by Markus Erlmann | 03 May 2010

Do you want to hold you CAD models in your hand? I mean, physically?

This is already possible for several years and known as rapid prototyping, 3D prototyping or direct digital manufacturing. And the price of these 3D printers is getting down. Still it’s something fascinating. I had the opportunity to see the whole process live at the Hannover Fair. Starting with the design in NX and then just using the regular printing capability to launch the HP printer driver. After some additional calculations the printer starts working. A few hours later you can already hold the part in your hands.

Take a look at this video to see the whole process in action.

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Tags: NX | SiemensPLM | tecnomatix | Tecnomatix | Rapid Prototyping | 3D prototyping | Direct Digital Manufacturiing |

by Markus Erlmann | 29 Apr 2010

As mentioned in my previous blog post about Hannover Fair here are some interesting pictures from the fair.

The first one is from the introduction video for the Virtual Commissioning showcase which we run every hour. Take a closer look and you will realize the move from virtual too real in the picture.

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Tags: NX | SiemensPLM | tecnomatix | Tecnomatix | NX CAM | Virtual Commissioning | virtual commissioning | Hannover Fair |

by Nik Pakvasa | 28 Apr 2010

Peter Thorne is Managing Director, Cambashi, IT/PLM Industry Analysts & Consultants based in Cambridge, England.

Peter was kind of enough to sit down for this interview. He believes the next big opportunity is to integrate Requirements Management, System Engineering and product development into a seamless process.

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Tags: PLM | analyst | social media | social_networking | Cambashi | COFES |

by Nik Pakvasa | 28 Apr 2010

Jim Brown, President, Tech-Clarity, has been an early advocate of social networking in product development/PLM. He has been follower of the social networking phenomena and has actively written about the intersection of social networking and product development.
I caught up with Jim at recent the COFES2010 conference in Scottsdale. I asked Jim to share his thoughts on what role he sees for social networking in product development.

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by Markus Erlmann | 28 Apr 2010

You may have read our latest press release about the product and production lifecycle initiative. At the press conference at Hannover Fair, Helmuth Ludwig talked about this as well. He highlighted in his presentation two important topics: the extended offering of Siemens Industry Automation in regards to the industry software market and an update about the integrated product and production lifecycle. I would like to share Helmuth’s presentation with you.

The major projects for the integrated product and production lifecycle are:

 
1. Virtual Commissioning
 
2. Virtual Machine
 
3. PLM and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
 
4. PLM and Plant Design (Comos)

Especially the first project “Virtual Commissioning” was showcased live every hour. You might realize that the guy on the right and myself look quite similar

Take a look at the presentation for more insights.

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Tags: Siemens PLM | tecnomatix | Tecnomatix | virtual machine | Virtual Commissioning | Virtual Machine | virtual commissioning | Hannover Fair |

by Mark Burhop | 24 Apr 2010

Today, I’m in at the Siemens PLM Connection for the Netherlands trying to take maximum advantage of the volcano extended stay in Europe. Derrek Cooper has suggested I come up with a @Burhop European Tour shirt. Branden Loock was are reminded of the Griswald’s European Vacation and I’m tempted to do the roundabout around the Arch de Triumpe just to complete the picture.

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Tags: plmconx | PLMConx | PLMconx | Solid Edge Simulation | Volcano | Europe | Siemens PLM Connection | PLMCONX | volcano |

by dorasmith | 20 Apr 2010

We made a number of announcements at Hannover today. In case you missed them, here’s a brief summary. One of the announcements provides an update on our product and production lifecycle initiative so I’ve also included a video from one of my colleagues taken at Hannover that explains how a customer integrates product and production lifecycle with Siemens software.

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Tags: NX | tecnomatix | Tecnomatix | Digital Factory | product development | CAM | engineering | Process Simulate | sinumeric 840 | Hannover Messe 2010 |

by Mark Burhop | 20 Apr 2010

European Tour, Part II

As you have seen from my post last week, the Icelandic volcano has caused my flight home to be canceled. Fortunately, Siemens is big worldwide company and finding things to do has not been hard.
Yesterday, I drove up to Brussels Belgium to catch the Siemens PLM Connection for Benelux. They started with a very impressive video on Siemens showing all the company has accomplished over its long history.
But what was even better was this guy, Captain Eureka…

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Tags: Solid Edge | plmconx | PLM Connection | solid edge | PLMConx | PLMconx | Benelux | PLMCONX |

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