Manufacturing

Increasingly, engineering organizations are distinguishing between concept design and detailed design activities. By creating a Release-to-CAD milestone before committing to detailed design, engineers are fostering innovation, lowering product development costs, getting to market faster, and creating higher quality products. In this white paper, Chad Jackson, President of Lifecycle Insights investigates Release-to-CAD and the technological and cultural shifts that enable it.

When working with expensive airframe assemblies a lot of time is spent avoiding errors. The cost of drilling or fastening mistakes is very high -- an incorrectly placed hole or fastener can be disastrous, and a machine collision can take production offline for days or even weeks. Learn how machine independent off-line programming software can be used to avoid drilling or fastening mistakes by visualizing and simulating NC program code. Also learn how the flow of information from a CAD assembly to programming and simulation software produces optimum processes.

3M improves its Design Process and Gains Manufacturing Confidence with Objet 3D Printing. 3M was facing a rapid increase in design projects. This required a more systematic and streamlined approach to the design, review and verification of new products, prior to molding and manufacturing. Therefore, instead of outsourcing their projects they decided to bring 3D printing in house.

AS9100:2009 Revision C (AS9100C) is a specific international standard for the increasingly competitive aerospace industry. These standards were developed by the IAQG to produce a harmonized platform to ensure that all operations in the supply chain are adhering to best practices. This AS9100C white paper will focus on the following critical areas relevant to the standard: • Revision C & The New Changes: Review the background associated with the changes, as well as an outline of the most significant additions, deletions and revisions to the standard. • Informational Overview of AS9100: For organizations new to the standard, this section will outline what the standard entails and how it might affect your business. • Five Key Areas of Focus in the Aerospace Industry: these five areas are continually where the IAQG and OEMs focus.