{"id":5984,"date":"2016-12-19T08:56:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T16:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Simcenter-Blog\/To-Simcenter-Season-s-greetings\/ba-p\/382046"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:49:15","slug":"to-simcenter-seasons-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/to-simcenter-seasons-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"To Simcenter \u2013 Season\u2019s greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>\u201cIt\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year,\u201d<\/STRONG> sings late Andy Williams.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Andy\u2019s tunes resonate in the busy shopping streets, where we desperately seek to buy our loved ones the most original pair of socks.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>It\u2019s that time of the year when we eat and drink more than we should, give our stressful jobs a little rest, but at the same time look forward to a successful execution of <STRONG>healthy resolutions and ambitions<\/STRONG>.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Meanwhile we get slammed with best-of-lists and awards. If a business man, a politician and roughly an animal could have something in common, it would be that they all qualify to receive an annual prize from a committee of so-called experts.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>My favorite? \u2018Word of the Year\u2019<\/STRONG>: the award for most influential word or expression in the public sphere.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>It seems that Germans were first to start such a tradition in 1971, honoring the word <STRONG>\u2018aufm\u00fcpfig\u2019<\/STRONG>, meaning \u2018rebellious, insubordinate\u2019. Great start!<\/P><br \/>\n<P>As one of the organizations that claim this authority for the English speaking region, the Oxford University Press declares common winners for both UK and US since 2013.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Past results show me that I\u2019m not an early adopter. I took my first \u2018selfie\u2019 definitely after 2013, discovered only last summer how to make \u2018The Face with Tears of Joy emoji\u2019, and started \u2018vaping\u2019 just a week ago, hoping to quit smoking by January.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So as an engineer, the idea that somewhere along 2017, I would be joining the trend that led to the \u2018Word of 2016\u2019, is a scary one. The elected <STRONG>\u2018post truth\u2019<\/STRONG>, or <STRONG>\u2018postfaktisch\u2019<\/STRONG> in German, means indeed the increasing tendency to form opinions based on emotions rather than facts.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Luckily,<STRONG> at Siemens PLM Software, we do entirely the opposite. Our mission is to help you describe reality and make predictions based on hard data.<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline\" style=\"width: 999px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_339813575-1.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_339813575.jpg\" title=\"shutterstock_339813575.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/P><br \/>\n<P>In 2016, we launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/simcenter\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Simcenter\u2122 solutions portfolio<\/A>. Simcenter bundles the decades of experience included in well-known products such as <STRONG>LMS Test.Lab, LMS Imagine.Lab, NX Nastran, Femap, Star-CCM+, Heeds<\/STRONG> and more, in a single solution set.&nbsp; And it features <STRONG>Simcenter 3D<\/STRONG> as combined successor of NX CAE, <STRONG>LMS Virtual.Lab and LMS Samtech<\/STRONG>.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Simcenter underpins our vision of <STRONG>Predictive Engineering Analytics<\/STRONG>: the application of multi-discipline simulation and test, combined with intelligent reporting and data analytics, to develop digital twins that can predict product behavior for all performance attributes, throughout the entire lifecycle.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Implementing such an approach will help you <STRONG>be more effective when delivering the innovations<\/STRONG> that <STRONG>make aircrafts safer, cars smarter, energy cleaner<\/STRONG> and more.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Bringing Simcenter to market was a major milestone for us and, we hope, just a glimpse of what <STRONG>the new era of engineering<\/STRONG> will bring.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Our New Year\u2019s resolution is to continue supporting engineers who, just like us, <STRONG>show the ambition to be aufm\u00fcpfig (insubordinate) to the post truth (postfaktisch) trend<\/STRONG>, and <STRONG>make the active verb \u2018to Simcenter\u2019 eligible for \u2018Word of 2017\u2019<\/STRONG>!<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Meanwhile, on behalf of the entire Simcenter Community team, we wish you a <STRONG>Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. <\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>To Simcenter!<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center\" style=\"width: 600px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/Siemens-PLM-2017-Chinese-lanterns-600x600-bh-A2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Siemens-PLM-2017-Chinese-lanterns-600x600-bh-A2.jpg\" title=\"Siemens-PLM-2017-Chinese-lanterns-600x600-bh-A2.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year,\u201d sings late Andy Williams.<br \/>\n Andy\u2019s tunes resonate in the busy shopping streets, where we desperately seek to buy our loved ones the most original pair of s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49782,"featured_media":5990,"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-5984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_339813575-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}