Entries Tagged: Engineering

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 | Hannover Messe 2010 | sinumeric 840 |

by dorasmith | 14 Apr 2010

Automotive News announced its PACE Award winners this week. PACE stands for Premier Automotive Suppliers Contributions to Excellence. The annual awards program honors innovation, technology advancements and business performance by automotive suppliers.

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Tags: PLM | Siemens PLM | product development | product design | engineering | innovation | automotive |

by dorasmith | 16 Mar 2010

At our last Innovation Leadership Summit, Bill Duggan from Teradyne talked about PLM as the “backbone of innovation.” Bill shared that despite the tough economy – what he calls an “economic blizzard” – they continue to invest in that backbone and now focus on creating “sustainable PLM.”

That focus has helped them achieve significant savings both in hard dollars and in cycle time reduction.

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Tags: PLM | product development | engineering | innovation | sustainability | semiconductor | engineering factory | Teradyne | automation | ECM |

by dorasmith | 15 Mar 2010

Mike Burkett of AMR Research presented earlier on economic value in the PLM market. He shared insights from research released late last year. Here is a video interview of Mike recapping some of the key takeaways from his presentation and the other customer presentations he heard today.

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Tags: PLM | Siemens PLM | product development | product design | engineering | Manufacturing | AMR | manufacturing | program management |

by dorasmith | 15 Mar 2010

I’m attending our Innovation Leadership Summit in Scottsdale, AZ, today and tomorrow. Attendees are executives from some of our enterprise customers. They’re here to hear and share best practices on PLM implementations and achieving product success in today’s economy.

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Tags: CAD | PLM | CAE | product development | CAM | engineering | Manufacturing | PDM | manufacturing | program management |

by dorasmith | 26 Jan 2010

For those of you who received one of our print 2010 calendars, you saw this bar dispenser, aka a “bar gun”, from Schroeder America gracing the month of January. All of the images can be seen in our Global Image Gallery. The “Best in Class” are the 12 who appear on the print edition.

Now if you were a kid like me who grew up in a household where soda was a special treat, you probably like the idea of a gun that shoots a near endless supply of the sweet juices. If you’re a designer or engineer, you’d probably like to know a little more about this design.

Deborah Absalon from Schroeder America was kind enough to fill us in.

 

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Tags: NX | CAD | product design | engineering | calendar | Schroeder | NX Shape Studio | ICON bar gun | design contest | NX Machining |

by Nik Pakvasa | 27 Oct 2009

At recent the PLM Connection in Europe I attended an excellent presentation and demonstration by Andrea Nagler from BSH (Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH) about their global engineering collaboration and supplier integration project. BSH is in 13 countries and have 42 factories with 38,600 employees.

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Tags: PLM | teamcenter | Siemens | Teamcenter | microsoft | engineering | connection | Microsoft | collaboration global SharePoint |

by dorasmith | 17 Sep 2009

The other night I met up with a past colleague who was laid off a few months ago. I was impressed with how she retooled quickly into a freelance role. Yesterday I heard a similar retooling story but by a company not just one individual.

AMT – Applied Manufacturing Technologies had been an engineering services company for 20 years. Nearly all their business had been in the automotive industry. But over the past year they’ve retooled to diversify. Check out my interview with Jordan Merhib, director of business development for AMT.

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Tags: Siemens PLM | tecnomatix | Tecnomatix | analyst event | product development | engineering | Virtual Commissioning | AMT | virtual commissioning |

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