Monday, May 26, 2014

A Conversation with ANSYS – Rafiq Somani, David Street, Harshad Karve & Kaustubh Nande

During, 2014 ANSYS Convergence Pune I had an opportunity to have discussion with Rafiq Somani (Country Sales Manager – ANSYS) nice to see him in a same role but with the CAE vendor, before he was working with PTC as a Country Sales Manager till Oct 2013. Great meeting David Street (Asia Director of Marketing and Business Development for ANSYS) after one year and good to talk to Harshad Karve (ANSYS Technical Director Asia) and Kaustubh Nande (Marketing Manager ANSYS). Here is the interview.


Rafiq Somani (Country Sales Manager – ANSYS)
What Ansys adds up in last one year?
David Street: Acquisition of SpaceClaim few days back was the most important thing that has happened, we now have CAD tool in our product lineup. Fundamentally, we have not changed. We have not changed our strategy for years, not changed our direction at all. We believe in same thing.
We are trying to make sure that our fundamental technologies to do the depth of simulation make sure that all of those individual technologies communicate each other to do Multi-physics. So, we made an acquisition which strengthens our depth. In Dec, 2013 we acquired ‘Reaction Design’ leader in simulation of complex chemical reactions, for example. Combustion, inline cylinder calculations in automobile, catalytic convertors. In past, we were able to do fluid flow, thermal simulation but lack in chemical reactions so ‘Reaction Design’ acquisition was important step to explore our offerings in this space.
We acquired SpaceClaim last week. One of our aim in simulation is to be able to do simulation much early in design process and if you do your simulation very early in the design process there comes a point where CAD model does not exist that means the simulation is done on the preliminary design. The question is
How would you do simulation before design is created? Before CAD model is build?
Need some capabilities to be able to create geometries before the CAD model is made. I think that’s what SpaceClaim brings to us, the ability to do simulation right from the concept stage. The SpaceClaim is history free tool and supports various file formats and neutral file types. It is also very easy to learn and use compared to traditional parametric CAD packages. Also for simulation software users with limited exposure to CAD, direct modelers offer an easy way to refine, edit, perfect, and add or remove features without learning a professional CAD program.
Some people are asking whether we are becoming a CAD company.
No, that is not our intension. We are not going to become a CAD Company. We have excellent partnerships with other CAD Companies, but we do recognized that there is some area where we need better CAD capability in concept design and  SpaceClaim offers some excellent CAD Conversion tools to read CAD geometries from various packages. We also had long relationship with the SpaceClaim, worked as a re-seller for last 4 years, so acquisition is just a natural extension.
We released Ansys v15, added geometry import, cleanup and meshing capabilities. Important step forward was its ability to transfer data from one solver to another solver. So you can do multiple physics easily, we concentrated on making the process easy to work with multi physics. Other thing, we made lots of improvements in meshing technology. There are still many companies using legacy CAD meshing tools. After investigating our Workbench, those companies came back and said Workbench is much advance, have better tools and have now adapted Workbench meshing.
This is very fast changing busy market and customer continually make demands with us since when we were a small company and simulation was used at the edges of the design, but now the simulation has become such an important component of the business the guys at the higher level of the companies come and make demands, senior managers are much more concern about the simulation. Our engagement with the users is much higher now than it was in the past. Now, customers from India are not asking for the accuracy in the simulation results but want to know how to adapt simulation to unable engineers to re-engineer product development.

Rafiq Somani, Sachin Nalawade & David Street

How SpaceClaim would be offered, will it be offered as a separate CAD package or an integrated product with other Ansys tools?
David Street: We already sold SpaceClaim for years, we are not going to change the way we were offering it. We would maintain relationship with SpaceClaim channel partners, that’s important asset that SpaceClaim have. Over a time some of the SpaceClaim’s technology would be integrated with the Workbench. But, won’t see any major changes!
The customers now are very much aware about the simulation. Now, with SDPD (Simulation driven product development) customers are looking for faster ways and realistically adapt simulation more and more and actually Harshad is driving that mission here.
Harshad Karve: What we have found in last 10 years simulation have somewhat moved from design. Design have timeline, lot of constrains, rules to follow. In last decade the simulation has become easy and more affordable tool, with better hardware available now. There is much tighter integration between simulation and design. We understand the customer’s process, building that on the top of our product and offering it to designers who may not be knowing much about the simulation. But, the designers would be able to use it because the organizational process is entirely followed and it’s very easy to use entire set-up. There are lots of designers now using simulation tools.
Rafiq Somani: I think best way is, you can do some Google search, you can find companies like Cummins are continually doing their research, use lots of simulation, publish papers and in their annual report their CEO speaks about the importance of simulation in the product development. I think the way companies were using simulation have changed. The ANSYS is the only single-vendor tool with the technical breadth and depth that meets every challenge our customers faced.
After doing the Google search as suggested by Rafiq, it was amazing to see hundreds of articles where companies use Ansys Simulation tools in their R&D work.

David Street: This morning, during presentation in conference we talked about one example of European company where they use simulation tools for the product development, the do not have resources with masters’ degree or PhD’s to do simulation job but with their two design engineers they are able to do the simulation safely, reliably. The company makes hearing aids. They use customized capabilities within Ansys, which allows their engineers who are not experts to reliably do simulation and now 75% of their simulation is done by non-experts. It’s quite impressive!
Why the simulations tools offered by CAD Vendors takes less time to do simulation compared to tools offered by CAE Vendors?
Rafiq Somani: As I am from CAD background, I would answer to this. It’s like Ansys going and saying we have SpaceClaim and its better CAD modeling tool then others.
I think when it comes to making meshing critical products, you want to make sure your product doesn’t fail; you want to make it right the first time, especially in nuclear power, defense, automotive and health care products. Even today you can see in automotive most of the times a failure occurs and they have to recall entire batch of thousands of vehicles. It costs millions and millions of dollars, affects brand credibility. So, when company wants to make sure that CAE results have to match field results they need better CAE tools like those offered by Ansys.
The CAD Vendors have some basic CAE but all depends on the customer whether he wants low cost, quick tools with less accuracy or looking for more reliable results.
I can quote lot of examples of customers. They are not ready to spent 10 Lacs on the CAD tools and ready to spend 1 Cr for CAE Tools. I have seen the amazing stuff customers are doing using our CAE tools.
Another example, one of major manufacturer of Airplanes from US is using our solutions for past 10 years and they have not yet found any error using Ansys products meanwhile they have found big problems working with the CAD packages that made news few days back.
Secondly, as you are aware about the CAD, CAE industry. Today, each and every product you see car or a health care products. It’s not just a single physics, there is structure, air flow, fluid, heat, electrical, software, magnetic and wireless applications. The parties have to do Multi-physics. There are many CAD, CAE Companies which can do little bit of simulation mostly with single physics. If you do one physics and transfer data to heat or flow analysis there will be at least 20% error in the test results. So, if someone has to do analysis of Multi-physics and get the right product, only Ansys can do it.
Every day we talk to our team and customers. I am happy to see the amount of value which Ansys gives is tremendous in terms of results and world class products developed. The ease of using simulation tools from ANSYS has helped to transform our customers from traditional physical tests, prototype culture to an analysis and virtual testing.
David Street: The companies which brought analysis software from CAD vendors would at some point realize that their products are not that smart. Using a proper tool helps to manage the way the product behaves.  Every small product has to deal with the Multi-physics.
Rafiq Somani: We have this vision of Multi-physics for many years; you can pick up any CAE vendor they are specialized in some particular physics. Forget about the CAD vendors they can only do 20% of what Ansys can do. Again I have come from CAD background, everybody say its automatic meshing. It’s all visuals on screen. See it is very easy for Ansys to create such screen shots.
Rafiq Somani and David Street

How is Ansys doing for last two years in economic downtime in India?
Rafiq Somani: It’s very good question, I have been meeting many customers like Kirloskar brothers. They find it difficult because of lot of big scams in power, oil and gas, irrigation and mining sector in last 5 year. Lot of companies is facing business challenges.
Rafiq Somani: Here is an interesting point, if you are a customer and you have the business problems and revenue is not up to mark and market conditions are not well, what is the first thing you will do?
I will try to re-design product, make it better!
Rafiq Somani: Yes better product, add some value engineering, save cost, and find new market and more. So, people in such situation. They try new ways, optimize product, and get ready for the future projects. Take example of Bharat Forge, as the automotive market was down their business turn around. But, after shifting to Simulation driven product development with Ansys, now they are winning in tough automotive market because now they are going back to customers and saying ‘this is our crankshaft ,we can design same crankshaft with better reliability, strength, 20 – 25% less weight, at less price compared to Chinese counterparts and deliver it on time with better quality’.
They are now winning orders from automotive MNCs in such a tough time; and thus further strengthen their position in the forging industry.
It is not possible with the traditional tools to get that information. Also, instead of wasting 10 Cr in physical testing it is always better to invest 1 Cr in tools and perform virtual testing.

Does simulation play any role in 3D printing, in mass production done using 3D Printing?
Rafiq Somani: 3D printing is very happening technology now-a-days every organization is getting 3D printing technology. There are lots of our customers using this technology. Customers print their prototypes to do testing, Ansys play important role in virtual testing of their models before it is printed.
David Street: 3D Printing mostly use polymer material, the company may want to check whether the product they made would work or not. The choice for the material is very huge, so to select better material, simulation is more valuable there.

Many global CAE players have entered India in last couple of years, so what are your strategies to compete them? And do you have any restrictions working with Govt. organizations like DRDO, ISRO, BARC?
Rafiq Somani: There are lots of niche players in market. They may offer quick solvers or meshing. But, if you want to do CAE casually with single physics there are ‘n’ number of solutions. If you want to do some serious CAE involving Multi-physics, and you want to be damn sure that product is right at first, there is no option to Ansys!
Now, look at the every product washing machine, TV, Computers, mobiles and even cars. There involves Multi-physics. Every physics have different type of effect on other physics. Products are getting more and more complicated people are looking better products, features at lesser cost. Getting 8-10 standalone products would cause 20-30% data loss due to lack of some physics involved and it may not support various geometry imports.
I would say if customer awareness is not there, not aware about of solutions like us, may go for the standalone companies and CAD vendors. But as soon as they interact with Ansys they say ‘Ohh my god you have everything together and are so reliable
Our way of working with the customer is different, we just do not offer them solution, we have discussion with them, talk about how we can solve their problems. No other company provides such a value. We have 200+ support engineers working from Hingewadi, Pune office. Also have consulting team working for defence and global customers.
Harshad Karve: There were some restrictions in the past. But for last two years we do not have any restrictions working with any Government organization in India.
Do you have any customer using cloud solution?
Harshad Karve: Globally, yes. Not in India yet. We are talking to lot of companies. Most of them do not want to go on cloud. They want to build own private cloud.
David Street: We are working on how we can bring cloud solutions to Asia market, the trend we see happening is, the companies use to bring hardware technology to desktop, and then the next big thing happened, the companies’ then set-up a data center within the company, now the next and natural extension is Cloud.
Now, they want to move the hardware outside the company and manage several computers. It can be private cloud. We have solutions for every need. In North America and Europe, no customer has licenses in-house, every now and then they might have to do a big job, might be short of resources. When they need some extra help so that company buys more Ansys licenses and want them to use on cloud, so the software belongs to the company but the license can be used by others working with them. That is becoming more common now. Our intension is to bring that trend in Asia. We are working with well known hardware companies to have right technology, infrastructure to host Ansys products.
Harshad Karve (ANSYS Technical Director Asia)
How is Ansys doing with the construction/infrastructure industry in India?
Harshad Karve: Lot of projects like bridges, infrastructure projects, stadiums Ansys is being used in structural analysis also consultants are also using it for HVAC projects.
Any message to dailycadcam.com readers and design professionals in India?
Rafiq Somani: It is great opportunity for country like India, Indian engineers are known as global engineers, but all the manufacturing is going to China. They are far ahead as far as mass manufacturing is concern. But, when it comes to custom design, different design India is still doing well in this field.
I am trying to tell engineers that if they can pick up our 10 best practices globally and try to apply two best practices in their company. Try to innovate, add value which can save the cost, time and produce better quality products.
Also, we are trying to do lots of marketing programs at student level so that they come up with innovative thinking much early.
David Street: You see, products are getting more and more complex. If you are innovative and smart engineer you don’t necessarily need entire infrastructure to realize your product concept because you can do it with simulation. Before you bring your product to market you need testing and so on. What it means idea doesn’t die if you are an engineer and have an idea, explore it and develop that idea using computer tools.
Rafiq Somani: The other message that I would like to share through my experience with customers is that, every customer I met they say “today’s engineers are very good in technology usage, very good in using software.” But, I think their value would tremendously increase, CAD has become commodity you know, and there are thousands of CAD engineers available. But, as soon as the engineer, same engineer understands the physics, structures, electronics better and then they have the knowledge of the tool I think it will give better direction to their career. I see any CAD engineer who can take up this role of CAE and analysis can expect 2X, 3X jump in salaries. There is big demand supply gap in the market.  We are working on the challenges of demand supply gap in India. We are also working on starting Ansys Authorized training centers in India soon to overcome this challenge.
Thanks Rafiq Somani, David Street, Harshad Karve and Kaustubh Nande for your time for the discussion. Hope reader find it interesting to read this article. If you have any question please write on the mail id given below and we will be glad to answer.
regards,
Sachin Nalawade
Editor – DailyCADCAM
sachin@dailycadcam.com

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Free EurekaMobile App for Android and iOS Devices

Came across a very good free mobile app that complements Eureka Virtual Machining, Roboris’ flagship product.If using Eureka Virtual Machining products, would be really good to try this App.
Through EurekaMobile any simulations made by Eureka Virtual Machining can be reviewed and analyzed anywhere on any mobile device.

Machine tool operators can now review the ISO program simulation on their own smartphones or tablets, thus enabling an optimal setup of the machine tool. Any potential critical issues flagged by the technical office can also be easily investigated.
In addition to the 3D simulation of all the machine motions, EurekaMobile provides a detailed analysis of any messages, warnings and/or errors generated during the simulation. In case of collision, the colliding parts are highlighted in 3D so the issue can be easily identified.
The ISO line being executed, the tool used, the feed rate and other useful information are also displayed during the simulation.
EurekaMobile is immediately available for download from Google Play for Android devices and from Apple Store for IOS devices. It will be available soon also for Windows mobile devices.
Download EurekaMobile
For more information contact Giovanni Opimitti, Business Development Manager – North America, atgiovanni.opimitti@roboris.com
Roboris Website: http://www.roboris.it/en

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

DailyCADCAM Redesigns Website

DailyCADCAM has just revealed a huge redesign that updates its look and feel to mark its fifth anniversary. The new look brings with it an optimized experience for mobile and tablet, which DailyCADCAM has never had before.

The new site meets the need of editors, guest bloggers, users and advertisers. The new site is more visually appealing, easier to use and optimized for mobile devices, the new dailycadcam.com also provides a more in-depth look at the CAD, CAM CAE, CFD, PLM and 3D printing.



 Started as a simple blog site in March 2009, it has evolved as a premier source for CAD; CAM related articles, tutorials, tips, videos, events, news and jobs for design professionals. The new site targets to provide readers with the unique perspective and relevant context on CAD industry, across world. We are revolutionizing the way we cover and distribute the news, using website and social networks in relevant ways that inform and entertain DailyCADCAM users.



We are happy to work for world’s best CAD vendors like PTC, Siemens PLM, Autodesk, DS SolidWorks Corp, BricsCAD, GstarCAD, Graebert, CCTECH and AMD for promoting their products and services through banner advertising, EDMs and blogs since 2010. We were media partner for COMSOL Conference in Bangalore, India

DailyCADCAM is now connected to 15000 subscribers for weekly newsletter, with main focus on design professionals in India. We have 8200 subscribers from India and around 7000 form US, Europe and Gulf countries. We are connected to more than 10000 design professionals through social networks like FB, Linkedin and Twitter. DailyCADCAM is most liked CAD news portal on Twitter with 2500 followers. 

Beyond the aesthetic changes, the site's structure has been entirely revamped. Readers first come across exclusive articles by guest bloggers on the top, info on latest CAD, CAE software trial to know more about the various packages before customer goes for purchase. We will bring lot of interviews, 3D printing articles, jobs, VAR info and offers and latest mobile (Android & iPhone) Apps and gadgets info.

The redesign highlights stronger voices and further cements DailyCADCAM's status as one of the India’s premier CAD, CAM news outlets that continue to reflect the best experience. In addition to those upgrades, we will increase the frequency and the amount of content that is published on web site.

We would be happy to hear more from you to get better. So please feel free to reach out with any comments, questions or concerns about the site, and we look forward to bringing you new mobile apps and new site for US & Europe in the coming months as well. 


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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Essentials of Integrated Electrical Design

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Learn how you can fully design your electrical and mechanical systems at the same time. SolidWorks Electrical products include dynamic 2D schematic and 3D electrical design tools that help you design quickly and meet your product performance and quality goals.
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Friday, February 28, 2014

CAD, CAE Webinars – an affordable and highly effective way of delivering training!

Web is growing. Companies are getting social, use social media and other online tools to promote services, share knowledge, launch new products.

Compared to blog post or a YouTube video I think Webinars are a best way to demonstrate your expertise and give your company’s value to customer who really want to know everything before making their purchase or learn more about product after purchase. Conducting webinars is an incredible way to get your service information out with very less overhead cost. 

The companies conducting webinars must keep in mind that the agenda should not merely to advertise their company and products.  The agenda of the webinar must be clear with the title. 90% of the attendees decide on registration of the webinar just by looking at the title. There are good webinar hosting services available with very less fees charged to conduct it.

Few reasons the CAD, CAM, CAE, CFD webinars becoming popular are,

Education, Knowledge sharing and Training:

The CAD, CAE vendors and their VARs conduct webinars regularly, keeping in the mind the target audience. They conduct webinars from basic to advance topics. Like PTC conducts webinars on basic topics like “Introduction to Creo Parametric” to more advance topics on Mathcad, Windchill and on specific modules like “Manufacturing in Creo Parametric”.

The companies like MSC Software covers advance topics on composite materials, aerospace targeting CAE Analysts or engineering managers. Similarly, ANSYS conducts the advance topic webinars, the topics and the presenters that webinars have are unmatchable. No institute can afford to have such knowledgeable speakers to train users, the training content in webinars is far better than that is taught in training institutes.

The main advantage over watching a video on same topic is that the attendees can join in for a LIVE Q&A and get answers from experts.

Almost, all CAD, CAE, CFD vendors are offering webinars every day. One should check the time before registering for the webinar.  You also have option to convert time to your local time. Few webinars are offered at IST (Indian Standard Time).
Companies offer systematic calendar for the webinars, like PTC, Autodesk, DS SolidWorks and ANSYS. So, it’s easy to find required topics on single page. 










Convenience:

Conducting webinars and attaining it is more convenient then attaining the seminars or conferences. One just need an internet connection, anyone can attain it, let it be office, hotel or house thru PC, Laptop, Tab and Smartphone. 

Brand Awareness and Promotion:

It is possible that you may not get the hefty response at start. Good way to start with your existing customers, promote it on social networks and other advertising media. It helps in creating brand awareness among the attendees while being able to deliver critical information regarding the product or service being presented. Companies directly get connected to customers through this, potential customers are able to ask questions about the product and service while gaining knowledge about it.

Networking:

Webinars help in networking with the potential customers.  The attendees also get chance to connect with the host, speakers. The sign up page of webinar must have an email contact, mobile number and demographics. This allows companies to generate a potential client and invite them for future webinars on similar topics.

On demand Webinars/Recorded Webinars:

These webinars are generally recorded version of the webinars held previously. It is good way to access them anytime you want. Many times if attendee missed webinar he/she can play the recorded version. The training departments of companies and design institutes must consider such pre-recorded webinars to train their manpower or students.

Check this on-demand webinars by Autodesk and SolidWorks 



Few webinars are conducted on IST, most are conducted from US/Europe on their time. It may be late night here in India. It’s great to see some SolidWorks re-sellers, BricsCAD, ANSYS, Autodesk India conducting webinars for Indian design professionals and engineering students. Hope other follows them.


Webinars benefits both - host and the attendees!!  

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

A Conversation with Mr. Rob Gremley VP Product Development and Corporate Marketing PTC and Mr. Subash Nambiar India Country manager PTC

Last week, I had an opportunity to meet Mr. Robert Gremley (Rob) Executive Vice President Product Development and Corporate Marketing PTC and recently appointed VP and India Country manager PTC Mr. Subash Nambiar.

I'm glad to have an opportunity to interview both for the DailyCADCAM. Here are my questions and Rob Gremley and Subash Nambiar’s insightful responses.

Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your role in PTC?

Mr. Rob Gremley: I am mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, started my career as a design engineer at Kollsman Manufacturing Company. Later, in 1989 joined PTC and have been working at various positions in the organization over a period of time. Since 2009, I am working as an executive vice president, Product Development and Corporate Marketing at PTC.

In this role, I am responsible for providing leadership and oversight of PTC’s R&D, QA, executing marketing strategy and worldwide marketing operations.

Mr. Subash Nambiar:  I did master in commerce from University of Madras, later did MBA from Singapore Management University and PGDEM, Export Management from IIEM. I started my career or articleship in 1984 at Kuruvilla & Kuruvilla consultants. I have worked as a sr. Director Sales at Oracle India for last seven years and as a Deputy General Manager  at IBM India for three and half years. Joined PTC in Dec 2013 and I’m excited to work with such an innovative company and look forward for a long term with the company.

What are the growth rates and priorities for ASIA?

 As far as revenue is involved, 1/3 of  revenue is generated from US, equal from Europe and ASIA. We have witnessed the significant growth in India, China, Japan, Malaysia and other countries

What difference you find in China and India CAD market?  

(Laughs) both are growing economies, especially in manufacturing sector.  Looking at the growth rate in India, we are investing as much here as in China. India is the second fastest-growing market in the world after China. In China, the product development is much faster; more innovative products are developed compared to India keeping in the mind the global market. We also see a lot of opportunities in both the countries. We have quite high customer acquisition rate in Automotive, Aerospace, Defense and Industrial equipments as compared to competition.   

Why PTC offers only Creo CAD package and why not a specific tool for the particular industry, like other vendors are offering, like we have SolidWorks Plastics, Electrical or AutoCAD Electrical or Mechanical?

Very good marketing question, we offer the solutions as per role, industry and business needs. Some vendors have given specific names to their products assigned for particular industry, say Electrical or plastic and some offer single solution with various modules as per roles and industry requirement. We have wide range of modules for every industry vertical. We provide solution as per the requirement from the customer.
With Mr. Rob Gremley (Left) VP Product Development and Corporate Marketing PTC and Mr. Subash Nambiar  (Right) India Country manager PTC  

How is PTC’s PLM Market in India?

We see good demand for PLM in the emerging markets. Windchill is doing exceptionally well and have a large client base using state of the art PTC-PLM solutions in India.

Today, PTC works with more than 27,000 businesses around the world to help them design and service products in rapidly-evolving, globally distributed manufacturing industries, including industrial equipment, automotive, high tech and electronics, aerospace and defense, retail, consumer, and medical devices.

We have good number of Indian companies in each sector using our PLM solutions. We have wide range of product in this segment like Windchill FelxPLM, Windchill PPMLink, Windchill PDMLink etc. with various modules and options as per customer’s requirement. We have good presence in Automotive, consumer goods, electronics and mid-size companies in India.

What are your views on cloud computing in CAD space?

We are already offering the cloud based Wildchill PLM solutions since 2005. It is available as an online service. The manufacturing sector is slow in adapting the cloud technology due to security reasons and Internet bandwidth issue. Though few customers have gone for the private cloud solution we do not push our customers and believe in natural migration.

Mr. Subash Nambiar:  We have more than 50 customers using cloud solutions successfully since long time through netideas. Most customers are looking for private cloud, where data can be shared within organization or departments with complete security.

It’s long time that Pro/E was renamed as ‘Creo’ but design engineers still remember PTC for Pro/E. What are your views on this?

True, Pro/E has emerged as a big brand. It was one of the best parametric 3D tools available. In 2010 when we announced our new package ‘project lightning’ showed it to few customers and bloggers. New tool was having completely new environment and capabilities. After looking a demo one of the customers said ‘It’s amazing! It’s not at all a Pro/E it’s totally different’. He was right we wanted to redefine CAD market with our new product. It was earlier called as project lightning and later named as Creo.  The new tool delivers four breakthrough technologies that address the lingering challenges of usability, interoperability, technology lock-in and assembly management.

Thousands of Pro/ENGINEER customers have already made the move to PTC Creo. Soon, we are coming up with the PTC Creo 3 at PTC’s premier annual conference ‘PTC Live Tech Global’ that will be held on June 15-18, 2014 in Boston. Join us to see the latest developments in Creo 3!

Anything that you would like to say about design engineers in India and about the PTC’s development center in Pune?

Yes, of course! There is tremendous opportunity for innovation. Take advantage of our products for every industry. Also, check our other products like,

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for managing all aspects of software & systems development. Supply Chain Management (SCM) for manufacturers to align product design and supply chain planning strategies and Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) to optimize the system of people, processes and technology to enable greater service performance and improvement.

We are celebrating PTC’s 20th anniversary in India this year, having an annual gathering this week in Pune. From an R&D perspective, we have about 1000 people in India, out of a total of 2500 people in R&D globally. Our hardcore product development activity is done in India, and product development team here is a tremendous success for PTC. 


I would like to thank Mr. Rob Gremley and Mr. Subash Nambiar for their time. Best wishes to Mr. Subash Nambiar for being appointed as India Country manager PTC.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

PTC Appoints Subash Nambiar as India Country Manager

Bangalore, January 21, 2014 – PTC (Nasdaq: PTC), today announced the appointment of, Subash Nambiar as Vice President and Country Manager for India. In his present role, Mr. Nambiar will oversee PTC’s overall business in India, and will be responsible for strategy and growth, leading key partner relationships and strategic customer focus.


 
Commenting on this new appointment Robert Kocis, Senior Divisional Vice President of Asia Pacific Sales and Distribution, PTC said “India has always been a major focus area for PTC, and with Mr. Nambiar at the helm, we are hoping to scale our India business to greater heights. As a veteran in the IT industry, Mr. Nambiar knows all the fine details of the Indian market and is the best person to expand our operations here. We are looking forward to his leadership at PTC India as we map our expansions in the next year”

Mr. Nambiar joins with over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining PTC, Mr. Nambiar was the Senior Director – Technology Sales at Oracle and also held senior positions in IBM and LG Soft. As a consistent performer, Mr. Nambiar has always exceeded expectations. He started his career by marketing Dell Range of Products in Corporate segments at Pertech Computers Limited. A born leader, Mr. Nambiar has always scaled up businesses, set up operations and expanded teams wherever he has worked.

Commenting on his new role Mr. Nambiar said, “I am excited to join PTC which owns a long history of technology innovations and is the leader in industrial technology. I look forward to working with the large PTC family of employees and partners in India and abroad. I hope to support and drive PTC’s growth in India through strategic sales and better customer relations”.

About PTC
PTC (Nasdaq: PTC) enables manufacturers to achieve sustained product and service advantage. The company’s technology solutions help customers transform the way they create and service products across the entire product lifecycle – from conception and design to sourcing and service. Founded in 1985, PTC employs over 6,000 professionals serving more than 27,000 businesses in rapidly-evolving, globally distributed manufacturing industries worldwide. Get more information at www.ptc.com.