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New opportunities, new thinking on design simulation tools

May 8, 2018

Within every design engineer, it seems, is a perfectionist—someone driven to identify the absolute, best possible designs. The trait is so prevalent that it’s earned a special phrase: engineers who k…

By BruceJackson
5 MIN READ

Automotive manufacturing and autonomous vehicles

May 4, 2018

Automotive manufacturing has been happening for a long time, but when most people think of automotive manufacturing, they imagine a moving assembly line. The moving assembly line revolutionized how v…

By DaveLauzun
5 MIN READ

How the future of flight changes product lifecycle management

April 30, 2018

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong’s televised moonwalk transfixed the world. People couldn’t believe what they were seeing. A spacecraft had safely transported two astronauts 360,000 kilometers (223,6…

By John O'Connor
4 MIN READ

Industrial-scale additive manufacturing: challenges and potential

April 23, 2018

Additive manufacturing is one of the most promising opportunities associated with Industry 4.0, the much-discussed fourth generation of manufacturing that will be dominated by intelligent automation,…

By Robert Meshel
4 MIN READ

Expand design space exploration with intelligent automation

April 18, 2018

What if your product development team had a genie in a bottle that could pop out and optimise virtual prototypes every time your team tried something new?

No highly trained optimisation sp…

By BruceJackson
4 MIN READ

Manufacturing smart products without smart people?

April 16, 2018

By: Josh Ray and Alex Allison 

Everyone wants to be on teams that break new ground, like the teams at Zipline, a company that builds pilotless aircraft that are used to deliver vital …

By Jray
4 MIN READ

The biggest autonomous car software challenges

April 9, 2018

The automotive industry is trying to figure out how software and hardware will work together in autonomous cars, and they’re looking to companies with experience in electronic design automation to ma…

By Ed Bernardon
5 MIN READ

The future of flight has already taken off

April 4, 2018

A confluence of new technologies is transforming the aerospace industry. The trends they’re driving herald the prospect of space tourism, unmanned delivery drones and new aircraft designs, along with…

By John O'Connor
4 MIN READ

Three Ways Manufacturing Can Fix Its People Problem

March 29, 2018

By: Josh Ray and Alex Allison

Every October, thousands of U.S. manufacturers open their doors for Manufacturing Day, hosting tours and demonstrations in hopes of sparking interest in manuf…

By Jray
5 MIN READ