Smoothie and juice bars have become a $2.2 billion industry, projected to rise 2% annually on average over the next five years. To remain competitive, commercial smoothie providers need to combine aesthetics and performance to provide the best blending machinery on the market. Their quest is to create the Ferrari of blenders. Founded in 1921, […]

Since 1911, Whirlpool has been innovating home appliances. For the past hundred-plus years, the world’s #1 major appliance company’s products shifted from basic devices to complex fusions of machinery, electronics and software. In some cases, like the modern washing machine, the products barely resemble their original iterations. Constellation: The Star of Whirlpool’s Product Development Whirlpool […]

A consolidated CAD strategy – one that unites all in-house design work under one CAD package – can save companies a ton on IT, support and hardware. Since PTC Creo was introduced in 2011, many companies have gone from having multiple CAD software solutions to using PTC Creo for all of their design work. The […]

Last week, PTC announced the upcoming release of Creo Parametric 3.0. Its new features and capabilities will supplement proven technologies from Pro/ENGINEER to help address the most pressing design challenges. Unite Technology The new Unite™ technology will make it easier than ever to use CAD files from a variety of systems directly in PTC Creo […]

According to a recent study by PTC, 37.9% of engineers experienced dramatic or multiple last-minute changes working on a recent project. That means over one-third of engineers require extensive “design agility” as part of their modeling process. “Design Agility” is the quickness, ease and flexibility one has to have in order to make changes in […]

Manufacturing companies that develop new products rely on product lifecycle management (PLM) software to effectively manage projects. Cars, electronics, medical devices, sports equipment – the right PLM tool can make any design process more efficient. Of course, there’s no “one-size-fits-all” solution that suits every single type of business. A large marketplace has created a wide […]

Pro/REPORT is a powerful component of Creo Parametric drawing mode which allows highly customizable tables to be automatically created and added to drawings. While Pro/REPORT is primarily used for the creation of BOM tables, it can also be used to create tabulated drawings of family table parts. This document describes its use for BOM generation. […]