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_________, Process and Technology

_________, Process and Technology

The people side of PLM seems to be the theme today.  Alfred Katzebach from Daimler commented in his keynote that one of the projects was not so much an IT project as it was a project focused on …

The long view

The long view

Folks started arriving early to hear the day 2 customer keynote speaker, Alfred Katzenbach from Daimler AG. Herr Katzenbach is the Director, Information Technology at Daimler.  He…

ELTA Systems Antenna Design with NX KF

ELTA Systems Antenna Design with NX KF

Moti Eitan of ELTA Systems (one of Israel’s leading Defense Electronics companies) gave a presentation about leveraging NX Knowledge Fusion (KF) to help with antenna design on Monday at Siemens PLM C…

Out-of-the-Box PDM

Out-of-the-Box PDM

One of the things we’ve emphasized about Teamcenter Express since we launched the product two years ago is its out-of-the-box (OOTB) pre-configuration. As I was sitting in a presentation by Paul Spec…

Increasing Innovation by Sharing Knowledge in Teamcenter

Increasing Innovation by Sharing Knowledge in Teamcenter

Man oh MAN! When you design 1,000 engines per year – each of which has about 50,000 parts and 130 variants – you have a lot of knowledge to manage. Christian Rasmussen, project manager at MAN Diesel …

Logistics planning makes it happen

Logistics planning makes it happen

Coming from a test background, the modeling side of things has always fascinated me.  Too often though, when the PLM indsutry talks about modeling, its centered on highly rendered CAD models, be…

Rolls Royce Talks 4-Tier

Rolls Royce Talks 4-Tier

I just got out of a technical presentation by Martin Washburn, a PLM technical specialist with Rolls Royce. Martin has 23 years in IT and 12 of those specifically with Teamcenter. He supports 8,000 u…

Alstom Transport Outlines PLM Roadmap

Alstom Transport Outlines PLM Roadmap

Guillaume Vendraux, vice president of R&D and Engineering for Alstom Transport, presented this morning on their company’s PLM deployment plans. In this short video clip he recaps the key areas th…

Pardon me brother, can you spare some PLM?

Pardon me brother, can you spare some PLM?

Well it was a little bit rough getting here, but Helmuth Ludwig did finally make to the conference and took the stage to give the assembled audience of more than 750 people an overview of the state o…