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Integrated Electrical and Electronic Solutions Forum – IESF moves in USA this...
Change for a good reason. For the first time being held in the USA outside of Detroit the Motor City, San Jose is the chosen venue for this time around. Registration is open and attendance is free....
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WHMA – There’s no business like (trade) show business
Upcoming in February, in Dallas, TX from 19th to 22nd is the latest USA trade show on a growing list of ones I have attended. This is the annual conference of the WHMA organization, the Wiring Harness...
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Change just keeps on coming
The state of the automotive and transportation industries from the perspective of electrical and electronics engineers designing the new products to reach customers is undergoing a once in a generation...
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How are the advocates of your change coping when their own jobs change?
Just over a month ago a transition of people into a new organization took place from Mentor to Siemens. The team I am in was re-made in a new management structure, with some changes of job...
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Consequences of failure to deliver on promises.
Skepticism is to be expected in people considering becoming customers of Capital. Software vendors’ promises are regrettably things many software vendors fail to keep. That’s the source of an...
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The Baby Boomers who have been around the Block Diagrams a time or two.
Conceptual design – what in the Mentor Capital dialect we refer to as a ‘high level design abstraction’ is usually associated with a practice known as architecture development and uses ready reference...
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Not just what’s in Capital for me, what’s in it for everyone else?
Earlier this month there were many thought-provoking presentations at the India IESF events in Pune and Chennai which I was fortunate to attend. Benefits – usually described as workflow efficiency...
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New companies making electric cars. Designs for the future.
Preparing my presentation slides before the September USA Automotive IESF conference I reviewed what EV car producers were producing and saying they would produce. I wanted to re-examine the attraction...
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Never mind the buzzwords: we want you … Autonomy!
Hugh Bazzi is one of several new team-mates to have joined the team of Capital experts over the last two years. I was fortunate enough to persuade him to co-present with me on stage at the IESF...
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Collective responsibility and communal knowledge of Capital for the individual.
This is the last of 3 posts not beating around the bush, but shredding the shrubbery into splinters on the subject of making the most of your Capital education. So here’s some more advice about Capital...
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Do you want effective Capital training? Because this is how you get effective...
I’m going to go explain some ways in which training should be characterized for your success. The basis for my hints and tips is from my own experience of when things went well, and when things went...
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Experience training from experienced trainers.
Shifting your thinking about learning. How we learn is probably as unique as there are individuals to learn the material. Mentor Graphics has, for almost a decade since Capital was first released, up...
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Propulsion or compulsion: the thrill of device transmittal and new things.
It is that time of year for annual holidays. Here in the USA vacation times of Capital customers are more spread out over the Summer. In Europe where the tradition of lengthy school breaks...
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What to do with a deep or shallow interest in going to the Detroit IESF...
All you really need to do to decide to go to the upcoming IESF conference in Metro Detroit USA if you are contemplating it but have not yet made up your mind the best way is to look at this executive...
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I’ve an A-P-I, a Java A-P-I. I know it is – I’m sure it is – a Capital API
If you read the first of series of 3 blog posts reviewing the Capital Application Programming Interface or API you got to refresh your knowledge of what motivates software vendors to add interfacing...
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API times are here again.
The previous blog described why software vendors build out their off-the-shelf products with arrangements for functional extensibility. Also I reviewed what motivates companies designing and...
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How does the enhancement request process really work for Capital Electrical...
“We certainly want your ideas and our goal is reply, enrich and decide on what we should do with any idea as soon as possible. This does not mean that we are going to implement every idea, that is not...
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What happens when you request an enhancement to Capital
This is the second part in a three part series. Last week I wrote about how you can prepare a persuasive case for the functional extension of some aspect of Capital. Making a compelling case for an...
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Capital Boosters.
Enterprise class software used by electrical engineers – Mechanical 3D CAD, Product Lifecycle Management and Engineering Requirement Tracking Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning, is subject to...
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In Capital: Ease of Use, EEEEE of UUUUUUU, E’s of U’s
Capital software covers the automotive electrical design process from early conceptual architectural design through product engineering. And onwards too through manufacturing engineering to...
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