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Student engineer Sean Webb shares how cool Greenpower and Solid Edge are

Student engineer Sean Webb shares how cool Greenpower and Solid Edge are

We introduced you to future engineer Sean Webb last month. I got to meet him in real life at the Greenpower Challenge Sunday. Above, Sean prepares Team USA’s driver and car for the start of the race …

Smart, Fast, Lean Manufacturing with Tecnomatix 11 – Simulation and Validation

Smart, Fast, Lean Manufacturing with Tecnomatix 11 – Simulation and Validation

Last month we released the latest version of Tecnomatix along with several of our portfolio’s digital manufacturing solutions.  As mentioned in the last post about the Manufacturing Process Mana…

Jeremy Way of Greenpower discusses how the organization encourages more student engineers

Jeremy Way of Greenpower discusses how the organization encourages more student engineers

At the Greenpower regional heat on Sunday, I spoke with Jeremy Way, CEO of the Greenpower Education Trust to learn a little more about the organization and why he joined it. Jeremy is pictured here w…

eBOM and mBOM configuration management

eBOM and mBOM configuration management

Manufacturing bill-of-materials or mBOM is a configuration of the product to show how it will be assembled. On the other hand, engineering bill-of-materials or eBOM is a configuration of the product …

David Cullimore shares his Greenpower experience at Goodwood

David Cullimore shares his Greenpower experience at Goodwood

The leader of the pack at the Greenpower regional event at Goodwood today was David Cullimore. The majority of Greenpower teams are school organizations. That’s where David got his feet wet….

Nick Peterson of Greenpower Team USA on his first electric car race

Nick Peterson of Greenpower Team USA on his first electric car race

A year ago Nick Peterson attended Solid Edge University and shared he was interested in the Greenpower real-world project because itprovides experience in aerodynamics, electrical and mechanic…

Connection 2013 – Tecnomatix Day 3 Recap

Connection 2013 – Tecnomatix Day 3 Recap

In case you’re paying attention, there was some activity on Day 2, but I didn’t have a chance to give you a recap.  There was one Tecnomatix related session in the Teamcenter Community track.&nb…

Femap Tips & Tricks: Entity ID Contouring for Model Checking

Femap Tips & Tricks: Entity ID Contouring for Model Checking

Femap has a lot of visualization tools that can be used to verify the model. For example it’s possible to assign colors to entity IDs allowing a quick visual check of the numbering scheme of the mode…

Connection 2013 – Tecnomatix Recap day 1

Connection 2013 – Tecnomatix Recap day 1

Chuck Grindstaff, our CEO making the morning’s keynote on PLM strategy and vision.  Chuck started with a short movie about the Curiosity Rover, a fascinating story of NASA JPL’s success with the…