The 3DExperience Platform for SOLIDWORKS is a Single Modeling Environment from Dassault Systemes aimed at enabling social collaboration during the concept design phase. SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer is a purpose-built app on the platform which can utilize traditional keyboard and mouse, or tablet input to create concept Industrial Designs using sketches, 2D or 3D primitives, and…
Engineered Plastic Bearings for Automotive Applications
The manufacturing industry has witnessed the rise of plain plastic bearings during the last 20 years, more and more so in automotive applications. Unknown to many engineers, plastic bearings have high wear resistance, require minimum maintenance and provide thermal stability, qualities imperative to the automotive industry. Bearings made from high strength, self-lubricating plastic materials also…
What’s More Difficult to Source & Build: Toys or High-Tech Devices?
Article written by Jack Daniels, East Bridge Engineering We were recently approached by a new customer who asked for assistance with qualifying suppliers of toys, some designed from scratch, some modified standard products an then guiding the build cycle. Knowing that we source many high tech products, he asked if EastBridge was interested in supporting their offshore…
Beyond Basics: Designing aluminum extrusion to meet product challenges
Extruded aluminum components and assemblies find ready application in a host of applications, from building products to automotive components, alternative energy, machinery, electronics and medical products. This webinar will review the attributes of extruded aluminum that make it extrusions so promising for product designers and engineers, and the “practicalities” of extrusion design. A number of mini case studies will…
Unlocking the Secrets to Designing Faster, Smarter, and Lighter
Lightweight Design can lead to reductions in cost, development time, material consumption, and more. With today’s advanced tools, lightweight concept generation is easier than ever. These tools allow design engineers and architects to generate and investigate structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily by creating a new geometry within your package space using the loads as…
Using Metrology Software to Capture Data for Reverse Engineering
Many companies who already use CAD to meet their Design needs and have a Portable CMM to meet their Inspection requirements often don’t get full value from their Reverse Engineering requirements as they often feel that a specialist acquisition or intermediary software will be required to complete the task. See how, with a little extra…
How to Solve Your Motion System Design in Less Time With Actuator Assemblies
The design and development of automated processing equipment can be a daunting and time consuming task. At the outset of every automation project there is an understanding of the work to be performed. The designer will identify the items which can be purchased, and the items which must be designed and fabricated. Even a simple guided motion…
When Failure Is Not An Option; How Rotary Encoders Solve Your Oil and Gas Positioning Problems
For your customers, life is simple: The rig has to work. In an industry where an hour of downtime can cost tens of thousands of dollars, failure is not an option⎯or at least not an option that will keep your customers coming back. You need to build equipment they can depend on, and that means…
Friction Stir Welding: Consistently Enabling Stronger, More Efficient Structures
This webinar will demonstrate Friction Stir Welding (FSW) as an alternative to other welding and mechanical joining methods of extruded aluminum profiles. Until recently, FSW has been mostly used in aerospace structures. However, as the FSW technology became more widely known end use applications have grown. Today, one can fine FSW welded structures in many…
Inductive Non-Contact Position/Displacement Sensing: Technology-Application-Options
Inductive sensor technology is widely known for proximity sensing of conductive ‘targets’ in automated material handling applications. This webinar is a technical presentation of inductive ‘eddy current’ technology used for high precision, high resolution, position/displacement sensing where micron and submicron resolution is required. How ‘eddy current’ sensors work, the various circuits used, application concerns, and customizable…
A New Approach to Difficult Object Detection
Watch the webinar below. Detection of shiny, dark, curved, or irregular objects can be difficult for photoelectric sensors. Often designers and engineers face a compromise between the convenience of diffused sensors and the reliability of light barriers such as through beams and retro reflective sensors. This webinar will focus on how to make those choices…
Reducing Risk: Validated Methods for Cleaning Reusable Medical Devices
Inadequate reprocessing of medical devices between patients can result in the retention of debris (soil) in certain types of reusable devices. Such debris can allow microbes to survive the disinfection process, which could then lead to healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and other adverse patient outcomes. This webinar will provide design engineers, project engineers, quality assurance, and…
Debunking Common Myths About Specifying Special Components
Today’s engineers have more choices than ever when it comes to specifying the proper components for all types of applications. Standard components, which are manufactured to an exact industry standard, are usable on a wide range of applications. In fact, engineers specify standard components roughly 90% of the time. By contrast, a special component is…
Air Filter Designs for Electronics Enclosures
The combination of shrinking enclosure size requirements and more powerful electronics creates unique challenges in the areas of thermal management and EMI shielding. Compliance with industry standards and environmental regulations must also be considered when evaluating enclosure air filtration solutions. So how can enclosure designers protect equipment with increasing demand for smaller and higher performance…
Important Considerations When Designing a Custom Spring
Most engineers are familiar with traditional wire wound springs, but in this webinar attendees will learn about a viable alternative known as “machined springs.” Based on the whitepaper “Choosing Between Machined and Wire Wound Springs,” the webinar will review differences between these two types of springs along with the advantages of each and application tips.…