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RAND Worldwide Schedules “Enhancing Your CATIA V5 Productivity” Event
Web seminar instills knowledge to improve organizational CATIA V5 efficiency

Recently RAND Worldwide announced that its Professional Services group has scheduled Enhancing your CATIA V5 Productivity, a Web seminar highlighting the steps required by every organization to achieve better CATIA V5 efficiency and productivity.

Enhancing your CATIA V5 Productivity is a one-hour session designed to address the pressures manufacturing organizations face today including greater operational efficiencies and faster time to market for complex and innovative products. Scheduled for Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. EST, the session will identify areas for CATIA V5 proficiency improvement to assist organizations in realizing these returns through its focus on:

  • The PLM scorecard every organization needs when evaluating its CATIA V5 effectiveness
  • The three key aspects to any successful PLM implementation
  • The SMART goals proven to deliver 25% to 300% improvement in efficiency
  • How to ultimately bring innovative products to market faster

The Web seminar is formatted specifically for CATIA V5 management and end users and is followed by a live question and answer discussion where Don Francis, RAND’s expert speaker, is available to a call-in audience. Mr. Francis is a senior project manager at RAND Worldwide and brings more than 16 years of industry experience to the event, ten of which are in the management and execution of large-scale PLM implementations in a variety of industries including aerospace, automotive, medical equipment and consumer products.

“RAND deploys of the largest PLM client implementations around the world,” comments Joe Oswald, Executive Vice President, PLM Operations, North America and Europe, RAND Worldwide. “Attendees of this event will benefit from our broad experience and expertise in helping organizations maximize CATIA V5’s full potential throughout the manufacturing and product development process in order to get a solid return on investment.”

To learn more about Enhancing your CATIA V5 Productivity or to register, please visit www.rand.com/enhance


MBD for the Masses - An Executive Roundtable Lunch Series

Leading product manufacturing companies are driving efficiency and innovation by adopting a Model-Based Definition (MBD) strategy. MBD allows product manufacturing companies to centralize all necessary product information in one 3D database, eliminating the tedious and time-consuming task of generating 2D drawings that can often leave ambiguities. Moreover a 3D model-based definition can be leveraged, not only across engineering domains, but on the manufacturing floor and in corporate marketing, sales and services organizations.

Register now to attend this VIP roundtable lunch with Dr. Versprille of CPDA, your professional peers and Right Hemisphere at special locations in your area.

This is a rare opportunity to share in a discussion about results from exclusive research that Dr. Versprille has conducted that details how Fortune 100 best practitioners are leveraging their investment in Model Based Definition (MBD) to drive efficiency and innovation across the entire value chain and driving bottom line results for their business.

You will learn first-hand how leading MBD practitioners:

INTEGRATE data from multiple sources including Contract, Pricing, BOM, CAD, PMI and other data types into core engineering and downstream business processes.

AUTOMATE the creation and on-demand publishing of use-specific documents, files and business application embedded content that fuse multiple textural data like pricing and contract information with accurate and up-to-date 2D or lightweight 3D graphics.

COLLABORATE via secure and controlled distribution of product information to external stakeholders or integrate directly into strategic enterprise business systems (PDM, CRM, SCM, etc.).

ROUNDTABLE AGENDA:

11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.: Arrival & VIP Luncheon
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Introduction and Overview
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: MBD for the Masses Presentation and Discussion led by Dr. Versprille
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Technical Strategy Case Study led by Right Hemisphere

Seating is limited - Register for the below roundtables today:

Hartford, Connecticut
Tuesday, March 4

St. Louis, Missouri
Wednesday, March 5

Seattle, Washington
Thursday, March 6

Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas
Tuesday, March 11

Wichita, Kansas
Wednesday, March 12

Manhattan Beach, California
Thursday, March 13


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