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Westminster Expands the Size and CAD Skills of its FIRST Robotics Team

Westminster Expands the Size and CAD Skills of its FIRST Robotics Team

At the FIRST Robotics World Championship this year, there were lots of future engineers and lots of robots. 12,000 students from 600 teams traveled from 38 countries to be a part of this robot superb…

Solid Edge users take center stage at SEU14

Solid Edge users take center stage at SEU14

In his keynote presentation this morning at SEU14, Karsten Newbury focused on the design accomplishments of our Solid Edge users. Karsten talked about how Solid Edge users are re-imagining what’…

Selecting the best hardware to enhance your design productivity

Selecting the best hardware to enhance your design productivity

Selecting the best hardware to enhance your design productivity can be tricky – its certainly harder than trying out new software. Free trials of many software solutions are easily available&nbs…

NASA Goddard uses Femap to help develop the next-generation space telescope

NASA Goddard uses Femap to help develop the next-generation space telescope

NASA is using Femap to help develop a time machine. Scheduled for launch in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will operate 1.5 million kilometers above the Earth. It’s ambitious mission is …

A brief history of manufacturing

A brief history of manufacturing

Well bicycle manufacturing anyway! – as myfirst job after graduating from college in 1983 was working as for T.I.Raleigh, a huge manufacturer of bicycles based in Nottingham in the U…

A brief history of data management

A brief history of data management

26 years ago I started my first job for a CAD company, Intergraph UK, who were just transitioning from offering a VAX based solution to a UNIX based solution. At that time Intergraph designed and bui…

Excellence in design leads to real business returns

Excellence in design leads to real business returns

I have been reading some new research from Motiv Strategies and the Design Management Institute that looks at the characteristics and performance of”design-centric” companies. The conclus…

Massachusetts Software Revolution

Massachusetts Software Revolution

This month we were in Massachusetts to discuss the future of manufacturing and the future workforce. This is our third in a series of events on the Software Revolution in Manufacturing. Last month we…

Siemens PLM customer facing systems and Heartbleed

Siemens PLM customer facing systems and Heartbleed

You may have already heard about the Heartbleed vulnerability that affects certain, SSL-secured internet traffic and websites. Siemens PLM Software has evaluated its external web facing systems (our …