Concurrent Engineering Blog

“The scalability of Pro/ENGINEER enables us to use a single system for all of our processes, which greatly simplifies administration and maintenance.”

Thomas Bichler works as a CAD administrator in the construction area of the research and development department at FRONIUS International GmbH, a leading manufacturer of welding technology, solar electronics, and battery charging technology.

Pro/ENGINEER halves the time to produce mould base drawings

Bartek Design Ltd. is a design and technical program management consultancy, based in Ireland and Germany, with a worldwide client basis. The majority of its work with Pro/ENGINEER is injection moulds & automation machine design. When doing on-site contracts it often has to update and modify existing tools and machines to suit its client’s new manufacturing requirements. The portability of the Pro/Engineer license software is ‘key’ in enabling it to do this.

Hear what designers are saying about Pro/ENGINEER®

“The ease of creating and visualising complex shaped parts with Pro/ENGINEER has proven to reduce errors.”

  
Paul Heatherington is Lead Designer at Burnside Autocyl (Tullow) Ltd., a manufacturer of hydraulic cylinders in Tullow, County Carlow, Ireland. The company implemented Pro/ENGINEER when making the move from 2D CAD to 3D CAD in 2005. Mr. Heatherington had used SolidWorks® 3D design software in college, but when tasked with selecting the 3D CAD solution for Burnside Autocyl, he immediately opted for Pro/ENGINEER after experiencing its powerful and rich functionality. Ease of use was also an important factor in the decision, so the migration from 2D could be handled with minimum training for Burnside employees.

I picked up on this news through Franco’s Novedge Pulse news aggregation thing-a-me-bob, but it made for interesting reading so I thought I’d share it. PTC just announced (although its not dated) details that Microsoft has moved up to the Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0 release – while at first you think, "hmmmm," you soon remember that Microsoft do a pretty bang on job of producing their own hardware using an in house design team (and with some consultancies – anyone else got one of those terrible Philipe Starck mice?).

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CA Group Turns to Pro/ENGINEER® to Design Iconic New Retail Building – PTC’s 3D CAD Software Handles Large, Complex Assemblies with Ease

   
The CA Group, formed in the UK in the mid-1980s, has grown to become a premier contractor, supplier and manufacturer of industrial and commercial metal roofing and cladding systems.

Tips & tricks on creating high-quality illustrations using photo tracing by Bert Witsmeer, B/E Aerospace

This article will be published in the Communicator magazine

By Rod Strand, Value CAD Marketing Manager, HP

Design efficiencies improved by 200% compared to previous 2D CAD software

PTC® (Nasdaq: PMTC), today announced that Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (CHALCO) Shandong Branch has adopted PTC® Pro/ENGINEER® to speed up design and production of its solid-liquid separation equipment. Pro/ENGINEER, PTC’s integrated 3D parametric CAD/CAM/CAE software, allows engineers and designers to intuitively model detailed and accurate digital product definitions.

By Joe Graney, Engineering Director, Santa Cruz Bicycles

Arbortext® Enables Hamilton Sundstrand to Automate the Development Process of S1000D Compliant Technical Manuals

PTC announced that Hamilton Sundstrand headquartered in Windsor Locks, CT, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, has selected Arbortext to help ensure its technical publications are compliant with S1000D standards. Arbortext® for S1000D is PTC’s product information delivery solution used for structured authoring, technical illustrations, publishing and viewing interactive electronic technical publications (IETP) in accordance with the Aerospace and Defense Specification 1000D.  With the implementation of PTC’s solution for S1000D, Hamilton Sundstrand has expanded its use of the PTC® Product Development System (PDS).  Hamilton Sundstrand has been a PTC customer since 1999.