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Synchronous Technology and Speculation

Synchronous Technology and Speculation

As a blogger, I tend to follow a lot of blogs myself. It’s been interesting to watch the discussions on Synchronous Technology by a wide range of people – users of other products, CAD experts, peopl…

Beyond Your Recycle Bin

Beyond Your Recycle Bin

The area of going green goes well beyond the recycling bin in your garage. For manufacturers, the barrage of environmental regulation legislation is coming fast – by state, country, etc. What everyda…

WEEE..! Compliance!

WEEE..! Compliance!

WEEE is Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and it is the fastest growing category of hazardous waste. Brian Martin from Seagate Technologies is speaking about the challenges a high tech man…

Saving the Environment

Saving the Environment

4th grader Ryan Manderfield from The High Meadows School in Atlanta just kicked off the Green Track for us with his brief presentation on environmental issues from an elementary school student’s pers…

TATA, Innovation, and Why To Come to PLM World 2009

TATA, Innovation, and Why To Come to PLM World 2009

I was in India in April working with some colleagues and talking with some customers. The two brand names I remember the most were TATA and the Mumbai Indians logo – cricket is amazing there! …

Q&A with Hugo

Q&A with Hugo

Hugo Despres from Remcor Group, Inc. and I spent a couple minutes chatting yesterday. For five years, Hugo worked with our partner Design Fusion in the area of tech support. During that time, he has …

See your pulse travel at 1 femtosecond

See your pulse travel at 1 femtosecond

Kurt Vaillancourt from Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from Menlo Park, CA gave an extremely good presentation on inter-part links in Solid Edge, packed with many tips. I am a fan of the se…

More interesting facts from Siemens PLM Connection

More interesting facts from Siemens PLM Connection

If you were here, you would’ve learned that GM audits or validates 200,000 parts every week.  A massive undertaking using Check-Mate. GM has successfully implemented Check-Mate in all of thei…

Shaggy, I need a Scooby snack!

Shaggy, I need a Scooby snack!

I dropped in on Mark Rief and the “what’s new” in CAM Express session. I must have dropped in at the best part because Mark was describing his own personal test of the Synchronous Technology in CAM E…