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 | Fans & Blowers: Optimizing Flow (June 2008)
Appliances have issues. Flow and thermal issues to be
exact. The movement of air, water, and other fluids at proper temperatures is
vital to every appliance. Adding the ever-increasing demand for efficiency and
environmental controls yields complex interactions that can determine the
success or failure of a new or updated product.
by Jeff Waters
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 | Software: Easier Exchange of Ideas (Sept. 2007)
Design
engineers constantly juggle multiple, competing demands. Add more functionality
to a product, but make it smaller. Improve the appearance, but reduce
production costs. Enhance safety and meet regulatory requirements without
slowing design. These are only some of the challenges that design engineers
face as they work on appliances, from large cooling systems to compact consumer
electronics devices.
by Rak Bhalla
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 | Software: A Strategy for Materials (Sept. 2007)
When
managers, engineers, and materials experts from leading international manufacturing
organizations meet at the Materials Strategy Forum in Detroit this month, they
will be pondering what clothes washers have in common with aerospace engines,
why heating and cooling units are like medical devices, and the similarity
between automobiles and power tools.
by Stephen Warde
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 | Controls & Sensors: Quick Code (July 2007)
Splashy
graphics and colorful images. Layer upon layer of screens. Text that is easier
to read. More interesting fonts, tactile effects, animated icons and richer and
more detailed graphics. Today's software and hardware make the creation of these effects easier than ever.
by Larry Adams
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 | Electronics: Embedded Linux (June 2007)
By
the Spring of this year, about 20 million Linux-based mobile phone handsets had
been delivered to the market worldwide. This striking achievement occurred
despite many experts all around constantly dismissing the idea that embedded
Linux could play such a role in the market. “Linux is too big, it’s too slow
and it certainly isn’t real-time, so it can’t possibly be a realistic
solution,” they all said. But the fact is, through the efforts of the open
source Linux community and commercial Linux suppliers such as MontaVista, Linux
took the market by storm.
by Jim Ready
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 | Quality & Standards: Beyond Reverse Engineering (May 2007)
Like technology itself, the labels we use to describe
technology-driven processes are fluid, a function of a particular time, place
or stage of development. Even if we use a computer primarily for word
processing, we don’t call it a word processor anymore. A term such as turnkey
CAD, prevalent two decades ago, is now as dated as groovy or right on!
by Ping Fu
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 | Fluid Handling: Frugal Flusher (April 2007)
The Denali Flushometer is a unique flush valve in that it
delivers a fixed volume of water independent of the position of the restriction
on the rolling diaphragm that is randomly installed at various positions during
the valve assembly. The innovative flush valve was designed by Johnson Design
with the help of Flomerics’ EFD.Lab CAD-integrated computational fluid dynamics
(CFD) software, which enabled engineers to solve design problems with software
rather than hardware prototypes.
by Dustin Borg
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 | Software: Beyond the Surface (Sept. 2006)
Like a fashion model who is also a member of MENSA, 3D computer-aided design supports the argument that first impressions never tell the whole story. Frequently people are so enamored with the 3D visuals that they forget to look deeper for the real value of this approach.
by William M. Gascoigne
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 | Software: Multidiscipline Simulation (Sept. 2006)
Two of the biggest issues facing appliance design engineers today are cost reduction and customer satisfaction. Excessive defects in the development of appliances and variation in materials and manufacturing processes generate unexpectedly high costs.
by Jeff Louie
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 | Fans & Blowers: Modeling Methods (June 2006)
There is a question often heard when training customers in the company’s turbomachinery design software. Is this a good fan? The answer they get is always this. It could be. Unsurprisingly, they often find the answer unsatisfying.
by Mark R. Anderson
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SOFTWARE: Functional Features (Sept. 2005)
In the past 3D CAD systems were slow, difficult to master and offered design engineers little flexibility for managing parametric relationships in their designs. Systems now on the market, however, require little training, in most cases a timeline of one to three days, and provide features that enable engineers to design their products more quickly, test their designs’ geometry for defects, as well as collaborate with customers and offsite members of the design crew in real time via the Internet before constructing a prototype.
by mary lowe
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SOFTWARE: Conversion Streamlines (Sept. 2004)
Using SmarTeam as one of the primary ingredients, Sub-Zero/Wolf has realized a successful implementation of 3D design and product lifecycle management (PLM) that has improved collaboration between departments, significantly reduced time to exchange of engineering data and compressed new-product development cycles by as much as 50 percent.
by Richard Babyak
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SOFTWARE: Virtual Clay (Sept. 2004)
Researchers from the Virtual Reality Lab at the University at Buffalo have developed a new tool for transmitting physical touch to the virtual world.
by Richard Babyak
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