Key Industry Group Joins Popular Industry Forum

LOVELAND, Colo., February 13, 2012 –  Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (3DCIC - www.3dcic.com), today announced the 3D PDF Consortium will hold its first annual meeting in conjunction with the 3DCIC on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 23, 2012. The 3DCIC is dedicated to fostering and improving collaboration and interoperability in product design, development and manufacturing. The 3D PDF Consortium also is sponsoring the popular industry forum.

“3DCIC is a natural fit for our annual meeting,” says David Opsahl, the Consortium executive director. “The Congress focuses on end user experiences across any industry, and how users are meeting their objectives by leveraging product data assets in ways that generate real return on investment. This is very appealing to our members. They gain valuable insights on innovative ways their manufacturing colleagues are addressing some of the same challenges they themselves face.”

The 3D PDF Consortium is a community of companies interested in collaboration of dynamic 3D data through PDF files. Software providers, systems integrators, government agencies, and businesses that provide and consume 3D data solutions look to the 3D PDF Consortium to demonstrate the success of these solutions within the market and promote 3D PDF as a solution to improve business results. The 3D PDF Consortium promotes 3D PDF adoption through demonstrating best practices and generating awareness of the power of 3D-enabled PDF to solve a multitude of communication and collaboration challenges across various industries.

For more information on the 3D PDF Consortium, please visit http://www.3DPDFConsortium.org)).

Early registration discounts now available

LOVELAND, Colo., February 6, 2012 –  Longview Advisors (www.longviewadvisors.com), organizers of the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (CIC), today announced that registration is open for the 2012 event to be held May 21 to 23 in Denver, Colorado. Design, engineering, manufacturing and IT professionals are welcome to register at (www.3dcic.com). Interested attendees are encouraged to register soon as time-limited discounts currently apply.

Now in its ninth year, the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (CIC) brings together experts and executives from a wide range of discrete manufacturing industries, as well as representatives from government and defense communities. The conference addresses strategies, opportunities and solutions for improving innovation in such areas as global product development, manufacturing, logistics and support through improvements in collaboration and interoperability. The CIC event has rapidly grown into an essential forum for executives, managers, senior engineers and IT vendors.

Update On Comprehensive Digital Enterprise Initiative

LOVELAND, Colo., January 24, 2012 –  Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (CIC), today announced a special workshop focusing on the Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) as part of the 2012 event, to be held May 21 to 23, 2012 in Denver, Colorado (www.3dcic.com). Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) infrastructure, developed by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), provides a digital thread throughout the entire product lifecycle. The workshop will cover topics of particular interest to engineering and IT managers who may be planning or implementing processes to drive a digital MBE/MBD (Model Based Definition) vision for more effective global collaboration in product development and manufacturing, especially when they deliver technical data to government agencies.

The MBE Workshop will comprise the following topics:

• Downstream Supplier Challenges Within MBE – Results and status of current pilot programs aimed at substantially reducing the time and resources expended to exchange engineering and product data, while greatly improving the quality of all types of data needed by each user community throughout the Total Product Life Cycle, “Cradle to Cradle.” Presenter: Ric Norton, DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) and DEDMWG (DOD Drawing and Modeling Working Group).
• PDM/PLM Validation Handbook – A DOD and NIST sponsored guidebook for effective validation of accuracy and equivalency of exchanged digital data. Presenter: Roy Whittenburg, Project Manager, UTRS, supporting the Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC).
• Supplier & CAD Vendor Support of MBE Methods – Strategies for small to large suppliers to understand and integrate into MBE, and the latest on CAD software vendor support for MBE standards. Presenter: Rich Eckenrode, president of Recon Services, bringing more than 35 years of experience in manufacturing engineering and operations organizations, and heavily involved with MBE-related initiatives, including several Design For Manufacturability projects.
• MBE Implementation Roundtable – an interactive dialog between attendees and speakers/experts on the MBE initiative, best practices and implementation.

Industry Speakers Bring More Than 70 Years of Experience to CIC’s Main Podium

LOVELAND, Colo., December 12, 2011 –  Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (CIC), announced today its keynote speakers for its 2012 event (www.3DCIC.com) to be held May 21-23 in Denver, Colorado.

Now in its ninth year, CIC is the only vendor-neutral event in the world addressing collaboration and interoperability in manufacturing and business communications. The three-day international event gives attendees a unique opportunity to network, learn and strategize with thought leaders from automotive, aerospace, heavy equipment, electronics industries, as well as with representatives from government and defense communities.

Event welcomes presentations from engineering and manufacturing community

LOVELAND, Colo., October 31, 2011 –  Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (CIC), today opened its call for speakers for the 2012 event (www.3dcic.com) to be held May 21 to 23 in Denver, Colorado.

Conference organizers are looking for presentations from product designers, engineers, IT professionals or supply chain/downstream experts which focus on strategies, trade-offs and/or implementation case stories of real-world solutions in the following areas:

• Building collaborative PLM into the global supply chain, including such topics as change order management, intellectual property security and management
• Digital product data deployment beyond engineering
• Integration of the supply chain into PLM processes
• Leveraging social media within corporate and with suppliers
• Design-analysis/simulation or design-manufacturing interoperability
• PLM migration and legacy data management
• Collaboration & interoperability technology and implementation

LOVELAND, Colo., October 3, 2012 – Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (CIC), is proud to announce the 2012 event, which will be held May 21-23 in Denver, Colo. CIC is dedicated to fostering and improving collaboration and interoperability in product design, development and manufacturing. Visit the website, (www.3DCIC.com), to register or learn more about the event. Now in its ninth year, CIC is the only vendor-neutral event in the world addressing collaboration and interoperability in manufacturing and business communications. The three-day international event gives attendees a unique opportunity to network, learn and strategize with thought leaders from automotive, aerospace, heavy equipment, electronics industries, as well as with representatives from government and defense communities.