The words “Six Sigma” likely conjure thoughts of a manufacturing floor rather than an engineering simulation. Manufacturing, after all, is what the method for eliminating defects is most…
Cloud-Based CAD Set to Skyrocket
In the near future, many more firms will be embracing cloud-based CAD systems, with adoption of the CAD delivery method set to grow by 70 percent in the…
To Share Customizable Designs
Businesses that share and sell excess capacity and use technologies to link buyer to seller are growing rapidly, as part of what Tim Fisher dubbed the sharing economy….
The Case for Young Engineers, in Terms of CAD
Old-guard engineers who bring their knowledge and experience to the job are vital to the company. Increasingly, though, engineering companies realize the importance the new guard, that is,…
Online CAD and Meshing Training Now Second Nature
Even in this age of virtual reality, online tutorials, and videos—whether they’re embedded in computer-aided design and analysis tools or purchased separately–have a significant role to play for…
HP, Siemens Partnership: 3D Printing in Multiple Materials, Colors
Several relatively new techniques—including cloud computing and additive manufacturing–are challenging the way manufacturers and engineering organizations do business, said Chuck Grindstaff, Siemens PLM Software president and chief executive…
One System Vendor to Tie Them All
Siemens PLM Software has tied its digital engineering, simulation, product lifecycle management, manufacturing, and factory layout systems to optimizing the product development process from design to manufacturing processing,…
Internet of Things Information in Three Dimensions
Engineering software maker Autodesk is making its move into the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) with its recent release of a cloud-based platform for the technology. IIoT could…
Cloud BOMs
Taking bill of materials management into the cloud allows small engineering companies—such as hardware startups–and contract manufacturers to track and share data and offers easy BOM data import…
More Manufacturers Turn to Additive-Made Metal Parts
Designers who use 3D printing and additive manufacturing technologies in their work or as part of a hobby should expect to see desktop 3D printers in their companies…
Keeping Ships Safe and on Schedule With Design and Business Software
Keeping the Ships on Schedule Who wants to ride on a leaky ship? No one. Not you, not members of a naval unit. To ensure naval mission success,…
CAD, PLM Vendors Integrate to Ease Data Exchange
Engineering companies are more often becoming what in the technology world is termed “agnostic” when it comes to their engineering software. That means they’re choosing to install the…
Work from Home for Engineers: One Option is Virtual
SolidWorks is on board with virtualized CAD systems, recognizing the return-on-investment the method of funneling graphics and computer-power from a remote server to onsite desktops can mean for…
Be Your Own Designer
SolidWorks Make, released at SolidWorks World 2016, held this week in Dallas, lets consumers personalize their online products and the have those products delivered to their door, said…
Maintain Those Legacy CAD Files
CAD and product development knowledge may be walking off the job again and again. That’s what happens when an employee leaves your company, whether to retirement or a…
Freed from Your Desk?
Mobile apps aren’t ideal for everything engineers do, but the engineering user base is definitely growing, as a host of engineering apps attest to. Is the desktop computer…
Beyond Trinkets: 3D Printing Pioneers
It’s become customary to say that 3D printing is moving beyond “the printing of trinkets,” meaning the process is now used for much more than the customizable key…
PLM Creates Technical Documents, Managing Them is Another Story
Engineered products generate a slew of technical documentation vital to the product itself and those documents must accompany other product information as it passes through the design, production,…
Collaborative Robots and Humans Building Together
Recently, Indiana Technology and Manufacturing Companies (ITAMCO), which performs machining, assembly, and finishing jobs, brought in a small robot to help with those jobs, said Joel Neidig, ITAMCO…
Autodesk Previews Cloud Offerings for Developers, Internet of Things
At Autodesk University this week, the design software manufacturer reaffirmed its commitment to provide in 2016nearly all of its products via a cloud-based, subscription service model. Company executives…
Coming Soon: Touchy Feely Design Software
In the near future, the Internet of Things (IoT), which equips products and systems with sensors that continually monitor, analyze, and send back information about how the product…
No Clear CAD Translator
December marks JT data format’s three-year anniversary as an officially published International Organization for Standardization (IOS) specification. So how is it faring in terms of adoption? Pretty well,…
Comsol Multiphysics Sees Update to Version 5.2
Following its October user conference, Comsol has updated its Comsol Multiphysics package to 5.2 that, as in the previous version, includes an application builder that allows engineers to…
Legacy CAD and Engineering Data: Keep it Updated
Legacy information and original drawings are being lost as enterprise software is updated beyond the package used to create the original drawings and as the engineers who made…
With CAD, an Artist Turns to Robots
Philip Norman came to his job as technical lead at Ross Robotics Ltd., which makes reconfigurable robots, via a most nontechnical avenue: the arts, he told the Solid…