Best Practice and Tips and Tricks from Mike Watkins

Dusting off the old keyboard been a while..! Just a quick post to let you know about my class this year at AU2014  PL5315 The Devil is In the Detail—PDM and PLM: Parker Hannifin Corporation's Journey In this class you will hear first hand from one of our customers, Parker Hannifin and how they deployed Autodesk Vault software from a small group of 30 users to what is now over 1500 active users. You will also learn how they plan to use  Autodesk PLM 360 software to manage the other processes that support engineering, quality, costing, quoting, and supplier management, you will see how this will enable them to use cloud-based PLM collaboration to extend the product data management productivity and increase the time to market of products and services. I will be joined by Maarten Weers from Parker Hannifin the CAD Manager for IT Core Competency Team in EMEA so you can hear first hand from one of our customers.  Maarten started his career as a Mechanical...

Octopart is the leading search engine for electronic parts. The Octopart API is used by hundreds of OEMs and EMS providers to streamline quoting, sourcing and purchasing processes. The Octopart app for PLM 360 utilizes the Octopart API to access pricing and availability information for over 20 million electronic components, right within the PLM360 interface. This week I met with the team behind Octopart and had a the chance to dig deeper... Mike: Morning Guys, great to meet you at last, so can you tell my readers a little bit about Octopart? Janine:  Hi Mike, we started building Octopart in 2007 when the founders -- physics researchers -- decided they were done with flipping through giant part supplier catalogs, and built a tool for themselves to find parts fast.  Turns out lots of other people felt the same pain and wanted to use it.   What started as a small project turned into a mission-driven company when the founders discovered that data in the electronics ...