Monday, June 7, 2010

Starting things off


The keynote address featured a full line up of PTC management. Dick Harrison, Jim Heppleman & Brian Shepard. There was some interesting corporate information as well as new and scheduled product launches.

Corporate strategy falls into four main focus items.

  • Solving important customer problems
  • Technology leadership
  • Being a stable predictable business
  • Efficient operations

Jim spoke to this in his new position as acting CEO. Dick is moving to the position of chairman of the board. Brian talked about some interesting pending product launches including:

  • Windchill PPMLink for program portfolio management
  • MathCAD Prime 1.0, a large overhaul of the traditional interface to a new paradigm of usability.

Some of the tings we can look forward to in the future are automated interference detection in Winchill 10.0. Notice that was not in Pro/E, but inside Windchill using ProductView data. In addition "Project Lightning" was mentioned. This is described as the CAD roadmap of the next 20 years. The goal is to put to bed some longstanding issues in all CAD platforms dealing with usability, interoperability and large assembly management. Look for a webcast explaining more on October 28th.

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