ThingWorx 8.5 combines new capabilities with domain-specific solutions to serve the digital transformation needs of industrial enterprises worldwide. Among the new and enhanced capabilities are tools that simplify the composition and deployment of solutions. Customers will be able to configure applications faster and deploy them across multiple sites and geographies. For those who want more […]

[Following is a lightly edited transcript of the recent webinar, “Making Product Data More Accessible for Downstream Teams: EAG’s Success with Navigate”] Leia: Today’s presenters are Stuart Weiler, Director of CAD and PLM at Elite Aerospace Group, and Graham Birch, Director of PLM Solutions at PTC. Registration is now open for LiveWorx 2019. Stuart began his…

Model-Based Definition (MBD) is a prerequisite for achieving Model-Based Enterprise, but the realities of implementing MBD have traditionally been fraught with challenges. Today, many of the hurdles that were once stumbling blocks for adoption of MBD have disappeared. Advances in technology and standards are bringing us to the point where MBD will become a preferred…

This webinar was presented live on Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Click below to watch it on demand.     Many manufacturers need to put valuable product data in the hands of downstream stakeholders. But that’s difficult when the data lives in a product lifecycle management (PLM) system geared to engineers. Many casual users outside of…

[Following is a lightly edited transcript of this webinar.]   Paul Heney: Good afternoon. Thank you, everyone, for attending today’s webinar, Selecting the Right PLM Software for Bill of Material Management, brought to you by PTC and Design World Magazine. Now, just a couple of housekeeping details before we get started. You should ask all…

PTC announced that it has acquired Frustum Inc., an advanced generative design software company, for approximately $70 million. Frustum’s technology for generative design leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to generate design options. PTC says it is a transformative addition to the PTC Creo portfolio. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Frustum offers patented desktop and cloud-based engineering software […]

This webinar was presented live on Thursday, December 13, 2018. Click below to watch it on demand.   Today many companies use PLM to manage drawing and models. To drive a true digitalization strategy, you must first manage your products with a complete, digital bill of materials (BOM). The heart of every product is the…

This webinar was presented live on Thursday, December 6, 2018. Click below to watch it on demand.  Monitoring equipment via the IoT is a proven way to improve service performance, revenue, and profitability. Join independent research firm Tech-Clarity’s Jim Brown as he shares the highlights of his recent research, Quick Start Guide: Monitoring Equipment with…

This webinar was presented live on Wednesday, September 5, 2018. Click below to watch On Demand. Managing product information, data relationships, and complex file structures is vital to product manufacturing success. Manual and ad-hoc approaches fall short as organizations grow and share more information. Join this live discussion to make the right Product Data Management…

PTC Inc. (NASDAQ: PTC) and Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for a strategic partnership that is expected to accelerate growth for both companies and enable them to be the partner of choice for customers around the world who want to transform their physical operations with…

This webinar was presented live on Thursday, April 26, 2018. Click below to watch on demand.     As the world’s fourth-largest wind turbine manufacturer, Enercon must achieve continuous innovation to stay ahead. Like a growing number of companies, it is doing so by developing smart, connected products with embedded software. In our April 26th…

This webinar was presented live on Tuesday, February 6, 2018. Click below to watch on demand.     Exciting new technologies are rapidly changing the world of product design. And today’s product design and manufacturing teams are challenged to bring their innovations to market even faster. But how can you can design faster and smarter…

This webinar was originally broadcast on August 1, 2017. WATCH ON DEMAND Parts classification can be a highly beneficial organizational initiative, yet some are hesitant to take it on thinking it’s too complex or time consuming. Outside of the significant cost savings, parts classification will help to resolve greater data management challenges with benefits permeating…

      As products evolve, it is natural that new systems, sources, and streams of data will be introduced. It has never been more important for organizations to have a single source of truth to this data. In this webinar, Jabil, a global manufacturing services company, will reveal how they transitioned from managing product…

PTC (NASDAQ: PTC)  announced the release of the latest version of its Creo 4.0 3D CAD software. Creo 4.0 introduces new capabilities for Internet of Things (IoT), additive manufacturing, augmented reality, and model-based definition (MBD). Creo 4.0 aids smarter design with an array of core modeling enhancements and new functions. With this latest release of […]

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One of the last holdouts in cloud deployment, PTC, announced yesterday that it’s porting its Windchill PLM software to the cloud. The goal it appears is to address the needs of the small- to mid-sized (SMB) business market, a demographic that’s been largely left out of the PLM market. These companies often didn’t have the […]

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One of the last holdouts in cloud deployment, PTC, announced yesterday that it’s porting its Windchill PLM software to the cloud. The goal it appears is to address the needs of the small- to mid-sized (SMB) business market, a demographic that’s been largely left out of the PLM market. These companies often didn’t have the […]

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Paul McCartney, Keith Richards and Jimi Hendrix motivated 12-year-old Aristides Poort to learn how to play guitar, but rather than pursue the life of a rock star, he grew up and went on to study civil engineering at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. “It was a very inspiring environment where we worked…

Engineering is really all about problem solving. In product design, this means exploring, iterating, changing, testing, and changing again until an optimized solution is found, designed and built. To empower engineers and designers to be able to design truly innovative products, they need tools that are both flexible and powerful. Parametric, feature-based 3D modeling tools…

Coming in right under the wire in 2013 was the announcement that PTC had acquired ThingWorx, a tech developer of an application platform designed to rapidly build Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications. Your first question might be “what’s ThingWorx?” The Chester County, PA-based company develops what it calls the “1st Application Platform for […]

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I often find myself looking at manufactured products, and wondering “how would you go about designing something like that?” For some things, the sheer scale of the problem is so large that it’s hard to wrap your head around it.  But, there are many things that are more human scale, in complexity and difficulty. A […]

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I’m always interested in how people use CAD software to do interesting projects. Nout Van Heumen is an industrial designer and engineer whose day job, so to speak, is in the packaging and insulation business. But Hout has developed a name for himself by taking on some really interesting freelance jobs. One of his projects […]

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Mathcad, from PTC, is one of my favorite computer math systems. It’s one of those “just right” programs for engineers: It’s far better for doing engineering calculations than Excel, but is a lot easier to learn and use than Matlab. Here’s a splashy video that shows what can be done with Mathcad: PTC has just […]

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Design World Magazine and online network www.designworldonline.com announce the winners of their 2012 Leadership in Engineering Program. Leadership in Engineering is an industry recognition program to acknowledge engineering leadership across several disciplines. Winners for the Sixth Annual Program were chosen by Design World online users via a registration based online voting system. The following companies…

How do you get high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and math? Why not give them a real world design challenge to solve? In the 2013 Real World Design Challenge, students are asked to tackle a couple of serious engineering design problems. And, thanks to the generosity of a couple of engineering software […]

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