Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) EVENT SPOTLIGHT

Live Webinar: The Reality of Modern PLM: What to Consider for Your Business Today 
THURSDAY APRIL 26, 2018 │ 11AM PDT / 2PM EDT

With the new breed of cloud PLM vendors and older PLM companies touting new cloud offerings, which PLM solution is best for your company?

With over 30 years of experience in new product development, CAD and PLM, Steve Porter, CEO and co-founder of Zero Wait-State, has seen it all. If you’re reassessing your CAD, PLM and product development strategy, then this is the webinar for you. Mr. Porter will be joined by Miguel Tam, VP of Marketing at Propel.

Learn the following:

• • The current state of CAD and new solutions in the market
• • The pro’s and con’s of on-premise vs. cloud PLM
• • The key features and use cases of a modern PLM system

Tutorials, Strategies, & Thoughts on PLM

Training for Windchill 11.1 at LiveWorx 2018
What Jean Pierre is really excited about though, is the role Windchill 11.1 will play in developing smart, connected products. In the convergence of physical and digital, product lifecycle management (PLM) is key to establishing a digital product definition and developing the digital twin of a physical product. “In Windchill 11.1, we improved the ability to capture the complete definition of a product family within PLM,” explains Jean Pierre. “In addition, we have also worked on simplifying access to the digital definition [with ThingWorx Navigate and Augmented Reality]…”

PLM Recognition & Events

In-person Event: IndustryWeek Manufacturing & Technology Conference and Expo

May 8-10, 2018 │ Raleigh Convention Center │ Raleigh, NC USA

The 3-day event focuses on the key elements of advanced manufacturing: lean and continuous improvement, leadership, technology integration, talent management and best practices to achieve operational excellence.The M&T expo allows attendees to experience some of today’s most disruptive technologies and industrial products/solutions innovations first-hand.

Webinar On-Demand: AGILE PLM SECURITY BEST PRACTICES

Presenter Bob McDuffee, Certified Ethical Hacker and System Engineer for Zero Wait-State, has more than 30 years of industry experience. By watching this webinar, you will learn security basics as they apply to Agile PLM, see Admin techniques to improve the security of your Agile PLM, and gain an understanding of security patches for Agile PLM and WebLogic.

Training On-Demand:  Keeping Oracle Agile PLM Relevant While Carving a Path to the Cloud

Building on our last webinar hosted by Dries D’hooghe, this 60-minute training class will teach you how to keep Oracle Agile PLM relevant in a cloud ecosphere. By attending, you will gain a deeper understanding of how to extend the life of your Agile PLM investment by making it work for your specific company needs, all the while planning your path to the cloud.

Webinar On-Demand:  PLM Built for YOU: UNLOCK the True Value of Agile PLM

This 60-minute webinar will demonstrate how automation and customization frameworks from Zero Wait-State unlock the true value of Oracle's Agile PLM system. Did you know you can tailor Agile PLM to meet your specific business needs without needing hard-coded, one-off Process Extensions? Attend this webinar to gain an understanding of what "customizations done the right way" are, and, find out how to extend the life of your Agile PLM investment by making it work for YOU.

Webinar On-Demand: Planting Seeds: Teleflex Agile PLM Plant Specific BOM Customization via Automation

Featuring Teleflex, a medical device manufacturer, and hosted by Zero Wait-State, this webinar will demonstrate how Teleflex was able to fully enable plant-specific bills of materials (BOMs) by leveraging Zero Wait-State’s PLM Automation Software Suite in 10 weeks. This automation supported Teleflex's cost savings objectives of nearly a million dollars a month.

Webinar On-Demand: Smashing Through the Wall: the Barriers Between Design and PLM

Featuring Cisco and hosted by us and Perception Software, this 45-minute webinar will highlight the "wall" between Design and PLM, the impact of this wall, and solutions to smash through it. Anthony Burton, Tech Lead at Cisco Systems, will share his challenges with this wall and how he built a bridge to connect Design and PLM.

Webinar On-Demand: Revolutionize Your PLM Reports By Taking Control of the Design

Hosted by Zero Wait-State, this 60-minute webinar will demonstrate how simple and cost-effective it can be to unlock and share the power of your Oracle® Agile PLM data in a format that meets your specific company's document requirements using DocState, one of the software products in ZWS' PLM Automation Suite. DocState can also extract relevant Agile PLM data, use a report template to transform it into a format such as CSV or XML, push it into another business system and later perform the reverse
actions to pull data updates back into Agile PLM. 

Webinar On-Demand: Expedite the Compliance Data Validation and Collection Process

Hosted by Zero Wait-State and lead by our PLM compliance expert, Dries D’hooghe, this 60-minute webinar will cover validating and loading compliance and environmental information into Oracle Agile’s PLM to ensure your products are compliant with RoHS, REACH, Conflict Minerals. LoadState, one of the software products in ZWS' PLM Automation Suite, dramatically improves compliance data loading productivity and accuracy by allowing business users to manage updates to the collection and validation criteria themselves without having to wait weeks or months for IT to initiate a project to make the necessary changes. Thus, LoadState not only protects your PLM investment but also your accountability over time. 

Webinar On-Demand: Seamlessly Connect CAD  Systems with Enterprise PLM and Maximize NPD Data Value

Hosted by Zero Wait-State, this 60-minute webinar will demonstrate how you can easily implement a flexible and cost-effective integration framework that connects CAD Data Management systems with enterprise PLM systems using DesignState, one of the software products in ZWS' PLM Automation Suite. DesignState works with Oracle’s Agile PLM, PTC Windchill’s PDMLink, and Dassault’s SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional. The powerful XML-based rules engine increases customization opportunities and sophistication. Seamless bidirectional integration between PDM and PLM improves everyone’s productivity. 

Webinar On-Demand: Personalize the PLM Experience Through Secure, Modern Interfaces and UIs

Hosted by Zero Wait-State, this 60-minute webinar will demonstrate how you can easily and efficiently develop integrations and create user interfaces that are customized for key purposes using RestState, one of the software products in our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Automation Suite. As a result, RestState helps increase NPD productivity and extend and protect your Agile PLM investment. And, you will have simple, technology-agnostic access to your Agile PLM data.

Webinar On-Demand: Increase NPD Productivity by Automating & Customizing Your PLM Processes

Hosted by Zero Wait-State, this 60-minute webinar will demonstrate how you can customize your Oracle Agile PLM system to automate Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes using AttributeState, one of the software products in ZWS's PLM Automation Suite. Based on configurable templates with embedded business logic and plug-and-play macros, AttributeState allows you to tailor your Agile PLM system to your unique business needs, without developing hard-coded Java based extensions.