09/09/2016 Optimised starting position Design optimisation has been adopted by the automotive industry in its quest to lightweight. But now, as Tim Fryer reports, the technology is finding wider appeal.
11/08/2016 Digging the new breed When you already have your place in history for a particular design, is it easier to evolve what you have rather than diversify and innovate? Tim Fryer went to visit JCB to see how it is keeping it ...
10/08/2016 Seamless design for smart models Increasingly designs have electronics at their core, but importing electronic CAD into mechanical models can be clunky at best. Tim Fryer reports on a package aiming to challenge that.
11/07/2016 Science behind the gold rush Great Britain had a phenomenally successful Olympic Games in 2012, winning 65 medals (29 golds). It was our most successful Games since London first hosted the event in 1908. But although the home ...
11/07/2016 Gaming drives automotive design The automotive industry is turning to video game companies to try to develop ways to design and manufacture vehicles. Tom Austin-Morgan reports on the launch of the Digital Engineering and Test ...
10/06/2016 It IS rocket science For an aerospace company, the complexities of propulsion systems had previously meant trial and error was the only way of producing reliable rockets. It has starting partnering with a software ...
13/05/2016 Designed for a quiet life Design engineers, quite rightly, care about the workstations that they work on. Apart from making sure that it is capable of running your software, there are other factors that can be looked at when ...
15/04/2016 The simulation revelation The complexities of modern engineering design are matched only by the complexities of simulation packages to assess them. Or are they? Could simulation for everyone bring about a fundamental change ...
15/04/2016 Heart of the matter To develop medical devices for better cardiac care, the best platform to work on is a beating heart. A project to simulate the heart is allowing just that.
11/03/2016 True colours Getting colour into a 3D printed part is not easy. Ground has been broken, claim Stratasys and Adobe, who have partnered to find a solution.
29/02/2016 Granta to help maximise car design efficiency of Chip Ganassi race cars Chip Ganassi Racing Teams (CGRT) has partnered with Granta Design to use Granta’s CES Selector to help develop stronger, lighter, and more durable race cars.
10/02/2016 Consumers drive engineers expectations The way that engineers are specifying components is undergoing a rapid and radical transformation.
10/02/2016 Something to smile about There is no toilet humour in Madagascar’s sanitation problems. But, as Tim Fryer reports, a British design team have given the locals something to smile about.
10/02/2016 Embracing digital telepathy The digital twin creates a fully symbiotic relationship between the virtual and the physical across the product’s whole life cycle to bring hidden benefits that engineers never thought existed.
09/12/2015 Keeping EMC under control The black art of managing electromagnetism is becoming of increasing importance as products take on more electronic systems. Justin Cunningham looks at the latest tool in understanding the phenomenon.
09/12/2015 Engineered for isolation According to the adage, engineers save more lives than doctors. In terms of sanitation alone this is probably historically true, but increasingly doctors and engineers are working together to come up ...
16/10/2015 Schaeffler and Deckel Maho Pfronten develop 'Machine Tool 4.0' concept Schaeffler and machine tool manufacturer Deckel Maho Pfronten GmbH have developed a ‘Machine Tool 4.0’ concept that is based on a specific investment project together with other partners. The concept ...
08/10/2015 The DesignSpark family of CAD software now includes a version for electrical design Two years ago RS Components launched its DesignSpark Mechanical software package. Since then, it has already been downloaded and activated 175,000. It’s a success that the company hope to replicate ...
08/10/2015 Software solves recruitment riddle One notable area of common ground amongst engineers, their customers, suppliers and the education system is the CAD environment they all operate within. There are realistically only a handful of ...
08/09/2015 Engineering thrills There is no doubt about it, designing a rollercoaster is something we’d all like to have a go at. But be warned, this is a complex problem that needs the assistance of modern analytical tools to get ...
12/08/2015 Design for Manufacture 2.0 While many get by with a little knowledge about the world of manufacture, it may lead to inefficiency. With reshoring set to rise, there is an opportunity for designers to do more. But there is a ...
12/08/2015 Sports car in reverse Majenta PLM has partnered with Physical Digital, a 3D scanning and reverse engineering company, to transform the design and manufacturing processes of DAX Sports Cars.
14/07/2015 Consortium targets smarter coatings A smarter approach to applying advanced thin-film coatings to high value engineering products is being developed by Teer Coatings, Cobham Technical Services and The Open University. The collaborative ...
11/06/2015 Phone alone Making exclusive mobile phones is a different proposition when you are a small company instead of being part of a global multinational. In the case of Vertu it meant that change of CAD environment ...
10/06/2015 Electronics at your fingertips Engineering design increasingly involves more than one discipline and even the worlds of mechanical and electronic design increasingly have to be tackled by a single engineer. Tim Fryer investigates ...
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