Commentary

The power of an immersive, shared experience to promote collaboration and inform design should not be underestimated.

The challenge for today’s engineering companies is to ensure that creative ideas are efficiently converted into real-world products and delivered at industrial scale.

It takes an enormous effort to successfully introduce a disruptive technology to a busy workflow. Is the problem that engineers don’t think they need the new software, or are they just too stuck in their ways—or too busyâ€...

The first step is doing the simulations and storing as much about them as you can; automation and consistency are add-on benefits that you shouldn’t overlook

You can take your pick of revolutionary technologies changing the world today. In the field of design engineering, technologies like simulation, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, additive manufacturing and sensor-laden, connected products are just a few with society-altering promise.

Connecting with people is just as important to advancing innovation as technology.

The IoT is a new world of connected equipment and data flows, which means that good ideas will come from unexpected sources.

3D printing alone won’t change the world, but it’s a growing part of the puzzle for people with the right vision.

AI has begun to come into its own, making tremendous strides over the past few years. But for all its successes, applications of AI-like machine learning, neural networks and deep learning have been slow to find a place in electronic...

For many projects, technical calculations may not be managed with the same attention as other intellectual property. What’s often missing is calculation management, a process that treats calculations like the vital, valuable company assets they are.

If a classical solution can be emulated using FEA, then it’s a good check of the software and our analysis skills.

Star Trek and the iconic culture that it created offered a glimpse into what the future might hold for technology and humanity alike.

From a sea of disconnected information, I had to derive a clear understanding of the analysis objectives and develop an analysis plan.

Data management needs run a broad gamut, from simple file permission controls to full PLM. There are a lot of options in between. It’s also a constantly changing target.

Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) are devices that use physical contact or, increasingly, laser scanners or other touchless techniques, to precisely create a digital map of the outside of an object.