Festo has developed an online tool to help companies assess their readiness for Industry 4.0 adoption. Called Industry 4.0 Quick Check, it enables companies to identify their current Industry 4.0 maturity level and what their next training and development priorities should be.
EPLAN’s Data Portal, which provides access to downloadable data and drawings for hundreds of thousands of components, has now added a user rating function.
3D Systems have installed 72 3D printed dragons at The Great Pagoda at Kew – completing the Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) restoration of this UNESCO World Heritage site. Bringing the dragons back to life required a unique combination of research and reverse engineering by the company’s On Demand Manufacturing team to enable rapid digital production of the parts.
Ploughshare Innovations, the technology transfer organisation for the UK Ministry of Defence, makes available to industry the A3S - the world’s fastest 3D microphone array simulation software.
Maplesoft has announced a new release of MapleSim, the advanced system-level modeling tool.