{"id":112,"date":"2016-10-20T10:51:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T14:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/PLM-Components-Blog\/PLM-Components-Innovation-Conference-2016-Content-Available\/ba-p\/371430"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:02:35","slug":"plm-components-innovation-conference-2016-content-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/plm-components-innovation-conference-2016-content-available\/","title":{"rendered":"PLM Components Innovation Conference 2016 \u2013 Content Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>We just returned from hosting our first conference for customers, partners and industry analysts seeking to exchange ideas, best practices and experiences with Parasolid, D-Cubed, Kineo and the JT Toolkit. Our speakers also shared their vision on a wide range of industry topics like additive manufacturing, cloud, mobile, CAE, interoperability and BIM. Final proceedings and public versions of the conference presentations are now available on our <a title=\"Final agenda and presentations\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/PLM-Components-Conference\/Final-agenda-and-presentations\/gpm-p\/371424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conference board<\/A>.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Here is just a small sample of the 23 topics covered at the event:<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Keynote <\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Jim Rusk, CTO, Siemens PLM Software, delivered the keynote presentation, highlighting how transformational technologies like the cloud and advanced robotics are driving innovation across our components.&nbsp; Jim also spoke of the mutual success we enjoy from sharing component technologies with other software vendors, through fostering a spirit of openness.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/plm-components-conference-jim-rusk-1.jpg\" alt=\"plm-components-conference-jim-rusk.jpg\" title=\"plm-components-conference-jim-rusk.jpg\" \/><span class=\"lia-inline-image-caption\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault();\">Jim Rusk: \u201cRealize Innovation with PLM Components\u201d<\/span><\/span>\ufeff<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>AEC Innovation in the cloud<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>A very neat example of AEC innovation in the cloud was presented by Andrew Zukoski, Vice President at Flux Factory, who shared his company\u2019s solution to the problem of data interoperability in AEC, eliminating barriers to productivity for teams of architects and engineers.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/plm-components-conference-andrew-zukoski-1.jpg\" alt=\"plm-components-conference-andrew-zukoski.jpg\" title=\"plm-components-conference-andrew-zukoski.jpg\" \/><span class=\"lia-inline-image-caption\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault();\">Andrew Zukoski: \u201cAEC Innovation in the Cloud\u201d<\/span><\/span>\ufeff<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Modeling Insights and Trends<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>George Allen, Chief Technologist at Siemens PLM Software reviewed convergent modeling \u2013 an emerging technology that will dramatically shorten workflows that include combinations of facet and solid b-rep models. George went on to discuss some of the new challenges we face in modeling lattice structures to support increasing demand for such geometry in additive manufacturing.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/plm-components-conference-george-allen-1.jpg\" alt=\"plm-components-conference-george-allen.jpg\" title=\"plm-components-conference-george-allen.jpg\" \/><span class=\"lia-inline-image-caption\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault();\">George Allen: \u201cModeling Insights and Trends\u201d<\/span><\/span>\ufeff<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>3D Printing Moves into Manufacturing<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Jon Stevenson, Sr. Vice President of Global Software at Stratasys, talked about the huge strides being made in industrial 3D printing.&nbsp; Jon described how advances in additive manufacturing methods, hardware and materials were now enabling larger and more complex parts to be manufactured efficiently with less material and more strength.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/plm-components-conference-jon-stevenson-1.jpg\" alt=\"plm-components-conference-jon-stevenson.jpg\" title=\"plm-components-conference-jon-stevenson.jpg\" \/><span class=\"lia-inline-image-caption\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault();\">Jon Stevenson: \u201c3D Printing Moves into Manufacturing\u201d<\/span><\/span>\ufeff<\/P><br \/>\n<P>To learn more about these talks and all the other great sessions at the conference, check out our <a title=\"Community Conference Board\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/PLM-Components-Conference\/gp-p\/PLMComponents-group-2016Conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conference site<\/A> to download pdf copies of the presentations.Additional commentary from Oleg Shilovitsky can be found on the <a title=\"BeyondPLM Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/beyondplm.com\/2016\/10\/12\/siemens-plm-components-event-agile-cloud-multi-vendor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">BeyondPLM<\/A> blog.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Thanks to all our speakers and delegates for making this such an informative and memorable event.&nbsp; I\u2019m looking forward to the next one!<\/P><br \/>\n<P>If you\u2019re interested in related content, please use the option menu at the top of this post to subscribe to our&nbsp;feed.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Jon<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just returned from hosting our first conference for customers, partners and industry analysts seeking to exchange ideas, best practices and experiences with Parasolid, D-Cubed, Kineo and the JT To&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49853,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,2,7,4],"industry":[],"product":[196],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-d-cubed","tag-kineo","tag-parasolid","tag-plm-components","product-jt-open"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/plm-components-conference-jon-stevenson-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}