A new control product from Modicon is designed with an open architecture, allowing it, the company says, to fulfill many roles in a variety of automation strategies. Such strategies include: PC-based control, distributed-control systems, and stand-alone PLC systems. Called Momentum, the product consists of devices which interchangeably snap together to form different automation control elements. Flexibility is the system's strength, and Momentum is adaptable to all of today's open, popular field buses and networks as well as network and bus standards of the future. Modicon from Schneider Automation, Product Code 4300.
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Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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