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It’s High Time To Get Multidisciplinary Collaboration Right in 2015
The New Year is always a time of reflection with promises made to set the bar high and readily embrace change. If the start of 2015 is any indication, engineers should gear up for some pretty serious...
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Navigating the New Frontier of Product Complexity
Complexity is the new normal for most engineers. From the sensors and embedded software now liberally baked into smarter products to the new materials and freeform shapes associated with light...
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Engineering in the Age of Software-Driven Products
If you consider the makeup of today’s products, the physical design aspects often seem to take a back seat to embedded software, which is fast becoming the dominant force in everything from the latest,...
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Is 3D Printing A Part of Your Regular Design Workflow? It Should Be
It might take a minute or two to wrap your brain around the idea that an office-style printer can pump out a working part, but that’s exactly what’s happening across a swath of engineering departments...
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Time to Flip the Switch on Cloud
For most major enterprise applications—think ERP, CRM, or even Business Intelligence—the question isn’t whether or not to go to the cloud, it usually boils down to a matter of when. That same clarity...
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Not Your Father’s Simulation Strategy
Alternative materials and all sorts of streamlined parts have become common practice in car designs as manufacturers push to add lighter weight, more fuel-efficient vehicles to their fleets. Electronic...
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Four Skills You’ll Need to Add in the Internet of Things Age
It wasn’t long ago that an engine that could proactively alert technicians to swap out a failing part or a fridge that posts the weekly shopping list was the stuff of science fiction. Today, these...
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Are You a Social Engineer?
You do the occasional check in with Facebook to keep tabs on old college buddies and you sporadically monitor Twitter to stay abreast of breaking news events. But when it comes to your day job in...
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Four Teams Delivering Breakthrough Results with PTC Creo Simulate
Despite our best design and engineering training, it’s difficult to know how a design will perform under real-world conditions until it’s built. That’s why most companies use computer-aided engineering...
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Multi-CAD: Still An Albatross To Effective Design?
Whether a company is a cog in the automotive supply chain or a behemoth manufacturer of industrial equipment, dealing with multiple CAD packages and, specifically, diverse 3D model types is just the...
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Put the Kibosh on CAD Upgrades? It Might Be Time to Rethink That Plan.
Keeping up with CAD software upgrades can be a lot more stressful than keeping up with the Joneses. Vendors continue to tempt with releases chock full of new features and extended functionality, but...
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Bring on Design Reviews for the Masses
Designing today’s complex products brings a lot of new challenges into the mix, not the least of which is making routine tasks and milestones exponentially that much harder. Just think about the...
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Rendering: It’s the Real Thing
Remember when achieving a funky organic shape or quirky lighting effect was a major accomplishment that pushed the limits of 3D modeling? Today, those small wins are table stakes as engineering teams...
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Why CAD Companies Can’t Ignore Subscription Licensing
There’s a backlash brewing in the world of software and it’s been percolating for some time. Partly due to economic pressures, fueled by the wealth of vendor and software options and enabled by the...
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Getting Design Collaboration Right
When it comes to perfecting product development, it’s usually the fundamentals that are often the single hardest thing for engineering organizations to get right. Take the simple act of collaboration,...
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