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Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
In the midst of an industrial awakening, two American manufacturing entities, Highland Vans and Behlen Manufacturing, have emerged as beacons of innovation and adaptability. Their stories, while distinct in product and purpose, converge on a common narrative: the transformative embrace of digital technologies to redefine the essence of manufacturing.
Highland Vans: Steering Innovation on Wheels
Nestled in the vibrant heart of the adventure lifestyle movement, Highland Vans began its journey with a simple yet audacious goal: to convert ordinary vans into extraordinary homes on wheels. The company, which was birthed in the driveway of its founder, Szymon, has rapidly ascended to the forefront of the camper van conversion market, propelled by an unwavering commitment to precision, customization, and scalability.
The leap from manual craftsmanship to digital excellence was catalyzed by the integration of DELMIAWorks ERP and 3DEXPERIENCE solutions from Dassault Systèmes. This pivotal transition enabled Highland Vans to meticulously design and fabricate bespoke van interiors with unprecedented efficiency and accuracy. By harnessing the power of digital tools, Highland Vans has not only accelerated its production timelines but has also elevated the quality and intricacy of its conversions, setting new industry standards for innovation and customer satisfaction.
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
Electric vehicles are taking over the road, and now they’re making a splash in the water with the introduction of electric jet skis. eSki, one of the world’s first fully electric personal watercraft companies, is aiming to make waves in the jet ski industry with its innovative product.
In this interview, Jack Duffy-Protentis, the founder and CEO of eSki, and Paul Protentis, the CFO and one of the lead investors, discuss their company’s mission to create a more sustainable and cost-effective jet ski experience.
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
Apple has once again pushed the boundaries of innovation with the launch of its latest MacBook Pro lineup. Featuring the all-new M3 family of chips, including the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, these laptops promise to deliver unprecedented performance and capabilities. From students to creatives, coders to machine learning programmers, Apple’s new MacBook Pro is set to revolutionize the way we work and play. In this article, we will dive deep into the details of this groundbreaking release, explore the capabilities of the M3 family of chips, and discuss how these laptops cater to a wide range of users.
 MacBook Pro with M3 enables users to compile and test millions of lines of code in Xcode with even greater speed. The M3 Family of Chips
Apple’s M3 family of chips represents a monumental leap in silicon technology. These chips are the first to utilize the industry-leading 3-nanometer technology, promising faster and more efficient performance. The GPU architecture in these chips is a game-changer, thanks to a groundbreaking technology called Dynamic Caching. This innovation allocates local memory in hardware in real time, optimizing memory usage for each task. The result is a dramatic increase in GPU utilization and performance, especially in resource-intensive applications and games.
Additionally, the M3 chips introduce new rendering features, such as hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing, which were previously unavailable on Mac. These features enhance the visual complexity and realism of scenes in games and other applications.
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Thursday, June 9th, 2022
We recently spoke with John Chawner, Senior Group Leader at Cadence about the company’s entry into computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technologies after many years of being known for its expertise in electronic design automation (EDA).
Cadence has long been a leader in electronic systems design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy for creating innovative software, hardware, and IP solutions.
In turn, Cadence customers are some of the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to complete systems for the most dynamic market applications including hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, mobile, aerospace, consumer, industrial, and healthcare.
Generally, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an aspect of multiphysics system analysis that simulates the behavior of fluids and their thermodynamic properties using numerical models. Cadence’s CFD suite includes application areas such as propulsion, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and combustion. What makes CFD platforms especially pivotal is their ability to adapt to specific instances of additional physical phenomena.
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
Vinay Wagle, VP of Sales and Marketing at CCE, speaks about the company’s latest announcement: an extension that enables designers to start a real-time 3D collaboration session directly from CAD systems
Remote collaboration is an important working process for many designers. However, most screen-sharing apps commonly used today were not built with engineering or CAD in mind. Screen sharing works well for discussing documents or PowerPoint presentations, but collaboration with CAD data has unique requirements. Addressing this need, Michigan-based software company CCE has recently developed EnSuite-Cloud ReVue, an update to its EnSuite-Cloud product, to provide a secure alternative to typical screen-sharing apps for CAD collaboration. Now CCE is adding a new functionality to this solution with the introduction of LiveLink, a set of CAD integrations that enable users to start an EnSuite-Cloud ReVue collaboration session directly from their CAD system. Let’s take a closer look at LiveLink with the help of Vinay Wagle, VP of Sales and Marketing at CCE, who recently gave a video interview on this topic to Sanjay Gangal from MCADCafe.
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
Sanjay Gangal interviews Rani Richardson, Director at CATIA Technical Sales for Light Weight Engineering at Dassault Systèmes and discusses the company’s strategy for additive manufacturing (AM).
SG: To begin, tell us about the state of additive solutions at Dassault Systèmes.
RR: We have developed a solution that contains five pillars for additive manufacturing. We put them into a suite of tools starting with silicone material engineering with the virtual material lab and we are able to certify existing materials or create new ones on the molecular level. Second, we moved to function-driven generative design, which is what I concentrate on where we can create optimal shapes for traditional and additive manufacturing, using topology optimization.
RR: Third, is the process simulation and production planning, where we can actually see what's happening during the print process and make any changes that are necessary for optimizing the process. We move to the global production system with manufacturing execution systems (MES) and what's happening on the shop floor. This includes scheduling all the way through to delivery and everything that occurs in between. The fifth pillar is the 3DEXPERIENCE marketplace where we connect internal ecosystems with external service providers to provide a safe business transaction where you can perform manufacturing or prototyping.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Unique customer value through ABB Ability™ offering of digital solutions combined with Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform
ABB and Dassault Systèmes announced a wide spanning global partnership to offer customers in digital industries a unique software solutions portfolio ranging from product life cycle management to asset health solutions. The two companies will provide customers an end-to-end
offering of advanced open digital solutions, enhancing competitiveness of industrial companies, while increasing flexibility, speed and productivity of their products’ lifecycles, manufacturing and operations.
The partnership will combine the strengths of ABB Ability™ digital solutions and Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, and build on both companies’ strong installed base, deep domain expertise and global customer access. ABB has already adopted the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to model and simulate its solutions before delivering them to its customers. With this partnership, ABB will develop and provide customers with advanced digital twins, enabling customers to run ABB’s solutions and their operations with improved overall efficiency, flexibility and sustainability.
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Tags: ABB, Barnard Charles, Dassault Systemes
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
Brian Dreiling won the MCADCafe Sweepstakes at the 2019 Solidworks World Conference.
He went to school for Mechanical Engineering and after collage he found a job as a test engineer in a company near Fort Collins and has been working there since. As a test engineer he designs and builds production test systems that are used to make sure products work between when they are built and when they are shipped. He does a mix of mechanical design, electrical design, programming, and hands on debugging. He attended Solidworks World to increase his mechanical design skills and see what new technologies are out there or in the works.
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Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Autodesk’s President and CEO, Andrew Anagnost, kicks off AU 2017 with a unique perspective on automation and the Future of Work. Passionate about the topic, Andrew gives you the confidence to embrace this new future, and guest speakers share insights to help you thrive in this new world of working. You are left informed and excited about this future.
SPEAKERS
ANDREW ANAGNOST
Andrew Anagnost is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Autodesk. Anagnost’s career spans more than 25 years of product, business, and marketing experience focused on driving strategy, transformation, and product development and includes positions at Autodesk, Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company, and EXA Corporation. He also completed a doctorate degree at Stanford University and worked at NASA Ames Research Center as an NRC post-doctoral fellow. Anagnost began his career at Autodesk in 1997 and has held a wide range of roles in the areas of marketing, new business development, product management, and product development. Prior to becoming President and CEO in June 2017, he served as Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of the Business Strategy & Marketing organization. In this role, Andrew served as architect and leader of Autodesk’s business model transition moving the company to become a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions provider. Previously, Anagnost held various executive positions across Autodesk. Early in his Autodesk career, he led the development of the company’s manufacturing products and grew Autodesk Inventor revenue to over $500 million. Anagnost is a member of the Autodesk Board of Directors. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the California State University, and holds both an MS in Engineering Science and a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University.
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