COE Insta-Poll Results and Next Topic

We want your feedback. Every month we will be asking you a different question on topics concerning your Dassault Systemes software installation, your experiences, or to help us improve COE member benefits. Next month we'll provide the results to our April poll and introduce a new question.

Results of the February/March poll:

The COE Spring Conference includes a trade show called the Technifair. How important is this to you in your decision whether to attend the Conference?

Please be sure to provide your input on our April poll: How often do you visit the COE Forum?

Meet Scott Baker the New President of COE

In the history of COE, there have been two excellent Presidents; Bill Abramson and Phil Harrison. After a year as President elect, it is finally time for me to take over as President of the COE organization. The Presidency of COE is an honor and a privilege, as well as a daunting task. With such a dedicated group of volunteers, this is a task I am looking forward to. I only hope I can live up to the high standards already set by the past Presidents.

We have just completed an excellent annual conference with almost 1200 attendees and over 60 vendors in the TechniFair. We had a very diverse agenda including presentations by large OEM’s like Ford Motor Company, Boeing, and Bombardier Aerospace. Other areas were represented by sectors such as Loewen a medium size industry, and Delphi, a Tier 1 supplier. There was even a presentation in the Strategic Issues track about the premium yatch industry and their unlikely acceptance of the PLM principles. Thanks to all of our speakers for sharing their experiences with all of us. We also implemented for the first time, the use of PDA’s for conference schedules and the COE University for longer, more in depth classes. It really was an amazing conference.

We now look forward to the Fall Aerospace and Automotive workshops to get a more industry specific view of our issues facing our organizations. But as we all know, COE is a year around organization and there are a lot of things on our agenda. NewsNet, our electronic newsletter which you are now reading, reaches approximately 5000 readers each month. We also have a strong web presence, with our “Ask the Expert” web events conducted on a regular basis, and the COE forum which is a vibrant community of users asking interesting real user questions on the DS suite of tools.

So, where are our growth areas? Where do we go from here? At the annual conference, it seems that we need to look at expanding our educational efforts in the COE University, due to its great success. Also, we are looking into expanding the use of PDA’s for conference abstracts, daily updates, and etc. From a membership point of view, it seems that we need to get the small and medium size industries more involved with the organization. We also need to look for more types of industry or domain specific workshops at other times of the year to meet more of our members needs. Today, we also have more Academic members than ever before. We need to get the youngest users involved in the organization early for a truly lasting organization.

With the maturation of the DS V5 suite of tools, the opportunities for improvements seem to be immense. It is up to us collectively, to explore all of these possibilities to expand our reach while keeping true to our past. I am really looking forward to the challenge.

Top Gun Results

This conference hosted Top Gun XVIII. This is a competition that allows the best of the best to compete. In this competition a challenge is defined and the contestants must complete the challenge use a standard CATIA V5 configuration. Their results are based on quality, accuracy and time. Go to http://www.coe.org/resources/award_winners.cfm to see the details of this traditional exciting competition.

The top finishers were:

1st Place: Roger Joyal, Airbus (3 time winner)

2nd Place: Corey Ervay Airbus

3rd place: Dave Baldwin, IDEX Solutions

PLM Enterprise of the Year Award Results

The PLM Enterprise of the Year award acknowledges COE member companies that have achieved significant business results through their organizations' adoption of product lifecycle management. It recognizes successful PLM implementations and serves as a model for fellow COE Members and IBM and Dassault Systemes customers seeking to increase profitability by expanding their markets centered on new, innovative products, while reducing costs.

The winners for 2005 are Loewen for Small/Medium Enterprise Award and Northrop Grumman Ship Systems for Large Enterprise Award.

Mark your Calendars for COE Your Way: 2005 Automotive and Aerospace Industry Workshops

COE continues to bring you the most up-to-date information in both the automotive and aerospace industry. If you are a user of Dassault Systemes' family of products who works in the either industry, you won't want to miss this exceptional chance to gather for two days of interactive, low cost, industry-focused education, training, and networking with hundreds of your peers, as well as viewing third-party products and services. Attendees, speakers, and trainers from small, medium, and large enterprises will share their experiences and success stories in longer breakout sessions.

The COE 2005 Industry Workshop – Automotive will take place October 10-11 at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn in Dearborn, Michigan and the COE 2005 Industry Workshop – Aerospace takes place one week later on October 17-18 at the Hyatt Regency Wichita in Wichita, Kansas. Bookmark these pages and visit back often for the latest workshop updates. Register by August 12 to save $200!