History-free and feature-based: Siemens PLM Software unfurls its Synchronous Technology banner

摘要

Eager to keep market interest whetted following its USD3.5-billion acquisition of UGS early last year and subsequent announcement of its Project Archimedes manufacturing initiative last summer, Siemens PLM Software heralded its April 2008 announcement of Synchronous Technology (ST) as "the next big breakthrough" in digital product development. Synchronous Technology is said to enable radical productivity gains in design by automating all the associated alterations in a component's parametric geometry necessary to accommodate any desired design improvement. Gains are achieved by freeing designers from having to sequentially revisit and revise the geometry of all surrounding elements.