In today’s competitive markets, companies must respond to market demand instantly and find ways to speed time to market in order to survive. Across industries, design and manufacturing engineers need ...

Any flat metal with a thickness of 0.150 to 6mm (0.006 to 0.25”) is known as sheet metal. These sheets are used to form a variety of parts and products using various metal forming techniques. Before ...

A new process used to update the Chevrolet Malibu for the 2014 model sounds more like the plot of a sci-fi movie than anything tied to designing cars. To refresh the Malibu’s interior and exterior, ...

How do the world’s greatest minds come up with their groundbreaking ideas? Well, there’s Thomas Edison. He famously tested over a thousand materials before landing on the right filament for the ...

Engineers who get too hung up on perfecting a prototype often lose sight of the bigger picture and waste precious development time. Here are a few ways you can speed up your prototyping process to get ...

Chris Harrison, a computer scientist and the director of the Future Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon University, is working at the cutting edge of UI. Innovative projects that he and his team have ...

Fans of the odd and the unique at auto shows and conceptual deliveries galore will be glad to hear Ford will be unveiling a new bit of advanced technology that's said to "revolutionize" such ...

Even though you may have the latest technology and capabilities, sometimes a design requires “old-fashioned” methods. A major automobile company needed a variety of springs, stampings and wire forms ...

A prototype is an early version of a product from which future versions are developed. Engineers and product developers often create these test versions of a new product, service or device before ...

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