Featured Guests 

Mark Kristobak

Senior Principal Architect , ArcherGrey

Mark is a Senior Principal Architect for ArcherGrey. With a background in Mechanical Engineering and Organizational Management, Mark focuses on business process improvements through technology development and adoption. Working first to understand, document and drive agreement on the challenges a business is facing, then supporting requirements, development, and adoption of proposed solutions. Mark previously supported digital thread & engineering tools in a similar role for STS, PTC, Eastman Kodak, and GE. Mark is a Six Sigma Blackbelt and a current PMP. Mark has a wife and 2 adult professional children, and lives in Cape Coral, FL.

Session Track:

Tuesday, May 16 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM IgniteTalX Stage 2

PL1855I - Take Your Blinders Off

How do good designs turn into great designs? Certainly, ingenuity plays a role, but maybe even more so by making good decisions as the design matures. Reuse is proclaimed to help control costs and time to market, both key components of great designs, but only if you choose what parts and subsystems to reuse wisely. And that requires performing due diligence on those choices. Consider the value of knowing costing, inventory, lead time, non-conformance, and MRP planning data before choosing. What if you could have that data for your selected list of comparable parts at your fingertips at any moment? How much better would your design decisions be? In this 15 min session, we’ll give some insight into a digital thread solution to this challenge using ThingWorx.

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