October, 2012

Fast Company

How Two College Students Created A Prosthetic Arm For An Eight Year-Old
Daniel Wilson wanted a prosthetic to let him ride a bike and swing a bat (and he wanted it to be red), so two engineering students found an ingenious way to make one for him.

September, 2012

Design News

Siemens Technology Stack Takes the Sting Out of PLM
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has always been a tough pill for enterprises to swallow, even for the largest companies in sectors like automotive and Aerospace & Defense (A&D), which have been among the earliest adopters of the technology. While historically, there's been no shortage of user interface enhancements and packaged templates and workflow customizations to ease deployment and improve accessibility, companies have continued to struggle to squeeze value out of PLM beyond its core roots as a souped-up repository for managing engineering data and change orders.

Design Engineering

Siemens NX 8.5 Reduces Time to Market
Siemens PLM Software has released NX 8.5, which includes extensive customer-driven enhancements and new capabilities that provide increased flexibility and productivity across product engineering and manufacturing to help reduce time to market, the company says.

The Engineer

Design Software Helps to Land Curiosity on Mars
Early last month, after an epic 8½ month voyage through the inner Solar System, NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down on the surface of Mars. Described by the space agency’s leadership as the most challenging robotic mission in its history, Curiosity’s journey to the red planet was a dramatic illustration of one of the great truisms of space travel: the success or failure of years of engineering effort frequently boils down to a breathless few minutes as the landing site comes into view.

CAD Insider

Siemens PLM - We're Just One Big Happy Family
In the race to be everything to everyone, Siemens PLM may be winning. The company known best for NX and Teamcenter was riding high on the shoulders of Siemens AG, the German juggernaut that seems to make just about everything. Maybe not cars or airplanes, but so much of what goes inside them.

Control Engineering

Siemens PLM Software Introduces RobotExpert Software
RobotExpert expands Siemens PLM Software's digital manufacturing solutions which include its Tecnomatix portfolio for digital manufacturing, automation and simulation. It enables the design, simulation, optimization and offline programming of robotic applications to maximize the speed, flexibility and operation of automated systems.

June, 2012

Wind Systems Magazine

Automating Wind Blade Development From Root to Tip
By adopting and executing a product development process that integrates design with performance simulation to find problems before they occur, engineers can avoid blade failure in their designs.

March, 2012

Manufacturing Automation

Simulation, Creation and Automation: A New Production Plant is Fully Optimized Before Construction
For the Siemens AG Energy Sector, a supplier of products, solutions and services for power generation, transmission and distribution, as well as for the production, conversion and transport of oil and gas, Plant Simulation software allowed them to lower costs and eliminate bottlenecks - all before construction of a new manufacturing plant began.

Machine Design

Synchronous Technology Sheds Light on Surgical Laser Design
This article describes how Energist Group in Nyack, N. Y., recently moved from several different CAD packages to standardize on one. The intent was to improve the design and manufacture of its surgical lasers and light-based devices for hair-removal and skin treatments.

February, 2012

Polymotive

Composites for Complex Curvatures
Composites have long been used in aerospace but now a number of other industries - notably commercial automotive – are following. However, while both industries are becoming increasingly dependent on composites, these high tech materials are used very differently within aerospace and automotive. Cross fertilization of ideas does occur, but the two industries operate under very different criteria as discussed in this article.

Desktop Engineering

On a Mission to Mars
This article discusses how engineers designed and tested the latest Mars rover.

automotiveIT International

Siemens PLM: “Unreserved Support” for PLM Openness Codex
In this interview Siemens PLM Software CEO Chuck Grindstaff discusses his belief in open systems as well as upcoming new products, the changes in automakers’ PLM needs and the impact of new mobile technologies.

CompositesWorld

Software Enables Submarine Shipyard’s Composites-for-Metal Effort
When Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH looked for a software solution to reduce the risk of using composites for a greater range of thicker parts, FiberSIM software from VISTAGY enabled its engineers to develop initial designs more quickly and to better understand the impact of design changes.

Composites in Manufacturing

Synchronizing Development
This article demonstrates how Vistagy specialized engineering software can close the loop between design and analysis in aerospace applications and reap the benefits of composite materials.

January, 2012

AutomotiveWorld

One Size Does Not Fit All When It Comes to Composites
This article discusses the need for industry-specific solutions that has led suppliers of composites engineering software to evolve their products, addressing emerging challenges with expanding capabilities to model the diverse set of materials and processes that are being employed and developed by the automotive industry today.

November, 2011

Aerospace Engineering Online

Streamlining the Airframe Fastener Management Process
This article discusses how the Fastener Pattern capability in SyncroFIT 2011 incorporates design rules to position fasteners to satisfy edge distance, pitch, and tangent edge requirements while enabling a concurrent approach to part and assembly development.