This episode is brought to you by Dell Technologies.

The digital twin is perhaps the most important development in computer-aided design since digital rendering. It’s more than a way to digitally represent products and the processes that make them, it’s a parallel engineering world, a place where what if scenarios and experiments can be performed to optimize designs and processes. Digital twin is not only a tool that speeds development in engineering, it’s a vital element of engineering risk management, a way to try things that would be unthinkable in the physical world, with the possibility of a high-value payoff.

Artificial intelligence can offer similar benefits to engineering processes, and is already a critical tool to aid in decision-making. What happens at the confluence of these two important technologies? What are the implications of artificial intelligence operating through the digital twin to change the engineering process?

Joining engineering.com on this episode of The Engineering Roundtable are three experts to discuss these implications:

Panelists:

Todd Edmunds, Global CTO Smart Manufacturing, Edge & Digital Twins, Dell Technologies Global Industries
Jason Nassar, Senior Consultant, Product Management, Dell Technologies Edge Solutions
Pieter Van Schalkwyk, CEO of  XMPro

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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The future is built largely by engineers and designers with the talent and skill to take an idea and turn it into the products and services that enhance life for all of us. Great ideas come from individuals and from gigantic corporations, but the ability to take insight and turn it into marketable products confers a significant advantage on larger corporations. Scale matters, and the meme of the long hours and high stress world of the startup is based in reality.

But does it have to be? What if individuals and small firms had access to the same powerful engineering tools used by multinational corporations, and were freed from the constraints of limited capital and a modest headcount? That’s the promise of cloud connected engineering software, which has implications far beyond simply remote work. 

Joining engineering.com on this episode of The Engineering Roundtable are four experts to discuss he implications of these power tools:

Panelists:

Robin Persiaux,  R&D Design engineer, ACWA Robotics
Susan Coleman, Director of Academic and Startup Programs, Ansys
Mark Birch, Global Startup Advocate, Amazon Web Services
JJ Jones, Global Cloud Business Development Manager, Ansys

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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From early-stage prototypes to scaling operations, learn how startups can leverage Ansys’ expertise and AWS resources to overcome engineering challenges. 

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This episode of The Engineering Roundtable is brought to you by Dassault Systèmes.

The process of engineering design is undergoing a sea change unlike anything seen since the advent of widespread computer-aided design 40 years ago. CAD made rendering digital, but it didn’t fundamentally change the way in which engineers and designers dreamed, developed, and drew parts and assemblies. 

Today, that’s changing. Cloud-based systems allow design software to operate with distributed, fast and sophisticated hardware beyond anything found on a designer’s desk or server room. And that same connectivity allows those designers to collaborate in ways that would be impossible with a conventional design review or engineering meeting. And now, the software itself is taking on some of the design tasks.

Engineering.com spoke with three experts who had notable insight into this fast-evolving environment:

Panelists:

Tim Greenwood, Senior Solution Architect Manager, Dassault Systèmes
Daniel Pyzak, CATIA Mechanical Technical Director, Dassault Systèmes
Kevin O’Donovan, Technology Evangelist

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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Learn more about collaborative design on the cloud.

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This episode of The Engineering Roundtable is brought to you by Autodesk. 

Manufacturing, in America and around the world, is at an inflection point. The unprecedented combination of disrupted global supply chains, new forms of automation and the power of the cloud to connect people and machines everywhere, all the time, is delivering a tectonic shift in the way the world turns raw materials into useful products. The silos that defined design, manufacturing, marketing, procurement and planning, are breaking down, a convergence made possible by new forms of software that handle large quantities of real-time data and turn it into actionable insight.

Joining engineering.com at the Engineering Roundtable to discuss this shift are:

Panelists:

Alex Clemente, Founding Managing Director of Harvard Business Review Analytic Services
Derrek Cooper, VP of Cloud Data and PLM, Autodesk
Shelly Mujtaba, VP of Product Data, Autodesk
Detlev Reicheneder, Senior Director, Business Strategy, Design and Manufacturing, Autodesk

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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Can data and process management adapt to your business?  Learn more about how Autodesk PLM can help digitally transform small shops to large enterprises to be more resilient and agile.

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This episode of The Engineering Roundtable is brought to you by Unity. 

In almost every technology used by human beings, the human machine interface, or HMI, is critical to product performance. Whether it’s an interplanetary spacecraft or a smart phone, mission success and end user satisfaction is highly dependent on the ability of people to access machine functionality easily. For many projects, the HMI can be the pacing item, absorbing a large proportion of developer time and project costs. Development of a great HMI is an art, a science and an engineering challenge, one that requires creativity, careful planning and the right tools.  

On this episode of The Engineering Roundtable, we discusses the importance, challenges and future of HMI development with an expert panelist from TomTom and Unity.

Learn more about Unity for HMI.

Panelists:

Rok Erjavec, Vice President of Engineering, TomTom

Henning Linn, Director Solutions Engineering, Unity

Romano McBride, Senior Technical Product Manager, Unity

Paul Schouten, Design Team Lead, TomTom

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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This episode of The Engineering Roundtable is brought to you by VinZero U.S. CAD. 

Large civil engineering projects, particularly infrastructure projects, have never been more important than in this post COVID-19 era. Global supply chains are shifting, and in America the re-shoring of manufacturing combined with a growing and moving population base means added demands on everything from rural bridge maintenance to large urban housing programs. Building out the 21st century with engineering methodologies that deliver on-time and on budget require the use of sophisticated software-driven tools to manage complexity and deliver value to multiple stakeholders.

Integration of project management, project lifecycle management, design and manufacturing software tools promise to deliver faster, more error proof, more manageable infrastructure projects. Getting multiple stakeholders on the same page has always been difficult, and the same accelerated time-to-market pressures driving American manufacturing also apply to critical infrastructure, which is needed faster than ever before. Is there a single solution to streamline this difficult problem? 

Panelists:

Yvonne Maffia, Senior Market Insight Analyst, TD Synnex Public Sector

Aaron Powell, Solutions Consultant, VinZero U.S. CAD

Dustin Rouse, Chief Engineer, Montana Department of Transportation

Keith Warren, Infrastructure Owner Sales Executive, Autodesk

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

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Digital delivery is achievable with the right technology partner. VinZero U.S. CAD’s experts can assess your technology stack, workflows, assets, pain points and strategic plans. Learn more about how to take advantage of a complimentary Success Planning program today.

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This episode of The Engineering Roundtable is brought to you by Altair. 

In the history of engineering, there are pivotal developments that changed engineering from art to an applied science. The development of standardized and calibrated systems of measurement, the evolution of rendering into standardized technical drawings, and of course the computer. As a computational aid and as a tool to streamline engineering rendering, computers made the modern world possible, but the art and science of engineering is about to undergo a fundamental, seismic shift: artificial intelligence. AI, and more specifically, generative design, promises to change literally everything about engineering, from basic ideation, to rendering, two-part and product development and manufacturing. Industrial automation seeks to replace human muscle power with machines, but the automation of the engineering process itself promises to change the way humanity lives and works in fundamental ways.  

Exascale computing, and widely distributed computing through the cloud allows modern AI driven engineering design software to iterate complex designs millions or billions of times to generate optimized results quickly and at low-cost. And the next generation of generative design (GD) promises to go farther: suggest design, and ultimately create new solutions to existing problems with little or no human intervention at all. GD promises to create the “everything” engineering machine: describe a problem, and get an engineering solution that’s robust, fully simulated, and ready to implement with a very high degree of confidence. That level of sophistication isn’t here yet, but AI and generative design in their current form already shaved weeks and months from development times, and as importantly, reduce error and risk in development programs.

Learn more about how AI and generative design is helping optimize and accelerate products built in today’s factory of the future.

Panelists:

Dr. Ming Zhou, Chief Engineer, Computational Mechanics and Design Optimization, Altair

Tamás Schmidt, CAE Simulation Engineer Specialist, Xplast

Dr. Francesco Trevisan, Additive Manufacturing Engineer, Wärtsilä

Dr. Joseph Flynn, Senior Specialist, Altair

Ujwal Paitnaik, Global Business Development & Strategy Manager, Altair

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com:

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This episode of the Engineering Roundtable is brought to you by Siemens. 

The smart factory has been essential for manufacturing success. Since the dawn of mass production. Traditionally embodied in paper processes and in the minds of manufacturing professionals, modern hardware and software enables production processes to generate, aggregate and process large amounts of relevant data with speed and complexity impossible for human minds to handle in real-time. Success in manufacturing today frequently boils down to a company’s ability to make good decisions based on intelligent use of data aggregated from the shop floor, front office and from the field.  

Learn more about solutions to engineering and manufacturing challenges for small and medium businesses.

Panelists:

Mike Denley, Senior Director of Strategic Programs and Initiatives, Siemens Digital Industries Software:

Mike currently leading the Siemens Cloud Application Solutions Program & Initiatives team. That team helps the development and coordination of strategic key Industrial IoT programs and initiatives to increase and improve outcomes involving product, customers and partners working with Product Management, Research & Development and Strategic Partners. This His academic and industry experience includes graduate and post-graduate work in Total Quality Management, Software Design & Development, Organizational Change, Lean Six Sigma and Business Analytics with a focus in Sustainability.

Rahul Garg, Vice President of Industrial Machinery and Small to Midsize Business Programs, Siemens Digital Industries Software:

Rahul’s multiple roles deliver solutions to help manufacturers develop competitive products and fill portfolio gaps using tools such as software as a service to great effective go to market strategies, as well as business practices that support small and medium-sized manufacturing customers achieve high performance. Rahul holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in computer science and computer engineering. 

Moderator:

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com:

Jim was formerly editor of Canadian Metalworking Magazine and has contributed to a wide range of print and on-line publications, including Design Engineering, Canadian Plastics, Service Station and Garage Management, Autovision, and the National Post. He also brings prior industry experience in quality and part design for a Tier One automotive supplier.

The post Small Factory, Smart Factory: Advanced Systems Boost Manufacturing SMB’s appeared first on Engineering.com.

Model based systems engineering, or MBSE, gives engineering teams the ability to control and manage the vast amount of data generated by the modern design and development processes. It’s effective, and like all sophisticated, software-driven engineering systems, must be implemented correctly for best results. MBSE has applications across multiple industries from automotive to aerospace to electronics. Joining engineering.com’s Jim Anderton to discuss where and how MBSE can streamline complex processes is Siemens Digital Industries’ Todd Tuthill, VP of Aerospace & Defense, Nand Kochhar, VP of Automotive & Transportation, Mark Malinoski, MBSE Solutions Director, and CIMdata analyst Don Tolle.

MBSE is an accelerator for every industry. Learn more.

Panelists:

Todd Tuthill, Vice President for Aerospace and Defense Strategy and Marketing, Siemens Digital Industry Software:

Todd’s engineering background is in systems design with functional engineering with a strong vision for digital transformation. His aerospace leadership career spans McDonnell Douglas/Boeing, Moog Aircraft, Raytheon, and Siemens. His experience encompasses all aspects of A&D programs, including design, model-based systems engineering, software engineering, lean product development, supplier/partner management and program management. 

Nand Kochhar, Vice President of Automotive and Transportation Industry Strategy,  Siemens Digital Industries Software:

Nand joined Siemens in 2020 after nearly 30 years with Ford Motor Company, where he most recently served as Global Safety Systems Chief Engineer.  He also served as Executive Technical Leader, CAE, and as a member of Ford’s Technology Advisory Board. Kochhar’s tenure at Ford also included executive engineering leadership across a range of disciplines including in product development, manufacturing, digitalization, simulation technology development and implementation.  

Mark Malinoski, WW Director of MBSE, Electronics Design Automation Industry, Siemens Digital Industries Software: 

Mark joined Siemens in 2019 with 40 years’ experience in the electronic design automation industry, focusing on semiconductors.  He’s managed product teams within industry leading companies; Advantest, Cohu and Schlumberger. He holds 7 patents  and over the past 5 years, Mark has focused on EDA industry’s adoption of Systems Engineering with model-based tools and methodologies.  He represents Siemens EDA in the SysML V2 standard development and guides Siemens EDA’s planning for SysML V2 adoption. 

Donald Tolle, Director, Systems Engineering & Simulation Consulting Practice, CIMdata: 

Don is an internationally recognized authority on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Don has over 40 years of PLM and CAE/CAT industry experience and has used this hands-on knowledge of industry requirements and technology gaps to guide the development of next-generation tools and processes at SDRC Engineering Services, UGS/Siemens PLM and Comet Solutions. His current area of focus centers on the linkage between the disparate, “loosely connected” disciplines in systems/conceptual engineering with multi-disciplinary performance simulation and V&V processes, based on robust, multi-fidelity model-based engineering methodologies.

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Orbital assembly of large space stations has traditionally been planned and executed by national space agencies and multinational government consortia. Today, new technologies make it possible for private enterprise to launch and assemble large, crew-rated structures into orbit for multiple uses, and to do it profitably.

To combine safety, performance and cost control in these large, complex structures, advanced software must be used to balance the needs of design, simulation, PLM, manufacturing, and other factors to ensure program success.

This roundtable will explore what it takes to design and build the large orbital structures that will allow humanity to truly live in space.

Jim Anderton, Multimedia Content Director, engineering.com

Jim was formerly editor of Canadian Metalworking Magazine and has contributed to a wide range of print and on-line publications, including Design Engineering, Canadian Plastics, Service Station and Garage Management, Autovision, and the National Post. He also brings prior industry experience in quality and part design for a Tier One automotive supplier.

Tim Alatorre, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Orbital Assembly Corporation

Orbital Assembly Corporation is a developer and builder of a gravity simulating on-orbit habitation environments for leisure, commercial and industrial activities. Tim has 25 years of experience in multiple engineering and architecture functions and was previously CEO of California architecture firm Domum. A graduate of California Polytechnic State University in Architecture, he has also served as a planning commissioner and member of a municipal Architectural Review Committee for the city of Rocklin, California.

Roberto Licata, Aerospace and Defense Industry Solution Experience Director, Dassault Systèmes

Roberto has over a decade of experience at Dassault and specializes in model-based systems engineering, design and simulation and since 2018, is responsible for the New Space, urban air mobility and startup innovation companies moving into these sectors.

Eric Neuville, Industry Process Consultant, Dassault Systèmes

Eric is an engineering design and process expert and is a certified CATIA Champion. Eric has 25 years’ experience in CAD and PLM with companies such as the Naval Group and Pratt and Whitney Canada. Eric is active in a diverse series of engineering roles, from user support to training, administration, license management and monitoring, from evaluation of new workbench to VBA scripting and is a member of Dassault’s Community of Experts.

This episode of The Engineering Roundtable is sponsored by Dassault Systèmes.

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