ArcherGrey Speaker Lineup at LiveWorx 2023

ArcherGrey Speaker Session Schedule:

The team at ArcherGrey is excited to be a premier sponsor and exhibitor at the upcoming LiveWorx conference. The event will feature several sessions led by expert leaders from ArcherGrey. Learn about the sessions and speakers below. If you’re attending, visit us at booth #804 to meet the team and learn about our latest projects.

ThingWorx as a Digital PLM Extension to Windchill

2:00 PM EDT – Monday, May 15
with Anthony Stroessenreuther

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is leveraging ThingWorx’s high customizability to build an efficient data aggregation interface embedded in Windchill to create, store, track & validate Engineering Authorization (EA) data, making it a key part of their Digital Thread. This object-oriented approach relies on the PLM data as the source and harmonizes cross-functional activities that contribute to managing the complexity of the EA. In this session, we will share practical tips and leading practices for implementing ThingWorx Flow and Connector in product development workflows.

Key Take Away 1: Gain insight into the communication structure of ThingWorx Connectors to achieve business objectives.
Key Take Away 2: Leverage Windchill by extending it’s functionality in using ThingWorx to better meet business users’ needs.
Key Take Away 3: Understand leading software development methodologies used with ThingWorx

Ties that Bind: Preparing Your Organization for Digital Thread

2:50 PM EDT – Tuesday, May 16,
discussion facilitated by Patrick Sullivan

Digital Transformation needs to be a custom strategy that will guide you through tightening your digital thread. Join a panel of experts to learn about some of the largest gaps that exist and proven examples of how to overcome them. You will learn the importance of creating a seamless digital thread that relies on harmonization across the organization. You will also hear about overcoming system silos and how to get through common challenges. The presentation will address misalignment and how to get around one of the most overlooked, but solvable, challenges facing the digital thread via roles and responsibilities. This session will also touch on culture and how to ensure you address inevitable resistance that may arise when embarking on a digital thread strategy.

Key Take Away 1: Learn examples of how to build bridges to overcome the gaps identified above by connecting people, processes, and technology.
Key Take Away 2: Explore common challenges and best practices for how to overcome them from this experience and wisdom of others.

Take Your Blinders Off

4:00 PM EDT – Tuesday, May 16,
with Mark Kristobak

How do good designs turn into great designs? Certainly, ingenuity plays a role, but maybe even more so by making good decisions as the design matures. Reuse is proclaimed to help control costs and time to market, both key components of great designs, but only if you choose what parts and subsystems to reuse wisely. And that requires performing due diligence on those choices. Consider the value of knowing costing, inventory, lead time, non-conformance, and MRP planning data before choosing. What if you could have that data for your selected list of comparable parts at your fingertips at any moment? How much better would your design decisions be? In this 15 min session, we’ll give some insight into a digital thread solution to this challenge using ThingWorx.

Key Take Away 1: Learn how engineers can leverage disparate part data to inform better designs.
Key Take Away 2: Explore how as the digital thread tightens, your solution can scale to suit the growing demand.
Key Take Away 3: Learn how managers can take a pulse, track progress, and take action.

Derive Regulatory Intelligence from Integrated Product Records

11:30 AM EDT – Wednesday, May 17,
with Sajesh Murali

Regulatory information management is the core driver for a medical device company to reduce the time to design and distribute its products, which helps bring products to market efficiently. Attend this session to learn about an integrated approach and solution that leverages the technology as an enabler for deriving the intelligence in your regulatory data by an integral product record.

Key Take Away 1: Align regulatory data to create an integrated product record.
Key Take Away 2: Learn why it’s important to be prepared to react to regulation changes fostering market growth.
Key Take Away 3: Hear how to manage the systems and technology landscape and distribute key roles and responsibilities across the digital regulatory landscape.

Meet our Speakers

Sajesh Murali is a Director of Lifesciences at ArcherGrey. He is a mechanical engineer with over 20 years of experience in Product Lifecycle Management(PLM) and 10+ years of medical device experience in Quality and Regulatory. He assists medical device clients with large-scale transformational PLM programs focusing on new product development, design controls, regulatory, and change management. In his current role, he is focused on Life Sciences practice development at ArcherGrey bringing innovative ideas to close the gaps in the Medical Devices and Pharma industries, and is a thought leader in Regulatory Information management.

Tony Stroessenreuther has been developing software in large organizations for 30+ years as a Software Architect and Developer. He has worked on multiple high-profile projects for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Energy. Tony is currently working to develop a ThingWorx/Windchill embedded solution for Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he is part of a team that is extending Windchill with a ThingWorx implementation, and extending the Digital Thread using ThingWorx Flow.

Mark is a Senior Principal Architect for ArcherGrey. With a background in Mechanical Engineering and Organizational Management, Mark focuses on business process improvements through technology development and adoption. Working first to understand, document, and drive agreement on the challenges a business is facing, then supporting requirements, development, and adoption of proposed solutions. Mark previously supported digital thread & engineering tools in a similar role for STS, PTC, Eastman Kodak, and GE. Mark is a Six Sigma Blackbelt and a current PMP. Mark has a wife and 2 adult professional children and lives in Cape Coral, FL.

Patrick has spent the last 25 years consulting in various industries and helping clients achieve their objectives successfully.  He has done this through the process of identifying challenges and overcoming them by listening and connecting experts who have the right skills to get the job done.  The secret has been working to set expectations correctly and delivering upon those expectations.  This bio is supported through the reputation of ArcherGrey.  Patrick has spent the last 16 years of his career at ArcherGrey, and they have maintained a 100% success rate in delivering for their clients.