Category: 3D Printing

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As a proud Altairian for more than 30 years, I’ve seen a lot of transformations in product development: The growth of high-fidelity system-level simulation to drive design, reduce test and improve product performance. Topology optimization to generate and refine structures beyond the … Read More

This is a guest post by Gabriel Dämmer, research associate at Festo and the Institute of Polymer Product Engineering at Johannes Kepler University. Combining additive manufacturing (AM) with structural optimization can result in functionally integrated and stiff but lightweight structures. … Read More

“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”  – Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947)  Today, when I see a white car on the road, I can hardly tell what the exact color … Read More

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a short piece on my experience of working with schools across the UK for the Shell Bright Ideas Challenge, an open competition where school teams create ideas for future power generation solutions. I recently had … Read More