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Why You Should Care About Prosthetics

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Mar 5, 2013

A company that makes artificial limbs can tell emotionally moving stories like no other. Of course, most of us don’t need assistive aids. Plus, we have business to attend to as we make commercial machinery, electrical components, widgets, etc. As such, you might be tempted to scroll past a story about a company in a […]

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Creo Customers: Skeletons Key to Large Assemblies for JR Automation

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Aug 4, 2011

When economists talk about recovery, often they look to entrepreneurs as the next great job creators. That’s why I like the story of JR Automation in Holland, Michigan. It started as a guy in his shed in 1980, and today employs more than 200 people in a 120,000-foot facility near Lake Michigan’s eastern shore. The […]

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Best Practices: How to Choose the Right 3D Design Tool

By barb schmitz | Published: Jul 18, 2011
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Most manufacturing companies are designing new products using 3D design tools. The benefits of designing in 3D—as opposed to 2D—have been well born out and include faster time to market, reduced physical prototyping, the ability to simulate/analyze products while still digital, and ultimately, higher quality products. The real value of investing in 3D CAD is […]

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Accelerating Innovation in Product Design

By barb schmitz | Published: Jul 13, 2011
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Manufacturers know that innovation is the key enabler to designing and building new products that will ultimately succeed in the market. Innovation is also considered a major driver of the economy, especially when it leads to new product categories and increasing productivity. What, however, constitutes innovation when it comes to new product development? Can product […]

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Creo Customer: WAGIC unlocks potential in the do-it-yourselfer

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jul 12, 2011

I’m thinking I’m going to paint the bathroom this weekend, hang some photos, go camping, and drink a few beers. Not that the bathroom needs painting, and frankly I don’t have much camping gear. But I don’t care; I’m just so inspired by WAGIC’s hand-held multi-tools, I’m on the prowl for projects—whether they need doing […]

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Creo Customers: Whipping Lumber into Shape with Grenzebach and Weinig

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jul 5, 2011

It’s time for a lesson in lumber. Yes, it comes from trees and you buy it at the building supply store. But the intellectually curious among you might like to know what happens in between—it’s more high tech than you might guess. Grenzebach Machines and WEINIG Machines make industrial equipment that processes and sorts lumber […]

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Creo Customers: Sony Ericsson Consolidates on Creo for Product Design

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jun 15, 2011
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Sony Ericsson is standardizing its product design on Creo! We’re hoping this will be the first of many like announcements in the year ahead. Let me tell you something about Sony Ericsson’s design philosophy and structure, and why I think it made this trail-blazing choice.    Sony Ericsson is a global provider of mobile multimedia devices, […]

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Overcoming the Challenges of Globalized Product Development

By Geoff Hedges | Published: May 11, 2011
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Product development has transitioned to a global endeavor for many industries with products being increasingly broken down into parts, each created in multiple centers around the globe, then brought back together for integration and testing. This transition has vastly changed the landscape for manufacturers who must maintain cohesive, unified operations that continue to drive growth […]

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China’s Adoption of PLM Technology Reflects Competitive Ambitions

By barb schmitz | Published: Feb 10, 2011
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Despite several back-to-back years of worldwide recession, the economy of China is still booming. Partially stabilized by the government’s heavy investment in infrastructure (30% increase over previous year) and the increasing needs of its own domestic market, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of China grew 8.7% in 2009 despite a brutal global recession. As part […]

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Jim Heppelmann’s Book “New Developments in New-Product Development”

By Geoff Hedges | Published: Jan 10, 2011
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“.. while no business leader or manager can be expected to master every last activity going on in a company’s development organization and production facilities, they must understand the principles and critical complexities just to stay in the race.” First in a series of books on Product Development by Jim Heppelmann, President and CEO at PTC. […]

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