Design

Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced the immediate availability of Simcenter System Analyst, a collaborative solution that allows for the creation of industry-specific applications to drive system simulation models. Simcenter System Analyst helps deploy system simulations throughout an entire company, expanding model usage to all levels of users, and helping ensure model continuity without changing the internal processes.

Intelligent Motion Control (INMOCO) has announced an update to the MotionDesk programming environment for the ORION motion controller from ORMEC. The update to version 3.6 introduces a number of new features, but perhaps importantly brings support for Windows 10, enabling users to take advantage of the increased security for PCs delivered by Microsoft’s current operating system.

Kollmorgen has introduced the next generation of Motioneering, the company’s innovative servo sizing tool. Motineering was introduced more than 20 years ago, the first tool of its kind, to help mechanical design engineers find the ideal motion products to build into their machines. 

Mitsubishi Electric is offering its Guided Operator Solutions (GOS) as a self-assembly plug and play flexible automated picking system, reportedly making it possible to achieve perfect production line assembly tasks every time.

As manufacturers across a broad range of industries look to optimise batch management, ease of control implementation and recipe functionality is a key concern. In-line with this requirement Progea’s Movicon.NExT SCADA software now provides advanced management modules that make it far easier to create and edit complex batch processes.

3D printing is already revolutionising the world of design engineering and manufacturing, from aerospace through to the automotive and medical industries. Yet many UK companies, especially small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs), are still reluctant to adopt this technology, often due to cost. This is where scalability comes in. Here Chris Elsworthy, MD and Lead Mechanical Engineer, CEL-UK explains why a scalable network of small 3D printers is what today's design engineers need.

Advantech has announced the launch of its high-end SOM-5899 series COM Express Type 6 Module designed with 8th and 9th Gen Intel Core H-series processors. Compared with previous generations, the SOM-5899 is enhanced with six cores for better multithreaded performance in compute-intensive applications.

In 1880 the first movie cameras were developed by Thomas Edison and William Dickson. The seed for video surveillance had been planted. During World War 2, miniature portable cameras appeared, making covert surveillance possible for the military. Shortly after, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) was first used in Germany to monitor the launch of V2 rockets. And the rest, as they say, is history. But the history of surveillance is far from over.

British Rowing boss Andy Parkinson believes brains not brawn will keep his team on top of the Olympic medal table in Tokyo next summer, as his sport embraces the 'Moneyball' revolution. Having partnered with US-based data analysis firm SAS in 2014, British Rowing is at the forefront of that trend as it tries to win its fourth straight Olympic rowing regatta.

Someone, somewhere, must be throwing one hell of a party. In the last few years the number of cyber-attacks has exploded - this year 55% of firms have reported attacks, up from 40% last year. Here Andy Wakeley, Customer Channel Marketing Manager at Schneider Electric looks at the correlation between cyber attacks and the role of the design engineer.