Nik Pakvasa
Solar Car Team Revs Up for Race Across Australia!

Solar Car Team Revs Up for Race Across Australia!

October 18, 2011

Siemens PLM Software empowers Principia College solar car design We will eagerly follow Principia College’s solar team’s progress in Australia. They will be participating in the World Solar Car Ch…

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Seminar on Managing Multi-Disciplinary Mechatronics Complexity

Seminar on Managing Multi-Disciplinary Mechatronics Complexity

August 16, 2011

I’m headed to Marquette University for a one-day information exchange that we’re co-sponsoring. The subject is managing multi-disciplinary mechatronics complexity in product development. As y…

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Interview with Microsoft evanglist Kevin Wittkopf

Interview with Microsoft evanglist Kevin Wittkopf

May 6, 2011

In this video Kevin Wittkopf from Microsoft is interviewed by Nik Pakvasa. Nik asks Kevin to bring him up to speed on the Microsoft technology platform for PLM. Kevin discuses how Teamcenter is …

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Teamcenter Content & Document Management track at PLM Connection 2011

Teamcenter Content & Document Management track at PLM Connection 2011

May 4, 2011

Our Teamcenter reporter Steve O’lear filed this report from PLM Connection 2011: Launching a product in the market nowadays is much more that just designing, sourcing, and manufacturing it. …

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2 MIN READ
BOM Challenges in Automotive Industry

BOM Challenges in Automotive Industry

May 4, 2011

I attended Raghu Padmanabhan’s session yesterday. He is an automotive IT executive from Detroit. He discussed challenges with Bill of Material (BOM) based on the automotive business, and highlighted …

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ATK derives decision metrics using Teamcenter Report & Analytics

ATK derives decision metrics using Teamcenter Report & Analytics

May 3, 2011

Listening to ATK Armament Systems’ Krista Vilandre and Paul Nelson present how they use Teamcenter reporting and analytics to pull metrics from Teamcenter systems engineering. They discuss why they m…

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Northrop Grumman presents a collaborative community at PLM Connection 2011

Northrop Grumman presents a collaborative community at PLM Connection 2011

May 3, 2011

Day 2 at PLM Connection in Las Vegas: I’m here listening to a very interesting presentation by Jim Ayers from Northrop Grumman presentation. His presentation, “Teamcenter Community Collaboration –…

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Ron Adams of AM General delivers the keynote: “Teamcenter Requirements Management on the Unified Architecture.”

Ron Adams of AM General delivers the keynote: “Teamcenter Requirements Management on the Unified Architecture.”

May 3, 2011

Day 2 at PLM Connection in Las Vegas: I’m here listening to Ron Adams of AM General deliver the keynote presentation in the Teamcenter general session, “Teamcenter Requirements Management on the Uni…

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Steve O’Lear presents Teamcenter MRO solution at PLM Connection

Steve O’Lear presents Teamcenter MRO solution at PLM Connection

May 3, 2011

Day 2 at Siemens PLM Connections Americas 2011 in Las Vegas. I am here listening to my colleague Steve O’Lear present Teamcenter MRO solution. It seems this year we have a whole track on Maintenan…

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