Automation aims to standardize industrial operations and bring overall efficiency to today’s production lines. Such gains, however, may come with considerable effort, as engineering teams must ...

Maximilian Holland, research associate, and Marion Früchtl, head of cross competence field, Fraunhofer Institute for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology (IGCV) Figure 1: The design of a ...

Computer-aided engineering capabilities continue to evolve and expand as the increasing power of desktop computers lets software vendors develop more powerful software. At the same time, the ...

When The MathWorks introduced Matlab technical-computing software more than 20 years ago, many of the first users were control-system designers. Anyone who had laboriously inverted matrices by hand to ...

Many designs involve multiple engineering domains. For example, hybrid vehicles balance engine performance with emissions limits; UAVs balance thermal limitations on their batteries with ...

Recognizing the limits of traditional CAD for creating and controlling highly complex designs, a new effort has been launched to combine 3D modeling, simulation, and manufacturing processes into one ...