-
Subscribe to These Stories
Connect with PTC
Email Facebook PlanetPTC Communities Twitter YouTube FeedBurner
-
In the News
- U.S. manufacturing picks up pace
- Joe Cogliano | May 1, 2012
- Boeing eyes $5.5 billion deal for 737 MAX jets
- Business News | May 1, 2012
- Ultracapacitors Make Wind Power Viable
- Design News | May 1, 2012
- Keeping the Customer Digitized
- Businessweek | Apr 30, 2012
- Cincinnati manufacturing growth slowed in April, survey says
- Business News | Apr 30, 2012
Tags
automotive collaboration compliance design education electric cars engineering engineering calculations environmental engineering FIRST green energy manufacturing medical devices PLM product design product development retail robotics social media Social Product Development software software development STEM StreetScooter supply chain
ConnectionsFeed
5 Ways You Didn’t Know CAM Was Being Used
Recently, I spent some free time discovering a new (for me, at least) world. I’m referring to CAM (Computer Aided manufacturing) and some of the fascinating ways that this technology is being used today. What surprised me most was the extent to which CAM is now utilized by those whose work involves personal craftsmanship and/or creativity. Here are just a …
7 New Manufacturing Trends for the Next Decade
A recent report by the World Economic Forum and Deloitte, points to some big changes ahead for manufacturing. Many factors will influence the manufacturing and supply-chain landscape over the next few decades. Increased innovation and manufacturing capabilities and rising wages will transform low-cost labor countries into wealthier consumer markets. And macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges—including exposure to currency volatility, debt pressures …
Posted in Connections
Tagged global manufacturing, green energy, manufacturing, STEM, supply chain
Leave a comment
Geek Chic: Popular Culture Celebrates Smarts
As a kid, Jaime Paglia hung around his father’s lab at UCLA. Then he’d see how smart people—like the ones he’d met on campus—were portrayed by popular culture. “I grew up with Revenge of the Nerds, which was a huge caricature,” he says. Paglia didn’t become an engineer or scientist, but he did go on to have a big impact …
What Not to Do in Product Development: The Case of a Swedish Warship
When I hear the words “product development,” I think about the latest consumer gadgets, manufacturing, time-to-market, global supply chains. Product development is not a modern concept, but rather, old processes and strategies which have been evolving for many years as a result of age-old challenges. I recently took my children to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, where the big …
Posted in Connections
Tagged defense, manufacturing, product design, product development, shipping
Leave a comment
Top Luxury Brand Stays Ahead with PLM
When only the best is good enough, Bang & Olufsen is the first stop in audio and video solutions for the home and car – that is, if you’re shopping in the Aston Martin, Mercedes AMG, BMW or Audi segment. On its homepage, Bang & Olufsen proudly refers to itself as “an icon of performance and design excellence [with] a …
Olympic Feats: Behind-the-Scenes Engineering at London’s Summer Games
As the world’s greatest athletes prepare for glory on the unrivaled stage of the summer Olympic Games in London, one group of participants is hoping not to be noticed at all. The international team providing technology services for the largest sporting event on earth is in the months-long testing stages of a system it’s taken four years to build, but …
Happy Birthday Product Lifecycle Stories!
Contrary to what I’ve been told by family and friends, I strongly believe everyone should have a full month to celebrate their birthday. It’s perfectly acceptable to frequently remind people it’s your birthday. Proclaim it loudly. Loud enough to drown out the sound of eyes rolling. Next month, May, marks the one-year anniversary of this blog – Product Lifecycle Stories. …
Posted in Connections
Tagged compliance, education, employment, hybrid air vehicle, product design, robotics, transportation
Leave a comment
Is Automation Stealing Manufacturing Jobs?
Are robots and other technological innovations reducing the number of manufacturing jobs? Evidence seems to point in that direction. The Wall Street Journal recently noted that: “In no other U.S. recovery since World War II have companies been simultaneously faster to boost spending on machines and software, while slower to add people to run them. Since the economy began growing …
Engineering Titanic: Lessons Learned One-Hundred Years On
When IT leaders gather for his lectures expecting PowerPoint presentations rich with organizational trees and multicolored bar graphs, consultant Mark Kozak-Holland instead projects the image of a black ship’s prow sailing toward them out of dark and distant history. It’s a symbol that seems as unlikely for this era and this audience as it is notoriously well-known. Yet it’s surprisingly …
Engineered to Last – Fenway Park Turns One-Hundred
Outside the red-brick left-field wall of Boston’s Fenway Park is a little-noticed latticework of steel trusses that rises to the peak of the famous 37-foot Green Monster. The ingeniously engineered support, invisible from inside the stadium, allowed 274 highly prized (and pricey) seats to be added at the top of the wall. It’s the most obvious evidence of 10 winters …
