GM Executives Inspire Future Engineers at PACE Annual Forum

GM Executives Inspire Future Engineers at PACE Annual Forum

I’m not sure who leaves student competitions with more insight – the future engineers or the industry executives. Last week at the PACE Annual Forum, the students were definitely excited to lear…

Intosite: A Best Practice for Manufacturing Collaboration

Intosite: A Best Practice for Manufacturing Collaboration

In the complex business of manufacturing, finding the right information to get a job done and sharing best practices between production facilities are big issues. Siemens’ Intosite TM and its comple…

Michigan Solar Car team wins eighth national championship

Michigan Solar Car team wins eighth national championship

This Monday, the University of Michigan (U-M) Solar Car completed a seven-day, 1722-mile race to win the 2014 American Solar Challenge. This is the eighth time that the University of Michigan has won…

NX CAD and CAE Community Wrap Up

NX CAD and CAE Community Wrap Up

Exciting new posts are continually added to the NX CAD and CAE communities. Here are the highlights you may have missed from the past two weeks in the NX Design and Simulation forums. …

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…

Astronomic Instruments Maker uses Femap to Save Time and Costs

Astronomic Instruments Maker uses Femap to Save Time and Costs

ADS International, based in Valmadrera, Lecco, Italy, has been designing and building telescope, radio telescope and astronomic instruments for nearly 30 years. The company’s two main product lines a…

Plant Simulation Conference: Achieving peak performance

Plant Simulation Conference: Achieving peak performance

Designing and maintaining optimal efficiency of production operations is a challenge without the ability to accurately predict the real-world performance of manufacturing plans. How to use plant…

NX CAD Community Wrap Up

NX CAD Community Wrap Up

There are exciting new stories and tips in the NX CAD Community you don’t want to miss! This wrap up features soccer-playing robots, a racecar that drives 300 km/h solely on electric power, and plent…

University of Michigan solar car team on a mission to win solar car challenge

University of Michigan solar car team on a mission to win solar car challenge

In just 10 days, the University of Michigan (U-M) Solar Car team will race in the American Solar Challenge (ASC) from Austin, Texas to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Although U-M is the defending champion o…