Category: Product Lifecycle Management

Ralph picked up the news release UGS did today the ‘record number of patents’ issued in 2006. He concludes with a statement about patents only being useful in cases where there is some other disagreement between companies (specifically in the form of a law suit), where they can be used as negotiation chips. While I…

Siemens deal for UGS gets U.S. antitrust approval

I didn’t realize that Eddie was blogging, but the more I think about it I can’t believe I didn’t assume he has been blogging all along and I should have been reading his stuff. Anyway, he goes way back with UGS and as a Microsoft tech evangelsit extraordinare he knows quite a bit about Siemens. …

.!. Sorry for the really slow posting the past week or so, but as you may have seen we’ve been a bit busy at UGS.  We announced last night that Siemens AG has signed a definitive agreement to acquire UGS Corp and expect it to close in 60 to 90 days.  This is a really…

.!. OK, where do I begin with this one. Well, let’s start at the beginning. A few weeks ago I posted that UGS had published a specification for the JT file format. This announcement was the fulfillment of a promise we made publicly early in 2006 to make the details of the JT format publicly…

Ulf over on reBang points to the news from Sears that they are now offering a CNC for home users.  While not exactly a 3D printer for everyman, this is a strong indication that home makers (not the kind that make casseroles) are becoming more mainstream…Sears is definitely in the not in the early adopter…

If you’re having trouble going to sleep tonight, you may want to stop by the JT Open website and pick up a copy of the recently released JT Open spec document. Ah, there’s nothing like reading technical specs late into the night. In all seriousness, we finally pushed out the spec this week. This was…

In my scramble to make sure my blog doesn’t end up in a CAD pigeon hole (not that there’s anything wrong with that…just want to be able to write about whatever I want, not just CAD), I forgot two important points: 1 – Thanks Franco, for doing the research.  There are a few new subscriptions…

I bought my whole family Roomba’s for Christmas a few years ago.  Yes, some took it as a commentary on their sweeping habits, a few of them really enjoyed them.  Unfortunately almost none of them are still in service for reasons as varied as normal mechanical wear and tear to a really curious dog. The…