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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…

An intuitive web-based shop floor work instructions solution

An intuitive web-based shop floor work instructions solution

The quest is still on to find the most efficient way to provide work instructions to the shop floor. After all, we all know the problems associated with paper based, uncontrolled work instructions. T…

Femap Symposium 2013 Detailed Agenda

Femap Symposium 2013 Detailed Agenda

We’ve just finalized and published a detailed agenda with a dual track for the Femap Symposium 2013. Topics include: Keynote – Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity – The role that FEA pla…

Tecnomatix Releases DPV Lite for SMB Manufacturers

Tecnomatix Releases DPV Lite for SMB Manufacturers

It doesn’t matter if you’re a small manufacturer with one plant or a large multinational with factories around the world; consistently delivering products that meet quality requirements is one of the…

Conflict Minerals and PLM – Making a Difference through the Supply Chain

Conflict Minerals and PLM – Making a Difference through the Supply Chain

I have a special treat for you this morning, a guest post from our partner, Andrew Sweatman, Compliance Solutions Manager, PE INTERNATIONAL. If, like me, the first thing that came to your mind w…

Smart, Fast, Lean Manufacturing with Tecnomatix 11 – MPM

Smart, Fast, Lean Manufacturing with Tecnomatix 11 – MPM

Earlier this month we released the latest version of Tecnomatix along with several of our portfolio’s digital manufacturing solutions.  As we move forward, I’d like to share additional details b…