{"id":1458,"date":"2011-05-10T19:21:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T02:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Nick-Becker-AM-General-Insights-into-Dimensional-Planning-and\/ba-p\/334692"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:33:37","slug":"nick-becker-am-general-insights-into-dimensional-planning-and-validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/nick-becker-am-general-insights-into-dimensional-planning-and-validation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Becker, AM General &#8211; Insights into Dimensional Planning and Validation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Last week at PLM Connection I caught up with Nick Becker, Quality Control Engineer from AM General to get some further insight into how AM General is using Dimensional Planning and Validation (DPV).<BR \/><BR \/>Nick talks about the value of a single source of production quality information and the time and cost savings to production personnel in the critical phase of production ramp-up.&nbsp; Expanding on this I asked Nick about how DPV has increased the clarity of quality information through the integration of as-built quality measurements with product and production resources&nbsp;for fixing quality issues faster by taking much of the guess-work out of the equation.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oM1bMgRYiwc\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/>For more information about DPV, visit our <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/quality_mgmt\/dim_plan_val\/index.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tecnomatix&nbsp;DPV landing page<\/A>&nbsp;for capabilities and other&nbsp;associated information.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week at PLM Connection I caught up with Nick Becker, Quality Control Engineer from AM General to get some further insight into how AM General is using Dimensional Planning and Validation (DPV). &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61900,"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":[331],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","product-tecnomatix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","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\/61900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}