Automotive manufacturing and autonomous vehicles

Automotive manufacturing has been happening for a long time, but when most people think of automotive manufacturing, they imagine a moving assembly line. The moving assembly line revolutionized how v…

How the future of flight changes product lifecycle management

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong’s televised moonwalk transfixed the world. People couldn’t believe what they were seeing. A spacecraft had safely transported two astronauts 360,000 kilometers (223,6…

Industrial-scale additive manufacturing: challenges and potential

Additive manufacturing is one of the most promising opportunities associated with Industry 4.0, the much-discussed fourth generation of manufacturing that will be dominated by intelligent automation,…

Expand design space exploration with intelligent automation

What if your product development team had a genie in a bottle that could pop out and optimise virtual prototypes every time your team tried something new?

No highly trained optimisation sp…

Manufacturing smart products without smart people?

By: Josh Ray and Alex Allison 

Everyone wants to be on teams that break new ground, like the teams at Zipline, a company that builds pilotless aircraft that are used to deliver vital …

The biggest autonomous car software challenges

The automotive industry is trying to figure out how software and hardware will work together in autonomous cars, and they’re looking to companies with experience in electronic design automation to ma…

The future of flight has already taken off

A confluence of new technologies is transforming the aerospace industry. The trends they’re driving herald the prospect of space tourism, unmanned delivery drones and new aircraft designs, along with…

Three Ways Manufacturing Can Fix Its People Problem

By: Josh Ray and Alex Allison

Every October, thousands of U.S. manufacturers open their doors for Manufacturing Day, hosting tours and demonstrations in hopes of sparking interest in manuf…

Expect to see more negative driverless car technology coverage

An unfortunate accident involving an Uber autonomous car has put autonomous cars back in the headlines.

This time, driverless car technology is in an unflattering light.

This in…