Featured Guests 

Charlie Parker

Director, Customer Success HCL DFMPro, HCL Software , HCL America

Charlie Parker is the current Customer Success Director for HCL's DFMPro DFX software suite. His work focuses on design to market, ensuring that projects and programs are delivered to cost and on time. Charlie has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, MBA in Finance and over 30 years of engineering experience. His industries of experience include technology, aerospace, telecom, defense, medical devices, connected devices (telematics), and irrigation. Prior to his current role in customer success, Charlie has served as designer, product and manufacturing engineer, component engineer, physical design engineer, project manager and program manager. His work covers all aspects of supply chain workflow with a focus on quality, production costing, process efficiency, manufacturability, producibility, and performance measurements. Charlie lives in Allen, Texas where he enjoys American football, watching movies, and spending time with his family.

Session Track:

Wednesday, May 17 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM IgniteTalX Stage 1

CA1868I - Empowering Design Excellence from Inception

Businesses face huge digital transformation decisions as they race to be competitive in challenging economic conditions that begin right from the product’s inception. Attend the insightful session that covers inception to ultimate product realization using HCL DFMPro. HCL’s DFX software allows a designer to quickly run and achieve near-net, first-time-yield designs for production. It provides years of industry standard manufacturability rules-based logic parameterized using company institutional knowledge to analyze and highlight downstream issues during 3D design time. It allows a designer to quickly identify and resolve problems in a unified digital interface and can be run against native CAD or STEP-AP242 components or assemblies running on all major CAD platforms including PTC’s Creo.

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