The three day event featured 30 presentations, including the following keynote speakers: Chad Jackson, Research Director for the Aberdeen Group, Robert B. Cohen from the Cohen Communications Group, Buddy Raines, CTO of IBM's PLM Group and Distinguished Engineer, Frederique Muyl from PSA Peugeot Citroen and Tim Ambridge, Director of Product Lifecycle Management Business Processes for Bombardier Aerospace.
The event kicked off with a full day of training workshops on topics that included advanced optimization and stochastic methods, CAE integration strategies and a course outlining the advantages of leveraging a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the product development process. Event attendees were also able to participate in more than 20 live product demonstrations conducted by Engineous partners and event exhibitors including IBM, MSC Software, Pointwise, Nutech Solutions, Advanced Design Technology, Optimal Solutions, AVL, PRICE Systems, VCollab, Galorath, Simmetrix, TTI, CD-adapco and DEP.
"Our theme for this year's event was Innovation by Design," said Janet C. Wylie, President and CEO of Engineous. "Our goal was to show how we can improve the culture of innovation in our customer organizations by putting leading edge tools in the hands of more users. This is a fundamental goal of our product vision and our partner strategy as well."
"The Symposium and workshops represented a perfect opportunity to showcase how tightly integrated our product and services strategy is with those of our partners," said J.P. Evans, Vice President of Marketing and Product Development for Engineous. "In addition to sharing application examples and best practices, our customers were able to see first hand the advantages of technology integration and component based frameworks. Engineous was also able to outline a strategy for extending our core competencies from engineering processes to business processes through SOA integration frameworks."
The event closed with a customer validation session where key leaders from several industries were able to provide input on Engineous' product plan for the next two major releases. Companies represented included GE, AAI, Caterpillar, GM, PSA, Goodrich, Honeywell, Rolls Royce, UTRC and AugustaWestland Helicopters.
About Engineous Software
Engineous Software, Inc. provides process integration and design optimization software solutions and services. The company's iSIGHT software integrates key steps in the product design process, then automates and executes those steps through design exploration tools like optimization, DOE, and DFSS techniques. The FIPER infrastructure links these processes together in a unified environment. Through FIPER, models, applications and "best" processes are easily shared, accessed, and executed with other engineers, groups, and partners. Engineous operates numerous sales offices in the U.S., as well as wholly owned subsidiaries in Asia and Europe. Customers include leading Global 500 companies such as Canon, General Electric, General Motors, Pratt & Whitney, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Toshiba, MHI, Ford Motor Company, DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Renault, Hitachi, Peugeot, MTU Aero Engines, TRW, BMW, Rolls Royce, and York International. Additional information may be found at www.engineous.com.
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