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Observational Photography

My main hobby is photography, as I have frequently written about here. Although I mostly enjoy taking pictures, I also...

Thought Leadership

The industrialization of additive manufacturing

Automation is digitally transforming manufacturing. What was once a costly, painstaking process of continual physical prototypes, trial and error, mass production and repeated processes, is now a dyn...

By Blake Snodgrass

Finamac: possibly the coolest Solid Edge user ever!

The mission statement of Finamac, a Brazilian manufacturer of equipment for ice cream and popsicle manufacturing is that "Delicious ice cream , made with the highest quality ingredients, needs equipm...

By DavidChadwick

Thought Leadership

Autonomous car designs to serve the physically challenged

Is it feasible to have affordable, creative transportation to the masses, including those who have been restricted by conventional means due to health challenges, age or impairment? The possibilities...

By Ed Bernardon

Electronic Systems Design

What is the best way to create a board outline?

Rectangular boards are pretty straight forward. Use the drawing tools of your given design tool and click twice and you...

By Casey Silbernagel

Model Based Definition Explained

Dave Wingrave ( NX Product Manager for MBD ) explains to us what Model Based Definition is, as well as some exciting new technologies that have been added to the recent release of NX. ...

By William Chanatry

Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2019.2: Imagining the Art of the Possible with Screenplay

“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story” quips Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series finale of Game of Thrones (no spoiler here, not to worry). Effective visualizations are the sto...

Solid Edge 2020 offers expanded MBD capabilities

Solid Edge 2020 introduces expanded capabilities to add MBD (model based defintion) information to your designs, and publish this information using interactive 3D PDF documents. Ricky Black presented...

By DavidChadwick

A Crystal Ball for the Supply Chain: Bringing Current and Future Capacity into the Delivery Equation

In companies all over the world there is a trend that seems to be common. Competition is increasing both from the company's traditional competitors and from new entrants to the market place, often fr...

Latest podcast episodes

The Industry Forward Podcast with Dale Tutt

Ep 30 - The Shift-Left in Supply Chain with Richard Barnett - Part 2

December 19, 2025

Welcome to the Industry Forward Podcast with Dale Tutt, the show where we examine industry and technology trends with the...

FutureCast 2026 — Part 2: Specialization, power, and intelligent verification

December 16, 2025

In Part 2 of the special FutureCast 2026 holiday series, Harry Foster continues exploring how the semiconductor landscape is rapidly changing — and why the next phase of innovation will be shaped as much by constraints as by breakthroughs.

What agentic AI means for the design process

December 12, 2025

As it continues to develop, artificial intelligence is starting to be applied across many different sectors of industry with equally...

By Spencer Acain