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Femap Tips & Tricks: Results Enveloping

Femap Tips & Tricks: Results Enveloping

See how to envelope results from several load cases to produce one combined results plot that shows the highest node or element results in Femap. Alastair

Interviews with ATK at PLM Connection 2011

Interviews with ATK at PLM Connection 2011

Following is a guest post from Pat Farrell of the NX for Simulation team. Last week, Ramesh Krishnan, an engineer at ATK Aerospace Systems’ CAE Tools and Processes group, gave a presentation on he…

Interview with Lonnye Bower from Microsoft on Teamcenter and SQL

Interview with Lonnye Bower from Microsoft on Teamcenter and SQL

Catching up on a few posts that I didn’t get to do during the whirlwind of PLM Connections last week.  The Microsoft team was there in force this year and there was a lot to talk about.  In…

Nick Becker, AM General – Insights into Dimensional Planning and Validation

Nick Becker, AM General – Insights into Dimensional Planning and Validation

Last week at PLM Connection I caught up with Nick Becker, Quality Control Engineer from AM General to get some further insight into how AM General is using Dimensional Planning and Validation (DPV). …

Geek Versions of X Games and American Idol From COFES

Geek Versions of X Games and American Idol From COFES

John Voeller thinks the keys to where we’re headed in computing lie in geekier versions of X Games and American Idol. He’s serious. The last question I asked Voeller and John Gage to address in ou…

Interview with Bruce Pettibone about Firewire Surfboards

Interview with Bruce Pettibone about Firewire Surfboards

There are many benefits for attending PLM Connection events.According to the conference web site, some of the key advantages are: Enhance Your Knowledge of the products. Take advanta…

Interview with Microsoft evanglist Kevin Wittkopf

Interview with Microsoft evanglist Kevin Wittkopf

In this video Kevin Wittkopf from Microsoft is interviewed by Nik Pakvasa. Nik asks Kevin to bring him up to speed on the Microsoft technology platform for PLM. Kevin discuses how Teamcenter is …

Preview of the New NX Help Libraries

Preview of the New NX Help Libraries

At PLM Connection 2011, I caught up with Gregg Makepeace, the NX Technical Documentation Manager at Siemens PLM Software. Gregg was demonstrating some of the new features coming in the NX help…

Competitive Differentiator – Al Hufstetler discusses Closed Loop Quality

Competitive Differentiator – Al Hufstetler discusses Closed Loop Quality

I caught up with Al Hufstetler, VP of Development for the Quality Planning and Production Validation Group after the quality sessions on Thursday. Al’s presentation covered our entire Quality Managem…