Year: 2017

Meet the Indian Teen and his Invention, Kalamsat – Smallest Satellite for NASA

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India again broke a global space record by launching world’s lightest satellite weighing 64 grams, called Kalamsat, developed by 18-year-old Tamil Nadu student Rifath Sharook and his team.

Named after former Indian President, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Azad, Kalamsat was the only Indian payload in the mission. A NASA sounding rocket flew the tiny satellite, and the lift-off was from the space agency’s Wallop Island around 3 PM (IST).

In conversation with Mission Director, Srimathy Kesan, she said that the total flight time of Rocket was 240 minutes and Kalamsat got separated from the rocket in 125 minutes after lift-off. While learning about the satellite’s post-launch, we also came to know that it fell into the sea. After recovering, NASA will send it back to the team for decoding the data.

Specification of the “Tiny Satellite”

  • It can be held in one’s palm as it is 3.8cm cube.
  • The structure is 3D printed with reinforced carbon fiber polymer.
  • It is equipped with a nano Geiger-Muller for measuring radiations in the space.

The incredible achievement makes us believe that Space is not unreachable and has no boundaries, therefore, let us all do research and conquer the Mars soon.

Simulating Is Believing

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The Simulation tools are making it easier for manufacturers to optimize the process, visualize the entire production path from metal cutting simulations and factory-floor imaging. With the latest tools, the toolpath designers and manufacturing engineers will be able to fix things, speeding the simulation and verification of metal cutting process.

Manufacturers are focusing on ongoing trends for spreading the wealth with higher-end simulation tools throughout the design/production chain.

Sharing CAE with the Masses

From all the latest simulation trends, wider adoption of CAE tools such as topology optimizations, finite element analysis has begun to make way towards manufacturing operations, as engineers outside CAE leverage the power of these simulation technologies. The simulation techniques are applied all across the manufacturing process such as assembly simulation, robotics simulations, human simulations, and ergonomics. Correspondingly, the process of simulation helps in earlier detection of a potential problem, which directly leads to faster processing, increasing tool life, and reduced material cost. Though, the democratization of CAE tools can be experienced for structural analysis, composites manufacturing, and others but, is yet to reach its full potential.

Optimized Drilling

Machine expensive corrosion-resistant materials are difficult on drills, to which researchers used fluid flow and structural analysis tools to analyze the coolest fluid distribution and achieve longer tool life. Right from the inclusion of methods to extend the life of drills for the use, a significant amount of heat transported or directing the coolant fluid into small channels. To understand the complex interaction of drill structure, the research team included simulation tools for process optimization by performing fluid-structure interaction analysis. The entire process involved the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and mechanical simulations to modify the cooling process and to improve the tool life by about 50%.

Validating the Digital Factory Drilling

New digital manufacturing simulation tool such as FastSuite Edition 2 enables significant operations, amongst which a few are listed, hereby:

  • It helps manufacturers to design factory layout and optimizing product designs.
  • It validates manufacturing processes in advance and fastening of the same process and optimizing designs.
  • FastSuite also provides user-friendly functions for integrating new and project-specific components in the layout.
  • It uses shared memory to write the simulation data and from which 3D visualization then reads the simulation data.

Therefore, the 3D based simulation software allows validation and visualization of processes and production tasks.

In the end, the involvement of simulation tools can handle customized markets, making of adjustable product structure, and complexity of big orders.

Impact of GST in Education and Training Sector!

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Education and Training Sector in India is among the key priority areas of government. Government’s focus towards education sector is well reflected through various exemptions in Service Tax and Value Added Tax.

However, it’s hard to accommodate every concern of an educational and training sector. In contrast to certain exemptions, the education, and training sector has borne the burden of indirect taxes in certain situations. Prescribed courses by IIM have been exempted under GST. In addition, the specific services such as transportation of students, catering, and security in pre-school education and higher secondary education have been exempted under GST. Though, the courses and educational services would encourage the GST exemption, education institutions still have to bear GST burden for the following procurement:

  • Services such as renting, telecommunication, and purchase of goods will continue to remain as an input tax cost for educational institutions.
  • Training Services by commercial coaching institute will have to bear GST the rate of 18%.
  • Foreign entities organizing educational training events in India that is attended by local or overseas participants will become liable to bear GST.

Now, it calls for education and training sector to keep a close watch on GST along with the subsequent exemptions and their related clarifications.

Inside 3D printing in Seoul unveils the New Era of Digital Manufacturing

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Inside 3D printing is one of the largest 3D printing event series worldwide and will take place on June 28-03-2017 in South Korea. The three days event encompasses international conference and an exhibition. The theme of exhibition revolves around “The New Era of Digital Manufacturing”. According to the director general of ministry, financial resources would spend primarily on bio printing, material development, and 3D software.

Preliminary Study on Session

The exhibit category is formed combining 3D scanner, CNC milling machines, metrology, CAD/CAM software, and material highlighting developments in the new era of digital manufacturing. The exhibition is going to witness more than 70 exhibitors from global corporations such as EOS, MakerBot, German Reprap, XYZ Printing, 3D Box, Motion Works, etc.

3D Printing in Digital Manufacturing and Supply Chain

The session will explicitly focus on manufacturing, business, metal, aerospace and automotive industries. For instance, applying 3D printing to manufacturing in aerospace industry to enhance competitiveness and enlarge market share in the global market. Emphasizing on digital manufacturing, it was revealed that enterprise software giant SAP and EOS have made a pact to integrate 3D printing with supply chain processes and build foundation for on-demand manufacturing.

Moreover, the entire session will be exploring the market trend of digital manufacturing and 3D printing foreseeing the future, the community and potential addressable market.

Design Automation can Boost Indian Automotive Sector embracing BS IV Norms

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India is a quick adaptor of technologies and the same notion is suitable when we talk about automotive industry. Adhering to the norms set by Supreme Court, Indian Automotive Sector will experience vehicles equipped with higher efficiency and engine complaint with BS IV standards.

Scope of Advancement in Automotive Sector

The nation is on the verge of becoming a key-market for entry level and high-end/luxury cars. In future, the country will be on the peak of automobile industry wherein the original equipment manufacturers will be benefited with the arrival of custom-made design solutions. The specialized connected vehicles and driverless cars are already imagined rolling out on the roads of India. With the new technology vehicles, global technologies will be transferred to the country for implementation of design automation.

Collaboration Extending Benefits to Automotive & Educational Sector

Invilogic, an IT company specialized in design automation with signing of partnership deed with MHP, a Porsche Company (Germany) targets Indian original market equipment manufacturers. According to the Managing Direction of Invilogic, there will be rapid shift in implementation of technologies from mechanical to electronic and software based. In order to the address the technical advancement, the IT Company might collaborate with major institutions and universities making provision for skills development program.

Over a period, this automation technology has brought huge amount of saving in the automotive industry. Design automation will work wonders for complexity management, right from entry-level to high-end cars.