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The SEMA Automotive Show – LM Series Part 2

The SEMA Automotive Show – LM Series Part 2

(read part 1) Somehow I ended up at the SEMA event today.  This is one of the largest automotive events around filling huge halls in Las Vegas with piles or automotive coolness. I’m supposed …

Dital Manufacturing Symposium – South America

Dital Manufacturing Symposium – South America

In the city proper of Sao Paulo live eleven million people.  It’s a diverse culture, rich in history, now forging new frontiers in manufacturing.  Brazil is experiencing rapid growth in man…

Geometric Constraint Solving and Spin Surfaces

Geometric Constraint Solving and Spin Surfaces

In amongst all of the publicity around PLM Connection Europe it would have been easy to miss the announcement of the latest release of the D-Cubed 3D products . As it happens, the timing was a coi…

Element Visual Inspection – Femap Tips & Tricks

Element Visual Inspection – Femap Tips & Tricks

See how you can easily locate and visually inspect solid elements in Femap using the Meshing Toolbox Locator and visualization tools. Alastair

PLM Connection Europe Summarized and Storified

PLM Connection Europe Summarized and Storified

View “Siemens PLM Connection Europe Summary” on Storify

Marenco Clean Sheets a New Helicopter

Marenco Clean Sheets a New Helicopter

Those that know me know I’m a bit partial to the Swiss given family connections there. So I was keen to hear the Marenco Swiss Helicopter presentation at last week’s PLM Connection Europe event. CEO …

Introduction to Local Motors – LM Series Part 1

Introduction to Local Motors – LM Series Part 1

You may have seen our press release on Siemens PLM and Local Motors teaming up today.  Being kind of a car guy who is interested in the new ways to add “social” to “product development”, I’ve be…

NX 8 for CAM and Tooling

NX 8 for CAM and Tooling

As I mentioned before, NX 8 contains over 400 customer focused projects across the entire product.  One of the areas that I’d like to highlight is CAM and Tooling (as we call it, Manufacturing)….

Teamcenter at PLM Europe

Teamcenter at PLM Europe

Eduard Marfa is Director EMEA Marketing – Teamcenter.  I spoke with him this week about Teamcenter 8.3 momentum.    In our video interview, he discusses how customers are adopt…