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The New Manufacturing Lifecycle: An Interview With Jim Hepplemann

Jim Hepplemann, PTC

In 2012, the World Economic Forum, in conjunction with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Unlimited, published a report titled “The future of manufacturing. Opportunities to drive economic growth.” It posed the question, “Does Manufacturing Still Matter?” The report provided the following statistics and information on the trend of the global manufacturing industry: “Manufacturing’s share of global value added has declined steadily over …

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Always Connected: Whirlpool Leads with Smart Appliances

Fred Bellio

What does it mean to be connected? In today’s world we’re constantly communicating with one another through the software we own. We’re also able to connect on a new level with the “things” in our lives. We can use an iPhone app to communicate with our coffee machine from the bedroom. We can tell our car to turn on its …

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Meeting Safety Standards in Software-Intensive Autos

There has been an explosion of innovation in the automotive industry in recent years in almost all areas, from hybrid-electric technology to advanced safety systems and web-connected infotainment. This technological advance is driven by an exponential increase in the use of software, which has resulted in overwhelming complexity in the interaction and integration of mechanical, electrical/electronic and software systems, introducing …

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Holistic Systems Engineering Best Approach for Automotive

BMW dashboard

In the March edition of Automotive Engineering International, Bruce Morey addresses how advancing CAD, CAM and PLM technologies are changing the way engineers develop, simulate, and analyse car designs. And it’s not only product development tools that are becoming evermore sophisticated and widely used. Cars themselves are more advanced, incorporating a vast array of software and computers. Today, Morey argues, …

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Steve Jobs, Technology Visionary and Face of Apple, Dies

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Steve Jobs, the visionary largely responsible for Apple’s unprecedented success, died today aged 56. I am shaken by his death. Although sick for a long time, it seems somehow unreal that such a larger-than-life character, who has had such a penetrating effect on the way we interact with technology and, indeed, carry out our daily lives, is gone. The adopted …

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