Veronica Drake
Virtual prototypes in heavy equipment: A practical tool for managing complexity 

Virtual prototypes in heavy equipment: A practical tool for managing complexity 

September 30, 2025
Designing next-generation heavy equipment is fundamentally different. Electric drivetrains, embedded control systems and autonomous functionality are changing how machines are...
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Driving heavy equipment innovation with a closed-loop digital twin 

Driving heavy equipment innovation with a closed-loop digital twin 

September 30, 2025
In agriculture, construction, mining and material handling, the expectations placed on equipment have never been higher. Machines must deliver more...
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Create new revenue streams with a better maintenance management system

Create new revenue streams with a better maintenance management system

June 11, 2025
Industrial machine builders and equipment manufacturers have always known  service matters, but how and when that service gets delivered is...
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Building a Flexible Value Chain with Low-Code 

Building a Flexible Value Chain with Low-Code 

June 9, 2025
In an ideal world, your value chain could flex and scale with every new demand signal, regulatory shift or production...
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How machine maintenance planning reduces risks and improves customer relations

How machine maintenance planning reduces risks and improves customer relations

June 5, 2025
Machine downtime isn’t simply a technical issue. It’s lost revenue, production delays and a source of frustration for users and...
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Manufacturing process improvements you can make by leveraging data

Manufacturing process improvements you can make by leveraging data

June 4, 2025
Manufacturing efficiency is a margin, not just a metric, for machine component manufacturers. Manufacturing process improvements directly translate to higher...
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Design Control for Medical Devices: Build safer devices, prove compliance 

Design Control for Medical Devices: Build safer devices, prove compliance 

May 30, 2025
In medical device development, every design decision has implications for patient safety, clinical efficacy and regulatory approval. Global frameworks like...
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Execute a more flexible manufacturing system for industrial machinery

Execute a more flexible manufacturing system for industrial machinery

May 29, 2025
Today’s factory operations are defined by their flexibility. Whether it’s responding to shifting customer demands, managing highly variable, low-volume production...
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How to improve manufacturing efficiency for high-quality machine components

How to improve manufacturing efficiency for high-quality machine components

May 20, 2025
Modern machine components need to meet increasingly strict standards for quality, consistency and sustainability. Customers want the best price and...
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Design smarter: How to ensure medical device design control and process compliance 

Design smarter: How to ensure medical device design control and process compliance 

May 20, 2025
In medical device development, safety isn’t optional. It’s mandatory. Regulations like FDA 21 CFR Part 820 and EU MDR/IVDR enforce...
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Optimize production with manufacturing planning software

Optimize production with manufacturing planning software

May 16, 2025
Manufacturers face growing pressure to deliver high-quality, customizable components on tight deadlines. But when market demands shift quickly, or supply...
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Predictive precision: Aligning detailed engineering with integrated architecture 

Predictive precision: Aligning detailed engineering with integrated architecture 

May 1, 2025
Innovation no longer moves in a straight line.  Vehicles today are not mechanical machines alone; they are highly complex systems...
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Predictive maintenance for automotive smart manufacturing 

Predictive maintenance for automotive smart manufacturing 

April 28, 2025
In the high-speed, high-precision world of automotive production, even minor disruptions can have significant ripple effects — delaying vehicle builds, disrupting just-in-time supply chains and impacting product quality. The ability to foresee equipment issues and take targeted action ahead of time is quickly becoming a competitive advantage. 
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Accelerate the new product development process for machine components

Accelerate the new product development process for machine components

April 21, 2025
Introducing new products is always a balancing act. For machine component and equipment manufacturers, the stakes are even higher. Customers...
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Accelerating innovation through continuous simulation-driven decision-making 

Accelerating innovation through continuous simulation-driven decision-making 

April 8, 2025
For OEMs, staying competitive means more than optimizing individual components — it requires orchestrating performance, safety and innovation across the full vehicle architecture. And one of the most effective ways to do that? Simulation. Not just early in the process, but continuously, at every stage of development. 
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Tackling automotive complexity with model-based systems engineering

Tackling automotive complexity with model-based systems engineering

April 2, 2025
Automakers must bring together software, electrical and mechanical engineering earlier in the lifecycle and maintain alignment as the vehicle evolves. That’s where model-based, multi-domain system development comes into play — enabling engineering teams to frontload decisions, validate designs continuously and reduce costly late-stage changes. 
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The future of engineering education is modular: How microcredentials support flexible, inclusive programs

The future of engineering education is modular: How microcredentials support flexible, inclusive programs

February 3, 2025
Modularizing curricula with microcredentials offers students more flexible pathways, making engineering more inclusive among other benefits.
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Building the future: How Bombardier’s NX transition is shaping aerospace innovation 

Building the future: How Bombardier’s NX transition is shaping aerospace innovation 

December 11, 2024
Bombardier has recently transitioned to Siemens NX - learn what that means for students, early-career engineers and the industry at large.
By Veronica Drake
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