Open your shop’s doors to new markets with adaptive systems

Machine shop owners hate waste. They are hawks on machine downtime, bristle at the time lag during functional hand-offs and go ballistic when mistakes threaten delivery delays. Yet too many machine s…

Why you need a digital strategy for future manufacturing

The world of manufacturing continues to evolve as it becomes increasingly global and digital. Many manufacturing companies are struggling to make the transition to digital manufacturing. But the comp…

Distracted driving and autonomous car safety

Stories of autonomous cars and the testing different automakers are conducting to prepare these cars for the market frequently hit the news. But we don’t often hear about how the systems in autonomou…

Generative design exploits additive manufacturing processes

Additive manufacturing is about to become even more critical to manufacturers in highly competitive industries thanks to a relatively new design capability called generative design.

Genera…

Digital twin technology’s synergies in aerospace, automotive

The aerospace and automotive industries share a great deal in common, especially when it comes to leveraging the value of digital twin technology: In fact, some have suggested that aerospace and auto…

How will autonomous cars look as they hit the road?

As the editor-in-chief for the Siemens PLM Thought Leadership blog, I enjoy learning about the work my colleagues do and the conversations they’re having in their respective industries.

I …

Siemens’ advantage with connected vehicles

You’re not imagining things: traffic on roads is getting worse. Congestion records continue to be broken all over the United States and the world, and the problem won’t get better on its own.
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Manufacturers: get ready for the algorithms

The latest biological research suggests that all animal life on Earth is best described as meat-based algorithms. From the fruit fly to the killer whale, animal behavior is the result of survival log…

Engineering our way out of the skills gap

 
A few years ago when I took on my current role, one of our industry analysts asked me if there really was a skills gap. He had seen conflicting reports.
Even recently, MIT’s Technology R…