2006 VPD Conference - Management Track

ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ENTERPRISE SIMULATION

Featuring industry analysts, these sessions include presentations by executives from industry-leading organizations followed by a panel that allows for interactive discussion. Featured industry analysts include:

Marc Halpern, P.E., Ph.D. Research Director - Gartner Dr. Halpern has been with Gartner for 6 years where he is now Gartner's lead analyst covering product life cycle management strategies and software. Prior to joining Gartner, Dr. Halpern was the director of research at D. H. Brown's Engineering, Manufacturing, and Design research and advisory services. He has 14 additional years of experience dedicated to engineering practice, consulting, and engineering analysis software development at Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Weidlinger Associates, and Ansys, Inc. Dr. Halpern received his undergraduate engineering degree from Brown University and completed his Masters and Doctorate in Civil Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. He is also a registered professional engineer in the State of New York.

John MacKrell Senior Consultant - CIMdata John MacKrell, a senior consultant at CIMdata, has more than 30 years of experience in the application of computer-based solutions to engineering and manufacturing. He has held senior positions in product management, marketing, research and development, and consulting with companies that produce CAD/CAM/CIM, solid modeling, computer-aided systems engineering (CASE), and machine vision systems and services. Mr. MacKrell's experience includes marketing management, product management, market analysis, basic research in solid modeling techniques, and the development of algorithms for CAD/CAM and solid modeling; and development of mechanical assembly data management systems. His consulting activities include technical and market education, strategic planning for CAD/CAM vendors, technical and competitive product analyses, CAD and PDM system requirements specification and selection, and development of end-user plans for the acquisition and implementation of CAD and PDM technologies. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, trade shows, and seminars throughout the world. Mr. MacKrell is either author or co-author of a number of books, reports, and articles about PLM, PDM, collaborative product development, visualization, CAD/CAM, and solid modeling. Mr. MacKrell received a Bachelor of Science degree in Naval Architecture from the University of Michigan, and has studied computer science in the graduate program at the University of Maryland.

Gather insight into the economic impact of enterprise simulation on your organization. Learn how you can improve time and right to market-while satisfying the quality and performance demands of your customers. Find out how leading companies, such as The Boeing Company, Butler International, National Instruments, and Science and Technology Applications, are shortening design and production cycles, leveraging best practice knowledge, and managing design data more efficiently to improve bottom-line performance. Sessions include:

Economic Value of Enterprise-wide Simulation
Hear how companies successfully implement enterprise-wide simulation strategies to improve time-to-market and productivity, increase design iterations, and elevate product quality.

Extended Enterprise Collaboration
Discuss approaches to integrating and exchanging data with your supply chain partners, managing offshore outsourcing, and standardizing technology.

IT and CAE Integration
Explore how you can architect a product development environment that meets the requirements of engineers and the IT organization by successfully integrating your product data management (PDM) with simulation data.

Emerging Technology Deployment
Learn how emerging technologies, such as grid computing, simulation process and data management, High Performance Computing, and onDemand computing can improve your competitive advantage.

Process Standardization to Maximize Enterprise Business Value
Find out how you can define, implement, and maintain a standard product development process with best practice simulation process and data management platform across the organization.

Evolving from Physical to Virtual Prototyping
Learn how to strike the right balance between virtual and physical prototyping to take advantage of the cost benefits offered by virtual simulation.