Autonomous car interior options and custom travel experiences

The autonomous car will not only change our mode of transportation, but also the travel experience itself, based on the interior environment of a vehicle. The interior will no longer be defined by tr…

Vehicle electrification and the automotive revolution

We’re currently going through one of the most significant revolutions in the automotive industry in the past century.
Vehicle electrification, autonomy and shared mobility are three big trends dr…

Are you ready for industrial-scale additive manufacturing?

New technologies have revolutionized manufacturing, and one technology that’s changing how companies think of manufacturing is industrial-scale additive manufacturing, also known as ISAM.
ISAM al…

Simulating your way to a friendlier autonomous car

Humans and autonomous vehicles must be able to coexist and easily interact if future cars are going to be as safe, or ideally safer, than our streets today with human drivers. To accomplish this, the…

How companies are moving beyond the blockchain hype

In 2008, a person or group of people known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto released a white paper entitled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. The paper described a “peer-to-peer versio…

Improve product releases with software project management tools

Over the last 20 years, design-and-make companies have invested heavily in CAD and other systems so they could enhance their product development processes. Even though innovative software project man…

How can electric car technology challenges be resolved?

There are numerous, significant electric car technology challenges companies face when designing and manufacturing the electric vehicle components. Battery design, full validation and software implem…

Define the digital thread for production systems engineering

By: Wolfgang Schloegl and Christian Heck

Manufacturing is in the midst of striking changes which will impact the way products are made, and also how companies will remain unbeaten against …

A solar-powered airplane and autonomous vehicle interiors

The interior of a car as we know it today, will one day — possibly soon — become a thing of the past.
The interior will be much more than fabric, leather, navigation and cooling or heating: it …