Digital Engineering, June 2016

Inside this issue

Robots Un-Caged

Collaborative robots fuel job growth and innovation.

TEST

Did You Hear That?

New tools are emerging that help engineers run more comprehensivenoise, vibration and harshness analysis.

DESIGN

Reinventing Drawing and Drafting for Tablets

Software developers bring back natural drawing to engineers trained on mouse and keyboard. 

Whatever Happened to Cloud Rendering?

Five years ago, cloud rendering seemed poised to explode. Now, it seems to have made little progress. What went wrong?

PROTOTYPE

3D Printing with Composite Materials

Make stronger, lighter parts with a variety of additive manufacturing options.

SIMULATE

Thin, Transparent and Tapping into the Cloud

Plastic simulation evolves to include transparancy analysis, GPU acceleration and cloud processing.

ENGINEERING COMPUTING

New Memory Solutions Could Boost Speed

Storage class memory systems could fundamentally change computing performance.

BOXX Workstations Reviews

A look at the APEXX 1 1401 and APEXX 2 2402 systems.

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: SENSORS

Making Sense of Sensors

Bluetooth Smart: an agent of change.

Sensor Power Primer

The new generation of smart, networked sensors requires new methods of power.

Sensors Support New Data-Driven Design Workflows

Looping in-field product intelligence back into engineering workflows gives companies better insight into how to evolve product designs.

UAV Design Challenges: Game On

Sensors are helping engineers address drone operating requirements.

Sensors to Specify & Apply

A roundup of the latest sensors for design and manufacturing applications.

Sensor Fast Apps

Sensor implementations from aerospace, robotics, naval and manufacturing sectors.