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Ian Boulton is a Senior Director of solution strategy for PTC’s Service Lifecycle Management Segment. Ian’s role is focused on the specific needs and requirements of the aerospace and defense vertical. Ian firmly believes that taking an enterprise wide, holistic view of service lifecycle management is a key enabler to lowering the total lifecycle cost of any modern system. Ian has been directly involved in the development of various product support standards for the last 10 years, and is a member of the AIA’s product support ILS specification working group which looks at best practice for U.S. adoption of ASD standards such as S1000D, S3000L etc.


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Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Augmented Reality Computer-aided Design (CAD) Engineering Calculations Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Industrial Connectivity Industrial Internet of Things Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Service Lifecycle Management (SLM)
Aerospace and Defense Automotive Electronics and High-Tech Energy and Resources Industrial Equipment MedTech Retail and Consumer Products Software and Technology
Additive Manufacturing Agile Artificial Intelligence Asset Centricity BOM Management Closed-Loop Quality Cloud Native Connected Devices Customer Experience Digital Thread Digital Transformation Digital Twin Education Engineering Collaboration Enterprise Collaboration Field Service Generative Design Increase Manufacturing Productivity Industrial Skills Gap Industry 4.0 IT/OT Convergence Life at PTC Math Software Model-Based Definition Predictive Analytics Predictive Maintenance Product Line Engineering PTC Reality Lab Regulatory Compliance Remote Service Requirements Management Risk & Test Management SaaS Service Optimization Service Parts Service Revenue Simulation Software Development Sustainability Technician Efficiency Training Variant Management

Many of the world’s leading A&D brands use service parts management (SPM) solutions for readiness based planning, helping them ensure parts are available exactly when they’re needed.
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