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Day 1 A Look Back

Day 1 A Look Back

This is my very first time attending the PLM World event and I was not too sure what to expect when I arrived this morning at the Gaylord Palms via shuttle. The first thing I did experience was the b…

FEMAP – Siemen’s Hidden Gem

FEMAP – Siemen’s Hidden Gem

One of the more interesting applications that Siemens PLM provides is FEMAP. This was an application that started in someone’s garage(more or less) in the 90’s. It did so well back then that SDRC too…

Mobile Update from Day 1

Mobile Update from Day 1

Utterz is also a cool social web company allowing you to call in “voicemails” and have them posted to the web. I used Utterz today to do a quick review of day 1 of the Siemens PLM User conference.

New in Part and Assembly Modeling for Solid Edge

New in Part and Assembly Modeling for Solid Edge

Doug Stainbrook described the “what’s new” in part and assembly modeling. This is verging on making the engineers drool and getting a little over my head however all my Edgers out there will love tha…

Users get their first crack at using Synchronous Technology in Solid Edge Test Drive

Users get their first crack at using Synchronous Technology in Solid Edge Test Drive

There’s been a lot of speculation, talk and guessing about the particulars of Synchronous Technology, but users that stopped by the Solid Edge test drive station got to find out for themselves.

A few pics from the partner conference

A few pics from the partner conference

Lot’s of interesting things going on in the partner area of the conference.  But the most crowded table is of course…the brownies. http://www.flickr.com/photos/aakelley/tags/plmconam08/

A Day In The Life of Teamcenter

A Day In The Life of Teamcenter

Keith Walk and David Mitchell are presenting ” day in the life of Teamcenter” using a role play with Keith being a product manager of a tractor, then switches roles to Engineer, and they are walking …

New UI for Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology

New UI for Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology

I am a keyboard short-cut kind of user. My favorite command in Microsoft Word was Alt+I, I which would allow me to add a hyperlink to text. When I switched to Microsoft Office 2007, it took me severa…

The Practical Optimization of Mechanical Systems in Motion (or How to Build a Better Catapult)

The Practical Optimization of Mechanical Systems in Motion (or How to Build a Better Catapult)

Simulating and optimizing systems or assemblies in motion is a difficult thing to do. Moving assemblies act in a non-linear fashion, and the interplay of all the variables is very difficult to predic…