Siemens all in on digitalization and the digital twin
I spent most of a week with Siemens –the PLM team plus an assortment of colleagues from across the AG and maybe 150 media and analysts– to learn more about the PLM business, the recent Mentor Graphics and TASS acquisitions, and to try to gauge how the AG...
Quickie: Siemens acquires TASS & gets into self-driving cars
News just broke that Siemens has acquired TASS International, the Dutch company that makes MADYMO, among other things, to bolster its offerings for self-driving cars, occupant safety and other cutting edge apps for the automotive industry. The sale price wasn’t...
CAE rumbles on: ANSYS, ESI and Exa earnings recaps
Over the last few weeks, CAE companies have released earnings that highlight the growing importance of CAE technology in many companies’ product development processes, and the impact these technologies are having on the enterprises that use them. First, key...
Fedem hits the stage in front of 30,000 at SAPPHIRE
I was just at SAPPHIRE, SAP’s massive user conference. Quite a few very kind attendees explained to me how they couldn’t do their finance, HR or supply chain management jobs without SAP’s solutions — but I went to learn about Leonardo,...
MSC is now part of the Hexagon family
A quick update: Hexagon just announced that its acquisition of MSC Software is complete, since it has obtained all of the regulatory approvals it needed for the deal. Hexagon sees this as very strategic, enabling it to “connect the traditionally separate stages...
Changing Tack: Moving to Collaborative, Simulation-Led Engineering
Do you ever think about how the products you rely on are created? How you can be sure that the car you drive is safe? Or the laptop, not exploding? Or how that latest gadget turns into an object of must-have, while the one next to it on the shelf is just OK? I get to...
Updates: Siemens+Mentor, ESI earnings, what ever happened to Geometric?
You’ve been asking some great questions, here on the blog, via email and over on LinkedIn — and since you tell me you rarely have time to go back and look at old posts for updates, I’ve collected a few right here, right now. First, more on Siemens...
SIMULIA and the 3DEXPERIENCEs aim to build a platform that’s bigger than the brands
When you’re looking at a CAE solution, do you look at brands or vendor names or do you look at capabilities, at how the solution fits into your workflow? Or the workflow you eventually want to have? That, in a nutshell, is Dassault Systèmes’ dilemma as it...
