By Jack Thornton, Principal, MINDFEED Marcomm, Santa Fe, N.M. Lockheed Martin’s many programs include the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS III), the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD, a key element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System), and the…
Adams Bearing Advanced Technology Solution from MSC Software
MSC Software Corporation announce the availability of Adams Bearing Advanced Technology. The new toolkit is a plug-in to the leading multibody dynamics software MD Adams from MSC Software. The toolkit’s customized simulation interface provides a user-friendly environment for performing numerical simulations of rolling bearings within Adams. The solution is compatible with all options in Adams…
FLOW-3D Cast Software from Flow Science
A special version of FLOW-3D designed specifically for casting process simulation is now available from Flow Science. FLOW-3D Cast is the latest CFD software to join Flow Science’s product family, which includes FLOW-3D/MP, FLOW-3D ThermoSET, and its flagship software, FLOW-3D. FLOW-3D Cast features highly-accurate flow and solidification results; dynamic meshing for easy model setup; material…
CFD Helps Air Bullets Take Aim at Electronics Cooling
By Ralph Remsburg, Chief Technical Officer, Electronics Packaging Associates, San Diego, CA Air bullets are little pulses of cooling air that are conducted to specific components without disrupting a fan’s airflow. Researchers at Influent Corporation and Electronics Packaging Associates confirmed that concurrent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools can predict the nuances of air flow and…
Catia Helps Trek Design Green Bikes
Trek Bikes is a global leader in the field of competitive cycling, offering some of the top-performing designs. Composite materials are an important part of making racing bikes light, fast, and strong. The company uses Dassault Systemes’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software to design and manufacture composite products that keep its bikes ahead of the…
CFD Best Practices & Key Features Webinar
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a powerful tool to simulate, analyze, and optimize designs. The leading CFD providers will discuss software features and functionality such as flow features and benefits, solver technology, as well as describe an example of CFD use in the real world. Register below to view the webinar and/or the pdf of…
Software Improves Printing Perfection
Generally, Agfa’s Dotrix Modular inkjet printer did a good job delivering full-color images quickly. However, when the company decided that it wanted a machine with higher color repeatability and better precision,it turned to the Centre for Concepts in Mechatronics (CCM) to design a custom controller that would achieve the goal, while keeping development time and…
Advanced Magnet Lab Becomes COMSOL Certified Consultant
COMSOL, Inc. announces that Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc., (AML) has become a COMSOL Certified Consultant. AML provides technology and expert services for the design and manufacture of advanced coils, magnets, and magnet systems for a broad variety of applications in such markets as energy, aerospace and defense, medical, and advanced research. AML offers its clients…
CNC Standard Package for Machine Tool Manufacturing
B&R Industrial Automaton makes further strides in machine tool manufacturing with standardized system modules for CNC machines. This allows users to utilize the new CNC standard package and profit from numerous functions that are found on all CNC machines. Consisting of hardware components, all necessary software functions and the available simulation options, the new software…
National Instruments to distribute GE Reflective Memory Module
GE Intelligent Platforms has signed an agreement that will see National Instruments distribute the GE cPCI-5565PIO Reflective Memory PMC and PMC Carrier Card for 3U CompactPCI® systems. The cPCI-5565PIO which operates at 2Gbaud and features 256Mbytes of memory and multi-mode transceivers is based on the GE PMC-5565PIORC, but includes a customized carrier card specifically designed…
Analysis Solves Heat Exchange Problem
Krakow, Poland-based Dynalabs designs energy efficient heat exchangers and noise and vibration reduction devices. When its customer ATS Stahlschmidt & Maiworm Aluminium Wheels Foundry needed to reduce production costs, Dynalabs developed a heat exchanger for continuous recovery of waste heat for one of the foundry’s 1.6 MW furnaces. By using NEi Fusion – NEi Software’s…
New Version of 3D Simulation Software
Simio Express is 3D object-based modeling and animation product. It is the lastest addition to the Simio product family of simulation software, which includes the Simio Design and Team editions. Simio Express uses the Simio Standard Object Library so you can model in 3D. Simio Express lets you construct your 3D model in a single…
WTWH Media Launches “Live Your Dream; Be An Entrepreneur” Contest
By Scott McCafferty, Co-Founder CLEVELAND, OH – WTWH Media, LLC, an integrated b2b media company serving the design engineer and renewable energy markets with 25 technology based web sites and print publications today announced an initiative to promote entrepreneurship and business in Cleveland, Ohio with the program, “Live Your Dream; Be an Entrepreneur.” Promoted across…
Model Behavior
By Peter Nachtwey, President, Delta Computer Systems, Inc. Battle Ground, Wash. Simulation and modeling can save you time and money in hydraulic system designs. Motion systems rely more and more on closed-loop control to achieve greater influence over production processes. However, the old rules of thumb for designing fluid power systems don’t always apply to…
This time, with feeling
By Chris Grujon, TenAsys Corp. Beaverton, Ore. Real-time operating system software helps provide tactile sense to medical robotics applications No matter how many motion axes are involved and regardless of whether the movement is fast or slow, high-end robotics applications share the need for determinism. The system that controls the robot needs to keep precise…
CFD for Visualization
A Toyota Motorsport wind tunnel helps automotive engineers design faster high-performance cars with its built-in particle image velocimetry (PIV) system. Engineer Frank Michaux, a CFD/PIV researcher at Toyota Motorsport in Cologne, Germany uses analysis techniques to help the company achieve peak performance out of vehicles — from NASCAR, Sports Car, Formula One (F1) and other…
NEi Software Celebrates 20 Years of FEA
NEi Software celebrates its twentieth year of providing Finite Element Analysis (FEA) solutions. The company’s CEO, Dave Weinberg, first began developing the software code in 1986 and founded NEi Software in 1991 with Katarina Weinberg. The solution has grown to take advantage of advancements in processing capabilities and memory, addressing its customers’ analysis needs. Customer-requested…
Moog Provides Motion System and Software to Daimler AG
Moog Inc. announced that the Company provided the high dynamic motion control system and software portion of the Daimler AG driving simulator, located at the Mercedes Benz Technology Center in Sindelfingen, Germany. Moog’s high-dynamic motion control system portion of the new Daimler AG driving simulator.(Photo Courtesy of Daimler) The new simulator center in Sindelfingen contains…
NEi Software Partners with Siemens PLM Software to Market Femap® Software
WESTMINSTER, CA— NEi Software announced a global partnership with Siemens PLM Software to market and distribute Femap® software through the NEi Software VAR network. Siemens PLM Software is a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services. The summit which was co-sponsored…
Simulation for New Knees
The knee is the largest joint in the body and bears five times our body weight with each step you take. Sports injuries, accidents, and arthritis can damage knees and require total knee replacement. This surgery is performed in the U.S. about 580,000 times per year. Abaqus FEA models of Smith & Nephew replacement knee…
Modeling Tools Now Include Supermagnet Quench Simulations
Reprint Info >> Opera combines the Multi-Physics tool chain for modeling, simulation, analysis, and optimization of electronic related equipment with the advanced supercomputing magnet design and material know-how in Cobham Technical Services’ supercomputing quench solver. Cobham Technical Services announced it developed powerful new modeling tools, which increase the accuracy and speed of Multi-Physics finite element…
Mentor Graphics launches latest FloTHERM software
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) announced FloTHERM 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for electronics cooling applications. The patent-pending technology provides Bottleneck (Bn) and Shortcut (SC) fields so that you can identify where and why heat flow congestion occurs in the electronic design. It also identifies thermal shortcuts to help resolve design problems. Together the Bn…
Siemens PLM Software’s latest release of FEMAP aimed at world-class product development productivity
Siemens PLM Software announced the latest release of Femap™ software, the PC-based finite element modeling component of the Velocity Series™ portfolio of PLM solutions. The company says Femap 10.2 is an easy to learn and use high-performance solution with a 25 year history of excellence. Femap 10.2 makes…
GM and Maplesoft to collaborate on electric vehicle technologies at the University of Waterloo
A new five-year, $10.5-million partnership between General Motors of Canada, Waterloo-based Maplesoft Inc., and a multidisciplinary research team at the University of Waterloo is tackling the challenges of next generation electric vehicles. Through model-based design and prototype testing, the team will investigate crucial technologies for achieving more widespread use of electric vehicles. The research is…
5 Myths of CFD
By Dr. Ivo Weinhold, Product Marketing Manager, Mentor Graphics, Mechanical Analysis Division, Wilsonville, OR Reprint Info>> Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation has long had the reputation of being too difficult, slow, and expensive to be performed as part of the mainstream design process. That may have been true 10 years ago, but CFD has changed…