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Transparent PLM – Teamcenter Solution for Document Management Challenge

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Kevin Power

Product development companies need to manage a wide variety of documents in different formats and types as they design, manufacture and support their products. Gone are the days when paper documents used to run businesses. Today everything is digital, but very often these digital documents related to product and product development are created in siloed environments disconnected from product development processes. Document

Lost and found, on the manufacturing floor

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Larry Louzon Leave a comment

There is an excellent story in leadership consulting lore. I’m not sure how true it is, but the lessons derived from it are incredibly valuable. There was once a detachment of Hungarian soldiers that struck out on a reconnaissance mission from their platoon in the Alps. While they were out, there was a massive snowstorm and the soldiers lost their way

Additive Manufacturing: Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Larry Louzon Leave a comment

This post was originally written in January of 2017. With all the buzz about Additive Manufacturing, or 3D Printing, in the manufacturing world today, there is a lot of mystery and confusion surrounding common practices and techniques. This week’s blog post will address a common type of 3D printing known as Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication (EBF³) . What is Electron Beam Freeform

How to model rubbers in Abaqus

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Ankur Kumar

Abaqus has always been first choice of analysts for modeling any form of non-linearity in the model: geometric non-linearity, material non-linearity, or boundary condition non-linearity which is large sliding contact. Within material non-linearity, the most popular model is piecewise linear plasticity used to model plastic deformations in alloys or metals beyond their yield point. This blog post primarily discusses another

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10 Considerations for Data Migrations and Translations

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Kevin Power Leave a comment

Are you faced with a complex data migration or translation? Do you have years of legacy data that needs to be migrated to a new system? Have you got old CAD data from a outdated system that is still being used? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you are facing the prospect of performing a migration

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Additive Manufacturing: Electron Beam Melting

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Larry Louzon Leave a comment

This post was originally created in January 2017. With all the buzz about Additive Manufacturing, or 3D Printing, in the manufacturing world today, there is a lot of mystery and confusion surrounding the common practices and techniques. So, this week’s blog post will address a common type of 3D printing known as Electron Beam Melting (EBM). What is Electron Beam Melting? It is

NX Nastran Solution Sequences Demystified

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Ankur Kumar Leave a comment

Siemens PLM‘s robust FEA solver NX Nastran is offered in multiple flavors. At first, it is associated with multiple graphical user interfaces, and the right choice depends on the user’s existing inventory as well as technical resources available. There are three options to explore: Basic designer-friendly solution: In this bundle, basic NX Nastran capabilities are embedded in the NX CAD

The Hidden Intelligence Of CATIA V5 – Part 4 (Power Copy)

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Kevin Power One comment

Today we will continue our series on the hidden intelligence of CATIA V5. It is important to note that I am using a standard Classic HD2 license for this series In my last post, we discussed building a catalog of parts based on a single part that has a spreadsheet that drives the parameters with part numbers. What about features? If CATIA V5