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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks – #10, #11, #12 & #13

Solid Edge Tips & Tricks – #10, #11, #12 & #13

We’re doing a recap of the last four Solid Edge Tips & Tricks in case you missed them on the Solid Edge Demo page or on the YouTube playlist. #10 Selection Manager Power with control. See ho…

Synchronous Technology used for Analysis and Optimization

Synchronous Technology used for Analysis and Optimization

In my last blog post I talked about how the new CAD technologies (like Synchronous Technology) will be very useful for FEA analysis and optimization. This time I’ll follow up with a practical example…

New Modeling Techniques Benefit Product Analysis and Optimization

New Modeling Techniques Benefit Product Analysis and Optimization

One of the cool byproducts of the new CAD modeling technologies (Synchronous Technology, SpaceClaim, Inventor Fusion) is the fit with analysis and product optimization. If you are just validating the…

Announcing Femap 10.1

Announcing Femap 10.1

Today we announced Femap 10.1. I thought a little history lesson would be interesting before we get into the nitty gritty details about the release. For those of you that don’t know, Femap, a PC-b…

Increase Manufacturing Productivity of Automated Production Lines

Increase Manufacturing Productivity of Automated Production Lines

In a recent post I wrote about Tecnomatix 9 driving planning and manufacturing productivity. One example is our customer ebm-papst which increased planning productivity by 30 percent. But what abo…

Re-engineering Wile E. Coyote Contraptions

Re-engineering Wile E. Coyote Contraptions

Forget Saturday mornings of mind-numbing cartoons not based in reality. Tony Lockwood noted on his blog that Reality TV has finally got it right. He talks about a new reality TV show where engineers …

ebm-papst Increase Planning Productivity by 30 Percent

ebm-papst Increase Planning Productivity by 30 Percent

Is your laptop cooled by a fan? I guess so … it might be one from ebm-papst, one of our customers. But this is just one of the industries ebm-papst sells their products to. ebm-papst in St.Georgen…

Designed a great Product – and now?

Designed a great Product – and now?

You designed a product and it covers all the requirements which your customers requested. Now the question is: How do I get it out to the market? Means, how do I manufacture my product as fast as pos…

Ziyon Amram about Tecnomatix 9

Ziyon Amram about Tecnomatix 9

Michelle M. Boucher from Aberdeen talked about the challenges of manufacturing companies in my previous post. She mentioned that best-in-class companies are using Digital Manufacturing tools to maste…