April 2009

Software Provides Winning Edge on NASCAR Circuit (Entertainment Engineering)
This article is part of the April 2009 cover story in Entertainment Engineering magazine. It focuses on Siemens PLM Software customer Hendrick Motorsports and their use of Teamcenter and NX to help produce better results on the racetrack. Other NASCAR teams that also use Siemens PLM Software solutions (Joe Gibbs Racing and Roush Fenway Racing) are mentioned as well.

March 2009

A Fork in the Road in 3-D CAD Modeling – Which approach will work best for you? (Design News)
This webcast addresses the ongoing debate in the CAD market over history-based vs. direct modeling. It helps listeners differentiate between these modeling approaches and provides guidance for determine which method – or combination of both -- will work best for your particular design needs.

February 2009

Speeding the Pace of Innovation (Appliance Magazine) February 2009
Speeding the pace of new product development is one of the main objectives for global manufacturer Haier. Eight of Haier Group’s product lines are using product lifecycle management (PLM) technology from Siemens PLM Software, a global division of Siemens Automation and Drives.

Breaking down design-to-analysis walls (Design Engineering)
Feature article focusing on Montreal-based customer MAYA Simulation Ltd. and their use of Teamcenter Simulation to improve productivity in satellite design.

How Synchronous Technology Works (upfront eZine) February 23
A guest editorial written by a third party who has experience with Siemens PLM Software’s NX and Solid Edge solutions, describing in great detail how synchronous technology works and many of the advantages that it offers.

January 2009

What’s In a Name (American Machinist)
While the reporter made some factual errors in this article, it is still a good review of NX and its CAM and CMM capabilities.

Siemens PLM's NX6 Improved with Synchronous Technology (Desktop Engineering)
Written by Al Dean, editor at DEVELOP3D, a UK product development and manufacturing technology journal, this article was published in Desktop Engineering magazine and is a very positive and comprehensive review of Siemens PLM Software’s NX 6 CAD/CAM/CAE solution.

December 2008

Turning Passion into Products (Entertainment Engineering magazine)
Their December issue of this interesting magazine that caters to the design and manufacture of products related to the fields of entertainment, recreation and sports, includes a two page feature on Black Diamond and their use of Teamcenter and NX.

November 2008

Tooling company on the cutting edge (Design Product News) Nov/Dec 2008
After evaluating the available options, Iggesund Tools found that NX and Teamcenter software from Siemens PLM Software best met these criteria...

Flyhing high (Eureka Magazine) November 14, 2008
A new Russian-Italian airliner, powered by Russian-French engines, has successfully taken to the skies thanks to collaborative design using 3D CAD and PLM management ... standardized on the Siemens PLM Teamcenter solution.

CAD/CAM and ERP: Unsung heroes of automation (Shop Talk Magazine, November 2008)
Software like Siemens PLM NX CAM can work directly with the CAD model to produce accurate NC tool paths, saving time, improving quality, and reducing scrap.

October 2008

How is NX 6 being received by customers? (Develop 3D, Oct. 2008) Al Dean talks to Paul Brown, Global Marketing Director, Digital Product Development at Siemens PLM Software about the sixth major release of its flag ship application, NX and how it is being embraced in the market

Siemens + UGS: Is the Merger Working? (Managing Automation) - More than a year after its bold acquisition of UGS, Siemens appears to have successfully absorbed the PLM provider.
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Designing better factories - virtually (Manufacturers Monthly) - Plant design and optimisation services using PLM software is providing cost-effective solutions for India's booming automotive industry.

Solid Edge Gains Efficiency from Synchronous Technology (Desktop Engineering) - Siemens PLM’s latest release combines freeform design with parametric modeling. Siemens PLM Software unveiled the future of its 3D modeling strategy with the launch of Synchronous Technology.

Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology, Part 2 - On the Edge Solid Edge Tutorial (Cadalyst) - In the first article in this series, I said Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology is a ground breaking new way of modeling that will enable you to create your designs faster, edit with unprecedented ease, and work with foreign data as well as talked about why it's so easy to use. In this the second of a five part series, I'll discuss how Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology helps you to capture ideas as fast as you can imagine them.

September 2008

Black Diamond Uses NX to Design New Ski Boots (Desktop Engineering, Sept. 2008) A newcomer to the ski boot business used NX to create a line of boots that challenge products from companies with more than 50 years of experience.

Feature Article - Multi-CAD Enviroments (Automotive Design and Production) - New software technologies are focusing on editing and sharing 3D geometry.

Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology, Part 1 - On the Edge Solid Edge Tutorial (Cadalyst)  - New design practice promises the design freedom of explicit modelers with the parametric control of history-based systems.

August 2008

Fast lessons take to the air (Manufacturing Computer Solutions) -  Lessons learned in successfully applying PLM to ensure the integrity of design enhancements in an F1 racing team are about to be applied in aerospace.

Siemens PLM Software announced Version 6 of NX software (MCAD Cafe) - now available to Siemens customers worldwide. "NX 6 promises to do two things. First, the work done to integrate Siemens PLM Software's synchronous technology should bring on-stream an incredibly powerful way of working that's unlike anything on the market today," said Al Dean, editor, DEVELOP3D Magazine.

July 2008

Boeing Signs Wider Deal With Siemens Software Unit  (Dow Jones) - Siemens PLM Software, a unit of Siemens AG (SI) has signed a long-term agreement with Boeing Co. (BA). Under the pact, Boeing is to use Siemens' product lifecycle management software, called Teamcenter, to integrate data across all parts of the aerospace giant's business.

Boeing To Roll Out Product-Management Software Companywide  (Information Week) - It's part of an effort to improve manufacturing as Boeing faces an order backlog of 3,600 planes, including the delayed Dreamliner 787.

Double feature: Farnborough Air Show features advances in products and PLM  
(Manufacturing Business Technology) - Held every two years, Europe’s Farnborough Air Show is where the global aerospace & defense industry goes to sell its wares. This year, the show also offered an opportunity for Siemens PLM Software to showcase stories from satisfied customers.

June 2008

The big news at the moment is Solid Edge and the launch of Synchronous Technology (Develop 3D, June 2008) With the launch of Synchronous Technology and a new release of Velocity Series, now was the perfect time to catch up with Siemens PLM Software Global VP of Velocity Series Marketing, Bruce Boes.

Pedal to the Metal (Forbes.com) - Institutional memory--and the ability to share it within the organization--is as important as having the fastest race care at the track on Sunday. That's why Hendrick Motorsports uses Teamcenter software.

Rethinking IC Engines  (redOrbit) - An Australian company recently took an idea for an internal combustion engine from idea to prototype in about half a year. They use the computer-aided design software Solid Edge from Siemens PLM Software of Plano, Texas.

PLM Tools Speed Developments  (Manfufacturing Engineering) - Collaborative product development through product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions has reached the critical stage where manufacturers must use virtual development tools in order to meet global time-to-market and quality demands.

May 2008

The Birth of the Virtual Machine, a Quest for Hybrid CAD (Cadalyst magazine) - Archimedes, a classical mathematician who died 2,200 years ago, is about to become part of the PLM (product lifecycle management) lexicon.

Easy innovation: Siemens PLM Software unfurls its Synchronous Technology banner (Manufacturing Business Technology) - Siemens PLM Software heralded its April 2008 announcement of Synchronous Technology (ST) as “the next big breakthrough” in digital product development.

Siemens Launches NX, Velocity Series Upgrades (Design News) - Unlike so-called direct-modeling CAD tools like PTC’s CoCreate, Kubotek's KeyCreator and newcomer Spaceclaim, Siemens PLM Software’s approach doesn’t sacrifice the intelligence and design intent of parametric solutions.

A Design Edge for Artisan Appliances (Appliance Magazine) - Italy’s De Manincor eliminates prototyping and cuts time to market with Solid Edge from Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software.

April 2008

Microsoft Solution, Helping Innovate New Products Faster (The Financial) - Callaway Golf, a leading maker of golf clubs, balls and accessories, recently implemented a Web-based portal using Teamcenter Community Collaboration, a product life-cycle management solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

March 2008

Jack & Jill and John Deere (Appliance Magazine) - Outdoor power equipment maker John Deere was the first company to benefit from the expanded capabilities of new precision motion tracking technology interface.

Software Review: Software For Free-Flowing Designs (Machine Design) - As a bottle designer, I create everything from simple round containers to complex handleware (bottles with built-in handles). For this, I rely extensively on NX 5 design software.

Taking IMAX to the Stars (IndustryWeek) - Engineering firm uses simulation tools to help carry the camera to the Hubble telescope.

Siemens corporate puts faith in own PLM software (Manufacturing Computer Solutions) - Siemens CIO Global Forum, the governing body at Siemens, has approved the 3D JT data format for all long-term product data retention globally.

PLM Speeds Time to Market for Watchmaker (Cadalyst) - Technology aids one luxury timepiece manufacturer in meeting the increasing demand for its specialized products.

Siemens PLM Software Expands Presence in Second Life (Design News) - Solid Edge-like tool lets visitors create a 3D Razor Scooter while exploring the possibilities of CAD software.

January 2008

Savvy environmental stewardship brings in the green (EETimes)

December 2007

PLM in a Fortnight (Desktop Engineering) - One data management product aimed at small- to mid-sized manufacturers promises full implementation in just two weeks.

Top Honors - Saluting Outstanding CAD Products (Cadalyst Labs Review) - Cadalyst All-Star awards honor the best of the best - the most outstanding among all software and hardware products that earned Highly Recommended ratings from Cadalyst Labs in the past six months.

NX 5, Part 2 (Cadalyst Labs Review) - Enhancements in software architecture enable major improvements in assemblies, visualization, and drawings.

November 2007

Mercury Marine Feature (Manufacturing Business Technology) - Mercury Marine balances freedom and structure in global design.

NX 5, Part 1 (Cadalyst Labs Review) - CAD/CAM/CAE solution from Siemens PLM Software is primed for production.

Canon clicks onto Siemens PLM software for global development (Eureka) - Electronics giant Canon has selected Siemens PLM Software’s (formerly UGS) technology to become its universal next-generation product development platform for use throughout the group.

Thinking About Upgrading To 3-D? (Product Design & Development) - To meet the ever-increasing requirements of the market, Ulma Packaging replaced their 2-D design tool with a 3-D solution. Now, the company has an automated design workflow in which manual tasks, once a source of errors, have disappeared.

Velocity Series Supplement (MCAD Online) - Siemens PLM Software’s Velocity Series has given Solid Edge and its complementary products much more visibility since its launch two years ago. From interviews to reviews, MCAD delivers a 12 page special report.

How Mercury Marine launched 48 outboard versions in just 60 months (Manufacturing Business Technology) - The leadership at Mercury Marine knows all about balancing seemingly contradictory forces. For one, the manufacturer of boats and marine engines, a $2.3-billion division of Brunswick Corp. headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wisc., must balance conflicting customer desires—for power on the one hand and fuel economy on the other—in the engines it delivers.

PLM Makes Jimmie Johnson Go Fast (Baseline Magazine) - NASCAR frontrunner credits product lifecycle management for unbelievable winning season on the track.

Penn Engineering to Receive Multi-Million-Dollar Design Technology Package from PACE Consortium (University of Pennsylvania) - The School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania will receive an in-kind hardware and software contribution totaling approximately $70 million in commercial value from Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education, or PACE, a consortium comprised of General Motors, EDS, Hewlett Packard, Siemens PLM Software, Sun Microsystems and academic partners chosen for their focus on engineering.

September 2007

Autumn 2007 Preview (Advanced Design &amp: Manufacturing)

June 2007

Qué hay de nuevo en el NX 5 (What's New In NX 5) (Metalmecanica) - La innovadora interfaz de usuario combina capacidad de vanguardia con productividad, facilidad de uso y aprendizaje.

Free Flow Machining Pushes the Envelope (T&P e-news) - NX 5 is the latest release of NX CAD/CAM/CAE software. For NX CAM there are new interesting areas of technology that continue to push the envelope of programming capability.

May 2007

Software Review - NX 5 (MCAD) - Siemens PLM Software has just launched the latest release of its next generation platform for product definition, so Al Dean sat down with the NX technical team and went through the highlights for this fifth release.

Siemens Closes Acquisition of UGS (Managing Automation) - Automation giant Siemens AG officially closed its $3.5 billion acquisition of product lifecycle management (PLM) leader UGS Corp. today, announcing that UGS will continue business as usual as a global division of the Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) group, with several key Siemens executives taking newly created management positions.

Siemens Closes Acquisition of UGS (Desktop Engineering - Written by DE editors) UGS PLM Software to operate as division of Siemens Automation and Drives. UGS Corp. (Plano, TX; ) has been renamed UGS PLM Software as part of the Siemens acquisition that was formally finalized on Friday. The companies announced on January 25 a definitive agreement for Siemens AG to acquire UGS for $3.5 billion, including assumption of existing debt. On April 27, the European Commission approved the acquisition, completing standard anti-trust reviews. "This is a great day for UGS PLM Software on the heels of an outstanding first quarter," said Tony Affuso, who remains as chairman and CEO of UGS PLM Software. "Now the acquisition enables the company and its people to leverage a powerful and respected global organization like Siemens in strengthening our technology leadership in PLM."

Making The Second Life Connection (CRN) - Solution providers will soon receive their vendor briefings in this virtual world.

April 2007

IT Builds a Better Idea (CIO Magazine) - As companies seek more and better ideas, CIOs have an opportunity to reinvent the innovation process and, by enabling people to collaborate, make IT an engine for growth.

Tooling Update - Tool Builder Verbom Inc. Reaps Benefits of Automated Die Design (Metalforming Magazine) - By implementing a highly automated die-design process, a Canadian tool and die shop has slashed design time by 50 percent and brought a new level of machine efficiency. (See also: Verbom Case Study)

Siemens' UGS shows mettle in PLM functionality (Manufacturing Computer Solutions) - The acquisition of UGS by Siemens has opened the path to fully integrated design, manufacturing and end of life disassembly. Always keen on true PLM (product lifecycle management) software, as opposed to cobbling together products and modules to produce something that can be optimistically described as such, UGS makes special efforts to break down barriers to integration.

January 2007

IBM Wants To Help Small Businesses Bring Products To Market Faster (InformationWeek) - IBM is partnering with UGS to deliver a slenderized version of Teamcenter Express to help small and midsize businesses manage collaborative product data used in the design, manufacture, and delivery of a new product.

IBM Flexes PLM Muscles in SMB Space (internetnews.com) - IBM believes that it can turn its brand of product lifecycle management (PLM), sitting atop its Websphere platform, into a dominant enterprise planning hub in the manufacturing sector.