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They said what? Getting Good Information

January 06, 2009

Over the holidays, I made it a point to visit a few CAD sites. While I’ve always been a lurker on Eng-Tips, I created an account this time. Thanks to Franco Folini’s Novedge site, I found...

Updates now available for several products

December 24, 2008

We have just released updates for: Polarion Requirements 2.0 (Version 2.0) [Download] Polarion Track & Wiki (Version 1.0.2) [Download] Polarion ALM (Version 3.2.1) [Download] These ...

Micro-blogging for CAD Designers and Engineers - Part II

December 03, 2008

Micro-blogging is useful for some business situations but Twitter is not always the best tool. Many of us need more secrecy, less noise or simply don’t have a need or desire to follow what people are...

Lockheed Martin F-35 JSF Wins Top AvWeek Award

December 01, 2008

I remember when the F-35 JSF program was awarded to Lockheed Martin. The complexity of its design and development reminded me of the scope of the International Space Station project. Coordinating ...

Micro-blogging for CAD Designers and Engineers - Part I

November 23, 2008

I was watching CNN the other day and saw one of the reporters had a twitter address. If you watch the news, you may have seen a story or two about micro-blogging. It’s a technology somewhere between...

Students Apply Engineering Skills to Solar Car Design

November 19, 2008

Applied skill when I was in college meant writing for the city newspaper run by the Journalism school. The challenge was to apply all that we learned in the classroom into the newsroom under deadline...

Hubbell Sheds Light on New Product Development

November 11, 2008

Kevin Poyck, vice president of Engineering for Hubbell Lighting, faces some of the same challenges of managing chaos that other presenters at this event have shared. He broke down for the audience wh...

Andretti Green on The Need for Speed

November 11, 2008

In the video clip above, Kim Green - owner & CEO of Andretti Green Racing - reviews some highlights from his presentation. He notes how PLM enabled them to cut down testing time from 50 days to j...

50 Percent of the Planet’s R&D Spend Comes From the Largest 1k Companies

November 11, 2008

Sitting in a presentation by Barry Jaruzelski, partner and CMO of Booz & Company, reminded me of an HBR article from business school. The article outlined the three categories market leaders fall...

Latest podcast episodes

Education, Technology, and Sustainability in Humanitarian Engineering

September 20, 2023

Over the years, the effects of climate change have become more extreme and unpredictable. Though climate change is affecting the...

The Future Car with Ed Bernardon

The Changing Face of Mobility and Our Future in Space

September 20, 2023

Space exploration is a fascinating topic for many people. You might have imagined yourself traveling across the stars, visiting different...

Engineer Innovation Podcast

Executable Digital Twins: A Smartwatch for Machines

September 20, 2023

This edition of the Engineer Innovation Podcast is about the engineering challenges involved in designing Forcebit a device that aims to make measurements on rotary drive systems as fast and easy as putting on a smartwatch.

By Stephen Ferguson