{"id":566,"date":"2013-09-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/CTO-Paul-Sicking-Discusses-Industry-Catalyst-Series-PLM\/ba-p\/335163"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:29:35","slug":"cto-paul-sicking-discusses-industry-catalyst-series-plm-components-4gd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/cto-paul-sicking-discusses-industry-catalyst-series-plm-components-4gd\/","title":{"rendered":"CTO Paul Sicking Discusses Industry Catalyst Series, PLM Components &#038; 4GD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Siemens PLM Software CTO Paul Sicking at analyst event\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7301\/9677958565_a4b4edf998.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><BR \/><BR \/>I caught up with our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/leadership\/sicking.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CTO Paul Sicking<\/A> at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/tag\/analyst-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">analyst event<\/A> to get his take on a few items, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/facts_philosophy\/industry-approach\/catalyst-series.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Industry Catalyst Series<\/A>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/newsroom\/press\/press_release.cfm?Component=213971&amp;ComponentTemplate=822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Belmont Technology<\/A>&nbsp;news and 4GD (4th Generation Design). He summarized our Industry Catalyst Series as:<BR \/><\/P><BLOCKQUOTE>Taking out of the box products and tailoring them for particular industries without writing code<\/BLOCKQUOTE><BR \/>Check out our video interview:<!--more--><BR \/><BR \/>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RekzLc9M48s<BR \/><BR \/>Paul also answered questions from industry analysts at the event.<BR \/><BR \/><IMG class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Siemens PLM Software CTO Paul Sicking at analyst event\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7349\/9703933587_f932acec4a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><BR \/><BR \/>If you missed my Q&amp;A with Paul following <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/29\/siemens-plm-cto-paul-sicking-tells-student-engineers-to-go-high-def-with-plm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">his presentation at the recent academic PACE Annual Forum<\/A>, check it out to see what he had to say about what high def (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/facts_philosophy\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">HD-PLM<\/A>) means to the next generation of engineers.<BR \/><BR \/>&#8211; Dora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught up with our CTO Paul Sicking at the&nbsp;analyst event to get his take on a few items, including the Industry Catalyst Series, the&nbsp;Belmont Technology&nbsp;news and 4GD (4th Generation D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61893,"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":[102,1],"tags":[8],"industry":[],"product":[326],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-industry-catalyst","product-teamcenter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","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\/61893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}