Siemens' Solid Edge ST4 Launch
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 01:24PMEdison2 recently had the distinct privilege of delivering the keynote address at Siemens’ Solid Edge ST4 CAD software launch event. Our Director of Research and Development Brad Jaeger spoke to an audience of over 400 engineers and scientists about our experience and success with designing in Solid Edge, and our hopes and plans going forwards.
Most people reading this know that Edison2 is a startup high efficiency car company while Siemens has over 400,000 employees across the globe, making them nearly twice the size of GM. We have written in this blog previously about the warm reception Edison2 has received at GM, particularly by their aerodynamic and wind tunnel people, and we were truly flattered by the amount of goodwill we received last week from Siemens Solid Edge. Small company and very large company: what is the key to such a relationship?
In our view, just like any good relationship, it’s based on respect for each other’s strengths. Edison2 cannot pretend to have the might or depth of resources of Siemens or GM but our scale means we are naturally lighter on our feet. Combined, we’re like Muhammad Ali: we float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.
The path to turning Edison2 from a competition team into a technology company has been interesting and enlightening. To get our ideas and methods into the marketplace will take powerful friends. GM and Siemens have stepped up and helped us, as are others we cannot yet name.
It’s our experience that the people of large corporations are smart, hard working and want to do the right thing just as much as we do. That’s why they’re helping us and that’s why we’re doing our best to work with them. It’s no use just wishing for change, you have to work for it and you have to get the resources in place to make it happen.
Edison2 has a lot of work to do to move our proof-of-concept prototypes towards production. Solid Edge ST3 has been a great tool for us and ST4 is an even better one. With friends like Siemens – and GM – our path is smoother and our journey is faster.
Reader Comments (1)
long time since i heard about siemens!