PTC’s new Windchill RequirementsLink application looks very promising
During the PTC/USER meeting in Florida, week before last, PTC announced a new Windchill application – Windchill RequirementsLink. As one of my key interests is Systems Engineering, and the press info...
View ArticlePTC’s Project Lightning – my guess at what it is
Notes from PTC/user, 8 June 2010 Yesterday we heard from executives at PTC extolling their great adventure to solve the remaining CAD problems that others have not tackled. According to PTC these...
View ArticlePTC Virtual Corporate Visit – webinar 8 Sep 2010
You can hear Brian Shepherd, EVP of PTC, discuss PTC’s future product plans at this webinar. I attended an earlier one and highly recommend it. Lots of info in a short time from a key executive. More...
View ArticlePTC Creo, my thoughts and observations
29 Oct 2010: Yesterday, in downtown Boston and worldwide via the Internet, PTC announced Project Lightning, now renamed Creo. CEO and President Jim Heppelmann, noted that Creo is the Latin root of the...
View ArticlePlanetPTC 2011: Its all about Creo and MKS
Earlier this week I attended PlanetPTC. I attended some of the keynote speeches in the main event and PTC held special events for the media and press. We had the opportunity to rub elbows and hold...
View ArticleCreo Freestyle exposes its shape
5 July 2011: Last week I had the chance to spend some web time with Paul Sagar, Director of Product Management at PTC. Paul is in charge of PTC’s surfacing and industrial design (ID) products. Paul’s...
View ArticleThe Cloud Lives!
18 Nov 2011: Ralph Grabowski proposed his opinion that the cloud is dead. He couldn’t be more wrong. Consider users at the Siemens NX CAE Symposium that ended last week. Virtually all of the eight...
View ArticleMy Twitter feed at PlanetPTC Live 2012 expanded with additional comments
7 Jun 2012 Introduction I attended PlanetPTC Live 2012 as a media and analyst guest of PTC earlier this week. I was free to mingle with any user in attendance, and attend the general sessions, as were...
View ArticleWhat’s up with Belmont Technology?
9 Sep 2013: Last week Siemens PLM Software announced that “Belmont Technology, a venture backed software start-up founded by CAD industry veterans, has licensed Siemens’ Parasolid® software and...
View ArticleThe future is cloud-y for engineering data management
Feb 2015 Lately I have been deluged with the announcement of or introduction to a series of cloud based data management systems for design engineering that are also focusing on collaboration. I plan...
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