Why we are here
How to get the other side of the mountain to participate?
Possibly use webx or broadcast to them the
meetings or vice versa
Many of the users on the other side would
spend funds to go to the national instead of the regional
Funding
Feel that sponsorship will come from EDS and the
vendors within our region
No reason to collect fees from users to attending
the meeting
How often will we meet?
Quarterly plus the picnic
Will Friday’s work best for all in the room?
Yes
Format of the meetings
Interest from both sides of the users to see how
the product works
Functionality
Sponsorship from vendors
User demonstrations
Our meeting schedule will be as follows:
March--- Bo Powell to demonstrate some of the Basic
Ug functionality and another to demonstrate the Ideas functionality on
the same part.
June---Ideas demo meeting
July--picnic
September---
December---
Mike’s Presentation
Nx2 digital decision making
Nx will be the convergence
of the strengths of the following software: Ideas, Imageware and Unigraphics
Preserve customer investments
in process and data
3rd quarter 2004 will be
the nx3 merged release
ideas 11 will be the last
separate release of ideas and nx2 will be the last separate UG release
There are four areas that PLM is working at
1. next generation knowledge enabled architecture---strategic
technology advantage
2. UG user interaction model---workflow productivity
3. open by design---interoperability
4. production proven application--- scalable solutions
went into the knowledge fusion
went into the nx3 and some of the functionality
being converged between the software’s
Action items from meeting:
Get listing from Jeff Grieve at CADpo of past users
and also Migel for any new users in our region
Find out from PLM how we can get a mass e-mail to
the users
e-mail all the users and encourage them to become
citizens