December 2009

Feature

A Christmas Column
Gary S. Vasilash , Editorial Director

Let’s be honest.  This is the week of Christmas.  And chances are, the last thing that you have on your mind right now—even if you have the words in the title on your business card—is product development, accelerated or otherwise.

So I am not even going to pretend that you’re all that interested in something about some facet of getting products to market faster.

Rather, I am going to write about Santa Claus.
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TC Fast Forward

Rapid Product Development @ Intel

At Intel, product development and manufacturing share equal roles in advancing new products to market and, like the technology they’re producing, the factories must move at full-speed in order to stay ahead of the competition. “You need fast factories” in order to respond to the pace of change in the electronics world, admits Bob Baker, senior vice president of Technology and Manufacturing at Intel.  MORE>

TC Rewind

Is Direct-Metal Manufacturing Ready for Production?

Rapid Quality Manufacturing (RQM) of Hamilton, Ohio is a production manufacturing business focused on a means of manufacturing that has not even fully arrived yet.

Curt Taylor, RQM’s president, says that this focus leaves the company selective about its customers. Still, plenty of clients have the same vision of the future of manufacturing technology that RQM does. MORE >

Products

3D Designs Printed with Multiple Materials in a Single Build

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Connex500™ is the first 3D printing system that allows users to simultaneously jet multiple model materials in a single build. The versatility of the multi-material printing options eliminates the need to design, print and glue together separate parts to make a complete model. View this short video to learn more.

“Point-and-shoot” now applies to 3D scanning, according to Exact Metrology, which is offering the Artec3D Scanner -- a handheld that operates like a video cam. 

The scanner grabs 1.5 million points per second using both wide-depth-of-view 3D and megapixel 2D sensors, and takes MORE >

PDQ Product Simulation

ANSYS 12.0 from ANSYS is a virtual canvas for engineers to quickly paint multiple product simulations, measuring anything from structural mechanics to fluid and thermal dynamics to electromagnetics.  The core of 12.0 is the ANSYS Workbench 2.0 platform, said to help users create, visualize, manage, automate, and repeat simulations to more promptly prove and/or evolve product designs. The CAE software also MORE>

Accele(RANT) Blog

by GSV 22. December 2009 09:37

The Future of Flight?
What you’re looking at is the MANTIS, making its maiden flight in Woomera, South Australia. Presumably there aren’t a whole lot of people in the area because the BAE Systems MANTIS is (1) the company’s first all-electric aircraft and (2) MORE>

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