Join us on Wednesday, November 30 at 2:00 p.m. ET for Design News Radio's program, "Bridging the Mechanical & Embedded Design Worlds" (register here).
I'll be talking with Pascal Vera, Siemens PLM Software's teamcenter product manager for mechatronics and high-tech electronics PLM. Pascal will delve into the role of PLM in integrating these previously siloed domains, along with mapping out a plan to help engineering organizations take a more multidisciplinary approach to product design.
Gone are the days when a standard product was either mostly mechanical systems or electrical systems or even all about the software. Things as basic as household appliances and children's toys now comprise a combination of moving mechanical parts and embedded software systems, and even the average car boasts upward of 10 million lines of software code and growing.
While the makeup of products has evolved over the years, the design tools and engineering processes to create those multidisciplinary offerings have not necessarily kept pace. Organizations are stuck in traditional engineering workflows where mechanical components are developed by one group with one set of tools, but the embedded software piece is designed by another group with a wholly different set of tools, and the platforms don't necessarily interoperate.
Bridging the worlds of mechanical and embedded design is increasingly important, but it's no easy task. That's what I'll be chatting about with Pascal.
So please register now for our radiocast, "Bridging the Mechanical & Embedded Design Worlds," to be held Wednesday, November 30 at 2:00 p.m. ET. The event includes a live online chat in which you can ask Pascal your questions directly.
I listened to the broadcast today: Great job; intriguing topic. Embedded designers aren't a single entity and their backgrounds in this area can be very different. Explanations of the basics never hurts.
I'm with naperlou. Software may make tasks easier (FEA, or even basic CAD or 3D modeling), but without skill and experience FEA packages can be used by a novice to give false good results, and a new hire can design something in Solidworks that simply cannot be manufactured.
From what I've seen as a reporter, the aerospace industry -- specifically Boeing -- led the shift to collaboration between internal disciplines as well as external vendors. I understand a lot of the groundbreaking work started with the Joint Strike Fighter.
I know this has shifted to other industries in recent years. What I'd like to know is whether this blending of disciplines is occurring now on a widespread basis or whether it's confined to bleeding edge companies.
This sounds like it is shaping up to be a very interesting conversation. I'm looking forward to hearing Pascal's opinion on the subject. See you tomorrow at 2!
The webinar should be interesting. I have many years in the aerospace industty (mostly spacecraft), and there is no business that uses more disciplines on a single project. What brought all this together was the systems engineering group. Frankly, it is important to have software engineers develop software, electrical engieers (and we had several groups) and mechanical engineers (several more) do their thing. At the companies I worked for we had significant methodologies and training around systems engineering. We also used many tools in doing our work (simulation at many levels, requirements traceabiity tools). Many of the issues I see being addressed in the commercial engineering worlds, such as automotive, were dealt with and "solved" in the aerospace industry. It seems to me that each industry needs its own take on basic issues, such as safety, which is very similar to others, but separate.
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