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Cool Tools for Design Collaboration

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Feb 22, 2012

There’s much talk about how Social Media is coming at the enterprise like a tidal wave that inevitably must be ridden. The intellectual protectionism of the past is being replaced with openness and exploration amongst peers and a wider team. This doesn’t mean, however, that intellectual property is up for grabs. It means that companies [...]

Back to the Future

By Admin | Published: Feb 21, 2012

PE Magazine discusses the strategies for engineers to design better products and interviews PTC’s Tom Shoemaker to highlight the new features and capabilities of CAD and PLM solutions that help engineers develop products to stay ahead of competition. “Tom Shoemaker, vice president of solutions marketing for product lifecycle management company PTC, explains that product companies [...]

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Spanning the Digital Divide: Ways to Leverage Strengths of Digital Natives

By barb schmitz | Published: Feb 20, 2012

The engineering world is poised to experience a sea change of sorts in the upcoming decades as it faces a flood of engineering executive retirements as the boomer population moves on to greener pastures (golf courses). Manufacturing organizations must facilitate knowledge transfer of these seasoned engineering veterans to the younger generation of engineers who will [...]

Design World: Parametric or Direct Modeling, One or the Other, or Both?

By Admin | Published: Feb 16, 2012

Design World publishes a paper by PTC’s VP of Product Management, Brian Thompson, on the features and benefits of parametric and direct modeling CAD solutions: There are a few differences between parametric and direct modeling. The parametric paradigm provides an “engineer it” approach to design which requires you to anticipate and define feature constraints, relations, [...]

Creo Customer: Design Collaboration with Vendors

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Feb 15, 2012

Starting with their world class mountain bike frame, Santa Cruz uses over fifty vendors to manufacture a near to perfect bike – headsets from Sram and Fox, bottom brackets by Shimano, Maverick hubs, Avid brakes, Boxxer mounts, and the list goes on. Last July, we brought you Santa Cruz Bicycles and their journey toward suspension [...]