{"id":1060,"date":"2011-05-04T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T17:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Interview-with-Bill-Allen-from-JPL\/ba-p\/334671"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:04:46","slug":"interview-with-bill-allen-from-jpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/interview-with-bill-allen-from-jpl\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Bill Allen from JPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>How often do you get a chance to talk to a guy that gets to send things into space?  OK, maybe it happens to you all the time, but for me it was a rare treat.&nbsp; Bill Allen from <A href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/A> in Pasadena, CA spoke during the main NX session on Monday at PLM Connection and I caught up with him afterwords.&nbsp; In the video I ask Bill about some of the unique challenges of designing products for space flight (no product recalls after launch here) and the key to the future of decision making.<!--more--><BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fC3Ns7E08j4\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>Related post: I guess Dora Smith gets to talk to guys that send things into space all the time&#8230;since she <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/william-allen-of-nasa-jpl-at-plm-connection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">interviewed Bill Allen at last year<\/A>&#8216;s PLM Connection (I like my set better ;-)).<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often do you get a chance to talk to a guy that gets to send things into space?  OK, maybe it happens to you all the time, but for me it was a rare treat.&nbsp; Bill Allen from NASA&#8217;s Jet Propuls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}