Steelcase’s Erica Goosen, Resident Product Engineer, and Jim Kerkstra, Windchill System Administrator, join Kevin Wrenn, Division GM of the PLM Segment, PTC to discuss how they leveraged ThingWorx Navigate to get engineering data into the hands of its production stakeholders without diverting the attention of its product design team.
Engineers and product designers find that up to 20% of their time is spent on searching for data – for both themselves and colleagues from downstream teams – rather than working on productive tasks. This is a common problem, and one that global office furniture manufacturer, Steelcase, looked to tackle.
In this webcast, Steelcase’s Erica Goosen, Resident Product Engineer, and Jim Kerkstra, Windchill System Administrator, join Kevin Wrenn, Division GM of the PLM Segment, PTC to discuss how they leveraged ThingWorx Navigate to get engineering data into the hands of its production stakeholders without diverting the attention of its product design team.
Attendees of this webcast will walk away with:
- A better understanding of how and why Steelcase implemented ThingWorx Navigate
- A demonstration of Steelcase’s Navigate application
- Best practices on how to get started with their own deployment of ThingWorx Navigate
About the Speakers:
Erica Goosen is a Resident Product Engineer responsible for Product Design and Design Intent throughout the lifecycle of a product. She supports plant operations and metrics of quality, cost, safety and delivery with product design and process improvements. Currently, Erica is supporting the Kentwood Seating plant, which is home to the Steelcase Series 1 and SILQ chair lines.
Jim Kerkstra is am a Windchill System Administrator who has been working with and supporting PTC platforms at Steelcase for the past 10 years. Jim is involved in Windchill upgrades, customizations, Creo deployments and most recently developing applications in PTC Navigate.
Kevin Wrenn is the divisional general manager of PTC’s PLM segment. He is responsible for driving the business strategy, executing go-to-market and product lifecycle activities, and delivering customer success. Kevin redefined PTC’s PLM strategy, implemented a new operational framework with the worldwide sales force tor targeting and managing pipeline-building activities, delivered key new capabilities such as PLM in the PTC Cloud and ThingWorx Navigate, and has managed relationships with key customers including John Deere, and VW. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Boston University.
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