For centuries, the maritime business has run on a simple and decidedly low-tech principle: Load goods onto a ship and move them from point A to point B as quickly as possible.
Yet the ship…
By: Del Costy, senior vice president and managing director, Americas
Household chores helped me realize I should be an engineer. Yes, really. I took a school survey, and my results indicat…
Digital simulation has become an essential capability for planning and verifying automated manufacturing processes such as robotic assembly, packaging and palletization. Simulation and process planni…
What will the future look like? That’s the million-dollar, and in some cases, trillion-dollar question.
In manufacturing, Industry 4.0 envisages a new age where smart technology and smart …
In Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, I came across an interesting observation. Of those listed as the 75 all-time richest people in the world, which included everyone from the Sultan of Brunei and Queen C…
Business dynamics will change in aerospace supply chains as manufacturers incorporate new technological advances shaping the future of flight.
Advances in materials, propulsion, human mach…
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…
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…
Generative design leverages algorithms from existing design knowledge with autonomous computing, which evaluates all possible permutations of a design given a set of constraints. It allows design…
