Testing/Simulation

MPM tool helps cut wire harness manufacturing costs With today’s extreme pressure to reduce costs, wire harness manufacturing is the focus of much attention, and Mentor Graphics has responded to this need with its Capital Harness Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) software application. Read full story

Streamlining the airframe fastener management process Vistagy’s SyncroFIT streamlines the communication of fastener data to manufacturing systems. Read full story

Bombardier launches PLM for new aircraft programs Though shy of taking the leap to CATIA V6, the Canadian aircraft OEM put substantial investment in a new PLM infrastructure around V5. Read full story

Airbus investigates virtual testing for high-lift systems Due to the conflicting trends of increasing complexity of systems and drastically reduced development times, virtual testing has become one of the solutions to achieve aircraft system certification. Read full story

Mercury Marine brings PLM ashore and aloft Mercury offers PLM technology and services to a variety of companies looking to improve their product life-cycle management. Read full story

Implementing absolute timing for synchronization in aircraft structural testing Advanced measurement platforms are leading a growing trend in synchronization that reduces cabling, adds absolute time referencing, and optimizes data correlation for large systems. Read full story

'Simulate, then design' emerges as new engineering methodology Focusing on function before form is emerging as a productive design approach. Read full story

Rolls-Royce streamlines jet engine design with Isight While it once took up to 10 years to develop a new aircraft engine, the industry average has now shrunk to about two. Rolls-Royce is working to condense that time even further with the use of Isight and its drag-and-drop capability for creating simulation process flows. Read full story

HyperSizer v6 optimizes design and manufacturability of composites Collier Research recently released HyperSizer v6 structural sizing and analysis software, which integrates with FEA solvers in a continuous, automated iterative loop, conducting trade studies and examining millions of potential design candidates down to the ply—or even element—level. Read full story