Purpose
The goal of this program is to align the voice of the customer with the roadmap and development timeline for PTC software. In this way, we can receive early and frequent feedback from you, PTC's key stakeholders.
What It Involves
To participate, members must have the willingness to:
- Provide use cases
- Participate in prioritization surveys
- Participate in interviews
- Participate in remote usability surveys
- Provide written business justification
In addition, you will be required to participate in collaboration events like webcasts and team reviews of content for the project, including live demos and documents. Discussions with each Group are private, please keep information confidential and do not distribute outside the Group.
Contact Us
If you are interested in participating, please create a PTC Community profile, then email the Working Group Leader with the following information:
- Working Group Name
- Your Name
- Your Job Title
- Your Company Name
- Best Contact Phone Number
- Experience with PTC's Products / Services
- Email address (must be a company address, not a Gmail or other private address)
Available Working Groups
The team will work with the PTC PM to continue improvements to the solid weld capability.
Participates should be existing Creo Parametric 3.0 users that are interested in created solid welds in their models.
Sheet Metal experience would be a plus. In addition, members must have installed and run Creo 4.0, and have used the solid weld functionality.
Deliverables: Use cases as well as white papers that can be leveraged to improve the capability in the software. Some material was already generated by the TCs. The Working Group will produce a whitepaper and use cases, verifying that all use cases have been addressed and detailing any gaps that still exist.
Working Group Duration: 12 months
Working Group Max Size: 20
Group Leader: Moe Mastrapasqua, Raytheon
Virtual Interconnect, a PTC Partner, will develop a Multi-User Experience for Creo Schematics. This approach was agreed to by PTC, Vertual Interconnect, and the Routed Systems Technical Committe at the June 2016 Technical Committee meetings.
Participants should be existing Creo Schematics 2.0 / 3.0 users that are interested in creating a Multi-User experience that they would plan to deploy within their company.
Deliverables: Whitepaper proposing Multi-User versiion of Creo Schematics that will work seamlessly with standard Creo Schematics and Creo Schematics Lite. The whitepaper will detail use cases and other similar items.
Working Group Duration: 12 Months
Working Group Max Size: 20
Group Leader: Aron Oler, Raytheon
Focus Group for Web Services on PDMLink
This team will provide input to improve RESTful servcies offered on Windchill. Participants should have a point-of-view on services needed in Windchill to:
- Expose Windchill data to external systems
- Create data in Windchill based on data from external systems
- Enable enterprise integration scenarios
Group Leader: Hemant Shadra, PTC
Focus Group for Creo Surfacing
This Group will work with the PTC PM to define requirements for key surfacing projects to be introduced in Creo 5.0.
Participants should be existing Creo Parametric 3.0 users that are knowledgeable in Surfacing: Style, Freestyle, and traditional surfacing. In addition, members must have installed and run Creo 4.0.
Deliverables: Use cases as well as white papers that can be leveraged to improve the capability in the software focused on key areas. Some material was already generated by the TCs. The Group will produce a whitepaper and use cases, verifying that all the use cases have been addressed and detailing any gaps that still exist.
Working Group Duration: 12 months
Working Group Max Size: 20
Group Leader: Mark Fischer, PTC
Windchill Reporting Working Group
PTC is planning updates to Windchill reporting. This group will help to provide inputs into that process in the form of:
- Use of existing out-of-the-box reports
- Use of Windchill Business Reporting (Cognos)
- Inputs on preferred company BI tools
- Current and planned custom reports
Participants should be existing Windchill users with experience of using and/or building reports in Windchill
Working Group Duration: 12 months
Working Group Max Size: 20
Group Leaders: Jeff Zemskyand Graham BirchPTC
This Group will work with the PTC PM to define requirements for ModelCHEK projects to be introduced in Creo 5.0 and beyond. Participants should be existing Creo Parametric 3.0 users that are knowledgeable in ModelCheck. In addition, members must have installed and run Creo 4.0.
Deliveralbes: Use cases as well as white papers that can be leveraged to imporve the capability in the software focused on key areas. Some material was already generated by the Technical Committees. This Working Group will produce a whitepaper and use cases, verifying that all use cases have been addressed and detail any gaps that still exist.
Working Group Duration: 12 Months
Working Group Size: 20
Group Leader: Russell Hsu