Digital Engineering, June 2016
June 1, 2016
Inside this issue
Robots Un-Caged
Collaborative robots fuel job growth and innovation.
TEST
Did You Hear That?
New tools are emerging that help engineers run more comprehensivenoise, vibration and harshness analysis.
DESIGN
Reinventing Drawing and Drafting for Tablets
Software developers bring back natural drawing to engineers trained on mouse and keyboard.
Whatever Happened to Cloud Rendering?
Five years ago, cloud rendering seemed poised to explode. Now, it seems to have made little progress. What went wrong?
PROTOTYPE
3D Printing with Composite Materials
Make stronger, lighter parts with a variety of additive manufacturing options.
SIMULATE
Thin, Transparent and Tapping into the Cloud
Plastic simulation evolves to include transparancy analysis, GPU acceleration and cloud processing.
ENGINEERING COMPUTING
New Memory Solutions Could Boost Speed
Storage class memory systems could fundamentally change computing performance.
BOXX Workstations Reviews
A look at the APEXX 1 1401 and APEXX 2 2402 systems.
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: SENSORS
Making Sense of Sensors
Bluetooth Smart: an agent of change.
Sensor Power Primer
The new generation of smart, networked sensors requires new methods of power.
Sensors Support New Data-Driven Design Workflows
Looping in-field product intelligence back into engineering workflows gives companies better insight into how to evolve product designs.
UAV Design Challenges: Game On
Sensors are helping engineers address drone operating requirements.
Sensors to Specify & Apply
A roundup of the latest sensors for design and manufacturing applications.
Sensor Fast Apps
Sensor implementations from aerospace, robotics, naval and manufacturing sectors.