Posts Tagged ‘engineering’
Electric Vehicle Symposium 26 – Los Angeles – May 6-9, 2012
Monday, April 30th, 2012
Are you an Electric Vehicle enthusiast interested in seeing a wide range of solutions to enable the electrification of transportation? Join us for EVS26 at the Los Angeles Convention Center!
Siemens will be showcasing our solutions from industry automation for manufacturing and design to EV components and charging solutions.
Displays will include:
- Drive Technology solutions: Information on Siemens’ motors and inverters.
- Private Charging solutions: Showcasing VersiCharge line of products
- Commercial charging solutions: Showcasing variety of public charging solutions
- Electric highway technology (eHighways), showcasing the new environmental way heavy duty trucks can transport items from ports to metropolitan areas.
- Industry Automation solutions: optimal and sustainable battery manufacturing process.
- EV design software solutions
- An electric car that is an electric conversion performed by local engineering students utilizing Siemens PLM software during the EcoCAR competition.
- Siemens Smart Chopper. An all-electric chopper built by the famed American Chopper group.
Siemens will be presenting at 7 sessions, including an open plenary session, on May 7.
Siemens PLM will be there showing our solutions for:
- Anywhere, anytime decision making with Teamcenter mobility
- Improving the decision making process through a systems driven product development process
- Single source of product and process knowledge
We hope that you will come join us at EVS26, next week:
EVS26.org
May 6-9, 2012
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 South Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
If you aren’t attending Siemens PLM Connection in Las Vegas, stop by our booth and say hi. I’ll be at EVS26!
Jerry
NX Hints and Tips – view a model from inside the model
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
We all know how to zoom, pan and rotate around models. But what if you want to view a model from inside the model?
You can use this method to show a correct perspective view from inside a vehicle, a building, or a ship.
This technique uses two NX functions – creating a camera and setting the center of rotation.
Remember that the camera location and perspective are stored with the camera definition, but not the Rotate Point.
Jerry
NX8 Help Videos – Create a path thru complex curves
Monday, March 5th, 2012
This is my second post on the new NX8 help video tutorials. As I mentioned last time, these videos are available to all NX users when they install NX8.
This week, let’s look at a more complex scenario. We create a path through complex curves. Continue reading “NX8 Help Videos – Create a path thru complex curves” »
LEGO World 2012 and Siemens PLM Software
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
The 11th annual LEGO World Fair was held in Copenhagen, Denmark on Feb 16 – Feb 19 2012. In addition to 16 trucks filled with 10 tons of LEGO’s, Siemens PLM was there to demonstrate tools that Lego plans to use to manage the digital world.
Going beyond the physical brick and into augmented reality, video games and mobile applications, Lego is using NX software to design, control and manage the data that is needed to create new products. More than 40,000 people who attended the show were able to see the technology first hand, which is the result of a 20 year partnership with Lego.
Being National Engineers Week in the U.S., it’s important to note that having future engineers see this technology first hand is helping to “inspire the builders of tomorrow”.
P.S. I’m the proud father of an Engineer, that grew up playing with Lego’s! 
Jerry
NX CAE Symposium – Keynotes
Monday, November 7th, 2011
Here is another report from Mark at the Siemens PLM CAE Symposium.
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The NX CAE Symposium kicked off this morning at the Joe Gibbs Racing Facility. Attendees staying at the Hilton were treated to a scenic shuttle ride into the Huntersville facility, with the fall colors at their peak. I found myself impressed by the contemporary architecture of the Joe Gibbs facility and its lush, wooded surroundings. A buffet breakfast consisting of biscuits, sausage, fresh fruit, coffee and juices got everyone off to a great start!
Jon Heidorn, VP of Marketing for the Americas gave the opening address, and welcomed attendees to the first ever NX CAE Symposium.
The opening customer key note was a joint presentation by Mark Bringle and Nelson Cosgrove of Joe Gibbs Racing.
Mark and Nelson entertained the group with numerous NASCAR video clips and interesting facts. I was awed to hear that JGR routinely races 43 cars in every race, every week, and that 21 CNC machines operating in two shifts are required to satisfy the resulting part fabrication demand. I also learned that NASCAR is now broadcast in 150 countries, and in 30 different languages, making it nothing less than a spectator sports super-phenomenon! It was great to hear that JGR employs NX Flow CFD aerodynamic simulations for intensive rock sorting of concepts, postponing the staggering $30,000/day cost of wind tunnel testing until the later stages of the design.
Come back for more from the Symposium.
Mark
Trends in Container Design
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
At PLM Europe, I had the opportunity to attend John Manderfields presentation “NX for Sustainable Packaging”. During his session he discussed the trends for Sustainability, differences between packaging (plastic bottles) in North America versus Europe, and more.
After his session, he sat down with me, and we discussed today’s trends for making plastic bottles.
John Manderfield is the Director of Creative Design, at Consolidated Container Company.
Jerry
From yachts to fashion, with Giorgio Aldini of XFORM s.r.l.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Today at PLM Europe, Giorgio Aldini of XFORM gave his keynote presentation. The title was: From Yachts to Fashion. During his presentation he showed how NX is used in some unconventioal ways. (see presentation below)
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After his presentation, Jan Larsson interviewed him an asked him to discuss some of his projects.
Jerry
How PLM Propels Innovation at Mercury Marine
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Next up on the podium is John Bayless, Director, Strategy & Program Management Mercury Marine Mercury Marine is the world’s leading manufacturer of recreational marine propulsion engines.
John is talking about the way things were at Mercury. They had gone from two engineering sites in the USA to six engineering site globally. The product development process was already complex enough without even adding new engineering sites. The product development process had many manual steps, many different sources of data, and many BOMs that had to be manually reconciled! The engineering change process used multiple systems and it was not automated. Before the Business Process Transformation the product design data and project data was stored and managed in multiple systems which lead to longer lead times in their product development process. Continue reading “How PLM Propels Innovation at Mercury Marine” »
Changing Positions –Engineering an Ecosystem
Monday, February 28th, 2011
If you are reading Dora’s Engineering Week posts the last few days, you may have seen some comments by Scott Wertel on the flexibility of an engineering degree, how social media can help you connect with others, and even the importance of ethics and ideals in the profession.
Interestingly, while he was writing this, I was in the process of changing positions from the Solid Edge Simulation product manager to the director of 3rd party ecosystems for Velocity. So what does this mean? Continue reading “Changing Positions –Engineering an Ecosystem” »
Engineers Week: Scott Wertel Interview Part 1
Monday, February 21st, 2011
To all current and prospective engineers out there, happy Engineers Week! We’d like to start this week with an interview with Scott Wertel, a degreed mechanical engineer and registered professional engineer in the state of Arizona. He is also a member of NSPE, ASME and SAE, as well as a blogger and Twitterer.
Scott began his career on the drafting board, and has progressed in 3D modeling through nearly every CAD package, including our NX and Solid Edge, as well as CATIA, SolidWorks, Pro/Engineer and Alibre Design.
See part 1 of our interview below where Scott addresses why he became an engineer, career highlights, how engineering has changed since he graduated and why he blogs.
On blogging, Scott notes: “I would like to think that my little corner of world and the experiences I share are being read by at least one young engineer who is able to use these experiences to further their career in a positive direction.”
Continue reading “Engineers Week: Scott Wertel Interview Part 1” »
