As we see awareness of the potential for 3D printing spread and the Shapeways community grow, we are also starting to see more and more businesses run off the back of the Shapeways shops. Alongside the people creating items to sell, we are also se...
This year's annual AIA Convention was held last week in New Orleans, the city that will always be associated with Hurricane Katrina, the havoc it created, the flooding it caused, and FEMA's inadequate response to it which caused a near-complete br...
In last week’s AECbytes newsletter on the AIA 2011 convention, I captured the key points of the keynote address by Thomas Friedman, celebrated New York Times syndicated columnist and author, who had many insightful thoughts on sustainability to of...
Blagg & Johnson Ltd has been located in Newark since 1921, producing cold rolled and pressed metal sections and fabricated assemblies. As a subcontractor it services a wide range of industries including automotive, agricultural, rail, mining and c...
Last year, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck just miles from Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. More recently, massive earthquakes have also struck Christchurch, New Zealand and Japan’s east coast, shocking and devastating local residents and...
The model based enterprise offers great promise for collaboration in the extended supply chain. The vision of taking a 3D solid image of a product, flowing that image to virtually any source, and feeding it into a machine that almost magically spi...
3/29/2011 - Aerospace Manufacturing and Design Mark Kelly, Robert Morris
Fact or fiction? Reverse engineering is the main application of 3D scanning—This is FICTION! The fact is that 3D scanning has many frequent uses including inspection, testing, and product design. What other misconceptions about 3D scanning have y...
We have been Visio users for a long time and it's easy for us to forget that despite being easy to use, sometimes new Visio users will not be able to find out how to do something without spending some time, so here are 10 tips that will hopefully ...
To all current and prospective engineers out there, happy Engineers Week! We’d like to start this week with an interview with Scott Wertel, a degreed mechanical engineer and registered professional engineer in the state of Arizona. He is also a me...
InfoWorks RS is ideally suited to determining the impact of flood mitigation works on the development of flood maps – an issue that arises more and more frequently as governments around the world seek solutions to unprecedented levels of flooding....
In the world of golf, players are always looking for ways to improve their game, and equipment manufacturers are always looking for ways to give their customers an edge. Cleveland Golf, an internationally recognized maker of golf clubs with a stro...
Rob Brawn, Director of Automation Systems Integration at CH2M Hill, talks to our editor about the experience with Bentley’s OpenPlant PowerPID and OpenPlant Modeler.
Tony Buser1 is the creator of CloudSCAD a web based version of OpenSCAD a popular 3D modeling program. You may know Tony from his website where he blogs about his MakerBot, #481 named “Tea,” and his RepRap named “Earl.” Or, you may know him from t...
System-Level Design sat down to discuss what’s broken in EDA with Riko Radojcic, director of engineering for CDMA Technologies at Qualcomm; Surinder Dhaliwal, executive director for VLSI Core Engineering at Mindspeed Technologies; Andy Brotman, vi...
In Part 2 - Manual Reset, SmartGeometry 2010, Barcelona, Working Prototypes, architect Don Chong provides additional coverage of the event. He discusses industrial design, the details of sandstone and begins to lay out the concept of 'Manual Reset'.
In Part 3 - Manual Reset, SmartGeometry 2010, Barcelona, Working Prototypes, architect Don Chong explains more of his observations at the event. He describes some of the presentations and people present as well as their presentations.
You know something's right when an international conference ostensibly about computing advances in the AEC sector begins in a Barcelona converted factory space with dozens of participants furiously designing, testing and building. You know somethi...
Two recent blog posts by Oleg Shilovitsky (PDM vs. PLM: A Data Perspective and PDM vs. PLM: A Process Perspective) got me wondering about what a true product lifecycle management (PLM) system actually is.
In an interview with Matt Artz, Education industry director of ESRI, Michael Gould describes how server, mobile, and the Cloud are promoting geospatial thinking outside the classroom
Hey folks! Hope you missed me while I was out for a few weeks. I’m back. I was reading Mark Burhop’s series on Practical Social Media and it reminded me that sitting in my inbox was Mr. Josh Ming’s As to my Qs. Consider this another in my series o...
The design process for a building project begins long before even a single line is drawn, on paper or on the computer. It starts with the client’s brief, which may be very detailed or extremely sketchy, or somewhere in between. From this brief, a ...
For many people, going to DAC is like going to a High School Reunion. There are many familiar faces you can't quite put a name to, and other faces belonging to perfect strangers who call you by name and seem to know who you are. Of course, there a...
I blogged yesterday about tapping the knowledge of long-time PLM Connection attendees at the event next week. Rick Stavanja is another long-time attendee and presenter. You can find out if he really looks like his Twitter profile pic above during ...
In order to support the ongoing focus for unmanned planetary exploration, advanced autonomous robot rovers need to be developed. To develop solutions for the power management systems in these robots, one scientist has partnered with the Canadian S...
This three-part article by civil and structural engineering student Tal defines Building Information Modeling (BIM) and takes an in-depth look at the process of evaluating its potential implementation at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsvi...
This is part two of a three-part article on this subject. The first part appeared on June 14. Part two in the series addresses the process of evaluating how BIM could be implemented at the center, and examines whether many BIM functions are perhap...
Editor’s Note: Gary Smith is founder and Chief Analyst for Gary Smith EDA. Previously, he was the Managing Vice President and Chief Analyst of the Electronic Design Automation Service, Design & Engineering Cluster at Gartner Dataquest. He is edito...
What is Building Information Modeling? Building information modeling, or BIM, has recently become a valuable technology in the facilities industry. In its simplest terms, BIM is a building design and documentation process that is solely based arou...
Shorter time-to-market, higher product development efficiency, better product quality, and lower product costs are often associated with the benefits of adopting product lifecycle management (PLM) systems. When there is an economic downturn, these...
6/7/2010 - Technology Education Concepts Kurt Chen
Dr. Mar Hershenson is Vice President of Product Development in the Custom Design Business Unit at Magma Design Automation, based in San Jose, and has just been named the 2010 recipient of the Marie R. Pistilli Award.
The client is a small independent that just made a $600 million bet on a new deepwater floating platform to develop a Gulf of Mexico field the majors considered too small to develop themselves. Get it right and the client doubles production next y...
Multihog is using a combination of PTC’s Pro/ENGINEER and the support and expertise of Honeycomb Solutions to successfully design multi-purpose utility vehicles
Every manufacturer aims to satisfy its customers and stakeholders, addressing their needs and prioritizing their concerns. Part of this constituted effort involves decreasing costs, material wastage and personnel hours required to bring a product ...
Two major challenges that users presently face in the mapping industry are the handling of mass data and the creation of really true orthophotos. Large amounts of data are produced using e.g. laser scanners, image matching, TIN creation, etc. but ...
The sticky accelerator has caused a mountain of problems for Toyota. Only a year ago, a Toyota product was known for quality, lean production and technology leadership. All that has changed and the tough inplications for the company has escaped no...
Juergen Seelmann, Dr. Dirk Lorenzen and Joash Bolanio provide a detailed account of the TatukGIS and PowerBuilder integration process for a local revenue computing and accounting system called iTAX (integrated Tax Administration). The iTAX system ...
4/22/2010 - TatukGIS Juergen Seelmann, Dr. Dirk Lorenzen, Joash Bolanio
Jack Dangermond presented at Where 2.0 recently and I had the opportunity to go through the various presentations finally before coming across his. This is a big step for GIS indeed… Here is why I think this is an important step.
