Posts Tagged ‘analyst’
Introducing NX8 for Simulation Productivity
Monday, October 17th, 2011
NX 8 for simulation productivity Drastically reduce the time you spend preparing and solving analysis models by up to 70 percent. Siemens has strengthened and expanded upon the technologies from its long simulation legacy and has brought them together to form NX CAE, a modern and integrated high-end analysis environment, and NX Nastran, a premium finite element solver. NX 8 introduces over 200 new capabilities to both NX CAE and NX Nastran that enable you to rapidly build, update and simulate analysis models, make smarter engineering decisions and deliver better products faster.
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Interview with analyst Peter Thorne
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Peter Thorne is Managing Director, Cambashi, IT/PLM Industry Analysts & Consultants based in Cambridge, England. I had first met Peter almost 20 years ago in Cambridge when he was a manager with the Siemens software team in Cambridge and I was the product manager for Parasolid in Cambridge. I met Peter in Scottsdale during the COFES2010 conference rin April 2010. Peter in his capacity as the managing director of Cambashi consults with many customers, and has unique insight into European companies, and their challenges and priorities.
Peter was kind of enough to sit down for this interview. He believes the next big opportunity is to integrate Requirements Management, System Engineering and product development into a seamless process.
Analyst Event: Adams Golf
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Adams Golf started as a fairway woods manufacturer. Today, they provide the #1 hybrid on the PGA tour. Check out my interview with Tim Reed, vice president of R&D.
Tim shared how their staff of 20 in R&D work in an accelerated development process called RNPD – rapid new product development.
Their product development cycle is six to nine months. Yet they’ve had some as short as six weeks.
That cycle requires a flexible, adaptable PLM system. One that can help Adams achieve these tenets for their clubs: world-class performance, visibly unique and demonstrably superior.
One of the more interesting uses of our technology by Adams is in the area of simulation. They use NX Flow for aerodynamics on their clubs. They’ve test them in wind tunnels and used our CFD functionality to validate the results.
It was also interesting to hear about the challenges golf club manufacturers face by limits set by the USPGA. Adams noted as driver heads got bigger, ball speeds went up. The USPGA started setting constraints on volume and size and even inertia in the golf club design. But even with those challenges, Adams continues to push the bar. They told me they file close to 50 patents a year.
Adams noted that they don’t pay any of the PGA golfers to use their clubs. Yet their clubs are the choice of leading players, such as Tom Watson, Bernhard Langer, Chad Campbell, Aaron Baadeley, Yani Tseng, and Brittany Lincicome.
Interview: Allan Behrens
Friday, October 24th, 2008
I was able to catch Allan Behrens, director of Cambashi, in the hall before the conclusion of the analyst event and he provided us with his opinion of Helmuth Ludwig’s presentation and the exiderdome.
Meet the Future of Manufacturing
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
There is one word that summarizes the future. It doesn’t have to do with innovation, manufacturing, or even politics. Future consumer choices will be shaped by emotions! The future will not be driven by what technology can do, it will be driven by how people will want to live. And it’s changing, profoundly, how we manufacture.
These statements were delivered by Futurist Patrick Dixon during his keynote speech at the analyst event in the exiderdome. He provided the audience with these and many other thoughts about the future of manufacturing but two words struck me. Convergence and Divergence.
Patrick says that we live in a time of convergence. For example, a car manufactured today may contain the same chassis, same body, same color of car #2 but stamped with a different logo and sold at different prices. The future of manufacturing is headed down the road to divergence (10+ years) which is directly related to his statements about emotion. He defines the two as the following:
Convergence – more features, identical products, economy of scale.
Divergence – doing things different to serve consumers better.
You can listen to *most* of Patrick’s talk below. About 10-15 minutes into his talk, the AV guy gave me a feed from his mic and I was able to capture about the last hour of his talk and the Q&A.
Meeting of the minds
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
All great events require planning. Here we have four of the great minds of Siemens PLM Software collaborating prior to the analyst event that begins tonight on the Siemens exiderdome in Boston Harbor.
L to R: Dave Shirk, Shaun Ennis, Bill Carrelli, and Helmuth Ludwig
Right now, it is time to mingle with some of the analysts about their thoughts on the exiderdome and what motivated them to come to this event.
Excited about the “Dome”
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Next Wednesday and Thursday, I will be traveling to Boston, MA to visit Siemens’ Exiderdome, a multimedia traveling expo. The exiderdome will be docked at the Seaport World Trade Center, Marine Terminal at Seaport Blvd. (between B Street and World Trade Center Ave.) on Boston Inner Harbor.
All events are FREE – who is going to join me?
The reason for my attendance is to cover several sessions on this blog, including:
- Keynote by Futurist Dr. Patrick Dixon. Check out his blog and his website
- Highlights from an Exiderdome tour, as if you were there. Maybe this should be a pictorial post, thoughts?
- Industrial IT update by our president Helmuth Ludwig
- Customer roundtable from Kenneth Tardif, engineering supervisor from Hardigg Industries who will speak about their early experiences using Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology
- And a few topics in breakout sessions on Innovation Management, synchronous technology and Mechatronics.
If you’re a facebook user, become a fan because I plan to post all the pics that don’t make it to the blog! For now, check out the video of the Exiderdome from YouTube below.
3 days to 2 minutes for CAE analysts with synchronous technology in NX
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Probably the most asked question about synchronous technology is “how real is the 100x claim?” An editor who recently attended some hands-on training noted afterwards that he could now see how 100x is very real. But it means even more from a customer.
I just got out of a session by Remi Duquette of MAYA HTT. (To be fair, MAYA both uses our software in customer simulation projects and resells it as well.) Remi was presenting on “CAD-Neutral Yet CAD-Associative Thermal and CFD Analysis Leveraging NX Design Freedom Powered by Synchronous Technology.” A long title but a very interesting presentation highlighting how much time ST in NX is going to save CAE users.
I asked Remi how much time. He noted that a model that took a few days in the past now takes less than 2 minutes. So if my math is correct that’s more than 2,000X faster. In addition, one of his customers noted a particular model took 35 days and Remi used NX to do it in 5 minutes.
How does ST in NX enable this? Well previously it was quite a challenge for analysts to come up with the fluid or air geometry (the empty stuff in a model). They just received the outer geometry and had to design the space between components. He noted that the multi-CAD part of ST helps since often analysts don’t know the originating CAD program.
Remi said “the design intelligence behind ST creates the volume automatically.” He also noted that ST makes NX really intuitive to use, which is helpful for CAE users who aren’t CAD jockeys. They don’t have to know how an assembly was built.
Below are Remi’s slides. He highlights several of the NX ST commands that make life easier for CAE users, namely “delete face”, “boss” & “pocket.” You’ll see an exhaust manifold where he created the volume in just 4 clicks.
Even Edgelings can use it!
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Cory Goulden from National Steel Car was a rockstar for us recently, giving a presentation on his use of Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology at the Siemens PLM Software Analyst Event in Boston. His speaking career picked up and he gave a presentation to Edgers yesterday on his Beta experience. He’s on his way to Toronto next week and will be speaking at the Americas Launch event too.
Here are a few key highlights from his presentation:
- Using Synchronous technology, he was able to edit a part faster than another user using a traditional CAD system. User said, “I figured out how to edit it!” Cory’s response: “I’m done.”
- Implementation – first UI and then move to technology. The implementation process is important for users to consider and Cory was able to identify, based on his experience in our Beta test, that this was the best approach.
Meet another fledging Edgeling, perhaps the youngest Solid Edge user yet! It’s Cory’s 8 year old son, Conor. This video will show you just how easy it is to create a part in Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology.
Conor is a fan of James Dyson and ironically, Dyson is also one of our customers, using NX for design and simulation.
So long, fare well
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
The two days of intensive product information and exciting customer presentations that was the 2008 media and analyst forum came to a close with an panel question and answer session with the executive team, including Tony Affuso, Dr. Helmuth Ludwig, Chuck Grindstaff, John Graham, Dave Shirk, Bill McClure and Steve Bashada. A few selected questions and answers, first from those submitted on cards:
Q: Helmuth, do you view Industrial Software as the next step beyond PLM?
A: Industrial software expands on the concept on PLM in two directions: one by including the production world and the other by connecting with ERP, CRM and SCM.
Q: Chuck, can you explain again how Sync Tech is different from what CoCreate or PTC does?
A: The key thing we are doing is taking direct editing, feature recognition and adding state of the art constraint management to be the only solution that does all three simultaneously.
Also take a look at Evan’s take on Chuck’s answer
Q: John, you noted that 700 people were added to Siemens last year, where those Siemens people or new hires?
A: A majority of those people where in my organization. Some were services, some where direct or channel sales management and some were pre-sale technical support. Some came from Siemens but most came from the market or competitors.
Q: Helmuth, yesterday you talked about the adoption of Siemens PLM Software inside the rest of Siemens, is that all of Siemens or just Industry Automation?
A: The strategy is for the internal adoption to be across all of Siemens and this will be done on a step by step process.
And then a few live questions from the audience:
Q: From Brad Holtz – is there a conversion required to move from Teamcenter Engineering or Teamcenter Enterprise to the Teamcenter unified architecture?
A: Steve – there are two sides. Teamcenter Engineering customers have a seamless upgrade, essentially over a weekend if no customizations have been created. If there are customizations, we have a tool to run to look at them to see if there are custom item types that clash with what we are sending as standard in Teamcenter unified. If you are a Teamcenter Enterprise user there are a number of options. What most Teamcenter Enterprise users have chosen is co-existence where they keep their existing install and start new programs on the new architecture.
Q: From Ken Wong – I’s like to know about the history of Sync Tech? Was it under development before the Siemens acquisition and what did Siemens add to it?
A: Chuck – yes, it was under development in the form of some advanced research and math development. Siemens added the investment resources required to actually complete the development and commercialize it on a much faster timeline than we would have been able to do prior to the acquisition.
Q: Allen Berhens – you mentioned you were expanding Teamcenter into the document management space. Do you se yourself competiting with EMC or IBM in that space?
A: Steve – we have a large base of users already doing document management in Teamcenter Enterprise, so the real expansion will be adding those capabilities (managing data at a granular level and publish in multiple languages) to the Teamcenter unified architecture with a more modern user interface.
Lot’s of good questions, lot’s of good answers. Another great event comes to a close. See you all next year in Boston.
