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Femap Tips & Tricks: Temperature Loading from Excel

Femap Tips & Tricks: Temperature Loading from Excel

Often it’s very useful to be able to transfer data between various software tools. In this Femap tip and trick we’ll see how you can take a temperature distribution form Excel, import it into Femap a…

Podcast with CEO Chuck Grindstaff

Podcast with CEO Chuck Grindstaff

Chuck Grindstaff is president and CEO of Siemens PLM Software. In my latest Chat With Chuck, we covered some interesting ground. Listen in to hear his thoughts on: merging cultures and innovati…

The Secret to Designing Solar Cars

The Secret to Designing Solar Cars

Earlier this week we had a visit at our St. Louis office from Principia College. They brought their solar car that placed third in the American Solar Car Challenge this summer. Students shared storie…

Robotic deburring using Process Simulate

Robotic deburring using Process Simulate

If you are one of those manufacturers who have adopted robotics to perform deburring and similar other metal finishing process, I’m sure you have done it to improve operational efficiency and flexibi…

A Visual Approach Makes NC Programming Go Faster

A Visual Approach Makes NC Programming Go Faster

The ability to visualize exactly the material that remains to be cut makes it much easier to create the most efficient machining operations and to determine their optimum sequence. With NX 8.5 CAM…

SimpoEdge 45 day Free Trial

SimpoEdge 45 day Free Trial

I think most of you know Siemens is a HUGE company.  Yet, as big as we are, we can’t do everything. It’s important to have great partners that can help us bring all the best technologies to our …

Why Patrick Hillberg Became an Engineer

Why Patrick Hillberg Became an Engineer

If you’ve heard the name Patrick Hillberg before, perhaps it’s from the press release we did earlier this year on Oakland University’s (OU) new PLM course. Patrick is designing that course. Siemens P…

How IHC uses integrated CAD and CAE to speed design turnaround

How IHC uses integrated CAD and CAE to speed design turnaround

In the offshore industry operational certainty is a major requirement. The installations tend to be very large, and the investments high and virtually everything is unique which leaves very little ro…

In Simulation We Trust

In Simulation We Trust

Simulation technology has a lot to offer to mold manufacturing. It’s a matter of recognizing the problems that it can help to solve. Our latest article, In Simulation We Trust, publish…