MEASUREMENT & INSPECTION New digital tools with 3D capabilities, new ways to capture data sources help keep engineers current
Building simulation tools for non-programmer types
Bruce Morey Contributing Editor
sophisticated simulations used to verify their functionality, products as complex as airplanes and automobiles live their early conceptual lives in a digital world. Increas- ingly, the factory systems used to create them are doing likewise.
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significant trend in the last decade in manufacturing and engineering can be summed up in a simple phrase—more digital. From CAD designs to
Digital manufacturing’s rise will become
ever more prevalent as computing gets more and more powerful. New data sourc- es, such as from the Industrial Internet of Things and 3D scanners, allow higher fidel- ity and accuracy in factory simulations. Easy-to-use factory simulations are a key
to wider adoption. “We believe strongly that engineers should be spending their time solving im- portant problems for their organization and not being programmers,” said Robert Kranz,
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Easy-to-navigate user interfaces, with fa- miliar drag-and-drop components from pre- loaded libraries, are essential elements of today’s digital manu- facturing simulations.
Image courtesy Visual Components North America
March 2017
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