Celebrating Engineer INNOVATION

 

 
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” – Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple Corporation
 
From Archimedes to Galileo, Newton and Navier, history i…

The Vera autonomous truck

Why truck cabin comfort matters: the example of Volvo Trucks

 
This is Vera.
 
Vera is an electric, autonomous vehicle that is designed to optimize transport in highly-repetitive, short distance flows with large volumes of goods.
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Santa Claus Customs lifting the hood

Santa Claus Customs lifting the hood: revealing “FROSTY-ICE” – the first Ultra-Cold-Combustion Engine 
 
North Pole Motor Show, Arctic: “This is a true breakthrough for us!” says a broa…

Simcenter SPEED – Rapid electric machine design software

As medias and governments are pushing for ‘Electrification’ as a global hype solution against Global Warming… industry players have to quickly embrace this pushed revolution nobody can ignore anymo…

Address vehicle NVH integration issues early on

Dear automobile constructor, Dear automotive supplier,
 
I’m writing you in response to your request for information on addressing vehicle NVH integration issues early in the development….

Why transfer path analysis is not established technology

280.000.000 results. That’s what you get when typing ‘transfer path analysis’ in Google Search. No wonder. The TPA methodology exists for over 20 years and is widely applied across all industries. Ho…

Simcenter Amesim 17: ease the exhaust calibration process

To accurately assess the vehicle tail-pipe emissions, efficient modeling of exhaust systems is becoming a very important but also a very time-consuming task. The chemistry inside a catalyst is comple…

Is this the electric vehicle that we’ve all been waiting for?

Uniti One is an EV that just makes more sense.
I have to confess: I have caught the Uniti fever. It all started last April when Werner Custers and I shot a little movie at the Uniti headquart…

The 3D shaker is used to perform multi-axis vibration testing

Why perform multi-axis vibration testing?

Multi-axis vibration qualification testing: why bother? Why is this last step in a product development process an important one? And why do renowned universities like the University of Ferrara spend …