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: Environmental Sustainability

Wednesday, May 17 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Tangible Strategies for Improving Product Sustainability

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.

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