Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Nicole Hemsoth
DDM for Forearm Crutch Application a Winner
October 26th, 2011
Students from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell win the top spot in this year's Society of Mechanical Engineers (SME) annual direct digital manufacturing competition for an innovative hand grip that attaches to forearm crutches and sports an integrated iPod controller ...
Running FEA Pre-Processing, Analysis and Post-Processing in One Design Environment
October 25th, 2011
IronCAD, LLC, and NEi Software team up to provide NEi Nastran for IronCAD.
2012 Could be a Tough Year for IT Orgs
October 24th, 2011
Looks like 2010 is going to be a banner year for mergers and acquisitions. Small- to medium-sized IT shops are especially vulnerable to the chaos and confusion that often accompany these corporate maneuverings.
Back to the Future!
October 21st, 2011
NCMS's Jon Riley sees the future at the 5th annual MODSIM World Conference and finds it belongs to a new generation of high school students who will be tomorrow's engineering innovators.
How To Make a Safer, More Comfortable Firefighter’s Mask
October 21st, 2011
What's your head shape? Are you oval like an egg, round like a pumpkin, or maybe more like a turnip? Your cranial configuration literally becomes a burning issue if you happen to be a firefighter. In addition to gloves, ...
Report on the Subject of Manufacturers
October 19th, 2011
In 1791, America's first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, put forth his grand plan for industrializing the United States. In his "Report on the Subject of Manufacturers," Hamilton rejected the then common assumption that America could prosper with ...
Airbus Looks to HPC-as-a-Service to Power Engineering Simulations
October 19th, 2011
Airbus doubles its supercomputing power with HP's Performance Optimized Datacenters (PODs).
Make It in the UK: Brits Target the World
October 18th, 2011
In the UK's heartland, Sheffield City Region is positioning itself to become the manufacturing hub of the world.
Intelligent Factories Are Coming Soon
October 17th, 2011
Fraunhofer scientists design a "living factory" to respond to changes with limited human interaction.
Direct Digital Manufacturing: A Technology Whose Time Has Come
October 14th, 2011
3D printing, a technology that has been in use for several decades, is part of a broader movement known as direct digital manufacturing (DDM) that could forever change the way we make things. We're not quite at the stage ...
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