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Math-mazing Snowflakes

Math-mazing Snowflakes

For you student and real-life engineers who want some inspiration beyond Mayan math today, I thought I’d share the latest in mathematician Vihart’s fun and educational videos. Check out Snowflakes, S…

Perfect Costing Solution: A conversation with Rohit Tangri

Perfect Costing Solution: A conversation with Rohit Tangri

It’s hard to keep up with Siemens’ pace of buying companies. Three announcements of intent to purchase three different companies in three months. Recently, Dora Smith interviewed Siemens PLM CEO Chuc…

Interview With Dr. Hans Hoyer of the Engineering Education Organization IFEES

Interview With Dr. Hans Hoyer of the Engineering Education Organization IFEES

We work with many academic organizations around the globe. We recently updated our strategic affiliations web page to note the ones we work closest with. I want to highlight one of those organization…

Femap Tips & Tricks: Temperature Loading from Excel

Femap Tips & Tricks: Temperature Loading from Excel

Often it’s very useful to be able to transfer data between various software tools. In this Femap tip and trick we’ll see how you can take a temperature distribution form Excel, import it into Femap a…

Podcast with CEO Chuck Grindstaff

Podcast with CEO Chuck Grindstaff

Chuck Grindstaff is president and CEO of Siemens PLM Software. In my latest Chat With Chuck, we covered some interesting ground. Listen in to hear his thoughts on: merging cultures and innovati…

The Secret to Designing Solar Cars

The Secret to Designing Solar Cars

Earlier this week we had a visit at our St. Louis office from Principia College. They brought their solar car that placed third in the American Solar Car Challenge this summer. Students shared storie…

Robotic deburring using Process Simulate

Robotic deburring using Process Simulate

If you are one of those manufacturers who have adopted robotics to perform deburring and similar other metal finishing process, I’m sure you have done it to improve operational efficiency and flexibi…

A Visual Approach Makes NC Programming Go Faster

A Visual Approach Makes NC Programming Go Faster

The ability to visualize exactly the material that remains to be cut makes it much easier to create the most efficient machining operations and to determine their optimum sequence. With NX 8.5 CAM…

SimpoEdge 45 day Free Trial

SimpoEdge 45 day Free Trial

I think most of you know Siemens is a HUGE company.  Yet, as big as we are, we can’t do everything. It’s important to have great partners that can help us bring all the best technologies to our …