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Hubbell Sheds Light on New Product Development

Hubbell Sheds Light on New Product Development

Kevin Poyck, vice president of Engineering for Hubbell Lighting, faces some of the same challenges of managing chaos that other presenters at this event have shared. He broke down for the audience wh…

Andretti Green on The Need for Speed

Andretti Green on The Need for Speed

In the video clip above, Kim Green – owner & CEO of Andretti Green Racing – reviews some highlights from his presentation. He notes how PLM enabled them to cut down testing time from 50 days to j…

50 Percent of the Planet’s R&D Spend Comes From the Largest 1k Companies

50 Percent of the Planet’s R&D Spend Comes From the Largest 1k Companies

Sitting in a presentation by Barry Jaruzelski, partner and CMO of Booz & Company, reminded me of an HBR article from business school. The article outlined the three categories market leaders fall…

Timken Takes On Complexity

Timken Takes On Complexity

Tom Stimson, vp of Business Process Advancement for Timken, thought he was getting into a more simplified business when he started at Timken. He had worked at Robert Bosch and GKN and saw the complex…

Teradyne’s Innovation Backbone

Teradyne’s Innovation Backbone

The video above highlights some key takeaways from a presentation by Bill Duggan, director of PLM at Teradyne. The company is a leading supplier of test equipment. Bill presented at this event with C…

Emerson Addresses Tough Economic Times Ahead

Emerson Addresses Tough Economic Times Ahead

Emerson releases 500 new products every year. That’s 2 a day. Those products create more than 100,000 new parts for their database every year. Those parts need to be accessed by 7,000 engineers all o…

Real-World Innovators

Real-World Innovators

“Real-world answers from real-world innovators.” That’s the theme of our Americas Executive Event I’m at. It’s a leadership summit we’ve held the past few years that brings together many of our top c…

Faster Wind Turbine Design With Synchronous Technology in NX

Faster Wind Turbine Design With Synchronous Technology in NX

Images courtesy of VERGNET S.A. & Nesys Engineering A couple of weeks ago at the Siemens PLM Connection Europe event, I sat in a presentation on wind turbine design that (no pun intended) blew…

LEGO Clicks With NX 6

LEGO Clicks With NX 6

I didn’t mean to hold anything back, but we covered a lot of ground at the Siemens PLM Connection Europe event. In pulling together some other NX videos for a project I’m working on (more on that lat…