Innovation: Past, Present, and Future (part 2)

 See the previous entry (past) here 

Here we are at the present; facing the challenges of designing tomorrow’s products. As the next generation of products comes int…

Spring Cleaning 101: NX Style

Ahh, the first signs of spring in the United States! Sunshine, blue skies, and the promise that summer is just around the corner. Everything seems new–except that old pile of junk sitting in the att…

Northwestern Engineering Challenge

Think back to when you were a junior in college and studying engineering. Now imagine that you have 10 weeks to take an idea from a 4 th grader and turn that idea into a viable product. That is exac…

CMM: What to Expect with Sample Migration

One of the biggest questions for users considering a move to NX is, “What about all of my data?” The Siemens migration team answers this question with our industry best CAD migration tool, the Conten…

Generative Design Discussion with Bob Haubrock

Generative design is a topic you’ve likely heard mentioned before today. Everyone in the PLM industry is talking about it, but few actually have the capabilities.  As part of our on-going discus…

CMM for Solidworks: Configurations

The Content Migration Manager supports migration of Solidworks data, and is currently compatible with Solidworks 2015-2017. A unique aspect of CMM for this setup is the migration of configurations. N…

Are You in The Auto Industry? You Don’t Want to Miss This

On April 10 th , Industry Week will be providing a free webinar on the next generation of design for the automotive and transportation industries. Dave Lauzun, (Vice President of Automotive and Trans…

Hackrod Challenges Traditional Manufacturing with NX

New and innovative. Two words we love to hear. For those of you who haven’t hear of Hackrod, they are a digital manufacturing company that uses new methods of design for the next generation of automo…

NX Bracket Challenge

So just one week in to March Madness, and my bracket is toast. Absolute toast. One small consolidation is that I’m definitely not alone. It was a wild weekend.

So now what? There are “cons…