Advances in software and digital tools
The aerospace industry is setting itself up for a massive conjunction of need for industrial capacity to produce parts in the near future.
Verisurf Software said it appointed Tara Mitchell as business development manager for the Americas.
A conversation between Contributing Editor Kip Hanson and CEO of EOS, Marie Langer.
The COVID-19 pandemic clearly proved challenging to the manufacturing industry in myriad ways. Now, as nations and industries begin to navigate their way forward as restrictions are lifted, manufacturers have an opportunity to put into practice some lessons learned.
Reverse engineering is becoming multifaceted and complex. The key drivers: new metrology sensors and more capable software, enabled by ever more powerful and cheaper computing.
Applications for flexible hybrid electronics in aerospace and defense exist in environmental monitoring, biomedical assessment, security, communications, energy generation and storage, computation, supply chain management and asset sustainment.
Artificial Intelligence combined with endless cloud computing resources means more machine involvement and a faster progression to end-to-end automation for manufacturing plants.
Feature-based Product Line Engineering refers to the engineering of a portfolio of related products using a shared set of engineering assets, a managed set of features, and an automated means of production.
As manufacturers embrace the “new normal,” advanced technologies will set organizations apart from the field.