Different Tools for Different Jobs - 3D Printing with Stratasys Date: 5/30/2013
Sponsors: Stratasys
Host: Rich Nass of Design News- Guest : Bruce Bradshaw, Director of Marketing North America-Stratasys
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This broadcast will dive deep into technical information including application specific stories from real world customers and their experiences with 3D printing. Register here!
Smart Energy - Intelligent Electronic Devices Date: 1/29/2013
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Smart energy starts before the grid, and continues all the way down to the consumer. Being able to pull just what’s needed from the grid, and maybe even return some energy, is the goal. To achieve that goal, designers are tasked with developing more energy efficient and smarter end products. We will discuss the techniques required to design these innovative products on this radio show.
Network security: Don’t Get Hacked Date: 12/6/2012
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Can outsiders hack into your network? The factory floor is now connected to the outside world. While extended networks give companies powerful efficiency and opportunities for optimization, it also means that someone can crack the network. This opens up a whole mess of Pandora boxes. IT wants to create safety measures to prevent the intrusions of hackers and viruses. But that means shutting down the plant for the upgrades and patches. The control managers don't want the plant to shut down for network protection efforts. This webinar looks at solutions that work for both IT and control managers. Eric J. Byres, CTO and VP Engineering of Tofino Security joins Design News' Rob Spiegel to explore ways you can stay ahead of the hackers.
Electronics/Automotive Solutions for Automotive Design Date: 11/19/2012
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The percentage of electronics within even the most basic of vehicles has reached an unprecedented high point, and there’s no end in sight. Whether it’s for safety, for engine control, or for entertainment/comfort, the choices are many, and in some cases, quite complex. Just like many embedded designs, you pick your processor and/or operating system, and then go through your checklist of design criteria, which is exactly what we’ll walk through on this webcast. Jeff Owens, Chief Technology Officer at Delphi Automotive, joins Design News Senior Editor Chuck Murray to look at the state of the art in automotive design.
Embedded Design for Medical Miniaturization Date: 11/5/2012
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Medical devices continue to shrink, whether they are devices that are attached to or implanted within a person, or a device that’s used by a physician. That shrinkage comes with various tradeoffs, including power, flexibility, etc., as well as cost. David Niewolny, Healthcare Business Development Manager at Freescale Semiconductor, joins Design News' Richard Nass to look at the current state of the art in miniaturization, as well as the various tradeoffs a designer may have to endure.
What Makes the Perfect Factory? Date: 8/27/2012
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Factory automation is synonymous with motors, drives, automation software, and so on. This also encompasses configurable and fixed components. That factory could be deployed for manufacturing components in the automotive, electronic, semiconductor, medical, or packaging industries. What it always comes down to is, can you produce products of the highest quality, at a reasonable cost, with a manageable time to delivery. Sujeet Chand, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Rockwell Automation joins Design News' Al Presher to discuss what makes the “perfect” factory. That will cover the manufacturing equipment, the PLM software, and even the know-how that ties it all together.
Sustainability: Delivering Value with Product Stewardship Date: 7/31/2012
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Innovative design engineers are incorporating a powerful set of sustainable practices in their product designs to improve the integrity of the product – and not just to reduce their carbon footprint. These practices impact every stage in the product lifecycle from ideation to board layout, to material and component selection, manufacturing and assembly, and end-of-life processing. A deep knowledge of sustainable product design fundamentals is essential in today's competitive product design environment.
Peter Buca, Vice President Technology & Innovation, at Parker Hannifin, joins Design News' Bruce Rayner for a lively conversation about incorporating the concepts of sustainability in product design.
High-Performance Modeling & Simulation for Aerospace & Defense Design Date: 7/30/2012
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For most design engineers, time is just as much of a barrier to new product design as materials, geometry and physics are. This is particularly true within the aerospace and defense design industries. And even with the benefits of contemporary 3D modeling and simulation at hand, time can still get added to the equation which can frustrate design teams on both ends of the cycle. Streamlining the overall design process without sacrificing the quality and reliability of data is the age-old challenge many high-end simulation providers have been addressing for years, and we’ll see just how far some of the more cutting-edge providers have come and where things are heading when Design News Contributing Editor Tim Votapka hosts a July 20 Design News radio show featuring Paul Goossens, VP of Applications Engineering at Maplesoft and Blake Courter, Co-Founder of SpaceClaim.
Big-Picture Systems Engineering for Successful Product Design Date: 6/27/2012
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Each new generation of products is far more sophisticated than the previous generation, and the escalating use of software-driven electronics is only compounding the complexity. This, coupled with the increasing weight of regulatory and compliance requirements, demands big-picture, systems-level thinking across the product lifecycle.
Leading-edge companies are now getting serious about systems engineering concepts, embracing tools and approaches to create a systems-level view of the product that ensures that all mechanical, electrical, controls, and software designs are kept in sync. Mark Sampson, product manager, Requirements and Systems Engineering, at Siemens PLM Software, joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore how an integrated systems engineering approach puts the big picture into focus and helps manage complex interactions between many interacting subsystems.
For 3D printing to make the jump from rapid prototyping to manufacturing, engineers will need to find easier ways to move products from their CAD screens to their printers.
Gigabit and PoE are two networking technologies moving ahead in tandem as industrial users power remote Ethernet devices such as IP security cameras at 1,000 Mbps over existing CAT5 cable.
New versions of BASF's Ecovio line are both compostable and designed for either injection molding or thermoforming. These combinations are becoming more common for the single-use bioplastics used in food service and food packaging applications, but are still not widely available.
From Dell / Intel® New Paradigms in Design Work Scott Hamilton, vertical market strategist for Dell Precision workstations, 5/2/2013 5
Early in my career, I worked as a draftsman and remember the days of drawing on vellum with numbered pencils and Mylar with plastic lead. This was a fun experience in the sense that I ...
I've been using workstations for more than 10 years and love finding ways to get more performance from my system. With demanding professional applications that require more power each ...
A lasting memory from my first job as an engineer in an auto assembly plant is standing on hard concrete at six in the morning, vending-machine coffee clutched in hand, listening to ...
For industrial control applications, or even a simple assembly line, that machine can go almost 24/7 without a break. But what happens when the task is a little more complex? That’s where the “smart” machine would come in. The smart machine is one that has some simple (or complex in some cases) processing capability to be able to adapt to changing conditions. Such machines are suited for a host of applications, including automotive, aerospace, defense, medical, computers and electronics, telecommunications, consumer goods, and so on. This radio show will show what’s possible with smart machines, and what tradeoffs need to be made to implement such a solution.
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