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2007: Is 3DLive the start of the next big thing?

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Steve Wolfe

In 2007 Dassault Systèmes introduced 3DLive, a revolutionary approach to creating and viewing digital mock-ups. From the archives of Engineering ...

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Pushing the digital thread at Bell Helicopter

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Randall Newton

Bell Helicopter has been known as an innovator since its development of the V-22 Osprey. Today it is integrating the ...

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General Dynamics pursues the digital thread

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Randall Newton

The world’s fifth-largest defense contractor is always pushing for manufacturing innovations. GD’s Dean Bartles sees the digital thread as the ...

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Manufacturing with a digital thread

BY
Randall Newton

Lockheed Martin and other leading aerospace manufacturers are banding together to promote a new view of interoperability. The goal is ...

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Manufacturing focus dominates chattering class at COFES 2011

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Randall Newton

Thanks to a generous press/analyst attendance policy, what happens at COFES doesn’t stay at COFES. For a variety of reasons ...

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Parasolid tops 3.5 million users

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Randall Newton

Almost every CAD/CAD/CAE vendor is a Siemens PLM customer. Siemens PLM Software today announced that sales of its Parasolid 3D ...

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Autodesk up 16% in fourth quarter

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Randall Newton

All business segments performed well, with manufacturing setting a quarterly record. Starting next quarter Autodesk will change how it reports ...

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Autodesk third quarter net income up 81%

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Randall Newton

For the first time in three years all geographic regions reported double-digit growth. CEO Carl Bass used the analyst Q&A ...

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Boeing Company, Northrop Grumman Planning Second Interoperability Summit

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Randall Newton

This second “Global Product Data Interoperability Summit” promises to be another excellent open and product-agnostic forum. The Boeing Company and ...

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2008: “3D Manufacturing Innovation” Explains the Japanese Quest for an Alternative to PLM

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Randall Newton

The Japanese are ready to embrace 3D in manufacturing. But they have little interest in the Western top-down, design-driven linear ...