Engineering curriculum’s role in shrinking the skills gap

Companies are having significant difficulties filling open engineering and manufacturing positions. They’ve experienced a rise in open positions over the past decade, and the demand to fill these pos…

Entwicklung und Produktion von Medizingeräten mit Effizienz und Konformität – Agil und sicher

Editor’s Note: An English version of this article, ” Development and production of medical devices with efficiency and conformity – agile and safe,” will be published soon.

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Changing the shipbuilding technology conversation

As the editor-in-chief of Digital Transformations, I have the chance to highlight the fascinating work my colleagues do, and I also get to see the responses our customers have to their work. One rece…

Why the engineering skills gap is so worrisome

As students near the end of their university education, they dream about their first jobs and where their career might lead. The ideal job will match their passion and skill set in an exciting challe…

Digital shipyards: How to maximize investments in a modern fleet

Changing the course of a ship that weighs more than thousands of tons takes coordination and collaboration. So does shipbuilding. But to meet the needs of today’s ship buyers, shipyards themselves ha…

Digitalization in marine engineering and the future fleet

The Dream Chaser® faces a tough mission. Once completed, the world’s fastest “Space Utility Vehicle” will be taxiing passengers and goods to and from the International Space Station at speeds of over…

AGCO uses digitalization to help farmers feed the changing world

AGCO uses digitalization to help farmers feed the changing world

By designing 80 percent of its assembly processes at one site, and then reusing these plans worldwide, AGCO is improving its speed to market, and ultimately, is making farmers more productive.

Newport News Shipbuilding launches the digital shipyard

Newport News Shipbuilding launches the digital shipyard

Newport News Shipbuilding is using Siemens software to help steer the Ford class aircraft carriers on a new course of digital transformation.
With the goal of creating its first “paperless” ship,…

Shipbuilding 4.0: the digital thread in shipbuilding technology

In December 2016, the U.S. Navy increased its current shipbuilding goal from 308 to a staggering 355 ships, so shipyards are being tasked with adding 18 vessels to their current production schedules …