CAD CAM Zen: Siemens PLM Realize Live 2019

Realize Live! 2019 at Cobo Hall

Siemens booth at RealizeLive

The show for Siemens PLM users and resellers, Realize Live! has recently ended. This year marks the first year Siemens put on the show instead of the community. Without a doubt, Realize Live! 2019 was a success.

Some numbers at a glance:

Over 550 Sessions
Over 175 customer presentations
Over 125 partner booths
Around 50 hands-on training classes (including an awesome class on convergent models)
Twelve product breakout connections
Knowledge theaters
Daily Keynotes
Daily professional development
Networking events each evening

On top of all of that, on June 10th was the ASME Additive Manufacturing Forum. With industry experts covering a variety of topics at each session.

Edited to add - visit the official blog post on the Siemens PLM forum

Keynotes:

Some of the Keynote speakers included:

Tony Hemmelgarn - President and CEO of Siemens PLM.
Kelly McDonald - top expert on marketing, customer service, and customer trends.
Seth Mattison - Internationally renowned expert and author on workforce trends, generational dynamics, and business strategy.
Peter Sheahan - the founder of Karrakins Group, knows as an innovative business thought leader.

Some points from the Keynotes:

Tony Hemmelgarn mentioned while subscriptions and cloud are available, people will not be forced to go to them.
Additive Manufacturing is more than just designing and printing. It's an end to end solution bringing all the pieces together; design, simulation; analysis, printing, post-processing, scheduling, resources, etc
Tony mentioned part of the strategy is making a product that fits the people, and not putting them into a persona.

Peter Sheahan gave a pretty good speech. Turns out his employees liked his company but didn't like him, in large part on how he conversed. He made conscious changes and improved his rating with his employees.
Peter also talked about staying relevant, and constant learning. He said:

If your company is not learning as fast as the outside world, you are becoming irrelevant.
If your team is not learning as fast as the outside world, you are becoming irrelevant.
If you are not learning as fast as the outside world, you are becoming irrelevant.

ASME Additive Conference

The one day ASME Additive Manufacturing track included sessions on:

Disruptive Product Design and Distributed Networks
Building a Business around Additive Manufacturing
Digital Transformation and Additive Manufacturing
The Challenges and Opportunities of AM Production
AM Materials Advances and Impacts

There were other Additive breakouts during the rest of the week such as

Introduction to Multi-Axis Additive Manufacturing
Best of Both Worlds: Combining Additive and Subtractive
Designing for Additive Manufacturing

Exhibition Hall

Many companies had booths in the exhibition hall, so attendees could stop by to learn more about their products or services. The Siemens booth had over a dozen kiosks showing various solutions that solve some of the toughest design, engineering, and manufacturing problems.

Well done event

Realize Live! 2019 was a well organized and professional event. Many users got to meet product managers to discuss their particular needs, and plans for moving forward.

While some companies don't like to pay to send employees to events such as this, it is the one time a person has access to some of the best resellers, applications engineers, product managers and others all at one time. It's highly recommended for next year.