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RIT Formula SAE team uses Femap, achieves almost 3x more accurate torsion simulation

RIT Formula SAE team uses Femap, achieves almost 3x more accurate torsion simulation

The Formula SAE® competition is a student design competition organized by SAE International (formerly Society of Automotive Engineers).  Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has been a long-s…

Exact Iron through Collaborative Manufacturing

Exact Iron through Collaborative Manufacturing

As a heavy equipment manufacturer, you want to build exact iron that is high performing, quality, and easily serviceable.  The only way to do this is by integrating manufacturing process plannin…

Mission-Driven Machines through Advanced Machine Engineering

Mission-Driven Machines through Advanced Machine Engineering

Industrial machines are on a mission every day to manufacture the products that consumers enjoy.  The machines that you build are complex, and need to be commissioned quickly so you ca…

Get Calibrated!

Get Calibrated!

In the 1973 movie, Magnum Force, Harry Callahan (played by Clint Eastwood) battles a group of vigilante cops led by Inspector Briggs.  It’s a classic action movie with Callahan eliminating the v…

Siemens at the North American International Auto Show

Siemens at the North American International Auto Show

From its roots in 1907, the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) has been the premier event kicking-off the calendar year by showcasing the latest innovations in style and technology from t…

How Human Simulation Improves Safety and Efficiency in Automotive Production

How Human Simulation Improves Safety and Efficiency in Automotive Production

This year at the North America Auto Show, Siemens was highlighting human simulation solution, and showed how automakers use this solution to improve safety, ergonomics and efficiency of human perform…

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

The phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words” is generally attributed to a newspaper editor, Arthur Brisbane, who first used it in a 1911 article about journalism.  At the time, photography w…

Guest Post: How to develop your next blockbuster product

Guest Post: How to develop your next blockbuster product

This guest blog post is by John Fox,  VP of Marketing, Mainstream Engineering, Siemens PLM Software What would you do if the demand for your product went from 100,000 unit…

Find out why CEO Chuck Grindstaff is excited for 2014 in this podcast

Find out why CEO Chuck Grindstaff is excited for 2014 in this podcast

I recently caught up with our president and CEO Chuck Grindstaff to record our latest podcast. We happened to be in the same city at the same time so there is video to boot. I noticed Chuck uses t…