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Want Some Multi-Physics Goodness For Your Solid Edge?  Check out COMSOL LiveLink!

Want Some Multi-Physics Goodness For Your Solid Edge? Check out COMSOL LiveLink!

This model treats the free convection of argon gas within a light bulb, courtesy of COMSOL Our Solid Edge University is keeping me hopping!We’ll have more technologies there than ever to…

See how NASA used Femap to ensure Curiosity could endure the “Seven Minutes of Terror”

See how NASA used Femap to ensure Curiosity could endure the “Seven Minutes of Terror”

In sending a roving science laboratory from Earth to the planet Mars, JPL’s engineers had to overcome many extremely complex problems, plan meticulously, make crucial decisions thousands of times ove…

Meet Software Engineer Rachel Ruggieri

Meet Software Engineer Rachel Ruggieri

Happy Engineers Week to all of you current and budding mechanical and software engineers! The theme of this year’s week is “Celebrate Awesome.” So let’s honor some of the awesome engineering brains b…

Femap Tips & Tricks: Coincident Node Move Only Option

Femap Tips & Tricks: Coincident Node Move Only Option

Sometimes you may need to set up a model to have a set of coincident nodes which can be connected together using spring or gap elements. To help prepare such a model, Femap includes a method of movin…

Podcast with CEO Chuck Grindstaff

Podcast with CEO Chuck Grindstaff

Here is the latest podcast in my Chat with Chuck series. Chuck Grindstaff is president and CEO of Siemens PLM Software. This time we cover: new employee growth new inventions like mass…

How to Design a High-Speed Ferry that Carries its Own Weight in Payload (Reprise)

How to Design a High-Speed Ferry that Carries its Own Weight in Payload (Reprise)

A couple of years ago I blogged about the Revolution Design case study (SPLM blog: 1/5/11). Last year I had the chance to travel to Hobart, visit the company and interview Gary Davidson, Senior Direc…

Local Motors – The Flip!

Local Motors – The Flip!

I just caught this video from our friends at Local Motors. I guess you could say they rolled it but it is maybe more extreme than that 🙂 You have got to love good engineering: http://www.yout…

Femap Symposium 2013

Femap Symposium 2013

Calling all Femap users… later in the year we’re planning a Femap Symposium in Cincinnati, Ohio, and we’re very pleased to announce that registration for this event is now open. So mark the date – Ju…

Issue Management and CAPA on Teamcenter

Issue Management and CAPA on Teamcenter

Every day, manufacturers across the globe leverage the power and value of Siemens PLM Software to make smarter decisions for new product development and launch operations.  A critical component …