Need to simulate airflow across an aircraft wing or understand how water will flow through a turbine? FEA software helps engineers determine how these and other complex systems will perform under
EcoVadis' 2025 U.S. Business Sustainability Landscape Outlook highlights how companies view and act based on the escalating trade pressures, climate events, labor issues and cyber threats
If a machine tool cuts, bends, stamps, prints, or forms parts for nine hours out of a ten-hour shift, with no stopping to check tools, clear chips, or add material (and assuming all the parts are
Before manufacturers got smart and wired their shop floors with Ethernet cable, they would upload CNC programs to memory sticks, walk them out the machine, and then upload them to
Synonymous with 3D printing, additive manufacturing (AM) is when a computer-controlled machine deposits, cures, melts, sinters, welds, or glues discrete layers of metal, polymer, and other
When 3D-printed parts leave the build chamber, they often require secondary operations such as machining, support removal, polishing, heat treatment, etc. AM practitioners call this
A vision system uses cameras, programmable lighting, and image processing software to "look at" and automatically measure a part or part feature. Think of it as the next generation of that
A theory of constraints (TOC) term, bottlenecks are what occur when you spend hours optimizing a turning operation, only to find that the department doing the next operation can't go
AM legend has it that Stratasys founder Scott Crump invented fused deposition modeling at his kitchen table. It uses a spool of weedwacker-like plastic filament that is forced through a
Where a Virtual Reality (VR) headset displays an entire simulated world, Augmented Reality (AR) uses special glasses to overlay digital content.