“ The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that ”, says Robert Harris . “Time is what we measure in minutes, hours, days, and years.” Th…
While we all continuously hear about the electrification of automotive powertrains, the reality is that the internal combustion engine will not disappear anytime soon and, in fact, will be a staple o…
One of the biggest challenges I faced while working in an Engineering G roup was getting the right model. I don’t know how…
The past 25 years have seen unprecedented levels of innovation in the transportation industries. Driven by a combination of government regulation and aggressive consumer demand, aerospace and automot…
It occurred to me just the other day, that I’ve now been a simulation engineer for over 25 years (despite my youthful good looks, I really am that old). Back in the early 90s, when I fired up pro-STA…
More than 2300 years ago, Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” This being said, one must be thoughtful in selecting habits. When following est…
Russian babushka dolls are designed to fit inside one another, revealing each time a smaller figure inside. Auto manufacturers and suppliers also design “objects-within-objects”. Like the matriarch d…
Today’s vehicles aim at being more energy efficient whilst remaining durable, powerful and less noisy. The most challenging factor among these performance requirements is noise, vibration & harsh…
PM-Bearings located in the Netherlands at Dedemsvaart, is an innovator in ultra-high-precision linear bearings and positioning systems, supplies linear motion slides to the high-end semiconductor, me…
