{"id":1494,"date":"2012-05-08T10:43:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Kinecting-Microsoft-and-Siemens-PLM-Technology\/ba-p\/334878"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:08:59","slug":"kinecting-microsoft-and-siemens-plm-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/kinecting-microsoft-and-siemens-plm-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinecting Microsoft and Siemens PLM Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>IMHO, one of the most&nbsp;inspirational&nbsp;keynotes yesterday came from Simon Floyd, Director, Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management Solutions at Microsoft. Simon, <a title=\"Simon Floyd\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/FloydInnovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">@floydinnovation<\/A>, began with this video.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zpwANN22lNY\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>How many embedded technologies have you encountered? I counted 25 out of 45 that I have personally worked with and I didn&#8217;t even count the Siemens mention \ud83d\ude09<BR \/><BR \/>I caught up with Simon in the Microsoft booth later in the afternoon yesterday. We had a fabulous conversation about what Microsoft is doing (in partnership with Siemens PLM) to add value for users. He was kind enough to provide this video.<BR \/><BR \/><!--more--><BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Pqj-OQsc6s0\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>While Simon and I were chatting, my colleague Andy started driving the Fiat car and I captured this video. So how does this relate to PLM? It&#8217;s not so much about gaming, but the underlying technology and the application for real world use cases. The example that even my mom can understand is a doctor who is in surgery. While operating on a patient, you wouldn&#8217;t want him to stop and flip through paper-based MRI or XRay results. If he can simply turn around, swipe his hand in the air to flip through the results, this provides the most effective (and healthy) way a doctor can have all the information at his fingertips (pun intended).<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HCyg2j-pybc\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>About halfway through the video above, Simon mentions our <a title=\"Tecnomatix\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tecnomatix <\/A>Jack product is using this today. I did see a tweet from Tim Egloff yesterday about a demo he did and Tecnomatix&#8217;s use of the Kinect tecnology. We&#8217;ll wait for his report. For now, check out the <a title=\"The Kinect Effect\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=diy7rkWkDtU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Kinect Effect video<\/A> that Simon also shared.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMHO, one of the most&nbsp;inspirational&nbsp;keynotes yesterday came from Simon Floyd, Director, Innovation and Product Lifecycle Management Solutions at Microsoft. 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