If you’re a small- to medium-sized business, you may have looked into product lifecycle management before and decided it wasn’t for you- Read on. A good PLM system can help you keep track of design and associated files, their variants, and their revisions. It can even manage processes like change … [Read more...]
Design Simulation: More than just Finite Element Analysis
In the last couple of years, many companies have begun to add simulation tools to their design process. Simulation lets you explore design concepts and determine their real world behaviour, allowing concepts to be refined when minimal costs have been incurred. Once a model has been developed the … [Read more...]
Getting Started with Creo Simulate
PTC Creo Simulate offers extensive simulation capabilities, allowing design engineers to analyse and optimise both parts and assemblies. This means that you can fully investigate the structural, thermal and motion behaviour of your designs under real-life circumstances. The process of analysing … [Read more...]
Announcing PTC Mathcad Prime 3.1
On Monday 2nd March, PTC announced the release of Mathcad Prime 3.1. With the new features in this version, you can better connect your engineering calculations to other applications and processes. This release introduces a new, enhanced integration with PTC Creo. Users can embed and edit a PTC … [Read more...]
Piaggio adopt Zuken’s E3.Series for Electrical and Cabling Design
Piaggio Group, the Italian leader of the European powered two-wheeler market, has adopted Zuken’s E3.series to support increasing cabling complexity and volume and to enhance their electrical design efficiency and quality. E3.series is Zuken’s powerful electrical CAD tool for electrical wiring, … [Read more...]
What is ECAD?
Have you ever wired a plug with a kitchen knife because you've not got a screwdriver available? Or hammered in a nail with an adjustable spanner? It gets the job done but it's not ideal. There can be many times in product development where a similar situation arises. Managing product data using … [Read more...]
Introducing the PTC Creo Design Exploration Extension
Typically, a designer is only able to explore 2 or 3 design alternatives during the concept design phase, yet according to recent research: 92% of companies say they would benefit immensely by exploring more design alternatives during concept design. 85% of companies agree product success … [Read more...]
Enabling a Smart, Connected World
We live in a smart, connected world. The number of devices connected to the Internet recently surpassed the total number of humans on the planet and, according to industry reports, we’re accelerating towards 50 billion connected products by the end of the decade. In this new world all manner of … [Read more...]
Zuken launches E3.Harness Analyser
E3.HarnessAnalyzer is a powerful tool for viewing and analyzing harness drawings in the standard HCV container data format, which combines KBL (physical data model) and SVG (vector graphics) data. The tool supports efficient collaboration through powerful analysis, redlining, and version compare … [Read more...]
Unfolding Sheet Metal with PTC Creo
One of the more commonly used materials used in manufacturing is sheet metal. One of the primary benefits of sheet metal is that is can be fabricated or bent and shaped into nearly any shape or thickness. The sheet metal industry is huge. Today there are 12,300 companies worldwide employing … [Read more...]