Aviation Week has organized a continuing series of aerospace/defense senior executive roundtables that stress the importance of public-private partnerships and develop strategic solutions and action plans to address A&D industry challenges.

Military MRO: Meeting the Readiness Challenges 06/22/2006 (147 kb PDF)	Critical Issues Summit 11/14/2005 (328 kb PDF)	Interoperability Summit 5/9/2005 (79 kb PDF)	Fleet Readiness And Performance-Based Logistics 4/18/2005 (75 kb PDF)	Toulouse 2/5/2005 (1385 kb PDF)	International Collaboration 12/13/2004 (258 kb PDF)

UGS MEANS PLM

UGS is a 5,000-strong global team whose driving vision is to work collaboratively with our clients to create enterprise solutions that enable them to transform their process of innovation and, in doing so, begin to capture the value of product life-cycle management (PLM).

PLM is an increasingly important and visible enterprise business strategy through which organizations digitally manage a product's complete life cycle — all the way from its concept to its retirement‹and gain higher business value from that product as a result. UGS is the PLM global leader in the aerospace and defense industry with its portfolio of software solutions, including Teamcenter applications, which combine product knowledge and configuration management experience with MRO planning, execution and management to greatly reduce MRO costs and cycle time. Teamcenter, as the standard PLM tool in many military and commercial programs, extends that product knowledge into the support phase of the life cycle for the OEM, lead systems integrator or operator of complex aerospace and defense assets.

Through the rich heritage of companies that came together to form UGS, the company's pioneering solutions have been helping customers accelerate time to market, improve quality and increase revenue for almost four decades. With nearly four million licensed seats of its technology in use and 42,000 clients worldwide, UGS is a proven leader in both market experience and PLM solution development. In fact, UGS technology manages or creates more than 40 percent of the world's 3-D data.

For additional information on virtual collaboration, seamless knowledge management, lifecycle productivity and/or global interoperability, visit www.ugs.com or e-mail timothy.nichols@ugs.com.