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Friday, March 31, 2017
Vehicle Lightweighting – A Triumph of Up-Front Engineering Optimization
Written by Keith Meintjes
In Thursday's Detroit Free Press there is a review of the new Chevy Equinox SUV: read review here. “Chevrolet has been performing magic lately, making hundreds of pounds of vehicles’ weight disappear without reducing their comfort or features. The ★★★★ 2018 Equinox compact SUV may be its best trick yet.…
Many different industries rely on configure-to-order (CTO) or engineer-to-order (ETO) strategies to profitably deliver products to their customers. Product companies want to mass customize their way to markets of one. Product configurators have long addressed this problem, some technical and some targeted toward business users. Both configuration skills and costing…
Thursday, March 02, 2017
Semantic Web Technology Could Help Feed Your Pet on Time and Much More
Written by Venki Agaram
“No Treat for You: Pets Miss Meals after Auto-Feeding App PetNet Glitches” is the title of an article about an IoT connected pet-feeder, SmartFeeder by PetNet (www.petnet.io), that left some pets hungry due to a 10-hour server outage.[1] Another article[2] pronounced the PetNet SmartFeeder a “poor failsafe design that didn't…
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Digitalization, Model-Based X, PLM and the Digital Thread: Where do we go from here?
Written by Donald Tolle
Computer-aided and “model-driven” product development practices have steadily evolved since the 1960s, enabled by the growth and availability of modern computing technology. Companies use software to create digitalized 2D/3D geometry and assess that geometry using physics-based performance calculations. The industry has rapidly progressed from tools built for and used exclusively…
Wednesday, February 01, 2017
Mind the Gap: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digitalization in AEC
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The Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry is a heavily design and fabrication centric industry, with many parallels to the manufacturing industry. If anything, the formerly distinct lines between AEC and manufacturing are becoming ever more blurred by the adoption of techniques such as modular prefabrication. However, in one regard…
Thursday, January 26, 2017
A new product development and manufacturing revolution on the horizon?
Written by Keith Meintjes
A recent article in The Economist leads me to reflect on the manufacturing revolution that has occurred, not in my lifetime, but only in the last 25 years. Economies, industries, and companies have been transformed by digital technology. When I went to work in 1980 for GM in the Detroit…
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