, ICF International; Nathan Hartman, Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head - Computer Graphics Technology, Purdue University;

This presentation will examine issues faced by SMEs when doing business with OEMs and tier 1 and 2 suppliers, and the federal government. It will address areas of downstream interaction; upstream interaction; in-house activities; and government interaction. A survey was conducted with SMEs targeted within the Midwest and southeast U.S. which gathered data regarding their challenges when working with OEMs. The results of the survey will be presented as a means to generate dialogue with OEMs regarding their challenges when working with SMEs, specifically in the areas of collaborations, data interoperability, and model-based enterprise.

Philip Rosche, Senior Associate with ICF International, STEP CAx Implementors Forum

The CAx Implementor Forum is a joint testing effort between PDES, Inc. and ProSTEP iViP. The objective of the forum is to accelerate CAx translator development and ensure that user's requirements are satisfied. The goals of the CAx Implementor Forum are to: Implement functionality for today's needs Identify functionality for tomorrow's needs Avoid roadblocks by establishing agreed upon approaches Increase user confidence by providing system and AP interoperability testing Ensure new functionality does not adversely impact existing implementations The CAx Implementor Forum is significantly improving STEP translator quality and decreasing translator time-to-market.