Author Archives: Anna Giangregorio

About Anna Giangregorio

Anna Giangregorio is a recent graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and has been working in PTC’s marketing department since May of 2011. When she isn’t in the office, she likes to travel, walk her dog, and carry on with her quest to find and sample the best Buffalo Wings she can get her hands on. To see more social media posted by Anna, follow her Twitter handle @AnnaG_PTC, and keep an eye out for tweets ending with ^AG on the handles @PTC_Mathcad, @PTC_Windchill, and more!

On Demand Webcast: Reducing Engineering Error and Design Disruptions- Exploring Calculation Software Tools

engineering calculation software pros and cons

On April 23rd PTC Mathcad and NASA Tech Briefs co-produced a one hour webcast called “Reducing Engineering Error and Design Disruptions- Exploring Calculation Software Tools“. Chad Jackson, an Industry Analyst and President and Founder of Lifecycle Insights defined Performance Predictions and took the viewers through the different definitions and positives and negatives of each. The Performance Prediction Initiatives included: Traditional …

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Engineering.com: PTC’s Mathcad Now Free and On-Demand

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On Wednesday, Scott Wertel of Engineering.com wrote, “PTC hosted a free virtual conference for Europe (although the Americas, Middle East, and Asia were allowed to participate as well) on May 13, 2013.  If you don’t follow the Mathcad blog or are not a member of the PTC Community, you probably missed the event.  Or did you? Although attending any conference, webinar, or other …

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Customer Review: Alpha Tester Says “PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 is Clearly a Productivity Enhancer”

PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 review

Whenever a new version of PTC Mathcad software is released we gather a group of people called Alpha Testers to review and experiment our new software before it gets released to the public. Alpha Testers help us to better understand how users who use PTC Mathcad every day will respond to our new release of software, in this case PTC …

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How Do You Know Something is Right For You?

PTC Mathcad Prime and PTC Mathcad Express powerful tool

Want to see something cool? Want to watch something cool!?! Check out PTC Mathcad’s brand new whiteboard style commercial: PTC Mathcad allows you to solve, capture, and share critical engineering calculations in an easy to learn and use format. With PTC Mathcad software you can showcase engineering calculations through graphs, natural math notation, and formulas without having to worry about overlooking errors in …

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CADplace: PTC is Hosting a Multi-lingual, European Virtual Event for Mathcad on May 13, 2013

CADplace PTC Mathcad virtual event french german english

Some friends across the pond, CADplace, have caught wind that we’re having a PTC Mathcad Virtual Event on May 13, 2013… They say: “Sign up for this free half day event full of customer presentations, product roadmaps, all kinds of downloadable content to keep, and so much more. The environment is completely flexible and you can choose to check out just a presentation or stay in …

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Spreadsheets- A Disaster Waiting to Happen?

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There has been a lot of buzz in the media lately about error in spreadsheets. The first article that was pointed out to me, “Shocking Paper Claims that Microsoft Excel Coding Error is Behind the Reinhart-Rogoff Study on Debt” by Mike Konczal at Business Insider is in fact, pretty shocking. In this article Konczal shares how two economists conducted a …

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Bonjour! Guten Tag! Hello! We’re Having a PTC Mathcad Virtual Event for Europe!

PTC Mathcad Virtual event 2013 Europe

The PTC Mathcad team is very excited to share that on May 13, 2013 we will be hosting an online virtual event, PTC Mathcad Engage 2013 specifically scheduled and arranged for our PTC Mathcad users in Europe! Sign up for this free half day event full of customer presentations, product roadmaps, all kinds of downloadable content to keep, and so much more. …

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PTC Mathcad at PTC Live Global 2013

PTC Live Global 2013

This year PTC Live Global, formerly known as Planet PTC Live, will be held from June 9th- 12th in sunny Anaheim, California. The program this year has been developed in cooperation with PTC/USER Inc. specifically for mechanical engineers and engineering IT professionals who regularly us PTC Creo and/ or PTC Windchill, along with engineering professionals who are interested in learning …

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Lifecycle Insights: Reducing Engineering Error and Design Disruptions Webinar

Chad Jackson Lifecycle Insights

Chad Jackson is an Industry Analyst at Lifecycle Insights and publisher of the engineering-matters blog. With more than 15 years of industry experience, Chad covers career, managerial and technology topics in engineering. Chad is also one of the co-presenters in our upcoming webcast on April 23rd. He writes, “For engineers, it’s become a really interesting time. There are a ton of tools …

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Develop Safer, More Efficient Engineering Solutions by Sharing Resources

Enghance.com

In our past two posts, PTC Mathcad Takes on the Demanding World of the Oil and Gas Industry and From University to the Oil and Gas Industry, PTC Mathcad A Reliable Tool you were introduced to Luke Devall, a graduate engineer who specializes in design at Neptune Subsea Engineering. In Devall’s spare time he has been working to start Enghance, a community …

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