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Author: Bruce Jenkins

Bruce Jenkins

ORA Editorial Contributor

Bruce Jenkins is president of Ora Research (oraresearch.com), a research and advisory services firm focused on technology business strategy for 21st-century engineering practice.

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Model-Based Systems Engineering Tackles Product Complexity

Helping engineers model, explore and optimize tradeoffs between competing design goals such as high performance versus long life is a key ability provided by systems modeling and model-based systems engineering (MBSE).

Design Optimization: Past, Present and Future

Making design exploration software speak the language of engineers has been a focus of development since the industry’s inception.

Cloud HPC Makes Simulation-Driven Design Optimization More Accessible

New initiatives are offering a range of hardware and software for all.

Using Industrial IoT Data to Drive Optimization

Product performance info collected from the IIoT holds great potential to fill in many regions of the design space.

Optimizing Pultrusion of Glass-Fiber Reinforced Plastic Components

The challenges of fabricating GFRP components can be addressed with optimization.

Topology Optimization Advances to Support Additive Manufacturing

Software features are growing in response to increasing use of additive manufacturing.

Collaborative Design Optimization

Enterprise adoption of optimization facilitates the capture and re-deployment of expert knowledge.

Serapid Adopts SIMSOLID For Optimization

The structural analysis tool helps Serapid quickly analyze its rigid-chain industrial lifting products.

System-level Optimization

Optimization technology offers great benefit when used early in product development.

Find the Optimal Design

Design exploration and optimization strategies expand the benefits of simulation.

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