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35 Years Since Chernobyl: The Radioactive Elephant in the Room

It's 35 years since the Chernobyl disaster. I visited the site of the accident, to answer the question "how safe is nuclear power?" and "how can the digital twin make it even safer?"

By Stephen Ferguson

Predicting heat transfer during turbine startup: using CFD to increase accuracy

Flexible turbine operation patterns are increasing the thermal stress on components. How can simulation help?

By Elspeth Mosedale

Energy & Utilities

Royal Dutch Shell selects Polarion for requirements managements use on global capital projects

Siemens Digital Industries Software today announced (link) that Royal Dutch Shell had selected Polarion® Requirements™ software as the foundation for...

By Donnie Davis

Energy & Utilities

Introducing Digital Lifecycle Excellence

A modern approach to managing plant, project, and asset enterprise data. Much has been written over the last two decades...

Asset information handover and CFIHOS

Asset information handover is a major headache for owner/operators (O/O) across capital-intensive industries. I’ve written about the impact of poor...

By Justin DiNunzio

Thought Leadership

Component repair with additive manufacturing

Repair, after a product or facility is created, it is one of the greatest costs of operation after labor. It...

By Nick Finberg

Are manufacturing data management practices converging with plant engineering?

With increased market volatility, disrupted supply chains, and a push towards more sustainable production, process & discrete manufacturers are seeking more operational efficiency through new technology

By Justin DiNunzio

Solid Edge Startup Spotlight: The energy storage system of the future - Martin Schichtel from Kraftblock

Martin Schichtel, co-founder of Kraftblock, has a mission: develop a storage-based, sustainable energy system. With this, Kraftblock wants to establish...

Additive Manufacturing Software

Advancing Additive #12 - Powering a Multi-axis AM Operation

Additive manufacturing is no longer confined to printing on a plane. Multi-axis additive manufacturing is a growing market with huge potential for the production of unique parts.

By Aaron Frankel