2013 Global Product Data Interoperability Summit Expands, Now Open to More Vendors

Held two months earlier in a larger venue, the Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Elysium event focuses on boosting productivity through the use of common data streams

SOUTHFIELD, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Boeing Company (NYS: BA) , Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYS: NOC) , and Elysium Inc. will hold the fifth joint Global Product Data Interoperability Summit (GPDIS), on September 9-12, at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort in Chandler, AZ. The theme of this year’s Summit is “Enabling Productivity with Common Data Streams.”

The event functions as a communications hub for industry professionals to exchange ideas, solutions, and methods for improving product data quality and interoperability, with the goal of driving common standards adoption in global aerospace, automotive and other industries.

The growing popularity of the GPDIS has led to it being held two months earlier than in previous years, and in a larger venue to accommodate more vendors/sponsors. The event is held at no cost to industry professionals and supply chain partners in aerospace, automotive, related industries, and academia.

“This year we have more room to showcase an even wider range of the latest technologies that address the business challenges of CAD/CAM/CAE data exchange,” says GPDIS executive management team member and event organizer Ken Tashiro, Vice President and COO of Elysium Inc. Vendors/solutions providers are also sponsors, which provides their teams with an opportunity to present at the event (if abstracts are submitted before the June 14 deadline, and approved) along with exhibit booth privileges and accommodation discounts.

The GPDIS executive committee of Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Elysium will kick off the summit with early-bird sessions the first day, followed by three days of technical presentations.

“Fundamentally, being able to provide product information as needed by the end users, without having to do transformations and conversions, is the key challenge facing us going forward,” says Nancy Bailey, vice president of IT at Boeing. “This is why this summit is so important, as it creates a forum for us to come together and get deep into those technical discussions around what …read more
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