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Interview with analyst Peter Thorne

Interview with analyst Peter Thorne

Peter Thorne is Managing Director, Cambashi, IT/PLM Industry Analysts & Consultants based in Cambridge, England. I had first met Peter almost 20 years ago in Cambridge when he was a manager with …

Jim Brown talks about Social Networking

Jim Brown talks about Social Networking

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 …

Hannover Fair: Integrating Product and Production Lifecycle

Hannover Fair: Integrating Product and Production Lifecycle

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…

European Tour Part III

European Tour Part III

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 …

PLM at Hannover Messe

PLM at Hannover Messe

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…

Captain Eureka versus the Volcano

Captain Eureka versus the Volcano

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 …

Hannover Fair about to Start

Hannover Fair about to Start

A quick update from Hannover Fair 2010; the world’s largest industry fair is opening the gates today. Siemens PLM Software will be present on two different booths. One is our own in hall 17 and the o…

Feeling Concentrated Stress about FEA for Designers?

Feeling Concentrated Stress about FEA for Designers?

  I thought I’d pick up on some of the discussion happening last week around FEA Al Dean and Deelip Meneze had a couple posts about the barriers to entry for this type of analysis. Kenn…

Volcano - Stuck in Paris!

Volcano - Stuck in Paris!

Those that follow me on twitter know I’ve been traveling in Europe this week. I’ve been off visiting designers and some of their resellers asking what they think of Solid Edge Simulation, what they t…