The CAD model at its very core, like the engineering drawing before it, is primarily a means of documentation and communication. CAD technologies continue to ease the creation and manipulation of increasingly intricate 3D models across a dizzying array of…
At the Supplier Management Council meeting in March, a number of participants voiced interest in learning more about NAS3500, TECHNICAL DATA PACKAGE: COMPOSITION, COMMUNICATION, AND APPLICATION. NAS3500 offers guidance that will enable the aerospace supply chain at every level, Learn…
Is your organization moving to MBE? Discover tools that are now available to you. Click here to watch informational videos and learn more……
New White Paper – “Visualization vs. Communication: Enabling the Model Based Enterprise” is now on the 3DPDF Consortium website. Click to read here……
An interesting discussion in World Press about the price of Catia. Note the comments posted at the bottom of the discuss, as there at least two sides to every story.
RSI recently attended the NIST TDP Standards Development Summit held in December 2011 in Washington. The focus was on Technical Data Package composition in a model-based enterprise (MBE).
Managing Automation Magazine has a nice article on the new DISCUS Connect software. This software allows the sharing of technical data package (TDP) contents with suppliers and customers, provides a workflow for routing FAI approvals, and a dashboard of key…
PTC announced significant enhancements to their Windchill product line. Click here for more information.
Siemens is bolstering their offerings in the CAD 3D space by acquiring Vistagy.
The Northrop and Boeing folks will be hosting the next annual Global Product Data Interoperability Summit in Chandler, Arizona this November. I’ve had the opportunity to attend for the last two years and both events were excellent. Ken Tashiro from…