Category: Engineers

What’s Cooking: How 3D Design Is Changing the Food Industry

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3D printers have marked their presence in most of the industries. Medicine, Aerospace, and the automotive industry have been using 3D printers to develop high-quality designs that deliver high performance. On the way forward, another industry has now started to adopt the 3D printing technology – The Food Technology.

Chefs and researchers collectively suggest that the 3D print technology can help to make the food production faster, more sustainable, and easier. The technology can develop food that is specific to our diet.

Here, are some of the benefits that the 3D printers can bring about:

Personalized Nutrition

As these printers follow strict digital instructions for printing, they are also capable to develop food which is specific to a particular diet. These printers can develop food for people who require certain levels of nutrition for a specific lifestyle or those who are undergoing some medical condition.

Enhanced Food Productivity

3D printers are best known for printing objects with precision, effectiveness and within a short time. Such a technology is estimated to develop food designs that are most complicated and intricate. Chefs will now be able to perform beautiful food garnishing faster. Also, 3D printers will help to develop multiple food items that look alike, ultimately helping chefs to complete more tasks in limited time.

The Space Mouse Enterprise Kit is another addition to this technology. This two-handed workflow is one of the best ways to create the next intricate food design. The kit is a complete package that helps the chefs to create detailed and accurate food design patterns.

SOLIDWORKS 2018 Debuts

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SOLIDWORKS is back again in the year 2018. The package has some added tools, enhancements and features to give you a completely new experience. Right from the welcome screen, the application has new and improved data management capabilities, integrating CAM feature along with some other innovative functionalities making it again your best design partner.

Pen and Touch-Enabled Devices: The application supports new touch-enabled capabilities. This is one of the most significant changes that came with SOLIDWORKS 2018. Now, you can make sketches using a touch-enabled pen. The application even supports customized mouse gestures making it more user-friendly and interesting to use.

Adding Granular Details: SOLIDWORKS 2018 has come up with new capabilities to work with assemblies such as Adding Mates Between Hidden Surfaces, Misaligned Mates, and Smart Explode Line Tool. The application has also introduced a new Tab and Slot feature for the sheet metal design. Now you can create the inspection documentation directly from 3D models.

CAM Integration: The most promising feature that SOLIDWORKS 2018 brought about is the CAM integration. The feature is called SOLIDWORKS CAM and works as a new application. The capability leverages CAM technology which is pretty interesting software in itself. Such integration will automate the entire manufacturing programming.

Enhancing the Complete Cycle: SOLIDWORKS 2018 comes with an integrated approach that works with your product right from design to manufacturing. This is done by putting the part or the assembly model in the Centre of the action. The concurrent collaboration capabilities of SOLIDWORKS 2018 keeps the data well managed so that you can create a design using manufacturing strategy across the product development workflow.

Ease in CNC Programming: The application has come up with new part and assembly machining, a 2.5 axis milling, and two-axis turning features. Such a feature is capable to make CNC (computer numerical control) programming less time consuming and simple.

Automating the Manual Inspection Process: The revised version of SOLIDWORKS has automated inspection capabilities. This feature helps you to save time skipping the manual inspection process. Dassault now claims that the 2018 version can carry out the article inspection process and generate reports in minutes.

Dealing with the corrupted files: If your repair attempts fail to resolve a corrupted file, SOLIDWORKS 2018 now prompts you to extract your geometrical details if data about the body is still intact. You can use this extracted data to create a new model.

Transparent Wood: Revolutions Ahead in Architecture and Electronics

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Research groups from the University of Maryland and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology introduced some chemical solutions that could make the wood completely transparent. This resulted in a glass-like wood you can see through. Wood is always a preferable material as compared to its existing transparent rivals such as plastic and glass. This transparent wood will soon revolutionize electronics and architecture as:

· Wood seems to possess some benefits over glass and plastic for architectural use.

· Its lower thermal conductivity keeps the buildings at a more consistent temperature making it reach higher energy efficiency levels.

· In the electronic world, the transparent wood might be used to manufacture solar cells.

· These low-cost cells will be readily available and can be a potential solution to build solar panels for large surfaces.

The transparent wood laser is another interesting application that is created by embedding an organic dye into the wood. These organic lasers have unique optical properties that can further enhance biophysics. The researchers believe that soon we will witness this technology.

Winning Strategies to Land that Great Engineering Job

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Getting a perfect job is something every professional is looking for. But there are some hurdles you need to take care of before you get hired by the employer. To get the job that fits you perfectly, you need to get through all the structural hurdles to prove your suitability for the desired job. Therefore, it requires a carefully crafted strategy that reflects your strengths for the position sweeping aside all the obstacles.

  1. Crafting the Resume

Preparing a tailor-made resume for the position you are applying for is necessary. Your resume should clearly mention all your skills, experiences, accomplishments, and education that perfectly align to the job posting. It is best to rank and rearrange the job-relevant skills and experience to catch attention from the recruiters.

  1. Passing the Applicant Tracking Software

Most of the engineering firms today use a software tool to filter out a resume for a single job posting. While every tool follows a different set of rules, some guidelines can help you win this game. The primary one is to keep it simple using the standard fonts and avoiding any fancy elements such as colors or pictures. Secondly, format the document clearly and group the relevant information. Also, use clear and common terms to make it readable.

  1. Always Follow-up

This is one of the most overlooked parts of applying for a job. It is best when you go for a follow-up with the recruiters as it denotes an expression of interest from your side. A phone call or a follow-up email sometimes can make them pull your application from the pile.

Apart from the things discussed above, you also need to prepare yourself for face to face meetups. To grab the opportunity, you strive for, research about the company and its goals. It is recommended to use every set of your skills and abilities to maximize your chance of success.

Four Key Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Used in Aerospace

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Advanced Manufacturing technologies have become one of the most important parts of the Aerospace industry. This is because of the unique challenges that the aircraft designers deal with. The aircraft designs need to consider the environmental conditions using strong materials that are both lightweight and temperature resistant. Such designs require micro and Nano- machining techniques. Here are four advanced machining technologies that are used in the Aerospace industry.

Additive Manufacturing  

The Aerospace industry was quick to identify the benefits and potential of Additive Manufacturing to design its planes. The technology uses Power-Bed laser printing systems to build its most components. Additive manufacturing technology is used to build structures that work within the fuselage with features such as reduced weight and reduce heat. An additive manufacturing technique, commonly known as the Fused Deposition Modeling, is used to create semi-hollow parts of the aircraft wings by both adding strength and reducing weight.

Composite Materials

Composite materials are widely used to design aircraft. Aerospace engineers prefer using these materials because of their favorable characteristics of flexibility, strength, temperature and chemical resistance. Composite materials and advanced polymers in the design help to improve performance and reduce lifecycle costs. These materials also reduce the overall weight of the aircraft cutting short their fuel consumption and carbon emissions.

Robotics

Robots are used in the aerospace industry to manage the labor-intensive process, particularly when lifting and handling tasks are to be done. The industry is using powerful robots in its manufacturing plants to move and join aircraft parts. Robotics is also taking care of manufacturing process that is hazardous to people such as painting and welding.

Laser Beam Welding

This technology offers rapid and high precision work as compared to the traditional welding techniques. Laser welding is, therefore, a preferred solution for handling materials when repeatability and high accuracy is required. The most advantageous property of this technique is that it transfers very little heat to the material that is welded. This way it does not create a heat affected zone around the weld, ultimately not compromising the strength and performance of the material.

With the widespread use of these technologies, the aerospace industry has also inspired several other industries to use these technologies in the manufacturing process. These techniques have undoubtedly simplified the manufacturing processes and reduced costs to a greater extent. Their accuracy and precision have reduced the number of failure points in the manufacturing process.