Mashup Applications Archive

  • It’s no easy task being an engineer today. While designing a product you have to take into account a huge variety of information like costs, inventory, preferred suppliers and much...

    Actify Centro and Microsoft Sharepoint: The 3D Mashup

    Posted on June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments
    It’s no easy task being an engineer today. While designing a product you have to take into account a huge variety of information like costs, inventory, preferred suppliers and much...

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  • Although I've never been able to attend in the past, I've always thought that the Collaboration and Interoperability Congress (event website) took on some intriguing topics. CAD interoperability. PLM integration. 3D visualization. Thinking one day that I'd like to get involved in some way, I reached out to Dave Prawel of Longview Advisors, who runs the CIC event, to see if he was interested in getting some help with the event.

    The New Management Forum at the CIC Conference

    Posted on February 16, 2011 | 2 Comments
    Although I've never been able to attend in the past, I've always thought that the Collaboration and Interoperability Congress (event website) took on some intriguing topics. CAD interoperability. PLM integration. 3D visualization. Thinking one day that I'd like to get involved in some way, I reached out to Dave Prawel of Longview Advisors, who runs the CIC event, to see if he was interested in getting some help with the event.

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  • A couple weeks ago, I asked a question that has been on my mind for a while: do engineers have the broadest reach within the enterprise? I've always thought there's been a little bit of a misconception that an engineer's sole focus is on new product development and more specifically, design work. Instead, just about every day for an engineer is a firedrill where they're scrambling all over the company to resolve issues across a number of product's lifecycles. So after coming to that conclusion, I started thinking about another question: what technology would best enable engineers to do their job?

    What is the Killer App for the Modern Engineer?

    Posted on January 4, 2011 | 21 Comments
    A couple weeks ago, I asked a question that has been on my mind for a while: do engineers have the broadest reach within the enterprise? I've always thought there's been a little bit of a misconception that an engineer's sole focus is on new product development and more specifically, design work. Instead, just about every day for an engineer is a firedrill where they're scrambling all over the company to resolve issues across a number of product's lifecycles. So after coming to that conclusion, I started thinking about another question: what technology would best enable engineers to do their job?

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