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CAD/CAE Model Clean-Up: Reduce Iterative Cycles
This webinar featured research
and survey results related to problems associated with preparing CAD geometry
for CAE applications. We discussed how
Recipe-Based Automation can help
create "just-in-time" CAE-ready geometry each time a cad model is updated. Watch the Presentation
Light Matters: Systems Level Approach to HBLED illumination applications
Its good practice to apply a systems-level approach to high-brightness LED (HBLED) illumination applications. Minimally, the system includes the optical, thermal and electrical characteristics of the of the HBLED, the lens (if any) which is built-in to its package, secondary optics such as external plastic lenses/reflectors to direct the light as your application requires and power driver electronics. Read More
Design Engineers' Portal for Sensing and Machine Safety
Whatever industry you're in, or whatever product you manufacture, the right sensors to automate your plant, and to improve your overall efficiency, quality and safety are a must. You'll find Banner Engineering to be an amazing resource of products, training and people with expertise.
Drawing upon 20 years of experience designing ink jet print heads, engineers at Dimatix developed this economical table-top-sized unit targeted at "one-off" circuit designs when engineers want to prove out a concept or quickly build a prototype. Martin Schoeppler, vice president of business development, explains that engineers were not able to use conventional thermal ink jet technology in the DMP-2800 because the heat would destroy metals and other organic materials. So they designed a piezoelectric, all-silicon printhead and acoustic membrane to create the droplets instead. To add versatility, a "fill-your-own-cartridge" system lets engineers work with their own dispensing materials at a lower cost than conventional prototyping. Capable of a very precise placement of material to create line widths in the micrometer range, Schoeppler says the printer could provide a quick means for a design engineer to build and test complex circuits that require numerous masking steps or to test out new material combinations. "In a matter of hours, a design engineer could print out several different versions of a multi-layered complex circuit, eliminating the need to go outside and pay a lot of money to have prototypes built and share intellectual property with a third party," says Schoeppler. At a cost of less than $30,000, compared to $100,000 and up for the specialty print heads employed for high-volume-production machines, the DMP 2800 seems almost like a steal. For more information, go to 
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