Event welcomes presentations from engineering and manufacturing community

LOVELAND, Colo., Nov. 27, 2012 — (PRNewswire) — �Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (CIC), today opened its call for speakers for the 2013 event to be held May 21 to 23 in Denver, Colorado.

CIC is dedicated to fostering and improving collaboration and interoperability in product design, development and manufacturing. Now in its tenth year, CIC has become a yearly barometer of the state of collaboration and interoperability strategy, technology and solutions in manufacturing and business communications. The three-day international event gives attendees a unique opportunity to network, learn and strategize with thought leaders from many sectors of discrete manufacturing, including automotive, aerospace, heavy equipment and electronics industries, as well as with representatives from government and defense communities. Visit the website ( www.3DCIC.com) to register or learn more about the event.

Conference organizers are pleased to announce that NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) is merging with CIC and will hold its14th annual product data exchange meeting at CIC 2013 and thereafter. In addition, the PDES Board of Directors will again hold its annual meeting at CIC this year, and the 3D PDF consortium will be holding its second annual meeting at CIC 2013.

Conference organizers are looking for presentations from product designers, engineers, IT professionals or supply chain/downstream experts which focus on strategies, trade-offs and/or implementation case stories of real-world solutions in the following areas:

• Building collaborative PLM into the global supply chain, including such topics as change order management, intellectual property security and management
• Digital product data deployment beyond engineering
• Leveraging social media within companies and with suppliers
• Design-analysis/simulation collaboration
• Design for manufacture, and design-manufacturing collaboration
• PLM migration and legacy data management

Anyone interested in speaking at the event should email speaker name, title and role, and a few sentences description of the proposed presentation topic to David Prawel at Longview Advisors ( Email Contact) by December 30, 2012.

Longview Advisors is pleased to announce that free access to all presentations and audios from previous CIC events, are now available at ( www.3DCIC.com).

About Longview Advisors

Longview Advisors Inc. provides consulting services in the business, technology and application of 3D software in product lifecycle management. For more information, please visit:  ( www.longviewadvisors.com).

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