Siemens Digital Industries Software Blog Network

Siemens Digital Industries Software Blogs

NX Manufacturing

Nest flat patterns of NX sheet metal assemblies with Sigma Nest

NX and Solid Edge include very powerful sheet metal design capabilities and figure as an important part of the engineering solution for sheet metal fabricators. Nesting and fabrication applications a...

Electronic Systems Design

How the Free Land Pattern Creator in PADS will save you time! : Part 1

In this 5-part blog series I’ll focus on cool features and tips and tricks that will enable you to get...

By John McMillan

NX Quick Tips: Fill Surface

This post has moved to the NX Design Knowledge Base. The complete NX Quick Tips video series can be found here. Jerry

By JerrySarfati

Active Workspace 2.1: Improved Performance and Usability

Active Workspace increases your productivity by providing access to PLM when and where you need it, allowing you to find what you need faster

By Robert_Hidajat

Shop Floor Work Instructions Made Easier

How do you create the work instructions for your shop floor workers? How do you reconcile them with the manufacturing structure? How do you communicate changes?

By Margaret Furleigh

Selecting the best hardware to enhance your design productivity

Selecting the best hardware to enhance your design productivity can be tricky - its certainly harder than trying out new software. Free trials of many software solutions are easily available&nbs...

By DavidChadwick

Changes Around the Community

You might notice that some changes have already taken place, and in the future, there will be more. Q&A areas will be merged into the Forums. We are still going to provide an area to...

Three weeks and counting...

Riding the wave of success from the long-running, annual German Plant Simulation User meeting held in October 2013, we are proud to present the first Plant Simulation Worldwide User Conferenc...

NASA Goddard uses Femap to help develop the next-generation space telescope

NASA is using Femap to help develop a time machine. Scheduled for launch in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will operate 1.5 million kilometers above the Earth. It’s ambitious mission is ...

Latest podcast episodes

The Industry Forward Podcast with Dale Tutt

Ep 30 - The Shift-Left in Supply Chain with Richard Barnett - Part 2

December 19, 2025

Welcome to the Industry Forward Podcast with Dale Tutt, the show where we examine industry and technology trends with the...

FutureCast 2026 — Part 2: Specialization, power, and intelligent verification

December 16, 2025

In Part 2 of the special FutureCast 2026 holiday series, Harry Foster continues exploring how the semiconductor landscape is rapidly changing — and why the next phase of innovation will be shaped as much by constraints as by breakthroughs.

What agentic AI means for the design process

December 12, 2025

As it continues to develop, artificial intelligence is starting to be applied across many different sectors of industry with equally...

By Spencer Acain