Posts Tagged ‘product development’
Siemens at EVS26 – Recap
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
In my last post, I gave an overview of Siemens’ participation in EVS26.
EVS26 was a conference and exhibit event for electric vehicles and the electric drive industry. The topics covered included; Electric Cars, Electric Vehicles, EV Charging and Refueling, Auto Marketing, Environmental Policy, and Transportation Policy. The event included:
- Presentations, workshops, seminars and keynote speakers.
- A Ride, Drive & Charge event, where the public and registered attendees could test the latest battery, plug-in hybrid, and fuel cell electric drive vehicles, bikes and scooters.
- Exhibits from EV automakers, technology developers, manufacturers, infrastructure companies.
Now that everyone is back home, I wanted to give you a brief recap of the show.
First of all, the booth; Wow! As you can see, it was gorgeous, and packed with Siemens technology.
Siemens Displays included:
- 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 also had a large number of speakers at the conference, including Daryl Dulaney CEO, I&C Sector.
How the Smart Grid will power Electric Cars – Video
As an EV/Alternative fuel enthusiast, I was extremely excited to see this glimpse of the future.
If you want more information on Siemens at EVS26 Click here.
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
NX 8 for CAM and Tooling
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
As I mentioned before, NX 8 contains over 400 customer focused projects across the entire product. One of the areas that I’d like to highlight is CAM and Tooling (as we call it, Manufacturing).
Following is an interview with Mirko Bäcker of our European team discussing NX 8 for manufacturing.
Jerry
Teamcenter at PLM Europe
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Eduard Marfa is Director EMEA Marketing – Teamcenter. I spoke with him this week about Teamcenter 8.3 momentum.
In our video interview, he discusses how customers are adopting 8.3, and how High Definition PLM is transforming decision making.
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
What’s new in NX 8 Product Design
Monday, October 17th, 2011
NX 8 contains over 400 customer focused projects across the entire product. In product deisgn, some of these include:
- Modular design NX introduces a modular design capability that simplifies modeling and editing of complex designs, and enables parallel work by multiple designers.
- Feature-based modeling A new feature browser provides a visually rich graphic view of features and their relations that helps you to more quickly and intuitively understand design intent and the impacts of design changes.
- New Patterning. You can now create patterns with a wider selection of layouts that included linear, polygon, along, reference, circular spiral or general options. You can also fill a specified boundary with a pattern feature, create symmetric patterns in linear layout, stagger columns or rows and radiate patterns in circular or polygon layouts.
- Synchronous modeling The fourth release of NX featuring synchronous technology, NX 8 includes improved synchronous modeling capabilities that improve modeling flexibility and enable evaluation of more design alternatives in less time.
- Freeform modeling NX 8 enhances freeform design with streamlined workflows and enhanced controls for a wide range curve and surface operations, including edge matching, sweeping, bridge and extension surfaces, variable offsets, curve fitting and alignment, blending and spline editing.
- Assembly design NX 8 features a constraint navigator that makes it easier to find and work on assembly constraints and resolve issues. Available from the resource bar, the constraint navigator displays configurable columns of information and options that enable you to group constraint information by components, by constraints, and by status.
- Routed systems design Routing applications in NX 8 help you automate part selection and placement to reduce modeling time. You can automatically select and place parts based on destination characteristics and run definition, with part search criteria based on defined rules and relationships.
- Sheet metal design Sheet metal design in NX 8 is improved with capabilities for modeling in the context of an assembly. You can now create associative flanges using existing geometry to control the extent and angle of the flange.
- Re-use The NX Reuse Library, a common platform for all re-usable design elements, has been enhanced with additional library management tools that enable you to add or remove libraries, edit properties, control the visibility and specify which libraries are available to NX applications.
- Visualization The visualization tools in NX have been enhanced with advanced realtime shading and rendering tools that deliver new levels of realism for aesthetic design review and validation.
- Drafting NX 8 drafting tools have been enhanced with a set of commands for creating and editing your own custom drawings templates.
- NX help documentation NX8 features a new look and feel and navigational aids for NX documentation. The new user interface makes it easier to find information and browse contents.
That’s a long list, but I’ve barely scratched the surface. To get all the details, take a look at What’s New in NX 8 .
Jerry
The importance of supporting office tools in Apparel & Retail product development
Friday, July 15th, 2011
Let’s face it: the reality is Microsoft tools are used in every industry to support communication and collaboration among the product development team, and their extended value chain. It has become a necessity for PLM systems to integrate seamlessly with the likes of outlook, excel, and sharepoint. It’s why Teamcenter, including Teamcenter for Softlines, Hardlines, & Footwear (SH&F), was built with this paradigm in mind. The biggest challenge to adopting a software system into the enterprise is getting people to use the system, and training them on effectively using it to increase productivity. We have alleviated that challenge considerably in Teamcenter for SH&F through an easy-to-use interface that has integration to MS tools we use every day, like Outlook and Excel. Imagine being able to take information offline into an excel spreadsheet, and having your changes update in real time within Teamcenter while your security privileges are maintained; or signing off on a task on your smartphone while traveling, to keep a line plan on target to meet your in store date. All is a reality with Teamcenter for SH&F.
If you get a chance, take a look at Tec Evaluation Center’s blog piece on this topic.
Preview of the New NX Help Libraries
Friday, May 6th, 2011
At PLM Connection 2011, I caught up with Gregg Makepeace, the NX Technical Documentation Manager at Siemens PLM Software. Gregg was demonstrating some of the new features coming in the NX help libraries.
In this video, Gregg shows us some examples. Continue reading “Preview of the New NX Help Libraries” »
