DeltaWASP -Whitepaper

DeltaWASP is the new line of clean design 3D printers. Hot pad, controlled temperature ambience and amortized bowden guarantee a controlled shrink of the material and better results in the final print.Accurate and reliable on all materials with pieces up to 40 cm in height with closed chamber and hot pad.

Accurate and reliable on all materials with pieces up to 40 cm,DeltaWASP 20 40 Turbo2 is the powerful, versatile and fastest delta 3D printer you need everyday.

DeltaWASP 20 40 Turbo2 is available in 2 versions:

 withSpitfire Red Extruder with Spitfire LT Cartridge with 0.4 mm diameter steel nozzle (*)

 withZEN Dual Extruder with 2 ZEN LT Cartridges with 0.4 mm diameter steel nozzle

 The DeltaWASP 20 40 Turbo2 with Red Spitfire Extruder is compatible with the Clay Kit 2.0 with the LDM Extruder for the printing of ceramic and fluid fluid materials.

With a new integrated 32bit board of industrial technology. It is presented with a supply system which can support 2 high power extruders. The new Turbo (Turbo 2) introduces a new carriage-sliding system improved in speed and accuracy. The room has been better insulated to reach temperature suitable with the fast 3d printing of technical materials – furthermore it has a cool system for the engines and the boards and a kinematics for high temperature. It’s introduced with the second optional extruder.

LDM WASP extruder for fluid-dense materials, easy ability to combine with all WASP 3D printers. Ideal for clay, ceramic, porcelain, allumina, zirconia and advanced ceramics. Developed to support digital craftsmanship and self productions.

Deltawasp 2040 Turbo 2 is :

 Rapid,precise and reliable with every material.

 Resurrection system to resume the Print in the event of Power Failure

 Suspended Bowden for excellent Print quality

 Changeable Nozzle

 Hot Chamber for uniform cooling

 Steel Base Plate

 Supports extruder for fluid-dense materials you can use clay, porcelain, etc.

 Industrial guides on aluminum slides for excellent motion control

Other enhancements:

 NEW BOARD OF INDUSTRIAL QUALITY, WITH WI-FI MODULE (COMPATIBLE WITH INDUSTRY

4.0 SUBSIDIES)

 NEW SLIDING-SYSTEM ON BEARINGS

 NEW MECHANICS OF HIGH TEMPERATURE RESISTANT ARMS

 ENGINE COOLING SYSTEM TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE

 SUSPENDED CUSHIONED BOWDEN

 END FILAMENT SENSOR

 FREE ZETA SYSTEM

One stop shop - Technical Knowledge Management

Growing difficulties associated with accessing and leveraging technical knowledge are rooted in several ongoing trends : Demographics, exodus of data coupled with pace of innovation and technical content being curated, managed and published by many information providers.

The ROI in Technical Knowledge Management platform described, comes in many dimensions, ranging from consolidated research spending and productivity gains by engineers, to faster new product introductions and increased use of information, greater market insights and reduced risk.  Read more

PTC is a leader in PLM for discrete manufacturers

PTC Named a Leader in PLM Solutions for Discrete Manufacturing PTC comes out ahead in Forrester’s 20-criteria evaluation of PLM solution providers.Among seven evaluated providers, PTC’s Windchill 11 was top-ranked in the current offering category.

“PTC is a great choice for discrete manufacturers looking for an involved vendor with IoT capabilities that can get their PLM solution up and running quickly and flexibly.” For more details read the pdf

Augmented Reality Strategy

Augmented Reality,a set of technologies that superimposes digital data and images on the physical world, promises to close the gap between digital world and physical world and release untapped human capabilities. Read more

Instek White paper

Applying 3D cooling channels by DMT cannot only manufacture complex shaped 3D shaped printed parts but also significantly improve quality. Read more.

IHS : Engineering Workbench

IHS Engineering Workbench

uniquely meets the information and decision-making needs of today’s technical enterprise. By providing a single point of access to critical information resources and tools to help analyze and leverage essential knowledge, Engineering Workbench accelerates research and helps technical professionals solve problems, faster and better, to deliver competitive advantage.

ENGINEERING &PRODUCT DESIGN

IHS Engineering
Workbench

Accelerate Technical Research & Problem-Solving with a Unified Knowledge Platform

The C-suite today is looking to the technical enterprise to directly contribute to growth, cost optimization, and risk management objectives. To stay competitive, engineers need access to internal and external reference content, paired with analytical capabilities and problem-solving tools tailored to their specific research needs and workflows.

Traditionally, engineers have had difficulties accessing the information and tools they need to solve problems quickly, make informed decisions and support their organizations’ objectives. In fact, research shows that, on average, engineers consult 13 internal and external information sources to solve any given problem.

Consequently, engineers spend 40% or more of their time just searching for information. Then, once they find the information, these professionals typically lack the analytical and problem-solving tools tuned to their specific workflows, making it difficult and laborious to derive the best insights and solutions.

A Knowledge Platform for the Technical Enterprise

IHS Engineering Workbench™ is a breakthrough solution that enables knowledge professionals to rise above these information challenges, beginning with a platform that links external and internal content from many disparate and unstructured sources. Applying advanced search technology and content analytics to federated information, Engineering Workbench quickly surfaces precise answers from among the disparate data.

IHS overlays this integrated content with analytical and problem-solving capabilities designed with the technical professional in mind, accelerating decision-making. As a result, product teams deliver innovations to market ahead of the competition, researchers discover more efficient processes sooner, and engineers solve problems faster – driving growth, profitability and risk mitigation.

IHS Engineering Workbench incorporates groundbreaking search capabilities that connect engineering and other technical professionals across the enterprise with the must-have content they need to complete their projects, including standards, eBooks, patents, journal articles, reports, design principles, and more, as well as internal content sources, fostering knowledge retention and discovery.

With powerful analytics that extract answers and insights from these disparate content sources, Engineering Workbench breaks down barriers to informed decision -making.

Additionally, Engineering Workbench provides advanced research, problem solving, and analytical tools, such as root cause analysis, technology and patent trend analysis, consumer insights, or intelligence. These tools have been designed by technical professionals, for technical professionals, so they inherently support the daily workflows of engineers, scientists and other knowledge workers.

Value Delivered

For Engineers, Scientists, Researchers and Related Professionals: Discover solutions to technical challenges quickly to accelerate R&D and problem solving, and minimize rework in the design cycle.

For Engineering and Research Program Management: Consolidate information sources to make your engineering teams more efficient and collaborative, while reducing costs and simplifying processes.

For Corporate Librarians and Standards Managers: Increase utilization of knowledge sources and improve relevance of technical answers provided to engineering and R&D teams.

For Executive Management: Deliver new innovations to market faster to grow revenue; increase engineering productivity and prevent redesign/rework to improve profitability; and ensure problems get solved faster to mitigate risks.

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SAMSUNG Electronics -Moldex3D

SAMSUNG Electronics Introduced Moldex3D As The Standard CAE Tool For Injection Molding
Customer Profile

Founded in 1938, SAMSUNG has maintained a mission statement that responds both to its own change, and to new developments in the world: “Economic contribution to the nation,” “Priority to human resources,” “Pursuit of rationalism.” Each slogan represents significant moments in SAMSUNG’s history, reflecting different stages of the company’s growth from a domestic industrial leader into a global consumer electronics powerhouse. (Source: www.samsung.com)

• The Challenge:Adapt to the ever-changing and more challenging product design requirements.
• The Solution: Reactive Injection Molding (RIM) is widely applied to provide an encapsulation that tolerates higher working temperature, and provides high reliability in thermal, mechanical and electrical property.
• Key Benefits:Through Moldex3D, the design parameters and process conditions can be verified, eliminating physical prototyping and tedious trial-and-error.

There is no doubt that SAMSUNG Electronics is maintaining its market leadership in the global market (DRAM, SRAM, TFT-LCD, Color monitor, CPT & CDT, VCR, flash memory, Microwave, CDMA Handset, and so on), and SAMSUNG had sold 86.6 millions of its mobile phones in 2004, accounted for 12.7 percent share of the global market. Visual Display Group is one of top profit making departments. SAMSUNG Electronics maintains the top position in global market share of Color TVs, monitors. As one of few electronics companies with profound competencies in both A/V and IT, SAMSUNG have the foresight and willingness to make industry-leading investments in the future.

VPD (Virtual Product Development) is a popular topic nowadays. However, to achieve this goal not only requires professional developers, but suitable CAE software to benefit the collaborations. What we commonly understand are to evaluate the mechanical reliability, thermal management, electro-magnetic compatibility, and etc; but producibility should be considered as the key, since simulation tools for fabrication help to predict what will possibly occur during the production stage, which could save lots of possible expenses on trouble-shooting and the yield improvement.
Moldex3D can predict the short shot region
Mobile phone is always the focus in consuming electronics industries. In order to win people’s heart, all components need to be designed as fancy and exclusive among numerous new models. However, this demand is usually not easy to reach because the new design would be much more complex than traditional ones and is more challenging in the current molding technology. In this study, the short shot region is almost identical to the molded part, which goes on to prove the accuracy of Moldex3D. It guarantees the simulation result is valuable especially for exploring a revolutionary design.

Actual Sample	Melt front

Cable encapsulation
Reactive Injection Molding (RIM) is widely applied to provide an encapsulation that tolerates higher working temperature, and provides high reliability in thermal, mechanical and electrical property. However, the resin is thermosets, of which chemorhelogy is more complex than thermoplastics. Through Moldex3D, the design parameters and process conditions can be verified, instead of physical prototyping and tedious trial-and-error.
Moldex3D scrutinizes each development stage for Samsung, ensuring the production quality
Through the introduction of the practical studies above, these cases demonstrate that Moldex3D possesses talented integrity for various purposes, widely from product conceptualization to prototyping stage. Moldex3D should definitely be in the list if you want to expand the VPD simulation tools to reach the optimum in such competitive business environment.

Demonstration of an Effective Design Validation Tool for 3D Printed Injection Molds (3DPIM)

Demonstration of an Effective Design Validation Tool for 3D Printed Injection Molds (3DPIM)

Injection molding, the process of injecting plastic material into a mold cavity where it cools and hardens to the configuration of the cavity, is one of the world’s most popular manufacturing processes. It is best used to mass produce highly accurate, and often complex, end-user parts.
To obtain a comprehensive and accurate assessment of a part’s functional performance or to run the safety tests on electrical or mechanical components, injection molded parts must be produced using the actual materials and injection molding process of the final production part. Therefore, 3D printed injection molds (3DPIM) are increasingly adopted to create prototype parts to detect issues in the part’s form, fit, function and validations(/certificates) if needed.
These molds are far less expensive than their steel (hard) counterparts with shorter lead time, sometimes up to 90%, but dedicated analysis tools for 3DPIM are not yet available. Therefore, Stratasys and Moldex3D joined together to perfect 3DPIM solutions with upfront simulation predictions. Using both solutions, one can develop the production tool much more efficiently with better results. Furthermore, customers can increase the longevity of the printed tool, improve the design and understand the process better.


WHAT STRATASYS CAN DO
3DPIM are able to create a prototype for a fraction of the cost and a matter of days compared to the weeks-long lead time associated with traditional tooling processes. For example, the price to create a small, straight-pull mold ranges from $2,500 to $15,000 with delivery usually taking 10 days to four weeks. This is an investment that most companies find difficult to justify for a few dozen test parts. 3DPIM have the capability to produce five to 100 parts in the same thermoplastic as production parts. They can be constructed in one or two days for a fraction of the cost of soft metal or steel tooling. Currently, 3DPIM are mostly used with thermoplastics injected up to 300 °C, with some limitation on part geometries and size relative to traditional metal tools. However, they show great benefit to customers where this method can be applied.
“Moldex3D is a powerful tool to help evaluate the moldability of 3D printed injection molds. Combining Stratasys with Moldex3D, customers have an enhanced solution for validating and testing the parts and molds for successful production.”

Benefits of Using 3DPIM:

• Average time savings of 50% - 90% for lead development
• Average cost savings of 50% - 70%
• Functional evaluation with production plastics
• Efficiency gains and automated tool-making with few steps
• Early validation on part performance, mold design and thermoplastic selection

The printed mold needs to bear the resin being injected at high temperature and high pressure. Moreover, high shear stress exists and can ruin the mold when ejecting the part. The amount of successful shots depends on the injected material (flowability, viscosity and melting temperature) and the mold geometry. To optimize the performance of a particular mold geometry, it recommended for users to follow the Stratasys design guidelines (TAG – Technical Application Guide [1]). This document information will help 3DPIM users to:

• Evaluate the mold with a printed replacement
• Revise the printed mold design such as the gate locations or number of gates
• Use metal inserts for critical features

WHAT MOLDEX3D CAN DO
Moldex3D is a process CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) simulator that evaluates the effect of material properties, process conditions and part/mold design on the process dynamics and part quality. The mold filling, packing, cooling and post-molding warpage analysis provide valuable information in the design phase as well as in the trouble-shooting of the existing process/ design. Moldex3D also predicts the process characteristics during the injection molding cycle and shrinkage behavior of the molded part according to the selected material and process conditions. It helps to quickly evaluate, verify, and further optimize the design parameters.
Fig. 1 - True 3D numerical simulation technology.

Moldex3D simulates the entire injection molding process using true 3D solvers, thus, there is no need to manually simplify geometry models for the simulation. For 3DPIM users the “Moldex3D Professional Package” or “Moldex3D Advanced


Package” is the most suitable package for 3DPIM defect prediction and design optimization (Fig. 2).

Fig. 2 - The simulation process of Moldex3D.
Moldex3D can generate full 3D solid mesh with enough boundary layers intuitively to guarantee prediction accuracy. After solid mesh generation, users can easily define process conditions and follow the basic operation procedures to perform the analysis. According to the analysis results, part/mold dimensions and layout can be optimized considering the rheological, thermal, and mechanical properties.

USING MOLDEX3D TO DETECT POTENTIAL 3DPIM DEFECTS
The product in this showcase is a test part designed by Stratasys® to test several common design features that appear in injection molded parts while using a printed mold (i.e 3DPIM process). Past experience indicates feature cracking is a critical issue which has to be avoided to ensure product quality and prototype mold life requirements. Stratasys applied Moldex3D to predict potential flow-induced defects and cracking. This showcase demonstrated the value of early defect diagnosis for improving 3DPIM performance (Fig. 3).

Fig. 3 - The 3DPIM with towers
Challenges

• The towers are heated and softened due to low thermal resistance, and tend to break during injection or ejection (Fig. 4).
• The mold surface temperature of the specific area is significantly higher after part ejection.

Fig. 4 - The towers tend to break off after 2 to 6 shots.
Solutions
The molding condition data are provided as follows:

Part	ABS Terluran GP-35
material
3DPIM material	Digital ABS
CUSTOMIZED 3DPIM MATERIAL PROPERTIES
Maximum machine	80 MPa	Packing pressure:
pressure		20 MPa
Filling time	2.4 seconds	Cooling time:
		70 seconds
Packing time	2.5 seconds	Mold-open time:
		100 seconds
VP switch	98%

Moldex3D Designer BLM (boundary layer mesh) and MCM (multiple component molding) analysis technologies are utilized to observe the flow behavior and deformation of 3DPIM. In this case, the 3DPIM of core and cavity molds are set as two “inserts” of a plastic mold in Moldex3D analysis (Fig. 5). We then can apply Moldex3D Core Shift analysis to predict the insert deflection and stress results caused by non-uniform pressure distribution during the filling stage (Fig. 6).

Results
The comparison of simulated melt front and a short shot sample from real molding at 1.24sec (Fig. 7) demonstrates the feasibility of using Moldex3D to evaluate flow behavior inside a 3DPIM. The tower roots are under higher von Mises stress by the unbalanced flow fronts around the towers, implying greater stress subjection which may easily lead to fracture. We can clearly observe the towers broke off at the same locations in real molding (Fig. 8).
Comparison of the simulated mold temperature distribution and thermal image from the real molding further validates the accuracy of Moldex3D thermal analysis. The red area indicates elevated 3DPIM surface temperature

Multibody-Dynamics

Assuming that parts of a dynamic assembly act as purely rigid bodies is like assuming that the earth is flat: The truth won’t be known until the assumptions are challenged. There is always an element of risk involved with challenging the status quo, but, luckily, using ANSYS Flexible 

Dynamics technology is less risky than falling off the edge of the earth. When challenged with prototyping a new mechanical assembly, most engineering departments turn to a rigid dynamics software program, and for good reason. The advantages of simulating an assembly as a collection of rigid parts connected by joints are undeniable: It is much faster, more design ideas can be investigated in the same amount of time, and a product development team can be more productive. But this time savings comes at the expense of insight, and, sometimes, what isn’t known about a new design can come back to haunt a well-meaning team.

Unknowns can include:

• Will our assembly survive the first cycle, or will one of the parts buckle, break or deform so severely that the system locks up?

• Will the assembly vibrate so much that nobody will  buy it?

• Will our warranty department have to deal with the big, expensive problem of material fatigue?

• Is this a huge career-limiting mistake that our design team can’t collectively afford to make?

To gain the insight required to answer the above questions (and many others), part and joint flexibility needs to be included in the simulation.

Rigid dynamics simulation can demonstrate how quickly an assembly’s parts are moving, how fast the parts are accelerating or decelerating, and what the forces are at the joints between the parts at any time during the dynamic transient.  The total solution time for many rigid dynamics  simulations is often measured in seconds, because the number of degrees of freedom is low and all parts are assumed to be infinitely stiff. This fast solve time makes rigid dynamics extremely attractive to those with looming deadlines.

On the other hand, flexible dynamics provides these same part velocities and acceleration data, plus complete deformation, stress and strain data. While this is the information needed to really understand the design, total solution time is longer. Because of this, relying on flexible dynamics in the early stages of design development has never been commercially viable.

Smart engineers have been trying to combine the benefits of the fast solve times of rigid dynamics with the complete performance information that comes only from running a flexible FEA simulation. Several methods have been developed over the past 20 years with varying degrees of success.

Rigid Dynamics Loads to Static Simulation Method

The most basic and most widely used method of combining the benefits of rigid dynamics with those gained by using flexible system modeling is to transfer loads from a rigid dynamics run and use those loads on a structurally static system. This marriage of dissimilar technologies has some pros and cons.

Pro

• Dynamic loading on parts is captured accurately, so there is no need to estimate how far to scale up a static load to approximate a dynamic load.This widely practiced approach is sometimes  conservative, and sometimes it is not.

• Static structural simulations are some of the most efficient FEA-based solutions that accurately model flexibility.

Con

• The process forces the engineer to choose the transient time points at which to transfer to the
structural static simulation.

• Using this method, it is extremely easy to overlook the worst-case loading combinations for all but the simplest assemblies, so the wise engineer using this method applies a very large margin of safety when relying on results.

Craig–Bampton Method

A more sophisticated technique of combining rigid and flexible benefits is the Craig–Bampton method. Using this technique, the flexibility of a system is captured via a model–dynamic solution. The mode shapes and frequencies, or eigenvalues and eigen vectors, are then fed to the rigid dynamics model so that part flexibility is accounted for during a transient. While less of a forced marriage than the previous technique, the Craig–Bampton method is also blessed with pronounced strengths and weaknesses.

Pro

• A modal analysis is one of the most efficient of all dynamic simulations.

• The rigid dynamics reduced-order model gains flexibility at the lowest computational cost, and this has made the method popular with those requiring additional simulation fidelity.

Con

• The method is inherently limited to linear responses due to its reliance on modal analysis results. 

This means it is not capable of accurately modeling:

– Anything other than linear materials: no material plasticity, hyperelasticity or viscoelasticity is possible
– Real-world nonlinear contact, with or without friction and or changing contact status
– Large deflection

• The method is complicated and consumes much engineering time. Little has been done to automate, or at least streamline, the linking of the modal results with the rigid reduced-order model, likely because of the inherent limitations of the Craig–Bampton method itself.

• Design iterations are painful. Because there is significant manual interaction and data reading, writing and translating, it is nearly impossible to keep up with changes to a 3-D CAD model. Load transfer from rigid dynamics simulation model (top) to static structural model (bottom)

• Financial cost is typically very high because two expensive programs must be used, often from different software companies, and these programs are typically run by two different engineers who have been trained on one system but not both.

Rigid and Flexible Dynamics Method

The most modern method of combining the benefits of rigid and flexible dynamics is to create a general-purpose software system that can be used to model full-rigid dynamics with reduced-order models or a full-flexible dynamics assembly, or any combination thereof. For this method, an engineer uses reduced-order models in pure rigid dynamics and is able to keep pace with rapidly evolving design proposals because of the fast solve times afforded by the explicit solver. To gain further insight, the rigid model is modified with the addition of flexible component(s), and a flexible or rigid and flexible system is analyzed. While some software suppliers have pieces of the rigid and flexible dynamics method, only ANSYS offers this type of system — and it has been in commercial use for nearly two years. To consummate the relationship between rigid and flexible dynamics, the ANSYS Rigid Dynamics  product is used as an add-on to ANSYS Structural, ANSYS Mechanical or ANSYS Multiphysics software.

Pro

• A single geometry model is used for both rigid and flexible dynamics. This model is typically an easy-tovisualize
3-D model from ANSYS DesignModeler software or a CAD system.

• The same user interface is employed for both rigid and flexible dynamics, so users of one have very little to learn to be able to run the other.

• Models can be converted from rigid to flexible in minutes in as few as four mouse clicks.

• Design iterations are easy. Change the CAD model, click update, and resolve the rigid, rigid and flexible, or full-flexible model.

• The limitations of the Craig–Bampton method do not apply: that is, you are able to model nonlinear contact as well as material non linearities at the same time, if desired.

Con

• While creating a rigid and flexible model with contact and material non linearities is easy to do, sometimes these non linearities cause conflicting convergence targets for the solver. Overcoming these conflicts and getting a converged solution can require some expertise in nonlinear simulations.

• Solver requirements are higher than either of the previous two methods, which has always been the nature of a full-nonlinear transient dynamic simulation.

However, new time integration schemes and parallel processing or high-performance computing can be very effective at reducing CPU demands. Because some brave soul challenged the assumption that the earth was flat, falling off the edge of the world is less of a concern than it was centuries ago. As the state of the art in engineering simulation software continues to improve, and more engineers begin to use rigid and flexible dynamics during product development, failed product designs will become less of a concern as well.

White paper on ThingWorx Studio

ThingWorx Studio

ThingWorx Studio, along with ThingWorx View, delivers a graphically rich user experience where information is superimposed over a physical product through one, universal browser application.
Through the use of these AR development and delivery tools, what was once a world of simple applications shifts
towards full product experiences that enable end users in any industry, to better create, service, and operate their
products.

Why ThingWorx Studio?

Simple, Powerful and Scalable – AR for Everyone

• Rapid ‘codeless’ authoring of AR experiences
• Global service, managing access to all enterprise AR experiences
• ThngWorx View displays 2D, 3D AR and specific device level information for all “things” through one universal application
• ThingMarks uniquely identify each individual discoverable object with ThingWorx View

Connecting AR with the Enterprise

• Leverage engineering data from tools like Creo or other 3rd party 3D CAD tools inside your AR experience
• Add additional animations and sequences created in Creo Illustrate

 

Open Platform for Democratized AR Development

• Broad support for devices, platforms, and 3D geometry
• Extensive enterprise system integrations such as ERP, SCM and CRM systems
• Quickly connect to IoT objects within ThingWorx or 3rd party device clouds

 

ThingWorx Studio Components

ThingWorx Studio democratizes the creation of AR experiences for specific objects. It is a highly efficient and easy-to-use authoring tool for creating use-case specific experiences, which are delivered through ThingWorx View.
Experiences built in ThingWorx Studio enable a composite view of digital and physical product data, dashboards, and alerts presented in 2D, 3D, and AR - without the need to write code.

 

Experience Service

Experience Service is at the heart of providing contextualized information within AR experiences in the enterprise. It manages the experiences and delivers relevant, contextualized information and analysis for each uniquely identifiable object in the enterprise. Experience Service includes an instance of ThingWorx, making connecting your IoT solutions to AR experiences seamless.

 

ThingWorx View

ThingWorx View solves the challenge of knowing which application goes with what object. It is a new way for users
to experience their smart, connected world. ThingWorx View is a single application that universally recognizes
objects through uniquely identifiable ThingMarks, and produces rich mobile user experiences of seamlessly  connected real-time product data. This information is delivered via usecase specific experiences enhanced by 3D
product navigation and AR interaction. ThingWorx View is the web browser for recognizable objects in the enterprise.

 

Augmented Reality and the Enterprise:

Augmented reality presents both interesting opportunities and challenges for developers trying to deploy applications with AR at scale. Creating AR apps at scale has been historically difficult, limiting the reach of how much and what can be developed.

Typically, the development of AR applications supported sales and marketing efforts to help companies sell more products or differentiate themselves in the minds of consumers. However, there are new possibilities for AR in the enterprise to improve service, operation and engineering/manufacturing of products.

The challenges executing against these new opportunities include: how do you create AR experiences at scale, connect those experiences with real-time contextualized information and deliver it in a way that is both immersive, easy to understand and ultimately actionable for a user?

 

Application vs. Experience

Rather than creating many standalone, platformspecific app with ThingWorx Studio, solution builders can use the authoring tool along with ThingWorx View to create and dynamically deliver an “experience” – not just another app. This solves the problem of creating an app for every object. Instead of potentially creating millions of apps, you can have one app that can recognize an object and serve up immersive experiences to a user whenever and wherever it is needed.

ThingMarks

ThingMarks are uniquely identifiable marks on a specific object that are universally recognizable by ThingWorx
View. ThingMarks need to be recognizable to ThingWorx View in order for the appropriate experiences and
corresponding data to be delivered for the specific thing and use case. If a user sees a ThingMark on an object they
should know that it is discoverable by ThingWorx View.

 

How Does It Work?

1. Objects are connected with enterprise system data and external data sources inside of Experience Service.
2. AR experiences are then created using ThingWorx Studio.
3. The experiences are then stored inside of Experience Service and recalled and populated with the correct, contextualized information for each object through visual recognition of the ThingMark via ThingWorx View.

 

Key Features

• Rapidly create AR experiences without writing code
• Extend the value of engineering CAD data with use in AR
• Support for multiple 3D file formats including Creo View, STEP, IGES, STL, OBJ & VRML
• Automatically optimize and reduce 3D data for high performing AR experiences
• Intuitive 3D navigation and interaction with objects
• Create UI layouts for mobile devices with interactive components
• Add sensor displays, which connect to live IoT data from physical objects
• Re-use animations sequences for instructional AR experiences
• Place ThingMarks for unique object recognition and tracking via ThingWorx View
• CSS editing to customize look and feel for experiences
• Connect to Thing Model inside ThingWorx for IoT object definitions and data
• Support for hands-on developers via JavaScript extensions
• Preview experiences prior to publishing to users
• Seamless integration between ThingWorx Studio and ThingWorx View for quick experience publishing and consumption

ENTERPRISE PLM ON CLOUD

PLM in the Cloud is the Best Approach  

  

Cost: No Maintenance, management, or hardware costs

Scalability: Quickly scale capacity and pay only when PLM is needed

Low risk: Secure, high performing and available

Financial : Subsciption model allows for pay-as-you-go

ROI: Faster time value with rapid out-of-the-box deployment

Agility: Flexibility based on business needs

Collaboration: Distribution teams are more connected during the product development process

To know more read at Why PLM on Cloud.pdf

Electromagnetics : Realize Your Product Promise

ANSYS electronics solutions help you design innovative electrical and electronic products faster and more cost-effectively than ever before. Our industry leading electromagnetic field, circuit, systems and multiphysics simulation software fully automates the design process so you can better understand how your products behave. You can quickly optimize your design using simulation instead of wasting time building and testing costly prototypes. So whether it's a computer chip, a circuit board, a cell phone, an electronic component in an automobile or an entire communications system, ANSYS software can help you design better products. 

Simulation Assisting with the Adoption of Internet of Things through the Development of Smart Medical Implants

How Simulation is Assisting with the Adoption of Internet of Things Through the Development of Smart Medical Implants.Digital health is taking healthcare by storm  and is expected to reach $233.3 billion by 2020, driven particularly by the mobile health market. Connected medical devices and associated services are perceived to be able to offer safer  and more effective healthcare. Novel connected medical device examples include Saluda’s  closed-loop neuromodulation system for pain management, EBR’s wireless pacing system and  St Jude Medical’s wireless-enabled pacemaker – all examples of implants with wireless connectivity.

A key challenge for medical device designers is to understand  and optimize the communication between the device and the  receiver. Pioneering companies like Cambridge Consultants were

early adopters of engineering simulation to model the behavior of  medical devices and their communication components, together with  the surrounding environment – and particularly ‘through-body’ communication. In this webinar, we will discuss the growing importance of connectivity and the necessity of using computer-based modeling to enable this critical technology.

Cambridge Consultants will also present a case study that highlights the use of computer modeling to quantify the impact of different body morphologies on implant radio performance. An understanding of these coupled with use case and  end user morphology will define if the radio performance is incredibly successful or  marginally adequate.

Windchill 11: The Smart, Connected PLM Platform

CIMdata Commentary

Key takeaways:

• Over the years, Windchill has grown in breadth, depth, and flexibility to support the growing complexity of PTC’s customers’ products

• ThingWorx technology is transforming Windchill into a smart, connected PLM platform by enabling integration and mash-ups of data created and maintained within PLM and other environments

• Windchill 11’s role-based applications and HTML5 user interface are designed to democratize PLM and make it more usable to an expanded community of users

• PTC is committed to cloud-based delivery of its products and also announced new subscription licensing

PTC announced the release of Windchill 11—a solution that they state delivers “Smart,

Connected PLM” to better support developing, delivering, and supporting products and
solutions in today’s world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and systems of systems. Jim
Heppelmann, PTC President and CEO, stated that “IoT is PLM” and that PTC is developing
its products and services to better enable its customers to develop and support smart,
connected products that will drive the future.

Brian Shepherd, PTC EVP Enterprise Segments, stated that IoT is changing competition,
changing companies, and changing products. Product development processes are changing
and PLM must change to support and enable it. New products and solutions must be
connected and collaborative, and are becoming increasing complex. Furthermore, these
issues are transforming industrial companies into being software and analytics driven. Mr.
Shepherd stated that to help their customers meet these challenges PTC designed Windchill
11 on four themes as illustrated in Figure 1 and described below.

Thus, PTC has a new evolution of their solution wheel, keeping the lifecycle and adding key

characteristics of Windchill 11:

• Smart—role-based apps, improved search functionality, and IP protection

• Connected—connected quality, Performance Advisor, and requirements traceability

• Complete—BOM management and transformation, and support for Creo 3.0 breakthroughs

• Flexible—cloud deployment, subscription pricing, and SaaS PLM

Kevin Wrenn, GM of PTC’s PLM Segment, highlighted 5 new capabilities and 5 major improvements in Windchill 11 and stated that one of PTC’s objectives is “Making Windchill purpose-built for companies that make smart, connected products.”

Role-Based Applications (new) are purpose-built applications (“apps") designed to be highly intuitive and context-driven to provide users with smarter PLM access (e.g., providing just the data that impacts their role) to better enable them to make more timely and accurate decisions. Customers can more easily add new applications as they are developed and can also include IoT data as well as data from other systems for use within the apps based on the mash-up technology from the ThingWorx acquisition. These new apps will be released over time under the PTC Navigate name with the first being Navigate View. For current PTC users, these new role-based apps will run on Windchill 10 version 10.1 M40 and later, so a migration will not be required to leverage these new capabilities. PTC’s shift to a platform and app architecture will allow customers to put new solutions into production without upgrading the underlying platform, enabling a quicker time to value. CIMdata thinks that these role-based apps will better enable casual PLM users to access and work with information managed by Windchill 11. This continues PTC’s efforts to democratize PLM and make it accessible to more non-engineering and technical personnel.

Connected Quality (new) is designed to improve business performance by providing information processes with smart, connected product data and help increase the speed and accuracy of quality analyses. The objective is to expose quality data throughout an organization and improve new product designs by creating visibility into fielded product performance and learning from a product’s operational behavior. One of the new capabilities is the ability to mash-up quality data and machine operational data. CIMdata believes that this is a very good use of ThingWorx technology to enhance and expand new capabilities within Windchill.

Requirements Traceability (new) is improved by coordinating product changes across requirements, hardware designs, and software designs by integrating PTC’s Integrity ALM solution using a combination of ThingWorx technology and the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) standard. Users will be better able to understand the impact of requirements changes on a product’s Bill of Materials (BOM), and track and manage requirements throughout the product lifecycle. While requirements management remains within the domain of PTC Integrity, the tighter integration of Integrity and Windchill will help PTC’s customers manage the growing complexity of their products.

Performance Advisor (new) is available to provide deeper insight into how Windchill 11 is

being used and its performance under various loads. That information can be used to improve both the end user and administrator experiences. Windchill is now itself a connected smart product, enabling rapid and proactive support. Customers can analyze performance across users and benchmark themselves against other companies that are using Windchill using performance data provided by PTC in a protected, secure environment that preserves customers’ anonymity. CIMdata will be interested to hear how customers respond to this capability. PTC stated that 60% of Creo customers have adopted similar functionality introduced previously. CIMdata believes that it has the potential to help companies identify opportunities to improve the performance of their PLM solution and better plan their PLM expansion strategy.

PLM Cloud and New Subscription Pricing (new) adds flexibility to Windchill deployments. Both enable companies to add resources quickly and cost effectively to better meet the needs of the changing needs of their projects and programs. IT overhead can be reduced by using the cloud options including fully hosted SaaS. PTC primarily uses Amazon Web Services to deliver their hosted services but other options are available including country specific hosting. Current customers can migrate existing customized solutions including integrations onto the cloud and leverage PTC’s experience to streamline administration of their PLM environment.

Windchill Search (enhanced) is now a multifaceted search capability improved to power better information reuse and to reduce the time users spend searching for data. PTC worked with customers to build out this capability. It combines their Windchill PartsLink classification search with traditional attribute search. Users can leverage keywords and filters in an Amazon- or eBay-like search paradigm rather than the simpler Google paradigm.

Bill of Material Management (enhanced) is designed to manage a complete, multidimensional BOM including engineering, manufacturing, and service elements. It incorporates improved visualization capabilities, part or item centric support, variant logic sharing with ERP, and a more flexible change management functionality.

Bill of Materials Transform and Compare (enhanced) includes a completely rewritten and
streamlined HTML5-based Windchill MPMLink visual user interface designed to ease BOM
transformation from Windchill to ERP. It supports plant-specific attributes on the MBOM, associativity at the part and occurrence level, and the ability to perform conformity analyses between EBOMs and MBOMs. It supports parallel design and manufacturing planning to enable faster time to manufacturing and reduce errors in planning and production.

Manage Creo 3.0 Breakthroughs (enhanced) including Design Exploration Extension (DEX) and the ability to create alternative designs in parallel. Using DEX, it is easy to extract selected elements from product structures to conduct trade studies or examine other design approaches. Once evaluation is complete the appropriate designs can be fully released for downstream processing.

Advanced IP Protection (enhanced) provides support for security labels checking and the display of security labels in structure components. These and other security improvements are designed to enable companies to increase collaboration internally and across their extended supply chain while maintaining the IP protection they and their partners require.

Other areas of enhancement delivered by Windchill 11 include Creo Elements Direct Management updates, automatic project updates, NPI process improvement, a redesigned query builder, a new version of System Monitor, and expanded Customer Experience Management Quality module capabilities.

Matt Cohen, EVP Global Services and Partners, discussed how PTC wants to help their customers extract value from PLM. He described PTC’s Value Ready Deployment (VRD) methodology for quicker production startup that takes into account a company’s specific requirements. VRD is generic today, but will become industry focused over time. The initial industry will be medical devices followed by high-tech and automotive.

PTC stated that their backlog of cloud business is large. They have a target of 30% of new deployments to be on the cloud, but think it will take 24 to 30 months to get that many customers to migrate. They hope to double the number of seats from a stated current count of 1.5 million to 3 million over the next 3 years. They expect much of this growth will be in the mid market with companies with $250 million to $1.25 billion in revenue, primarily in the medical device and high-tech industries. These are aggressive targets from segments that have been traditionally reluctant to invest in cloud-based PLM.

CIMdata thinks that Windchill 11 furthers PTC’s expanding support for IoT and the development of smart, connected products that become components in systems of systems. It includes purpose-built applications to better democratize PLM and expand the number of users of Windchill. The inclusion of purpose-built tool sets for IoT producers reinforces their commitment to IoT.

PTC stated that Windchill 11 has been in development for five years and they have started to fold in technology and functionality obtained through recent acquisitions. PTC is continuing to incorporate acquired technology within Windchill and other products, e.g., the mash-up functionality from ThingWorx is beginning to be used extensively within Windchill. The use of these capabilities provides PTC with opportunities to enhance both the user experience and the overall capabilities that Windchill 11 delivers. Additional Windchill 11 capabilities related to augmented reality for in-service parts, etc., will be built on the Vuforia acquisition. (PTC showed a short demo at the event and the augmented reality capabilities were interesting.)

CIMdata believes that Windchill 11 is an excellent step forward for PTC and we are pleased to see them making effective use of the technologies they have recently acquired. About CIMdata
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