Mobile apps for designers and engineers

Mobile apps for designers and engineers

Mobile apps can have a big impact on the productivity of maintenance engineers working across large manufacturing sites The increasing availability of mobile apps for design and manufacturing s…

Managing design resources to meet customer needs

Managing design resources to meet customer needs

Managing design resources to meet customer’s demands for new products and design changes is a significant challenge faced by all design managers. We recently ran a survey of 150 engineers a…

Solid Edge in motion

Solid Edge in motion

Feel the excitement around products designed in Solid Edge! Our new video captures your designs in motion, from electric vehicles to the mars rover, and from exoskeletons for children with …

Apple, U2 and the Edge

Apple, U2 and the Edge

That’s Solid Edge of course! It’s the winter of 1980 and I’m in my first year studying Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. I’m at a fellow student’s freezing cold basement flat in W…

Go west young man (or woman)!

Go west young man (or woman)!

Both hobbits and manufacturing companies feel at home in the west of England When you think of manufacturing in the UK, probably cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Leeds spring to mind, ci…

Monthly subscriptions for CAD software improve flexibility for larger manufacturers

Monthly subscriptions for CAD software improve flexibility for larger manufacturers

Last week I blogged about easy access to professional CAD software for inventors and startup manufacturers, and how this is helping them meet their needs for excellent design tool…

Easy access to professional CAD software for inventors and start-ups

Easy access to professional CAD software for inventors and start-ups

I have recently been reading “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. The book examines “How constant innovation creates radically successful businesses” and focuses on what makes new businesses succeed or, …

What is the best release cycle for CAD and PLM software?

What is the best release cycle for CAD and PLM software?

What do you think is the best release cycle for your CAD or PLM software? A short release cycle, every few months, that delivers a few key new capabilities? Or would this have too…

New inventions on display at Maker Faire Detroit

New inventions on display at Maker Faire Detroit

With Solid Edge, we’re very interested in the “maker movement” which is all about new applications of technology and encourages invention and prototyping; so we are excited to be participating&n…