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08:45 |
Successful integration is absolutely critical for ensuring a profitable PLM strategy: understand the "magic" that leads to successful integration . . . .
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09:00 |
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Understanding Best Approach To System Integration (SI): Defining The Complexity Of Integration Required For Your Company And Avoiding Costly Mistakes Further Down The Line!
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- Developing a clear SI strategy for existing systems that are unique or first-of-class
- Assessing system upgrade needs and identifying which processes are to be supported
- Defining the complexity of integration needed for the company to minimize cost and ensure easy adoption
- Developing a shared data format for integration to enable a bi-directional flow of information
- Allowing for flexible integration that opens the doors for continual change in view of acquisitions and ensures ease of integration moving forward
- Harnessing the tools and methods to maintain the integration and secure the landscape for a heterogeneous environment
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09:40 |
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Specific Systems Integration: Avoiding Integration Challenges With CAD & Enterprise Applications, ERP, SCM, CRM
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Panel Discussion - Examining integration strategies across companies
- Correlating CAD and CAE applications/information, managing those processes and successfully integrating them into a PLM system
- Integrating PLM seamlessly with your enterprise systems, including supplier details, inventory and stocking information
- Building a concrete strategy that understands integration needs from the bottom up, top down
Martin Horwood, PLM Solutions, EMSA - Development Process & Methods , Airbus U.K.
James Jackson , Development Systems Manager, Timex Group USA, Inc.
Konrad Schütte , Program Manager, Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH
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10:40 |
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MORNING REFRESHMENTS & NETWORKING BREAK
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11:10 |
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Overcoming Integration Challenges From The User Standpoint: Effective SI Requires Good Communications, Good Management, And A Supportive Corporate Culture
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- Creating an integration strategy that takes into account tools and processes in global division
- Understanding the user interface, how information is presented and the need to match these requirements
- Creating a team to educate, drive integration and spot problems
- Avoiding integration challenges further down the line with continuous training and approaches to education
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11:45 |
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CLOSE OF THE INTEGRATION WORKSHOP
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12:00 |
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13:00 |
Develop a PLM Strategy that Helps you Create New-to-the-World Products that Outstrip the Competition . . . .
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13:05 |
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Front End Innovation Management – Validating the Quality Of Information, Capturing Intent, Allowing Effective Reuse Of An Asset Throughout The Lifecycle
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Case Schlumberger
- Evaluating the resources for NPD allowed through a collaborative PLM strategy
- Creating maps for new product portfolios: including recognition, idea management, and product innovations
- Accessing and leveraging the many potential breakthrough ideas
- Translating customer needs into products!
Najib Abusalbi, PhD, Chief Architect, Operations & Production; Information Solutions, Schlumberger Technologies
Mohammed Rupawalla , Marketing Analyst, Schlumberger Technologies
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13:45 |
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Any Bright Ideas? - Optimizing Your PLM System And Process to Allow for Ideation Across All Departments
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Case study:
- Capturing new product ideas and intellectual intelligence from across the organization: bringing marketing, R & D, Engineering, Manufacturing and idea generators into the lifecycle
- Establishing a framework that allows ideas to be captured, re-used and stored in historical data
- Optimizing customer feedback into the ideation chain and establishing innovative ideas that match consumer desires
Donald M. DeLauder, Executive Director, Product Innovation and Advanced Development, MEDRAD Inc
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14:25 |
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AFTERNOON COFFEE & NETWORKING
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14:50 |
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Utilizing One of Your Most Valuable Allies – PLM - To Achieve A Higher Class Of Innovation
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Case study:
- Evaluating the resources for NPD allowed through a collaborative PLM strategy
- Creating maps for new product portfolios
- Accessing and leveraging the many potential breakthrough ideas
Karen Marks, Director, Science & Innovation, ConvaTec
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15:30 |
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Innovation Management – Treat Innovation Capital as A Real Strategic Weapon, Don’t Lose Ideas and Don’t Lose The Chance To Beat The Competition
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Utilize The Tools To Build The Innovation Pipeline And Allow For Growth And A World-Class Product Portfolio
- Effectively managing the innovation process within the lifecycle
- Creating the right environment for managing the innovation process
- Filtering opportunities that can be capitalized immediately
Jeff Boehm, VP, Marketing and Strategy, Invention Machine Corporation
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16:10 |
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CLOSE OF THE INNOVATION WORKSHOP
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