{"id":2326,"date":"2008-05-20T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/The-road-ahead\/ba-p\/333565"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:18:31","slug":"the-road-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/the-road-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"The road ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Chuck Grindstaff took the stage again, this time as a presenter rather than a host.&nbsp; He outlined the development themes that he uses to help guide our product development investment decisions:<BR \/><UL><BR \/>\t<LI>Collaboration &#8211; connect people and process<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Automation &#8211; Establish environment to manage change<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Variety &#8211; support highly complex product structures<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Deployment &#8211; get into the hands of the users quickly<\/LI><BR \/>\t<LI>Knowledge &#8211; capture and reuse<\/LI><BR \/><\/UL><BR \/>He then went into a deep dive on each of the product areas showing examples of how the capabilities had been enhanced over the past year in line with those themes.&nbsp; Chuck ended his presentation with an explanation of Synchronous Technology.<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/siemens.pmhclients.com\/images\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriterTheroadahead_D0F5ChuckGrindstaff.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><\/A><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/05\/WindowsLiveWriterTheroadahead_D0F5ChuckGrindstaff_thumb.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2528\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/05\/WindowsLiveWriterTheroadahead_D0F5ChuckGrindstaff_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"WindowsLiveWriterTheroadahead_D0F5ChuckGrindstaff_thumb\" width=\"376\" height=\"283\" \/><\/A>&nbsp;<BR \/><\/P><BLOCKQUOTE>Synchronous Technology lets everyone do their job the way they want to and still all work together<\/BLOCKQUOTE><BR \/>Chuck explained that what makes this possible is the application layer that solves for logic, geometry, interaction model and constraints simultaneously.&nbsp; He also setup the next two launch presentations by clearly stating that it will be in equal capabilities in both NX and Solid Edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Grindstaff took the stage again, this time as a presenter rather than a host.&nbsp; He outlined the development themes that he uses to help guide our product development investment decisions:  &#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-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","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=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}