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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks – Path Navigation in Solid Edge

Solid Edge Tips & Tricks – Path Navigation in Solid Edge

These shortcuts speed up navigating directory structures directly from the Solid Edge & file open dialogue. Note: The video above is pulled from YouTube. If you subscribe to Siemens PLM …

Tecnomatix Plant Simulation User Conference

Tecnomatix Plant Simulation User Conference

On Tuesday, the Plant Simulation User Conference in Stuttgart, Germany will start. I will share details from the conference here on the blog and on Twitter. It will be a very interesting conference w…

EMO: PLM for Machine Builder

EMO: PLM for Machine Builder

Machine tools are products and resources; depending on your view point. For the machine builder it’s a product, while for many manufacturing companies it’s a resource they use to manufacture their pr…

Dassault/IBM News

Dassault/IBM News

A few folks have asked me what I think of the Dassault/IBM announcement earlier this week. So I thought I’d share some thoughts here and answer any questions you might have. The first question is …

Solid Edge Tips & Tricks – Place Parts Tricks

Solid Edge Tips & Tricks – Place Parts Tricks

Use these pro tips for quickly building assemblies. Note: The video above is pulled from YouTube. If you subscribe to Siemens PLM channel, you can be notified right away when we post the lat…

EMO: From Virtual to Real

EMO: From Virtual to Real

It’s all about integration. Imaging you are running a job shop using highly flexible machine tools. You manufacture in small lot sizes and need to adjust your NC programs quite often due to product c…

PLM Connection: BSH – Global Engineering Collaboration & Supplier Integration

PLM Connection: BSH – Global Engineering Collaboration & Supplier Integration

At recent the PLM Connection in Europe I attended an excellent presentation and demonstration by Andrea Nagler from BSH (Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH) about their global engineering collaboratio…

Beware of customers as the main source of innovation

Beware of customers as the main source of innovation

I was catching up with my social production feeds in Google Reader last night and ran across a report from Grant Thornton International from September (via Mass Customization and Open Innovation). I…

EMO: Innovation for Machine Tool Builders

EMO: Innovation for Machine Tool Builders

At this year’s EMO in Milan, Italy, more than 1,500 machine tool builders exhibited their new innovations. Siemens provided several innovations for these machine tool builders and their customers. He…