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- Visualization for Everybody
- Product data is the lifeblood of the manufacturing organization.
Columns Published: 4/20/2010
- Analysis & Simulation Data: Why You Should Capture It
- Most manufacturers would be hard pressed to design reliable, high-quality, and cost-effective products without engineering simulation tools.
Columns Published: 2/24/2010
- What You Need To Know About DDM
- Over the past 20 years, additive fabrication technology has migrated from use in rapid prototyping to become a full-fledged manufacturing solution, referred to as “direct digital manufacturing” or DDM. While the general concept of additive fabricati...
Columns Published: 11/4/2009
- PLM Goes to the Shop Floor
- Product lifecycle management (PLM) once focused almost exclusively on engineering design, but the approach now includes a broad range of activities including product planning, manufacturing production process definition, service and maintenance proc...
Columns Published: 9/2/2009
- Simulation is for Everyone
- Heard recently at an industry gathering, “The number of engineers that use simulation on a daily basis could probably fit within a single football stadium. ”Think about that: Of the millions of design engineers worldwide, only a small minority use s...
Columns Published: 7/1/2009
- 2008 PLM Market Growth Was Strong Going into the Global Economic Downturn
- According to recent statistics compiled by CIMdata, the Comprehensive PLM market experienced a 6. 7% growth in 2008 with all sectors showing increases.
Columns Published: 6/30/2009
- PLM and the Changing Nature of Design
- I am honored to contribute to this re-launch of Time Compression. It’s a well-understood fact that in today’s harshly competitive environment, manufacturers must meet multiple targets in order to produce a successful product. Speed, affordability...
Columns Published: 1/1/2009
- History Of Additive Fabrication (Part 2)
- This two-part series provides a timeline that shows how additive fabrication technologies have
developed from their inception in 1987 to 2007. This part picks up where Part 1 ended. The following
was excerpted from Wohlers Report 2007.
Columns Published: 5/1/2008
