Animations: Assembly Engineering Manager

Geneva Mechanism

A Geneva mechanism uses a constant input rotation to produce intermittent output rotation.

DVD Player

In this example, the eject mechanism of a DVD player is simulated using AEM springs.

Telescopic Motion

This animation illustrates the ability of the AEM to automatically simulate mechanisms which incorporate telescopic motion.

Quantitative Analysis

The AEM can be used to assess how the quantitative interaction of forces affects the behaviour of a mechanism.

Assembly Verification

The lid of a disk-brake assembly is initially being closed using a conventional, non-AEM, dragging process with collision detection capabilities.

Assembly Verification

The animation shows an interactive AEM session where a designer verifies the ability to assemble and disassemble the casing of a hand-held computing device.

Assembly Verification

Here, the AEM is used to verify the assembly of a battery into its compartment in a portable telephone.

Gear Teeth Contacts

This example uses the AEM to simulate gear systems physically, rather than using the simplistic and unrealistic method of coupled angles.

Twisting Parts

he AEM excels at modelling the motion that arises when parts separate through a twisting motion.

Investigating Spring Forces and Gravity

Here the AEM is used to investigate the effects of springs, ropes and gravity on a car trunk mechanism.

Conveyor Force

This animation illustrates a conveyor force. A conveyor force moves a part along a surface in a specified direction until the part loses contact with that surface.