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NX Technology Preview – Touchless Design System

NX Technology Preview – Touchless Design System

On August 23rd, Elon Musk Musk of SpaceX posted a video of a “touch-less design system”. The demonstration consisted ofNX plus some custom drivers for a Leap Motion Controller.The video…

Tecnomatix – Strategic Directions for Our Manufacturing Customers – Part 3

Tecnomatix – Strategic Directions for Our Manufacturing Customers – Part 3

This is the third segment of a four part video blog series from an interview with Zvi Feuer, Executive VP of Manufacturing Engineering Solutions for Siemens PLM Software that took place during Connec…

NX 9 represents 50 years of CAM software in the making

NX 9 represents 50 years of CAM software in the making

When Siemens PLM Software released the latest version of NX TM software (NX 9), it didn’t just modernize the user interface, introduce a deluge of new productivity enhancements and increase the ver…

Increase profitability by taking control of procurement costs

Increase profitability by taking control of procurement costs

When procuring a part, it is important for procurement officers to understand the supplier’s costs, their material costs, manufacturing costs, machine rates, labor and burden costs, etc. Th…

Meet EcoCAR Engineer Lucas Shoults and Mary the Malibu

Meet EcoCAR Engineer Lucas Shoults and Mary the Malibu

Lucas Shoults is a first-year graduate student engineer at Virginia Tech (VT). He is majoring in mechanical engineering and is the business manager of VT’s EcoCAR 2 team. I met Lucas at the EcoCAR 2 …

Simulating learning curve with Tecnomatix Plant Simulation

Simulating learning curve with Tecnomatix Plant Simulation

One of my favorite excuses to justify a poor performance is by saying, “Well…I’m still in a learning curve.” Smiley Happy Nevertheless, as you know learning curve does exist, and it is a key metric for…

A Conversation with Dr. Jewel Barlow of the University of Maryland

A Conversation with Dr. Jewel Barlow of the University of Maryland

I visited the beautiful campus of the University of Maryland (UMD) in September to sit down with Dr. Jewel Barlow, one of the advocates who helped bring Siemens PLM software on campus to locations li…

Introducing NX 9

Introducing NX 9

Today we are proud to announce the latest release of Siemens’ NX™ software, NX 9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy8amedQH30 NX9 includes new tools like synchronous technology fo…

Meet University of Michigan Student Engineer Garrett Simard

Meet University of Michigan Student Engineer Garrett Simard

The University of Michigan is finishing up the World Solar Challenge and like any good real-world student project, they’ve experience interesting challenges along the way. We’ll share more about the …