Featured Guests 

Dave Duncan​

VP Sustainability , PTC

Dave Duncan is Vice President of Sustainability at PTC. Dave portfolio-manages PTC’s offerings to enable our customers to sustainably design, manufacture, and service products. He also leads PTC’s internal environmental programs. Previously with PTC, Dave was a product manager across Digital Thread, PLM, and SLM offerings in the US and England. Additional relevant industrial background includes service manager at GE Healthcare, ERP technical services lead at JD Edwards (now Oracle), US Army officer in Germany and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and manufacturing QA at Bicron Electronics. Dave holds a Systems Engineering and Operations Research degree from Princeton University. He coaches high school rugby in his spare time.

Session Track:

Tuesday, May 16 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM 205 A

ES1079B - Product Sustainability 101: Business Drivers and Technical Opportunities

PTC kicks off the LiveWorx Sustainability Track with a primer on designing, manufacturing, and servicing products more sustainably. We’ll explain new market drivers that catapulted sustainability to a top 3 initiative at most global manufacturers in the last 18 months. Then we’ll discuss priority actions for manufacturers on these new opportunities and threats. To assist attendees in getting the most from this track, we’ll conclude by briefing LiveWorx’s other sessions and booths that dive further into the topics we raise.

Session Track:

Wednesday, May 17 1:55 PM - 2:25 PM 204

SE1349P - Service Lifecycle Management and Sustainability

When a customer exclaims, “we need this part or this asset fixed RIGHT NOW and can’t complete our project without it,” OEMs spring into action! When OEMs need to keep the client operational, it often means getting critical service parts and knowledgeable field service experts on the next flight, truck, or train. The total cost can be high when considering fuel consumption, transportation costs, person-hours, warehousing costs, and more. Still, with customer commitments (SLAs), the penalties for downtime can be even higher. How can OEMs use best-in-class service parts and lifecycle management technology to simultaneously improve the top-line and bottom-line performance AND contribute to corporate sustainability initiatives?

Session Track:

Wednesday, May 17 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM General Session | Hall B

ES1777T - Tangible Strategies for Improving Product Sustainability

<p>Product sustainability is now a top-3 priority with most manufacturers. There is a flood of “could be” and “should be” advice available on the topic, but what approaches are driving more sustainable outcomes today? Leading discrete manufacturers use data-driven decision support to deliver meaningful insights and make incremental product improvements via dematerialization, energy efficiency, and waste reduction. In this session, PTC presents tangible strategies to adopt, including design for sustainability first, to improve product sustainability across the entire lifecycle.</p> <p>If you would like to watch the Live Stream of this session, log into your <a href="https://reg.liveworx.com/flow/ptc/liveworx2023/reg/login" target="_blank">Attendee Dashboard</a>. Please note that you need to be registered to watch live streamed sessions.</p>

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