Aberdeen recently published a research report entitled “Jumpstarting Production Planning and Preparation.” This research is timely because it focuses on design for manufacturing and activities related to process planning in the world of the model-based enterprise. A few key extracts from…
For those of you interested in a Blog that gets into the details of integrating and customizing the suite of PTC tools (Pro/E, Intralink, etc.), you may be interested in this web site…
Here is an interesting article that provides the 25 best open source alternatives to enterprise applications (e.g DimDim over Webex, SugarCRM instead of Seibel, Zenoss over HP OpenView). It’s worth taking a look… In addition, there is a web site…
I came across this whitepaper entitled “Going from 2D-to-3D: Why Make the Change Now“. In one section the author discusses the benefits of opting 3D CAD over 2D CAD and makes an interesting analogy. With 2D CAD, your documentation package…
Aberdeen published a research report entitled, “Design for X: 3D as the Collaborative Medium“. For those of you not aware the name ‘Design for X’ is talking about Design for Manufacturing, Design for Testing, Design for Maintainability, etc. While the report was…
Siemens AG is the German global giant that purchased the Unigraphics PLM company and subsequently renamed it Siemens PLM… Well, according to a recent article, the justice department has found Siemens guilty of paying more than a billion dollars in…
Another interesting article on model centric design – A landmark study from Aberdeen Group reports that 85% of the current CAD users still primarily use 2D drafting. This astonishing statistic means that most companies use CAD software as a drafting…
Longview Advisors recently published the results from their survey on “3D collaboration and Interoperability“. Some of the interesting comments: “SolidWorks and Pro/ENGINEER are the most often used primary CAD systems among survey respondents… CATIA and NX, while still leading in…
I found an interesting whitepaper entitled “5 Secrets for Making the Model-Based Enterprise a Reality“: Leading aerospace and defense companies are aggressively pursuing the Model-Based Enterprise as a means to accelerate product development… there are enough prominent examples of problems…
An interesting article from Bjarne Strostrup, one of the creators of the C++ programming language. He talks about high school education and gives advice to working developers: “Serious programming is a team sport, brush up on your social skills. The sloppy fat…