Entries Tagged: Product Development

by dorasmith | 10 Jun 2010

My colleague Shaun Ennis works with industry analysts and is at a Siemens Manufacturing Excellence event in Genoa, Italy. He shared this report with me from the first day of the event.

Buon giorno! From the Process Manufacturing Excellence event in Genoa, Italy.

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Tags: product development | Manufacturing | Aberdeen | manufacturing | MES | ARC |

by dorasmith | 04 Jun 2010

I’ve seen a lot of conversation lately in regards to openness in the CAD/PLM industry. So it seems timely to share some of the discussion and reiterate how important open standards are to us as a company and the PLM industry.

First some of the recent conversations along this thread:

 

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Tags: PLM | Siemens PLM | 3D | teamcenter | Teamcenter | product development | CAD standard | JT | Spatial | JT Open |

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

Jill Wagner, general manager and vice president of global operations for Mosler Automotive, brought the MT900S to our Innovation Leadership Summit.

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Tags: NX | Siemens PLM | product development | product design | Mosler |

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 JerrySarfati | 23 Feb 2010

In honor of Engineers Week, attached is a short “e-interview” I did with Mike Thompson of Wagstaff. Mike works at Wagstaff, Inc (http://www.wagstaff.com) as a mechanical engineer. He works primarily on the billet product line. (Billet is mostly cast by aluminum smelters and remelter/recyclers to be extruded into aluminum shapes.) Wagstaff is the world leader in direct-chill aluminum casting equipment.

Q: Mike, tell me more about Wagstaff Billet Casting System.

A: Every piece of equipment we make is custom, but they all follow basic design rules…

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Tags: NX | product development | Product Template Studio | Wagstaff |

by dorasmith | 02 Dec 2009

image via Origamiancy on Flickr

At PLM Connection two months ago, a customer of ours asked me if I knew Ashley Eckhoff, who works in the same building I do, just on a different floor. I did not but was interested to learn more about how he did his job. He’s been so busy gathering customer requirements for NX 8 that he dodged an interview several times. But I caught up with him today.

 

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Tags: NX | CAD | Siemens PLM | product development | product design | engineering design | PCB design |

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