Siemens’ New 3DSync Software Delivers Exclusive Synchronous Technology Benefit to Mainstream CAD Industry

Based on technology shown to increase productivity by a factor of ten or more when working with imported CAD files, 3DSync now available to use free for a limited time

PLANO, Texas, December 18, 2012 – One of the significant benefits associated with Siemens’ proprietary synchronous technology software capability is now being made available to users of any vendor’s computer-aided design (CAD) application. Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software business unit is introducing a new 3D CAD editing tool to the mainstream market, based on synchronous technology, which has been shown to increase productivity by a factor of ten or more when working with imported CAD data. Siemens’ new 3DSync application is now available, and can be used at no charge

until May 15, 2013.

In today’s global manufacturing industry, product development collaboration among multiple companies is a predominant practice. However, due to inconsistent data formats employed by many of the world’s competing CAD software applications, importing and working with digital 3D product data from an incompatible CAD solution is often labor intensive, error prone and costly. The design intent built into CAD models in the form of parametric rules is lost during the translation process, making the imported model difficult to work with and often unusable. As a result, engineers are often forced to spend hours or days “fixing” an imported model or simply recreating the model from scratch.

This problem was virtually eliminated for users of Siemens’ Solid Edge® software and NX™ software applications when the company introduced its exclusive synchronous technology breakthrough in 2008. As a result of its ability to interrogate imported 3D models, recognize design intent, and automatically apply appropriate design parameters, synchronous technology has been reported to produce ten-to-one reductions in model rework time, with some users citing time reductions of certain tasks from days to minutes. The availability of Siemens’ new 3DSync offering now extends this benefit beyond the Solid Edge and NX user communities, to the users of any commercially available CAD system.

“3DSync is the next evolutionary step in Siemens’ constant drive to deliver open solutions that help significantly increase product development productivity, while at the same time improve product data compatibility throughout the global manufacturing industry,” said Chuck Grindstaff, CEO and president, Siemens PLM Software. “By enabling CAD models to be shared and easily edited between incompatible versions of the same CAD offering, or among different CAD applications, 3DSync delivers the productivity and cost reduction benefits of synchronous technology to mainstream CAD users by allowing them to more effectively reuse 3D product data.”

3DSync supports widely used CAD formats such as STEP, IGES, Parasolid® software, JT™ data format and others and has built-in data translators to help eliminate version incompatibility issues. 3DSync provides engineers with a fast, straightforward method for importing, editing and exporting most neutral 3D CAD files from suppliers and customers. This can save time and reduce costs by decreasing the need to remodel features or to pay suppliers to make edits.

3DSync is available immediately for $1995 (US). For more information and to register to use the full production version free until May 15, 2013, visit www.siemens.com/plm/3dsync.

NX 8.5 Delivers Customer-Driven Enhancements

To Help Reduce Time to Market

Latest Version of Siemens’ NX software Helps Companies make Smarter Decisions throughout Design, Simulation and Manufacturing for Increased Flexibility and Productivity

PLANO, Texas, September 6, 2012 - Siemens PLM Software, today announced the latest release of NX™ software, the company’s fully integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution. The latest version, NX 8.5, includes extensive customer-driven enhancements and new capabilities that provide increased flexibility and productivity across product engineering and manufacturing to help reduce time to market. NX 8.5 builds on Siemens PLM Software’s HD-PLM vision, which was established to help companies make smarter decisions more efficiently and with a higher level of confidence.

“The extensive customer-driven enhancements and new capabilities in NX 8.5 will help our customers further reduce time to market and facilitate smarter decisions that result in better products,” said Jim Rusk, senior vice president, Product Engineering Software, Siemens PLM Software. “By intelligently integrating information and providing customers with a high definition user experience, we are reinforcing our commitment to HD-PLM. NX 8.5 also continues our focus on maximizing customers’ return on their PLM investment. By conducting extensive testing to ensure version compatibility between each new release, we can deliver a future-proof architecture our customers will never outgrow.”

Chrysler Supplier Teamcenter Connectivity & NX Readiness Support

OXFORD, MI, August 31, 2012 – Chrysler’s recent move to Siemens NX CAD from Dassault Systemes’ CATIA line has required many suppliers to switch from the traditional VPN to Chrysler’s Teamcenter Environment as a method of design transfer.   Chrysler has announced the need for Chrysler suppliers to have the systems in place and the functional capability to use Siemens Teamcenter & NX for new programs. Chrysler is using NX and Teamcenter for all new designs. Suppliers are required to use Teamcenter to connect with Chrysler and to use NX to support Chrysler programs. 

CAM Logic is the ONLY ‘small business centric’ Vendor approved by Chrysler to assist their supply base with connectivity.  OEM Connectivity is CAM Logic’s specialty.  CAM Logic has the experience, personnel, product suite, and know-how to assure the Chrysler Supply Chain is quickly connected to their Chrysler Engineers and design data can move freely.  CAM Logic’s dedication to the small to midsized market has continued to make CAM Logic the logical choice for Chrysler Connectivity.

CAM Logic’s customers are the cornerstone of the business.   “Their success is our success!  Too many vendors forget that their customers are the driving force behind their business.  Staying close to our customers has afforded CAM Logic our continued success, year after year” - Jim Carlisle, owner CAM Logic. 

Yvonne Wiedemann Joins the CAM Logic Business Development Team

OXFORD, MI, August 29, 2012 – CAM Logic, Inc., a leading provider of Siemens PLM Software Solutions, is pleased to announce that Yvonne Wiedemann has joined the firm.  Wiedemann’s main efforts will be focused on the resurging automotive market in southeast Michigan. CAM Logic has been experiencing rapid growth in the Midwest and wanted to take advantage of the opportunities in Michigan.

"This newly created position fits perfectly with our continued geographic expansion plans. The Michigan automotive market is very important to us, and having a strong local representative matches our company's strategic position of offering customized solutions for our clients", said Alex Violassi, VP of Sales & Business Development, of CLI. "Yvonne is a highly driven Sales Executive with 8-plus years in the Engineering/Manufacturing and is a real complement to our growing Michigan automotive team."

Solid Edge ST5 Delivers More Than 1,300 New Customer-Driven Productivity Enhancements

Latest Release Advances Synchronous Technology, Core Design Capabilities

New Solid Edge Mobile Viewer App for iPad Broadens Access to Design Data

PLANO, Texas, and NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 12, 2012- Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced the release of Solid Edge® software ST5 (Solid Edge ST5), with advances in core design capabilities aimed at helping users develop better products faster. The latest Solid Edge release also contains more than 1,300 new customer-driven productivity enhancements.

Siemens PLM Software also announced Solid Edge Mobile Viewer, a new free 3D viewer mobile device application (app) for the iPad® portable digital device, which broadens access to design data to help companies enhance collaboration. The announcements were made at Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge University 2012.

“The new features in Solid Edge ST5 are driven by our strong focus on our customers’ requirements. By responding directly to their needs, we ensure each functional enhancement delivers real business value,” said Dan Staples, director of Solid Edge product development, Siemens PLM Software. “Customers are seeing real benefits from our industry-leading synchronous technology and we’ve strongly extended our lead in this area.”

Faster more flexible ways to use synchronous technology

Solid Edge continues to leverage synchronous technology, Siemens PLM Software’s breakthrough history-free, feature-based design technology for digital product development, to provide designers and engineers a better way to create and edit designs and to help cut design time by enabling reuse of imported models. Solid Edge ST5 uses synchronous technology to provide enhanced support for multi-body modeling, which lets users import parts and assemblies from virtually any CAD system. The resulting imported geometry can be combined into a single part or multiple parts depending on manufacturing requirements.

“I am very impressed with what I have seen in Solid Edge ST5; especially the new multi-body design capability,” said Grant Holohan, Mechanical Engineer, Hatch, a leading global EPCM company specializing in designing large-scale mining operations. “The new multi-body design capability gives us the freedom to design without worrying about individual parts unless needed. Using Solid Edge ST5 will dramatically increase the design productivity of our staff, saving a substantial amount of design time.”

Siemens’ New 3DSync Software Delivers Exclusive Synchronous Technology Benefit to Mainstream CAD Industry

Based on technology shown to increase productivity by a factor of ten or more when working with imported CAD files, 3DSync now available to use free for a limited time

PLANO, Texas, December 18, 2012 – One of the significant benefits associated with Siemens’ proprietary synchronous technology software capability is now being made available to users of any vendor’s computer-aided design (CAD) application. Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software business unit is introducing a new 3D CAD editing tool to the mainstream market, based on synchronous technology, which has been shown to increase productivity by a factor of ten or more when working with imported CAD data. Siemens’ new 3DSync application is now available, and can be used at no charge

until May 15, 2013.

In today’s global manufacturing industry, product development collaboration among multiple companies is a predominant practice. However, due to inconsistent data formats employed by many of the world’s competing CAD software applications, importing and working with digital 3D product data from an incompatible CAD solution is often labor intensive, error prone and costly. The design intent built into CAD models in the form of parametric rules is lost during the translation process, making the imported model difficult to work with and often unusable. As a result, engineers are often forced to spend hours or days “fixing” an imported model or simply recreating the model from scratch.

This problem was virtually eliminated for users of Siemens’ Solid Edge® software and NX™ software applications when the company introduced its exclusive synchronous technology breakthrough in 2008. As a result of its ability to interrogate imported 3D models, recognize design intent, and automatically apply appropriate design parameters, synchronous technology has been reported to produce ten-to-one reductions in model rework time, with some users citing time reductions of certain tasks from days to minutes. The availability of Siemens’ new 3DSync offering now extends this benefit beyond the Solid Edge and NX user communities, to the users of any commercially available CAD system.

“3DSync is the next evolutionary step in Siemens’ constant drive to deliver open solutions that help significantly increase product development productivity, while at the same time improve product data compatibility throughout the global manufacturing industry,” said Chuck Grindstaff, CEO and president, Siemens PLM Software. “By enabling CAD models to be shared and easily edited between incompatible versions of the same CAD offering, or among different CAD applications, 3DSync delivers the productivity and cost reduction benefits of synchronous technology to mainstream CAD users by allowing them to more effectively reuse 3D product data.”

3DSync supports widely used CAD formats such as STEP, IGES, Parasolid® software, JT™ data format and others and has built-in data translators to help eliminate version incompatibility issues. 3DSync provides engineers with a fast, straightforward method for importing, editing and exporting most neutral 3D CAD files from suppliers and customers. This can save time and reduce costs by decreasing the need to remodel features or to pay suppliers to make edits.

3DSync is available immediately for $1995 (US). For more information and to register to use the full production version free until May 15, 2013, visit www.siemens.com/plm/3dsync.

NX 8.5 Delivers Customer-Driven Enhancements

To Help Reduce Time to Market

Latest Version of Siemens’ NX software Helps Companies make Smarter Decisions throughout Design, Simulation and Manufacturing for Increased Flexibility and Productivity

PLANO, Texas, September 6, 2012 - Siemens PLM Software, today announced the latest release of NX™ software, the company’s fully integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) solution. The latest version, NX 8.5, includes extensive customer-driven enhancements and new capabilities that provide increased flexibility and productivity across product engineering and manufacturing to help reduce time to market. NX 8.5 builds on Siemens PLM Software’s HD-PLM vision, which was established to help companies make smarter decisions more efficiently and with a higher level of confidence.

“The extensive customer-driven enhancements and new capabilities in NX 8.5 will help our customers further reduce time to market and facilitate smarter decisions that result in better products,” said Jim Rusk, senior vice president, Product Engineering Software, Siemens PLM Software. “By intelligently integrating information and providing customers with a high definition user experience, we are reinforcing our commitment to HD-PLM. NX 8.5 also continues our focus on maximizing customers’ return on their PLM investment. By conducting extensive testing to ensure version compatibility between each new release, we can deliver a future-proof architecture our customers will never outgrow.”

Chrysler Supplier Teamcenter Connectivity & NX Readiness Support

OXFORD, MI, August 31, 2012 – Chrysler’s recent move to Siemens NX CAD from Dassault Systemes’ CATIA line has required many suppliers to switch from the traditional VPN to Chrysler’s Teamcenter Environment as a method of design transfer.   Chrysler has announced the need for Chrysler suppliers to have the systems in place and the functional capability to use Siemens Teamcenter & NX for new programs. Chrysler is using NX and Teamcenter for all new designs. Suppliers are required to use Teamcenter to connect with Chrysler and to use NX to support Chrysler programs. 

CAM Logic is the ONLY ‘small business centric’ Vendor approved by Chrysler to assist their supply base with connectivity.  OEM Connectivity is CAM Logic’s specialty.  CAM Logic has the experience, personnel, product suite, and know-how to assure the Chrysler Supply Chain is quickly connected to their Chrysler Engineers and design data can move freely.  CAM Logic’s dedication to the small to midsized market has continued to make CAM Logic the logical choice for Chrysler Connectivity.

CAM Logic’s customers are the cornerstone of the business.   “Their success is our success!  Too many vendors forget that their customers are the driving force behind their business.  Staying close to our customers has afforded CAM Logic our continued success, year after year” - Jim Carlisle, owner CAM Logic. 

Yvonne Wiedemann Joins the CAM Logic Business Development Team

OXFORD, MI, August 29, 2012 – CAM Logic, Inc., a leading provider of Siemens PLM Software Solutions, is pleased to announce that Yvonne Wiedemann has joined the firm.  Wiedemann’s main efforts will be focused on the resurging automotive market in southeast Michigan. CAM Logic has been experiencing rapid growth in the Midwest and wanted to take advantage of the opportunities in Michigan.

"This newly created position fits perfectly with our continued geographic expansion plans. The Michigan automotive market is very important to us, and having a strong local representative matches our company's strategic position of offering customized solutions for our clients", said Alex Violassi, VP of Sales & Business Development, of CLI. "Yvonne is a highly driven Sales Executive with 8-plus years in the Engineering/Manufacturing and is a real complement to our growing Michigan automotive team."

Solid Edge ST5 Delivers More Than 1,300 New Customer-Driven Productivity Enhancements

Latest Release Advances Synchronous Technology, Core Design Capabilities

New Solid Edge Mobile Viewer App for iPad Broadens Access to Design Data

PLANO, Texas, and NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 12, 2012- Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced the release of Solid Edge® software ST5 (Solid Edge ST5), with advances in core design capabilities aimed at helping users develop better products faster. The latest Solid Edge release also contains more than 1,300 new customer-driven productivity enhancements.

Siemens PLM Software also announced Solid Edge Mobile Viewer, a new free 3D viewer mobile device application (app) for the iPad® portable digital device, which broadens access to design data to help companies enhance collaboration. The announcements were made at Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge University 2012.

“The new features in Solid Edge ST5 are driven by our strong focus on our customers’ requirements. By responding directly to their needs, we ensure each functional enhancement delivers real business value,” said Dan Staples, director of Solid Edge product development, Siemens PLM Software. “Customers are seeing real benefits from our industry-leading synchronous technology and we’ve strongly extended our lead in this area.”

Faster more flexible ways to use synchronous technology

Solid Edge continues to leverage synchronous technology, Siemens PLM Software’s breakthrough history-free, feature-based design technology for digital product development, to provide designers and engineers a better way to create and edit designs and to help cut design time by enabling reuse of imported models. Solid Edge ST5 uses synchronous technology to provide enhanced support for multi-body modeling, which lets users import parts and assemblies from virtually any CAD system. The resulting imported geometry can be combined into a single part or multiple parts depending on manufacturing requirements.

“I am very impressed with what I have seen in Solid Edge ST5; especially the new multi-body design capability,” said Grant Holohan, Mechanical Engineer, Hatch, a leading global EPCM company specializing in designing large-scale mining operations. “The new multi-body design capability gives us the freedom to design without worrying about individual parts unless needed. Using Solid Edge ST5 will dramatically increase the design productivity of our staff, saving a substantial amount of design time.”