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Pushing the boundaries of traditional milling

04/01/2013

Chris Bentley is managing director of Mach One Engineering, a company that specialises in the manufacture of precision engineered components and assemblies. A core customer base is the satellite communications business for whom it manufactures aluminium 4G broadcast amplifier casings.

Simulation lifts design exercise to a higher level

04/01/2013

A Norwegian university research project is using computer models to predict the performance of complex offshore materials handling equipment. In the short term, the work is helping designers pick the best components for the job; ultimately, the aim is to automate more of the design process.

A collaborative tool for mechatronic system designers

21/11/2012

Hydraulic and pneumatic fluid power technology has streamlined manufacturing processes, and these days fluid power transmission and actuation systems can be customised to meet the needs of a host of different applications. Ken Christie describes an engineering software tool that can help designers to model and ultimately simulate these systems to a high degree of accuracy before committing to hardware prototyping.

PLM and ERP should be collaborators, not competitors

11/10/2012

Success in business is usually about collaboration – between customers and suppliers, between companies offering different areas of expertise, between teams. The aim is to make two plus two equal rather more than four. Inside individual companies too, success is normally about people and systems working together to common purpose to produce more than the sum of the parts.

VR helps researchers understand molecular processes

14/09/2012

The University of Sheffield’s Krebs Institute Structural Biology Group (SBG) has recently installed an ActiveWall virtual reality (VR) system and is using Virtalis’ own VR software enabler for PyMOL* (a widely used 3D molecular visualisation application) both to visualise and interact with molecular data in spectacular stereoscopic 3D.

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Pushing the boundaries of traditional milling

Simulation lifts design exercise to a higher level

A collaborative tool for mechatronic system designers

PLM and ERP should be collaborators, not competitors

VR helps researchers understand molecular processes