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Can PLM help manufacturing cope with rising energy prices?

Can PLM help manufacturing cope with rising energy prices?

Got a chance this morning to read today’s Wall Street Journal cover to cover (3 hour plane flight with accidentally dead PC battery) and ran across an article discussing how skyrocketing energy costs…

Live Rules Introduction

Live Rules Introduction

  Live Rules in Solid Edge ST provide a new way of working with CAD geoemetry. After talking about other new ideas like the Solid Edge Steering and the new Ribbon based UI, lets continu…

Greening the executive suite

Greening the executive suite

Umair has a good post on the Harvard Business blog on the management DNA changes necessary for companies to really go green. What caught my attention was this excerpt: They’re going to discover t…

PLM, Pacific-style

PLM, Pacific-style

This morning I got a note from a colleague in Korea, sharing their experience with 2008 Siemens PLM Day that happened one week ago. If you speak Korean, you can view most of the presentations from th…

Why The Ribbon Bar is Right

Why The Ribbon Bar is Right

The advancements in the upcoming Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology release are causing a lot of discussion. Synchronous Technology is getting a good part of the interest but this is only part o…

Still discovering the power (and excitement) of Synchronous Technology

Still discovering the power (and excitement) of Synchronous Technology

Even we – Siemens PLM Software – are continuously discovering the power that Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology will provide to our customers. At PLM Connections in Orlando, Mark Thompson and Dan…

Getting broader exposure

Getting broader exposure

The wraps on Synchronous Technology continue to fall away.  It started with a test drive station that was opened up for users at Siemens PLM Connection last week in Orlando that I did a short vi…

Addressing feature tree failure and recomputes

Addressing feature tree failure and recomputes

Cory Goulden, CAD Administrator at National Steel Car, discusses his rules on what not to do in tradional history-based modeling: Thou shalt not: add rounds until final steps, model with no design in…

Dan Staples knows Sychronous Technolgy best

Dan Staples knows Sychronous Technolgy best

Dan Staples, director of Solid Edge development, spent about 90 minutes discussing the new Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology. The presentation discusses sea-level changes from both the perspecti…