Category: Product Lifecycle Management

  • CATIA costs Airbus $6.1B in delays

    Wonder if they will ask for a refund?  This story keeps getting worse for Airbus and Dassault.  I wonder if there is an emerging conspiracy theory opportunity here: is Dassault screwing up Airbus on purpose to help their aviation focused sister company? EADS: Further delays for Airbus A380 jet – Yahoo! News

  • The process requirements for Innovation

    Karl Ulrich from the Wharton School of Business addressed the UGS Innovation Leadership forum today in Scottsdale. He had some really interesting things to say about how to go about the process of innovation. Take a listen.

  • Don Richardson from Microsoft – Innovation Leadership Summit

    Microsoft is one of our best partners and this talk is focused on how Microsoft itself has become a great innovator in both software and hardware (X-box, Zune).

  • Frank Bellio – Innovation Leadership Summit

    A great view on how to justify an investment in PLM as delivered by Frank Bellio of Mercury Marine.

  • CATIA causes Airbus tower of Babel

    Looks like this story is starting to get a little bit more mainstream. This is a well known issue with CATIA insiders.  While I’m glad to see this aspect of the story getting more exposure, I’m puzzled by the proposed solution by “experts”: “They didn’t have uniform design tools throughout the system and that’s biting…

  • PLMexchange: Why NX CAD

    I’ve been reading these guys for a while and this is an excellent post (and not just because they like our CAD tool) that describes what a user considers when making a buying decision. Why NX CAD?

  • SAP: Agassi describes the future of SOA

    OK, last video (for the day). This one is a really intesting take on where SAP is headed and how it sees SOA impacting the future of business.  I’m not quite sure I buy the idea that SOA enables companies to change their entire business model being all that important (discussed near the end of…

  • UGS on Channel 9

    I guess it must be video day today. We shot this with the Channel 9 guys back in May, but they just got it posted a few weeks ago. From the comment thread it looks like it is a bit controversial (for being ‘too commercial’). I am admittedly biased, but I think that the Charles…

  • YouTube and advertising

    Although YouTube has been on my radar for a few months, I didn’t really think of it in a work context until today. I was reading Ralph Grabowski’s upfront e.zine and saw some stat’s on the number of videos and views that SolidWorks has on Youtube. So, I thought I would do a quick search…