FATHOM, an industry-leading advanced manufacturer with an expertise in 3D printing, announced its acquisition of a proprietary data analytics application software that retrieves, analyzes, and reports real-time additive…
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…
Cloud-native CAD will disrupt the PLM platform paradigm
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research An illuminating blog post by Onshape engineering team member Ilya Baran reveals some fundamentals of how the new cloud-native CAD system works:…
CST unveils Characteristic Mode Analysis tool
Antenna engineers, in particular in the mobile communications industry, are faced with the challenge of optimizing antenna performance while complying with the functional and geometrical constraints of integrating multi-band antennas into compact devices. These engineers’ tasks can be simplified with the latest extension to the CST STUDIO SUITE integral equation solver, the Characteristic Mode Analysis…
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…
WAGO introduces new product literature for e!COCKPIT software
WAGO has announced the availability of a new brochure for its e!COCKPIT development tool. Using a CODESYS 3 integrated environment e!COCKPIT supports every automation task from hardware configuration, programming, networking and simulation to visualization – in one easy-to-use, intuitive package. WAGO wago.us
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…
3D printers prototype winding body for MRI scanner
3D printing is becoming a common tool for the design of prototypes for medical equipment. This includes, for example, the development of components of a patient table for use in MRI scanners. The specific project for Popp Group involved the development of a winding body for a rotating device, which later had to be fitted…
Connecting lean NPI flow with IoT
One of the newer trends in CAE software is the addition of features and functions compatible with the Internet of Things (IoT), sometimes known as Industry 4.0. The latest upgrade is the Valor Process Preparation software, which has been updated to address engineering requirements of Industry 4.0. It helps users orchestrate product allocation to multiple…
Theorem’s product rebranding
In an effort to simplify and streamline the choices for CAD to CAD, CAD to STEP, CAD to Visualization or CAD to Publishing, Theorem Solutions has rebranded its product portfolio. The brands are now defined as follows: CADverter The CADverter brand has a product focus specifically on the direct translation of 3D data to or…
MSC Software announces SimManager 2015
MSC Software Corporation has announced the new release of SimManager 2015. SimManager 2015 brings process enhancements and improved ease of use to MSC Software’s Simulation Process and Data…
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,…
Fathom acquires proprietary data analytics software fro digital manufacturing
FATHOM has announced its acquisition of a proprietary data analytics application software that retrieves, analyzes, and reports real-time additive manufacturing metrics. “For the industry to take a step…
Introducing a new online tool for power quality simulations
Schaffner EMC introduces PQS, a Power Quality Simulation tool which allows planners, consultants and application engineers to accurately model and simulate low voltage 3-phase network topologies. This powerful…
FATHOM acquires data analytics software for digital manufacturing
FATHOM, a manufacturer with expertise in 3D printing, announced its acquisition of a proprietary data analytics application software that retrieves, analyzes, and reports real-time additive manufacturing metrics. “For…
Mentor Graphics announces release of FloEFD computational fluid dynamics product
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the latest release of its leading general purpose, front-loading computational fluid dynamics (CFD) FloEFD solution offering greater accuracy and user productivity….
COMSOL Expands in Shanghai
COMSOL, a provider of multiphysics modeling, simulation, and application design software, announced the expansion of its office in Shanghai, China. A larger facility enables continued expansion and recruitment…
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…
ALM-PLM integration challenges and opportunities
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Siemens PLM’s agreement to acquire Polarion, a prominent provider of ALM (application lifecycle management) technology, will give the PLM vendor one of…
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…
Massive ethernet throughput into embedded market
Kontron, a leading global provider of embedded computing technology (ECT), adds more power to its COM Express®. Computer on Module family with the introduction of the COMe-bBD6 based on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor D-1500 with up to eight cores. The COMe-bBD6 is a basic form factor and offers up to 32 GB DDR4 SODIMM…
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…
Permabit delivers increased efficiency and RHEL 7 support in new VDO release
Permabit Technology ushered in the next generation of storage efficiency with the release of Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) 5.2. Albireo VDO combines fine-grained thin provisioning, inline data deduplication and the company’s HIOPS Compression for Linux-based storage solutions, while delivering an average 6:1 data reduction across mixed storage environments. Offered as an OEM component, VDO…
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,…
Networked, Panel-Mount Piezo Drive for Coordinated Motion between Piezo Stages and Servo Axes
Aerotech’s Ensemble QLe™ panel-mount nanopositioning piezo drive is designed for seamless use with the Ensemble family of drives and controllers. The QLe connects to any Ensemble controller network enabling coordinated motion between piezo stages and servo axes at much higher rates than other controller or drive products. It is ideal for applications ranging from demanding…