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Heavier than air flight has been a technology that has evolved for 120 years, and in that time, practical aviation has developed on two parallel lines: airframes and powerplants. In most cases, engines have been the rate limiting step in aircraft development, despite considerable refinement in piston engine and gas turbine technology, the fundamental operating principles have been the same for decades.

Right now, that’s changing. The development of higher energy density, lighter batteries, and advanced electric motors has brought electric propulsion into the realm of practical use in aircraft, albeit with limitations in range and payload. The same constraints exist in automotive applications of electric technology, limitations which can be addressed with a hybrid approach. Can internal combustion engines be combined with battery electric drive to offer the range and endurance of combustion engines and the lower emissions and low noise of electric drive?

Joining engineering.com on this episode of The Engineering Roundtable are two experts to answer these important questions.

Panelists:

Michael Pereira, Configuration Manager, VoltAero
Roberto Licata, Aerospace & Defense Industry Solution Experience Director, Dassault Systèmes

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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Learn more on how to accelerate aircraft development with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud.

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3D printing, often called additive manufacturing, has been around for over two decades, and in that time, it has evolved from a laboratory curiosity to a prototyping machine, and now to true mass production. For many applications, there is no other way to fabricate highly complex parts, but the perception that 3D printing is strictly a prototyping and short run production technology is very persistent.

Today, there are novel technologies which make these additive technologies the go-to solution, not just for parts which can’t be made any other way, but for parts which can, and are, being made with subtractive techniques such as machining. But which additive technology should you use? What’s the economic breakeven for production runs with your design? Who has the knowledge to guide a designer to the correct technology? 

Joining engineering.com on this episode of The Engineering Roundtable are three experts that answer these important questions.

Panelists:

Donte Wesly, 3D Printing Application Engineer, Hawk Ridge Systems
Justin Hopkins, AMS applications engineering manager, HP Inc. 3D
Jon Toews, Senior Vice President, A3D Manufacturing

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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Learn more about Industrial-grade 3D printing setups designed for rapid high-volume and high-quality prints.  

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In the 122 years of flight, the only thing that hasn’t changed is the air itself. Wood and fabric gave way to light metal alloys, and composites. Piston engines were followed by gas turbines, and today, electric propulsion. Control has evolved from cables and pulleys to hydraulic and electric actuators with software acting as intermediary between pilot and aircraft.

The evolution has been continuous, but many experts predict that we are on the cusp of a step change in aerospace, driven by the confluence of new materials and propulsion technologies and guided by innovative computational techniques, including AI. It is $350 billion global market and it’s projected to double over the next 10 years.

And all of is happening within a new imperative, sustainability.

Joining engineering.com on this episode of The Engineering Roundtable are four experts that discuss this paradigm shift in aerospace:

Panelists:

Aziz Tahiri, Vice President, Aerospace Industry, Hexagon
Dr. Waruna Seneviratne, Director of the Advanced Technologies Lab for Aerospace Systems, Wichita State University’s NIAR
Duncan Smith, Head of Structures and Stress, Hybrid Air Vehicles
Keith Perrin, Solutions Director, Hexagon

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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Download Hexagon’s new white paper, “Sustainability: Aviation’s epic challenge” to learn about the latest digital tools and processes that are driving sustainable innovation for a new generation of aircraft that will enable manufacturers to deliver them at scale.

And, explore Hexagon’s digital manufacturing solutions that helps accelerate this innovation in aerospace.

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Engineering is about change. Positive change, change that advances technology and makes life better for everyone. The pathway between an engineer’s idea and a product rolling off an assembly line has evolved from a pencil and paper, to computer-aided design, and now to software systems which are themselves part of the design process.

Today, the engineer’s toolset is impressive. Rendering, simulation, automatic generation of key documentation, configuration and revision control, IP security, generative design are some of the tools in the box, and today, artificial intelligence promises a revolution that may be bigger than the deployment of computer-aided design half a century ago. Robotics is the key to 21^st-century manufacturing, and unlike the machines of 20 or 30 years ago, today’s industrial automation must work seamlessly with humans, side-by-side. It’s an excellent example of a challenging engineering space with a big payoff for success.

Joining engineering.com on this episode of The Engineering Roundtable are three experts in cloud-based engineering software and collaborative robotics. They discuss how engineers use advanced tools to develop complex parts and processes:

Panelists:

Kim Ferentiuk, Sales and Strategic Account Manager, Robotics & Heavy Equipment, Dassault Systèmes
Michael Mayr, Director, Sales and Business Development, Robotics & Machining Industry, Dassault Systèmes
Dr. Florian Schüssler, Head of Product Development, AIRSKIN

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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Learn how to navigate the changing landscape of the robotics industry. Find out more now.

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This episode is brought to you by IP.com. Please complete the registration form to watch the full conversation.

The nature of intellectual property is changing. For designers, scientists and engineers, innovation can have widely different meanings, from a novel way to combine carbon atoms into a molecule for the pharmaceutical industry, to a control algorithm for an interplanetary spacecraft. Once, the concepts of novelty and innovation were simply defined in legal terms, and the methods for protecting innovation were clearly defined.

Today, it’s more complicated. Not only is the concept of innovation more nuanced, but the very nature of information is also in play. How much of a human genome is patentable? How much of a copywritten algorithm is defensible? Can artificial intelligence be assigned a patent? The stakes and never been higher, and the difficulties in keeping proprietary information away from competitors, have never been more challenging.

Joining engineering.com on this episode of The Engineering Roundtable are four experts to discuss this complex topic.

Panelists:

Jim Durkin, Managing Director, Product Management, IP.com
Ameet Bhattacharya, CTO, IP.com
Joe Manico, Research Scientist, Kodak Moments
Elle Gahl, President & CEO, Shadow Ridge Analytics

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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To learn more about IP.com and their AI solutions for innovation, contact sales@ip.com or visit https://ip.com.

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This episode is brought to you by Dell Technologies.

The digital twin is perhaps the most important development in computer-aided design since digital rendering. It’s more than a way to digitally represent products and the processes that make them, it’s a parallel engineering world, a place where what if scenarios and experiments can be performed to optimize designs and processes. Digital twin is not only a tool that speeds development in engineering, it’s a vital element of engineering risk management, a way to try things that would be unthinkable in the physical world, with the possibility of a high-value payoff.

Artificial intelligence can offer similar benefits to engineering processes, and is already a critical tool to aid in decision-making. What happens at the confluence of these two important technologies? What are the implications of artificial intelligence operating through the digital twin to change the engineering process?

Joining engineering.com on this episode of The Engineering Roundtable are three experts to discuss these implications:

Panelists:

Todd Edmunds, Global CTO Smart Manufacturing, Edge & Digital Twins, Dell Technologies Global Industries
Jason Nassar, Senior Consultant, Product Management, Dell Technologies Edge Solutions
Pieter Van Schalkwyk, CEO of  XMPro

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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Dell Technologies can support your digital transformation efforts. Sign up for a free consultation with Dell experts to see how Digital Twins can enhance your AI infrastructure management.

Want to learn more? Watch Dell Technologies’ Industrial Digital Twin demo video on YouTube.

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The future is built largely by engineers and designers with the talent and skill to take an idea and turn it into the products and services that enhance life for all of us. Great ideas come from individuals and from gigantic corporations, but the ability to take insight and turn it into marketable products confers a significant advantage on larger corporations. Scale matters, and the meme of the long hours and high stress world of the startup is based in reality.

But does it have to be? What if individuals and small firms had access to the same powerful engineering tools used by multinational corporations, and were freed from the constraints of limited capital and a modest headcount? That’s the promise of cloud connected engineering software, which has implications far beyond simply remote work. 

Joining engineering.com on this episode of The Engineering Roundtable are four experts to discuss he implications of these power tools:

Panelists:

Robin Persiaux,  R&D Design engineer, ACWA Robotics
Susan Coleman, Director of Academic and Startup Programs, Ansys
Mark Birch, Global Startup Advocate, Amazon Web Services
JJ Jones, Global Cloud Business Development Manager, Ansys

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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From early-stage prototypes to scaling operations, learn how startups can leverage Ansys’ expertise and AWS resources to overcome engineering challenges. 

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This episode of The Engineering Roundtable is brought to you by Dassault Systèmes.

The process of engineering design is undergoing a sea change unlike anything seen since the advent of widespread computer-aided design 40 years ago. CAD made rendering digital, but it didn’t fundamentally change the way in which engineers and designers dreamed, developed, and drew parts and assemblies. 

Today, that’s changing. Cloud-based systems allow design software to operate with distributed, fast and sophisticated hardware beyond anything found on a designer’s desk or server room. And that same connectivity allows those designers to collaborate in ways that would be impossible with a conventional design review or engineering meeting. And now, the software itself is taking on some of the design tasks.

Engineering.com spoke with three experts who had notable insight into this fast-evolving environment:

Panelists:

Tim Greenwood, Senior Solution Architect Manager, Dassault Systèmes
Daniel Pyzak, CATIA Mechanical Technical Director, Dassault Systèmes
Kevin O’Donovan, Technology Evangelist

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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This episode of The Engineering Roundtable is brought to you by Autodesk. 

Manufacturing, in America and around the world, is at an inflection point. The unprecedented combination of disrupted global supply chains, new forms of automation and the power of the cloud to connect people and machines everywhere, all the time, is delivering a tectonic shift in the way the world turns raw materials into useful products. The silos that defined design, manufacturing, marketing, procurement and planning, are breaking down, a convergence made possible by new forms of software that handle large quantities of real-time data and turn it into actionable insight.

Joining engineering.com at the Engineering Roundtable to discuss this shift are:

Panelists:

Alex Clemente, Founding Managing Director of Harvard Business Review Analytic Services
Derrek Cooper, VP of Cloud Data and PLM, Autodesk
Shelly Mujtaba, VP of Product Data, Autodesk
Detlev Reicheneder, Senior Director, Business Strategy, Design and Manufacturing, Autodesk

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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Can data and process management adapt to your business?  Learn more about how Autodesk PLM can help digitally transform small shops to large enterprises to be more resilient and agile.

The post For Manufacturing, Cloud Connectivity Means Better, Faster and Lower Costs, Right Now appeared first on Engineering.com.

This episode of The Engineering Roundtable is brought to you by Unity. 

In almost every technology used by human beings, the human machine interface, or HMI, is critical to product performance. Whether it’s an interplanetary spacecraft or a smart phone, mission success and end user satisfaction is highly dependent on the ability of people to access machine functionality easily. For many projects, the HMI can be the pacing item, absorbing a large proportion of developer time and project costs. Development of a great HMI is an art, a science and an engineering challenge, one that requires creativity, careful planning and the right tools.  

On this episode of The Engineering Roundtable, we discusses the importance, challenges and future of HMI development with an expert panelist from TomTom and Unity.

Learn more about Unity for HMI.

Panelists:

Rok Erjavec, Vice President of Engineering, TomTom

Henning Linn, Director Solutions Engineering, Unity

Romano McBride, Senior Technical Product Manager, Unity

Paul Schouten, Design Team Lead, TomTom

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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