192 Hours to 30: How Keysight Validates Its Own ENOVIA Upgrades

Keysight’s own ENOVIA upgrade validation used to take 192 hours. It now takes 30.


That’s not a product claim. It’s what our IT and test automation team measured on our own digital thread environment, and this session is the account of how they got there, including the parts that didn’t work.


Most engineering organizations know the trade-off. Stay current and absorb weeks of manual re-validation after every release, or defer the upgrade and let technical debt, security gaps and vendor pressure build. The upgrade waits a quarter, then a year.


Mahavir Rathi, Global IT Operating Manager at Keysight, walks through what the team automated, what they deliberately left alone, and the one decision that made the rest possible. Sandeepak Natu of CIMdata joins to set it against what he sees across PLM programs more broadly.


What you’ll take away:

  • Why PLM upgrade validation eats so much time, and the part most teams automate last when it should be first
  • How AI-driven validation copes with the configured, customized UI that breaks traditional test scripts
  • What the move from 192 hours to 30 actually involved, including what went wrong on the way
  • Where to start if you want to try the same on your own ENOVIA or digital thread environment


Who should attend: Engineering and digital thread leaders, PLM and CAE system owners, and the QA and validation teams responsible for keeping PLM current, anyone who’s ever postponed an upgrade because of what validation would cost.

Presenters

  • Mahavir Rathi
    Global IT Operating Manager
    With more than 27 years of experience in IT test management, R&D business operations, programme management and AI tools, Mahavir brings a unique blend of technical expertise and business insight to engineering and software quality.
    As Global IT Operating Manager at Keysight Technologies, they lead the test automation and engineering team, driving AI-powered test automation using Keysight Eggplant across multiple applications.
    Their hands-on experience also includes working with leading PLM platforms, including Dassault Systèmes ENOVIA 3DX, Siemens Teamcenter and Oracle Agile PLM, giving them a practical understanding of the challenges involved in testing complex engineering environments.
  • Sandeepak Natu
    Director SDSD Practice, CIMData, Inc
    With 29 years of experience spanning engineering simulation, consulting, software pre-sales and business development, Sandeepak brings deep industry expertise and practical insight into the challenges facing engineering organizations today.
    They lead the development of CIMdata’s *Simulation and Analysis Market Analysis Report* and have successfully delivered multiple custom simulation software development projects, combining market knowledge with hands-on technical and programme management experience.
    They hold an M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in Thermal Sciences and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), from IIT Bombay.
  • Nick Hudson
    Product Marketing Manager ​
    Keysight Technologies
    Nick Hudson is a Product Marketing Manager at Keysight, focused on software test automation. Drawing on experience in go-to-market strategy and customer engagement, Nick partners with product, sales, and engineering teams to showcase how Keysight solutions drive quality, speed, and efficiency in complex testing environments.

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192 Hours to 30: How Keysight Validates Its Own ENOVIA Upgrades