An engineer for one of SPK’s clients needed to regularly use features in the SolidWorks PDM application, which enables the design of complex products. The engineer found his method to log-in to access special file folders had started to fail, and he couldn’t get the...
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Podcast: Oleg Shilovitsky Discusses the Difficulty of BOMs Across Engineering Disciplines
SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale speaks with PLM expert Oleg Shilovitsky, founder of BeyondPLM.com, to get his insight on the difficulty of BOMs across engineering disciplines. The pair will soon follow up with another podcast talking about the...
Podcast: Oleg Shilovitsky Discusses PLM News and Trends at Aras and Autodesk
The last time SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale spoke with PLM expert Oleg Shilovitsky, they discussed the difficulty of BOMs across engineering disciplines and across the product lifecycle. Here is their next discussion on the latest PLM news and trends...
Deploying Exchange and Outlook 2010 Settings Using MSP, GPO, and ADMX in 15 minutes
Let’s be realistic: Windows users use Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office requires configuration. You’ve probably used the Microsoft Office Customization Tool to create Microsoft Software Patch (MSP) files to automate installation, but you should consider using...
Clients + SPK Expertise And Skills = R&D Business Results (Q2 2018 Newsletter)
It's been SPK and Associates' privilege to support all our clients’ varied engineering and systems integration needs for over two decades. This quarterly newsletter is our way of signaling that we're fully aligned with their mission to rapidly innovate and improve...
Automatic Processing of Content on SolidWorks Workgroup PDM Server
One of the powerful features of a full enterprise product lifecycle management (PLM) system is being able to post process content uploaded to it. For example, adding a watermark, or changing a revision of a document automatically. The idea behind Solidworks Workgroup...
Configuring SolidWorks Workgroup PDM for Email Alerts with PDF Attachments
The most common request we receive for SolidWorks Workgroup PDM is, “How do I get emails when items are checked in?” If Workgroup PDM works for you but you’d like this feature, here is the source code for a Python script that will send an email – with a PDF attachment...
Increasing Engineering Productivity and Profitability via a True Cloud-Based SolidWorks/PDM Implementation
How SPK was able to unify globally dispersed engineering teams to work, and communicate, in real-time. THE CLIENTA leading medical device manufacturer was facing a problem common to firms with growing engineering operations: As their product-development team grew,...