PLM Road Map & PDT NA 2023
The Marriott Tysons Corner (metro Washington D.C.)
May 3 & 4
The Digital Thread in a Heterogeneous, Extended Enterprise Reality -
A call for PLM Professionals to share their knowledge and experience
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(good through March 31)
Day one highlights
We are getting excited about the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT NA 2023 event being held in the Washington DC area on May 3 & 4. Over the next couple of weeks, we will share more about how each day is shaping up for the PLM Professionals planning to attend.
Digital Thread: Why Should We Care?
CIMdata's President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will position the Digital Thread in the wider context of CIMdata's Critical Dozen, which defines 12 critical trends and enablers of successful digital transformation. The presentation will consider where we are today and whether digital threads or perhaps better stated, digital webs, have reached their tipping point.
People, Process, and Technology: The Pillars of Digital Transformation Success
Textron Systems' Christine McMonagle will present the Digital Transformation change management plan developed and executed within Textron. The focus will be on the practical steps, critical success factors, and lessons learned.
The Promise and Reality of the Digital Thread – Insights from Industry Research
James Roche, CIMdata's A&D Practice Director, will share findings from a recently completed industry research project on the Digital Thread. For this effort, CIMdata and the AD PLM Action Group partnered with five PLM solution providers - Aras, Eurostep, Jama Software, PTC, and Siemens Digital Industries Software. The shared objective was to align perspectives on the topic and have a meaningful impact on solution strategies and implementation roadmaps.
An A&D Roadmap for Enabling Global Collaboration
In this presentation, Pratt & Whitney's Robert Gutwein & Boeing's Ansel Koehler will share a new “Desired State” for OEM-supplier collaboration through the application of and adherence to a set of guidelines defined by an A&D PLM Action Group (AD PAG) project team. Improving the consistency and efficiency of establishing and managing OEM-supplier collaboration can significantly improve cost, schedule, and quality across all phases of the product lifecycle. The presentation will provide a description and brief demonstration of the CMS application that has been developed. It will conclude with the results of actual OEM-supplier evaluation trials.
Aligning Naval Product Support with the Navy’s Warfighting Operational Strategies PART II: “The Digital Thread” Integrated Decision Environment 
In this presentation, Robert Lamanna, ePLM IDE Project Manager, Office of Product Support, Naval Surface Warfare Center, U.S. Navy will share his perspectives on the “NOW WHAT?!” of the PLM “Digital Twin” from an operational readiness, sustainment, and total ownership cost perspective. The IDE serves as the “Digital Thread” with continuous near-real-time aggregation of multivariate data, traceability built across information connections, effectivity across configurations, and virtual digital models to provide real-time, real-world insights and answers to a wide range of readiness, availability, maintainability, and cost issues. The IDE allows for building defensible models and simulating “WHAT IF?” solutions to provide return-on-investment analysis, cost/performance trades, and supportability optimization resolutions while simultaneously updating the PLM “Digital Twin.”
Why a Digital Thread makes a lot of sense, why it goes beyond manufacturing, and why it should be standards-based
Digital Thread is more than manufacturing. CIMdata's recent A&D PAG survey highlights significant business benefits with the Digital Thread related to configuration management of products as they are used and maintained. A Digital Thread, with a heavy emphasis on a part of the product's life cycle, can easily result in sub-optimization. What if there is a way to start neutral with a predefined model to be implemented piecemeal? In this presentation, Eurostep's Dr. Mattias Johansson will share a standards-based digital thread approach.
How to Convince the Business to Implement the Digital Thread
Darren Nice, Director of Digital Asset Management at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence will show how to successfully unlock the funding and buy-in from businesses now realizing the benefits of the Digital Thread. The key building blocks for a successful and collaborative implementation will be highlighted by bringing it all to life, using current examples of the customer benefits and value being delivered in the UK and Internationally using Digital Twins.
Engineering Bill of Materials with Live Parts List at GE Aerospace
During the process of engineering design for jet engines, there are instances where multiple teams have to work on different sections of a large assembly. These teams should be aware of what the other teams are working on. This would be a live parts list/Engineering Bill of Materials (EBOM). At GE Aerospace, the PLM team was on a multi-year effort to consolidate PLM systems, providing an excellent opportunity to change processes, tools, and methodology to realize this long-term goal and bring about significant benefits. Kedar Kayal, Senior Director, GE Aerospace & Shyam Rangaswamy, Senior Manager, GE Aerospace will present the plan focusing on the practical steps, critical success factors, benefits, and lessons learned along the way.
Debate: Tug of War – How OEMs and First-Tier Suppliers enable the Digital Thread in spite of themselves 
Craig Brown
Former PLM Chief at General Motors
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Mark Pendergast
Former PLM chief at Delphi
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In this exciting interchange between Craig Brown (former PLM Chief at General Motors) and Mark Pendergast (former PLM chief at Delphi) we will hear from prominent thought leaders representing the two ends of the OEM-supplier digital thread. Craig Brown representing the OEM perspective and Mark Pendergast representing the Tier 1 perspective, will answer questions and dialogue on the evolution of the digital thread across the Supply Chain.