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NASA Goddard uses Femap to help develop the next-generation space telescope

NASA Goddard uses Femap to help develop the next-generation space telescope

NASA is using Femap to help develop a time machine. Scheduled for launch in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will operate 1.5 million kilometers above the Earth. It’s ambitious mission is …

A brief history of manufacturing

A brief history of manufacturing

Well bicycle manufacturing anyway! – as myfirst job after graduating from college in 1983 was working as for T.I.Raleigh, a huge manufacturer of bicycles based in Nottingham in the U…

A brief history of data management

A brief history of data management

26 years ago I started my first job for a CAD company, Intergraph UK, who were just transitioning from offering a VAX based solution to a UNIX based solution. At that time Intergraph designed and bui…

Excellence in design leads to real business returns

Excellence in design leads to real business returns

I have been reading some new research from Motiv Strategies and the Design Management Institute that looks at the characteristics and performance of”design-centric” companies. The conclus…

Massachusetts Software Revolution

Massachusetts Software Revolution

This month we were in Massachusetts to discuss the future of manufacturing and the future workforce. This is our third in a series of events on the Software Revolution in Manufacturing. Last month we…

Siemens PLM customer facing systems and Heartbleed

Siemens PLM customer facing systems and Heartbleed

You may have already heard about the Heartbleed vulnerability that affects certain, SSL-secured internet traffic and websites. Siemens PLM Software has evaluated its external web facing systems (our …

Siemens PLM Community Wrap Up – Week of March 31

Siemens PLM Community Wrap Up – Week of March 31

We are few weeks behind so this will be a long list. This week’s Siemens PLM Community Wrap-Up has information about how customers are using NX, tons of Tips and Tricks for almost all of our sof…

New sheet metal design and manufacturing capabilities on display at SEU14

New sheet metal design and manufacturing capabilities on display at SEU14

New method to determine manufacturing information for formed components to be shown at SEU14 Optimizing design of sheet metal components has been a strength of Solid Edge for many years and the…

Redefining engines with manufacturing simulation

Redefining engines with manufacturing simulation

When our customer, Perkins Engines Company, asks the question, “Who says you can’t have it all?”— as they do in the marketing material for their Tier 4 engines – they’re referring to the trade-off be…