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This years PLM Summit USA takes place at The World Golf Village, St Augustine, Florida on October 13th & 14th.

Highlights include:

• Doug Tracy, the Global CTO at Rolls Royce who is speaking on ‘Building the Business Case for PLM’, including the case for investing in PLM technology and a look at the value to the business.
• A case study from Sue McCusker, Project Manager, Global IT at Coca-Cola, who is looking at what lessons they have learned from their PLM implementation.
• A look at how General Motors have made their PLM platform a global implementation, from Terry Kline, their Global Product Development Process Information Officer.
• Paul M. Bevilaqua, Chief Engineer, Advanced Development Projects, Lockheed Martin, who is discussing ‘Advanced Simulation Secrets of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – Lessening the Risk of Product Failure By Managing Designs From The Conceptual Phase’.

Other speakers include:

• Michael Burkett, Vice President, AMR Research
• Eamon O’Kelly , Director, Global Customer Support & Services , Schneider Electric
• Kurt Kuhn, Structural Analysis Tools Manager , The Boeing Company
• Konrad Schütte , Program Manager, Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH
• Huw Evans, R&D Information Director, HPC, Unilever
• Dr. Michael W. Grieves, International PLM Expert & Author

As always, the PLM Summit attracts a high level audience and an impressive collection of PLM vendor companies.  Some of this years sponsors include:

SAP
Adobe
INCAT
Sopheon
Satyam
Razorleaf
Oracle

To book your place, go to their registration page, or alternatively give them a call on +1 416-214-1144.

Whether you have your eyes set on a job that requires CATIA knowledge or just want to brush up your skills, below you will find links to some great free CATIA tutorials online at the moment. Feel free to recommend others in the comments.

Video Tutorials

• Beginniner’s tutorial on CATIA
• CATIA V5 Start to Finish Part 1 and Part 2
• Preparing CATIA for work Part 1 and Part 2
• Catiatutor.com (some free videos – registration required)
• Harvard Graduate School of Design (interactive flash)
• CATIA resource centre

Web Tutorials

• 3Dcadtutorials.com – a must, 107 tutorials at time of writing
• catiacommunity.com tips and tricks
• caddigest.com’s tutorial list
• 3Dcadtips requires free sign-up

Once you’ve brushed up your CATIA skills, why not check out our current CATIA jobs.

As an introductory offer, PLMjobs.com is offering recruiters the opportunity to list their first job at no cost by creating an employer account here.

Launched in May 2008, PLMjobs.com now hosts positions from some of the World’s leading PLM vendors such as Dassault Systemes, Siemens PLM Software, INCAT, Oracle and Deloitte.

High volume recruiters should call Will Milling on +44 (0)20 7720 4820.

If you can read this, then it means we have launched our new PLMjobs.com news blog. Here we will be keeping the wider world up to date with our developments and plans in addition to posting broader news and press releases from the industry.

Of course, your comments are always valuable, so please do feel free to leave them.