{"id":1416,"date":"2012-10-24T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T00:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/NX-CAE-Symposium-2012-2nd-day-afternoon-sessions\/ba-p\/335034"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:27:11","slug":"nx-cae-symposium-2012-2nd-day-afternoon-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/nx-cae-symposium-2012-2nd-day-afternoon-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"NX CAE Symposium 2012 &#8211; 2nd day, afternoon sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Dan Mekker of Siemens energy gave the afternoon keynote, speaking at length about the role of, and challenges associated with CAE for global product development.&nbsp; I really liked the notion of integrating analysis quality checks into standard analysis workflows.&nbsp; Dan also got me thinking about technology harmonization, particularly in the context of large organizations that are constantly expanding their portfolios through strategic acquisitions.<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-13565 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/nx-cae-symposium-2012-2nd-day-afternoon-session\/dsc01765\/\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13565\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/10\/DSC01765-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>Ajmal Ansari of Lear presented his thermal analysis of a DC to AC inverter that Lear produces for hybrid vehicle powertrains.<BR \/><BR \/><!--more--><BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-13566 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/nx-cae-symposium-2012-2nd-day-afternoon-session\/dsc01766\/\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13566\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/10\/DSC01766-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>Michael Smith illustrated Caterpillar&#8217;s journey from I-DEAS to NX, detailing the comparison studies that lead to the NX decision, and the subsequent collaboration with Siemens to fine tune and tailor the solution to their needs.<BR \/><BR \/>The late afternoon concluded with two composites-themed presentations, by Alastair Komus (CIC) and Olivier Guillermin (SPLM) respectively.&nbsp; Alastair shared his work on a composites-based electric hybrid vehicle, with laminate structural analysis.<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-13591 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/nx-cae-symposium-2012-2nd-day-afternoon-session\/dsc01768\/\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13591\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/10\/DSC01768-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>Olivier gave the audience an overview of Siemens PLM Software&#8217;s solutions for composite design and simulation, as well a preview of what&#8217;s in the pipeline.<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-13590 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/nx-cae-symposium-2012-2nd-day-afternoon-session\/dsc01770\/\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13590\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/10\/DSC01770-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/>The day ended with prizes for 4 lucky attendees who&#8217;s completed feedback forms were picked via lucky draw.&nbsp; After two days of engaging CAE discussion, technology updates, laughs, laps and more &#8211; NX CAE Symposium 2012 has come to an end.&nbsp; Thanks for riding along, and see you next year!<BR \/><BR \/>Mark<BR \/><\/P><P style=\"text-align: center\"><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-13579 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/nx-cae-symposium-2012-2nd-day-afternoon-session\/dsc01672\/\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13579\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/10\/DSC01672-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" \/><\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Mekker of Siemens energy gave the afternoon keynote, speaking at length about the role of, and challenges associated with CAE for global product development.&nbsp; I really liked the notion of in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45655,"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":[226],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","product-nx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","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\/45655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}