We’ve kicked off the 3DEXPERIENCE Forum with an exciting first day in Boston! Dean Marsh, our managing director of North America, welcomed our CEO and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Bernard Charlès to the stage to discuss the Industry Renaissance, highlighting the major industry disruption being led by Dassault Systèmes customers like Tesla, Joby Aviation and CADMakers. Bernard described the Industry Renaissance as being much larger than digital technology or automation; it’s about knowledge and know-how.

The key difference between Industry Renaissance leaders and those stuck in the “dark ages” is the leaders are the ones creating new categories of solutions for new categories of customers. At the core of this movement is Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, which is helping to break down silos, democratize data and bring together knowledge across organizations to usher in the Industry Renaissance.

@BernardCharles discusses the Industry Renaissance at the #3DEXPERIENCE Forum. Much more than digitizing the past! @3DSCATIA @SOLIDWORKS @3DS_SIMULIA @3DSdelmia @3DSNorthAmerica @3DSAcademy pic.twitter.com/60BHE7Oh4R

— Al Bunshaft (@AlBunshaft) June 20, 2018

Following Bernard Charlès was Craig Platt, VP of Technical Product Management, Digital Technology at GE. Craig discussed how Current, powered by GE launched the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform as a Service to digitize its business process. GE Lighting and Current chose the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform after seeing competitors investing in digital technology, and understanding the need to transform their product offerings. In order to do that, Craig’s team needed to break down silos between business units. Like most non-digitized companies, the team was document oriented – everything was trapped in that document and couldn’t be easily communicated across the organization, making it hard to achieve Current’s business goals. Since the launch of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, the company has experienced 67 percent reduction in cycle time for lighting products through change management and information governance. This made it possible for Current to stay ahead of emerging competitors.

Industry is moving to the #Singularity ! Craig Platt talks about how new platforms are necessary to move forward or burn. Industry need to collaborate for a shared consciousness #3DEXPERIENCE pic.twitter.com/x2LVDaq01Y

— Jeff Kerns (@JKerns10) June 20, 2018

The plenary session rolled on with Neil Meredith from MG McGrath, an architectural surface company, who presented on a template-based parametric modeling approach to design and fabrication. As the AEC industry adopts PLM technology, the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is allowing companies like MG McGrath to connect different areas of their business, and more importantly different architecture partners, which cuts out the version control often faced in file-based systems. Neil also shared details behind their US Olympic Museum project, which is currently under construction in Colorado Springs, CO.

Neil Meredith from the architecture/engineering/construction firm MG McGrath designs & assembles architectural surfaces in their facility & then installs them on client sites. #3DEXPERIENCE platform allowed them to take time spent managing files & put that toward new designs. pic.twitter.com/yHRFfT5tXG

— Digital Engineering (@DEeditor) June 20, 2018

After a quick break, the plenary session resumed with a presentation by Nalin Joshi and Vishwesh Shete, executives at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). This presentation focused on the elements TCS has identified that make up Business 4.0, including intelligent systems, agile processes, automation and the cloud. These components are also driving TCS’ alliance with Dassault Systèmes to provide exponential value to end customers.

Next up was keynote John Rossman, former Amazon executive and author, who talked about how the culture of Amazon drives the ability to disrupt, what principles continually produce these changes and how to set your company up achieve disruption. For example, John told a story of how IoT was used to improve the customer experience, but underscored the technology itself was only a tool, and not the answer to the problem.  He pointed out that we’ve all had at least one bad customer moment – running out of whatever product we’re using at the time. Amazon fixed this with the use of dash buttons, which allows customers to easily reorder their favorite products with the push of a button. By uncovering an insight in the customer experience and identifying a pain-point, Amazon was able to take advantage of IoT and stay true to its customer obsession model.

Rossman: Amazon is the most trusted brand in America. They’re not sitting on their laurels. Continue to look for ways to improve the customer experience. Focus on continuous improvement. Get to the root cause of an issue via metrics and fix it. #3DEXPERIENCE

— Digital Engineering (@DEeditor) June 20, 2018

To close the plenary session, Florence Verzelen, Dassault Systèmes’ newest Executive Vice President of Industry Solutions, Marketing, Global Affairs & Communications, explained how companies can empower the workforce of the future. She shared some of the key challenges that the world is facing in building tomorrow’s workforce, and how the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform can be deployed to address these challenges. More to come on this tomorrow.

Florence Verzelen @FloVzln explains six challenges for the workforce of the future, and how Dassault Systemes is working to overcome them #3DEXPERIENCE pic.twitter.com/cyQmlefN24

— Dassault Systèmes NA (@3DSNorthAmerica) June 20, 2018

The afternoon was filled with breakout tracks that focused on the Manufacturing Renaissance, C-Suite Technology Insights, and real-world customer applications of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform. Key topics included the factory of the future, additive manufacturing and virtual simulation.

The 3DEXPERIENCE Playground was also in full swing, with exhibitions from Dassault Systemes and our partners sharing insights and showing off the latest solutions.

Stay up to date on Day Two by following the hashtag #3DEXPERIENCE on Twitter.

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