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Adam Fagan

Windchill System Administrator , Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

Adam Fagan is the Windchill System Administrator and Architect for Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. He has 20 years of experience deploying and supporting engineering tools in a design to manufacturing environment. He started his career working for the Worldwide Power Tools group of Black and Decker. Throughout his career, Adam has had experience with several product lifecycle management tools and multiple enterprise resource planning software applications. For the past 14 years, Adam has focused mainly on implementing and supporting PTC’s Windchill suite of applications for JHU/APL. In addition to his Windchill experience, Adam has 6+ years of experience with Augmented Reality tools like Vuforia (PTC), PiXYZ (Unity), Theorem XR (Theorem Solutions), and ProtoSpace (NASA JPL @ CalTech). Adam has multiple Bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration/Computer Information Systems from Towson University and a Master’s degree in Information Technology and Telecommunication Systems from the Johns Hopkins University.

Session Track:

Wednesday, May 17 2:50 PM - 3:20 PM 102 B

CA1352P - Digital Thread and Model-Based Definition: Johns Hopkins Expert Panel

In this panel from Johns Hopkins, learn how traceable MBD data elements are consumed in various PTC tools and workflows like Creo, Windchill, ThingWorx, and Vuforia. In addition to successes and challenges, the panelists will be discussing their experiences utilizing these tools and capabilities in real pilot projects.

Session Track:

Monday, May 15 3:10 PM - 3:40 PM 205 A

PL1398B - Custom Windchill License Reports Using Power BI

Estimating Windchill license quantities can be difficult with the out-of-the-box reporting from PTC within Windchill. In this session, we will look at custom Power BI reports created by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab to easily track the current usage and report historical usage of Windchill licenses. These reports show currently allocated licenses and historical, activity-based usage of licenses for the PTC Windchill PDMLink product (e.g. Advanced, Base, Contribute, View). In addition to sharing the reports, this presentation will share step-by-step instructions (e.g. connection, SQL statements, visualizations) within the free Power BI Desktop software to assist Windchill admins with creating their own license/ activity reports.

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