Articles and News

Lesedi Nuclear Services, a South African EPC in the power industry, uses AVEVA PDMS, AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Diagrams to optimise its design process on power plant projects.

NMHG’s design engineers use the aPriori software to quickly and easily compare the cost of different product design alternatives and understand the cost impact of different design options.

Automation.com, October 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor It is hard to find another platform with the computing power and rapid prototyping capabilities of LabVIEW coupled with NI hardware. Because it comes at a price, their products are used in demanding industrial automation applications out of the reach of typical industrial controllers.

HSMWorks Aps is a developer of computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software.

VRcontext is a developer of 3D visualization and training software for displaying complex engineering data in the shipbuilding and plant construction industries.

Results for the 29th edition of IMTS 2012 prove the continuing leadership of manufacturing in the overall economy as Show Management reports the strongest results in more than a decade.

The Consortium will focus on providing research on top PLM issues, and to define and set the direction for the PLM industry on topics that matter most to consortium members.

Honeywell's UniSim Operator Training Simulator (OTS) and business support planning tools will help optimize the performance of three thermo solar power plants in Spain.

RapidDraw3D Valve Model Generator allows users to create realistic, to-scale, 3D valve assemblies and export them to any CAD program for use in plant piping diagrams.

EPLAN Pro Panel is an E-CAD solution for control cabinet and switchgear cabinet layout. including automated routing, virtual wiring and individual busbar-system-design in 3D.

Automation.com, August 2012 By Nicholas M. Veikos, CAE Associates Simulating product performance in the virtual world has proven to be a valuable asset to many organizations. The specific topic of this article is finite element analysis, but most of the concepts can apply to your favorite flavor of simulation.

EPLAN has taken over the development and sales rights to Harness Expert, 3D/2D software for wire harness engineering.

CFD helped Ford Racing develop its Fusion race car for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

The worldwide market for Engineering Design Tools for Industry and Infrastructure is presently quite strong in almost all sectors, says ARC.

Downloadable engineering files with integration specifications are available for TECHSPEC Imaging Optics.

Yole Développement says MEMS will see double digit growth for the next six years, with 20% compound average annual growth in units and 13% growth in revenues, to become a $21 billion market by 2017.

Linde uses UniSim Design for the process engineering of olefin, hydrogen and synthesis gas plants, for which it models the complete processes in a single simulation.

Users of Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers now have access to Zero-Max 3D CAD downloads for each of its motion control products.

LEDAS will promote international sales of ASCON’s C3D CAD kernel.

This edition delves into the business of design engineering and describes the ideal design package.