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From 3D printer to practice

2016-01-03

Purdue University has developed a new system that allows a 3D printer to produce functioning products with enclosed electronic and motorized components and customized devices such as a computer mouse molded to a user's hand.

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Assessing a vehicle’s cooling system performance

2017-11-09

Cooling system performance on the 1500AJP Ultra Boom and other JLG vehicles has been significantly improved through the use of CFD software tools.

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Evaluating new forestry machines in a fraction of the time

2015-10-28

Skogforsk (the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden) has funded a KTH research initiative intended to help improve the suspension of forestry machines with the goal of achieving significant productivity improvements. KTH’s mission is to streamline the design process by validating the capability to simulate the operation of forestry machines under real-world operating conditions.

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3D PDF add-on

2017-10-08

A 3D PDF add-on is available to complement and enhance Theorem’s CATIA V5 to Creo View visualization product, part of the company’s Visualize 3D range.

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Concept car to production in six months fits 007’s timeline

2015-11-01

The usual gadgets and an extended chase scenes give the Aston Martin DB10 a major role in Spectre, the latest James Bond movie. “We used things like rapid prototyping and laser scanning, and we went directly from CAD to finished parts. Many components were machined, cut from solids so we did not have to wait for the creation of molds,” said Marek Reichman, Chief Creative Officer at Aston Martin.

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Lockheed Martin determined to keep the F-16 viable

2015-11-08

The company continues to commit and breathe new life into its 40-year old fourth-generation fighter aircraft.

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New 40%-scale wind tunnel increases GM's aero-development capacity

2015-11-11

The new $30 million facility at the Warren Technical Center uses a belt-type moving ground plane to simulate full driving conditions on clay models up to an indicated 155 mph (250 km/h).

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CAE's next leap forward

2016-06-20

As attributes and functions within vehicles become ever more interdependent, the CAE community is finding ways to increase multi-physics simulations and deliver credible multi-domain optimization. New types of engineers are emerging as a result.

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Thermal simulation tool

2016-05-13

CoTherm from ThermoAnalytics facilitates the flow of information between CAE simulation products to streamline CAE workflow, improve simulation time and reduce test time and cost.

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The future of better drones is for the birds

2016-05-31

Stanford engineering professor David Lentink plans to use a new wind tunnel to learn the magic of bird flight and apply it to building better aerial robots.

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Personal air transport drives need for advanced VTOL technologies, standards

2018-11-13

“The future of urban transportation requires close partnership between regulators, cities, authorities, and the private sector. AeroMobil is closely working with cities around the world to establish opportunities to test, develop, and implement routes for safe personal transportation in the sky,” says Jonathan Carrier, vice president of corporate development of AeroMobil in Slovakia.

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Next-gen driving simulator uses Formula One motion control

2017-07-25

Test systems’ supplier AB Dynamics is using proven F1 motion control techniques for its new vehicle driving simulator, with the aim of allowing far more vehicle development in advance of a prototype.

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Dragonfly study yields insight into vehicle autonomy

2017-08-04

A predatory dragonfly’s ability to detect, track and anticipate the escape maneuvers of a juicy target may provide a link to making autonomous driving safer, according to researchers.

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Expect smarter engines, more compact aftertreatment from JDPS

2017-07-22

Dr. Xinqun Gui, manager of technology, control systems and emissions compliance for John Deere Power Systems, considers himself to be “fairly conservative” in terms of his powertrain outlook: “I think the internal combustion engine as we know it today still has a pretty long life ahead.” Even so, his expectations for improvements in engine “intelligence,” aftertreatment packaging, and machine electrification are anything but conservative.

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Software toolkit for HMI development

2015-06-23

Elektrobit releases an easier-to-use toolkit that enables development of multimodal user interfaces with advanced graphics, plus voice-, touch-, and gesture-based commands, for sophisticated human-machine interface (HMI) systems.

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CAE mastery helped Achates Power create its new engine

2017-06-30

Advances in engineering knowledge and CAE led to Achates Power's transformative engine design.

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Tackling NVH one dB per day

2017-05-22

New tools and technologies are helping engineers reduce vehicle Noise, Vibration and Harshness.

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Promise for an electric propulsion aircraft future

2016-01-29

Electric propulsion is on the verge of causing the biggest changes in aviation since the advent of the jet engine.

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Architecture developed for monitoring and anomaly detection of space systems

2014-02-26

Researchers at the University of Central Florida have found that by incorporating analysis and monitoring algorithms such as Inductive Monitoring System, neural networks, and recent advances in deep learning within the architecture’s signal processing system engineers have a flexible and powerful end-to-end data analysis and monitoring system for instrumented remote aerospace hardware.

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CrossControl operator interfaces

2021-09-10

CrossControl operator interfaces