ABB announces it has signed an agreement to purchase Siemens’ low voltage NEMA motor business. With manufacturing operations in Guadalajara, Mexico, this acquisition provides a well-regarded product portfolio, a longstanding North American customer base, and an experienced operations, sales, and management team. The business employs around 600 people and generated revenues of approximately $63 million…
Balluff sensor with Siemens controller provides accurate positioning to 250 meters
Balluff’s newest magnetostrictive linear position sensor provides absolute position information over distances of up to 250 meters when used as part of the Balluff position measuring system. The profile-style sensor can be configured for measuring ranges between 5 and 250 meters with a repeat accuracy up to ±0.5 mm. This long-range measuring capability makes it…
Siemens and IDS partner offer electromagnetic engineering design capabilities in Simcenter
Siemens entered into a strategic partnership with Ingegneria Dei Sistemi (IDS), an independent engineering and systems technologies company based in Italy, to provide high-frequency electromagnetic (EM) engineering solutions to the market. As such, the Simcenter portfolio will have a more complete offering, with the additional ability to engineer the electromagnetic performance of systems with regard […]
Siemens unveils Integrated Software Engineering solution for automotive embedded software
Bruce Jenkins, Ora Research The first fruits of Siemens’ 2015 acquisition of application lifecycle management (ALM) tool developer Polarion came to bear in a new Integrated Software Engineering solution for the automotive industry intended to address critical product development challenges stemming from the explosive growth of embedded software in today’s increasingly smart, connected, self-aware and […]
The Pros and Cons of 3D Modeling Paradigms: Direct Modeling and History-based Modeling
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…
Simulating Fiber-Reinforced Composites. It’s a multiscale world.
Composite materials, and particularly fiber-reinforced composites, present an interesting challenge. They have superior properties, compared to homogeneous materials, and have the potential to help engineers and designers meet increasingly challenging product requirements. Yet, they can be maddeningly difficult to engineer properly. To understand why this is so, you need to look closely, at the structure…
Do you really need integrated CAD/CAM?
By Evan Yares, Senior Editor & Analyst, Software Why you may—and may not—want to consider an integrated solution. There’s a simple question you can answer that will help you figure out whether you should consider using an integrated CAD/CAM system: Is your current CAM system the biggest source of frustration in your work life? If…
Free CAD Software for Engineers and Designers
Free CAD software shouldn’t have to break the bank. There are thousands of kinds of free CAD software available. Possibly tens of thousands. But there are far fewer free programs in the CAD realm—if only because CAD software is incredibly difficult to create. Here are three free CAD software programs that offer something really special.…
Fixing the CAD/CAE Disconnect
One of the biggest impediments to the use of digital simulation and analysis in product development is the disconnection between CAD and CAE. This disconnection creates process roadblocks that push simulation and analysis out of the design process, and relegate it to the role of late-stage validation, where it can provide little more than go/no-go…
High Flying FEA
Propeller airlines are gaining popularity especially over short distances such as European regional routes. These craft are faster, use less fuel, release less harmful emissions, and are now just as quiet and vibration-free as jet liners. MT-Propeller Entwicklung GmBh engineers and manufactures patented natural composite propeller blades that consist of a plasticized wood core, a…
Siemens IT Solutions and Services Announces Teamcenter Based Content Management Solution
Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc. and Siemens PLM Software, announced an integrated Teamcenter software based PLM content management solution. The new integrated service offering – PLM Driven Content Management – developed for the manufacturing industry sector will help customers to better support technical publications writing in development, service or after-sales business. The PLM Driven…