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Friday, December 7, 2018

Vuforia Studio – Rapid Augmented Reality (AR) Authoring Solution

Vuforia Studio is the only code-free authoring environment that enables industrial content creators to:
  • Reduce development costs – rapidly create content without programming
  • Accelerate content creation - use existing 3D CAD and animated sequences
  • Streamline enterprise scalability – access and view experiences from a single app
  • Easily provide insight – leverage real-time IoT and business systems data
Vuforia Studio unleashes the power of the Microsoft HoloLens in the industrial enterprise with built-in support for gestures and voice commands.Now enterprise stakeholders can rapidly create scalable Mixed Reality experiences to enhance sales efforts with virtual product demonstrations, improve service/maintenance with hands-free work instruction and enable knowledge transfer for more effective training.
Vuforia Studio provides industrial companies with the tools to quickly create and widely deliver AR content that transforms operations, facilitates knowledge transfer and improves profitability.


Shortens Time to Value
Vuforia Studio’s drag and drop interface makes it easy for content creators and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with no prior coding knowledge to get up and running quickly. Built for enterprise integration, scale and security, Vuforia Studio leverages existing 3D data, animated sequences and IoT data to help reduce development cost and complexity. Experiences authored in Vuforia Studio can be deployed to the cloud or on premise and accessed from smart phones, tablets or wearable devices via a single universal viewer application - Vuforia View. Developing and scaling enterprise-ready industrial AR experiences that simplify and improve service, manufacturing, sales and marketing has never been faster or easier.
Why Vuforia Studio?
Reduce Development Costs:Rapidly create content in an intuitive visual authoring environment.
Accelerate Content Creation:Build better experiences, faster by efficiently reusing 3D CAD and animated sequences.
Deliver Enterprise Scalability:Access and view AR experiences across the enterprise from a single universal application.
Easily Provide Insight:Create meaningful, actionable experiences by seamlessly incorporating contextualized IoT data.
Support Workforce Innovation:Out-of-the box support for mixed and assisted reality devices.



Key Features:
Drag and Drop Authoring
Online and Offline Experiences
Advanced Spatial and Model Tracking
Certified Hosting Cloud and on-prem
Assisted Reality
Native IOT Integration
Universal Viewer
Global Scalability


Power Your Industrial Use Case:
Vuforia Studio delivers powerful, industrial-strength AR technology that connects your digital and physical work spaces. It enables meaningful, actionable 3D interactions with facilities, processes and objects in the industrial world.

    AR experiences created in Vuforia Studio can be used to:

    • Empower service technicians with guided step-by-step work instructions.
    • Improve assembly time and process efficiency in manufacturing workflows.
    • Enhance sales and marketing efforts with 3D product visualizations and demonstrations.
    • Facilitate collaborative design review and reduce the need for costly prototypes.

    Web Schedule September 2018

    Training Sessions


    Date Day Time Topic Duration (in min)
    26-09-2018 Wednesday 11:00 Flexible editing using Creo parametric 45
     

    Webinar Demo Session


    Date Day Time Topic Duration (in min)
    26-09-2018 Wednesday 15:00 Engineering Calculations using MathCAD 45

    Adroitec's participation in Industrial and Engineering Expo

    Adroitec participated in Industrial and engineering Expo 2018, a leading industrial exhibition show organised by Indore Infoline. Adroitec showcased the latest technologies in Engineering domain , applications in IOT , Augmented Reality , PLM and Design Solutions. The customers visited the stall to have insights of the cutting Edge technologies from PTC solutions portfolio.



    5 Ways to Become an Innovation Leader







    ENGINEERING & PRODUCT DESIGN




    5 Ways to Become an Innovation Leader









    Defined as “the act or process of introducing new ideas, devices, or methods,” innovation is very often easier said than done in the business environment.

    Arbotext Isodraw




    Produce professional, CAD-linked illustrations fast employing a single, easy-to-use solution.
    Speed the process of creating and updating high-quality technical illustrations and animations with Arbortext IsoDraw.
    Illustrations can be produced using original 3D and 2D CAD data to optimize product and support information, such as assembly and disassembly instructions, parts catalogs, operator and service manuals, training documents.
    Easily reuse valuable 2D and 3D data from CAD systems to deliver technical illustrations and intelligent graphics. Additionally, Arbortext IsoDraw gives the unique ability to maintain an associative link to real-time CAD data, which simplifies the updating of illustrations and animations when engineering designs change throughout a product’s lifecycle.
    Benefits:
    • Enable concurrent development of product designs and technical publications with real-time illustrations.
    • Support one or many types of data, such as 2D, 3D, raster graphics, and animations, in a single document.
    • Enhance product performance to deliver a competitive advantage in your product information time-to-market by producing more illustrations in a shorter time.
    • Increase illustration productivity more than 30%–with no CAD knowledge required.
    • Prepare illustrations–automatically–for publishing in multiple delivery formats, including print, interactive and Web media to eliminate expensive, labor-intensive formatting tasks.
    • Quickly create 2D, 3D–or a mix of 2D and 3D–animations with the simple user interface to highlight illustration features or to animate procedures.
    • Generate complex gears with customized parameterization in just minutes. You can adapt grooves, gearwheels, shaft ends, and many other details within seconds.
    • Get access to over 2,200 views of standard parts and images, such as human hands and tools, either to convey a task or create your own unique parts.

    Thingworx Asset Advisor

    Enables Service to Remotely Monitor, Diagnose and Resolve Issues.
    ThingWorx Asset Advisor continuously monitors key parameters in connected equipment to detect problems before they cause downtime.Service managers and technicians can remotely monitor, manage, diagnose and resolve issues for their connected equipment in the field. Providing service teams with unprecedented capabilities to act in real time for a proactive maintenance approach, ThingWorx Asset Advisor drives increased equipment uptime, decreased time to repair and improved customer loyalty.


    ThingWorx Asset Advisor continuously monitors key parameters in connected equipment to detect problems before they cause downtime. Service managers and technicians can monitor, manage, diagnose and resolve issues for their connected equipment in the field. Connected assets can be remotely diagnosed by viewing sensor information to determine if a corrective action can be taken before it impacts asset performance so you can make better informed, faster decisions.



    Benefits & Capabilities:
    • Monitor asset condition and performance issues in real-time.
    • Gain insight into equipment performance trends across the install base.
    • Use information on performance trends to guide future service strategy.
    • Reduce unscheduled downtime by detecting possible product failures and irregular operating conditions.
    • Improve equipment uptime and field service productivity.
    • Understand equipment utilization rates and overall install base health.
    ThingWorx Asset Advisor for service is part of the ThingWorx Industrial Innovation platform providing an accelerated path to realizing the benefits of a connected service strategy. Easy to deploy, this scalable, flexible and customizable app delivers faster time to value to jump start your Service Transformation.

    Creo Design Exploration Extension (DEX)

    Creo Design Exploration Extension (DEX), an extension to Creo Parametric, lets you try out new design ideas, explore alternatives within existing designs, and keep track of the decision points along the way.
    It’s all about exploration: you won’t risk your original design nor do you have to commit to any changes. You’re free to do what you’d like. With Creo DEX, you can quickly build alternatives and preserve all your information within your original model file. The software makes it easy to create as many branches, modifications, and checkpoints as you like—all without overwriting the original design. Now your next design review is faster, that product development cycle speeds up, and your work is preserved so colleagues can refer to it for their own projects. Save your energy for getting to the best design and leave administrative tasks to Creo DEX.



    Web Schedule August-September 2018

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    <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Training Sessions</span></strong></p>

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    <td>22-08-2018</td>
    <td>Wednesday</td>
    <td>11:00</td>
    <td>Creating and managing GD&amp;T in Creo</td>
    <td>45</td>
    <td>All existing Creo customers</td>
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    <td>2</td>
    <td>29-08-2018</td>
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    <td>11:00</td>
    <td>Creo Parametric Lite capabilities</td>
    <td>45</td>
    <td>All existing Creo customers</td>
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    <td>05-09-2018</td>
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    <td>11:00</td>
    <td>What's new in IronCAD 2018</td>
    <td>45</td>
    <td>All existing IC customers &amp; Prospects</td>
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    <td>12-09-2018</td>
    <td>Wednesday</td>
    <td>11:00</td>
    <td>Design automation using MathCAD</td>
    <td>45</td>
    <td>All existing MathCAD customers &amp; Prospects</td>
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    <td>5</td>
    <td>19-09-2018</td>
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    <td>Assembly process planning using Creo</td>
    <td>45</td>
    <td>All existing Creo customers</td>
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    <td>26-09-2018</td>
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    <td>11:00</td>
    <td>Flexible editing using Creo parametric</td>
    <td>45</td>
    <td>All existing Creo customers</td>
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    <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Webinar Demo Sessions</span></strong></p>

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    <td>22-08-2018</td>
    <td>Wednesday</td>
    <td>15:00</td>
    <td>Creo Parametric - Design Modules overview</td>
    <td>45</td>
    <td>All existing Creo customers &amp; Prospects</td>
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    <td>29-08-2018</td>
    <td>Wednesday</td>
    <td>15:00</td>
    <td>Product illustration using Creo Illustration</td>
    <td>45</td>
    <td>All existing Creo customers &amp; Prospects</td>
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    <td>05-09-2018</td>
    <td>Wednesday</td>
    <td>15:00</td>
    <td>What's new in Creo 5.0</td>
    <td>45</td>
    <td>All existing Creo customers &amp; Prospects</td>
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    <td>12-09-2018</td>
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    <td>15:00</td>
    <td>Creo Parametric - Tooling and Manufacturing Overview</td>
    <td>45</td>
    <td>All existing Creo customers &amp; Prospects</td>
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    <td>19-09-2018</td>
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    <td>15:00</td>
    <td>Creo - Complete product overview</td>
    <td>45</td>
    <td>All existing PTC customers &amp; Prospects</td>
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    <td>26-09-2018</td>
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    Technology Workshop on PLM @ PSG ITAR, Coimbatore



    Adroitec conducts the Technology workshop on PLM for Engineering Graduates @ PSG  Institute of Technology and Applied Research , Coimbatore .
    The  students of Mechanical Engineering stream  were given a exposure to the latest technologies in PLM with technical insights of product data management,Life cycle information  and importance of PLM in the engineering industry.The graduates had a detailed interactions over the Workshop with Specialist in PLM from Adroitec.

    "Hero Cycles Limited helps to manage complete ECBOM and Improve Design Quality thru PTC Windchill "



    Initiatives and Results

    Improve Design Quality

    Initiative:
     
    Complete control of design release and revision management.
    Result:
    Enabling model check Gatekeeper helped to maintain correct designs as per company standards and norms

    Improve internal collaboration

    Initiative:
    Seamless collaboration between Design team & other units data connectivity.Enhanced Collaboration
    Result:
    Sharing data between design with different locations and vendors is easier using Windchill

    Manage complete EBOM in single platform

    Initiative:
    Manage the entire design data and EBOM in a single repository. All future changes to be managed through controlled change management process.
    Result:
    Product development activity is significantly streamlined facilitating with complete control on the EBOM.

    Eliminated Re-works

    Initiative:
    Faster searching of data and enable re-use for current projects. Eliminate duplicate data in multiple projects
    Result:
    Re-works due to referring wrong drawing version was completely eliminated. Entire design & related data in one location for easy search & retrieval.

     Customer Quote
    "Using PTC Windchill , we now have better control on the design information and collaboration with extended team.We now have improved work flexibility & significant improvement in entire Product development Process.
    –                                 Mr. Prabhat Soni,
                                      Sr. Manager R&D

    Closed Loop Quality Management -Training






    Closed Loop Quality Management
    Adroitec Engineering Solutions hosted the event for Quality Department resources. The event was focusing on the product quality, reduction of automation time.

    The event was held at Hotel Quality Sabari Inn, T.Nagar on 12 June 2018 from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm where we had participants from most of the Automotive Companies, Tier I and Tier II suppliers and even other manufacturing companies.

    This was one of the nice Event ever hosted by Adroitec because, this event focused on,
    Boosting the product quality by identifying the failure trends and critical failure information and generate their reports
    How fortune companies reduce the engineers time in identifying the root cause, pinpoint right problem statement and arrive at the solutions
    How automation of ISO/IATF process and CAPA Process helps in reducing the lead time.
    Gaining real-time visibility over product quality, failure modes, control plans and more.
    Success stories of top companies in reducing product risk, improving product development, and improved quality and reduced cost.

    The event started with the Welcome speech by Mr Vinayak Bhandarkar, Country Manager at Adroitec Engineering Solutions Pvt Ltd, giving insights on how Adroitec has transformed lot of Tier I and Tier II automotive companies in their design process automation, improving quality by introducing automated IATF process and moving to paperless culture. He also address how these had impacted critically in improving productivity and the growth of the company.

    The event started of with the guest speaker, Mr Siva Ganesh, Marketing Director from PTC, who gave real-time insights on addressing the Quality issues through the Internet of Things.
    Finally, live demonstration on Closed Loop Quality Management was done by the Technical team which was presented by Mr Arunraj Rajakumar, Senior Engineer - Enterprise Technologies.

    A live demonstration was shown on how a closed loop quality management can be automated and how it helps in streamlining the process to identify failure trends and how to multiple people can interact with automated CAPA process.
    A variety of trend graphs and reports were shown to audience which would help them to take better decisions on quality improvement.
    Finally, a live demonstration on IHS Root Cause Analysis was shown how to identify and solve root cause faster compared to traditional way which would takes days and months to solve.

    The participants were pretty excited on these solutions provided by Adroitec and had started discussing on ways to implement them in their organizations during the networking dinner.

    If you are interested in finding more about this program, please contact
    Srinivasan, Senior Territory Manager
    k.srinivasan@adroitecengg.com
    +91-99520 88075
    Arunraj Rajakumar, Senior Engineer - Enterprise Technologies
    arun.raj@adroitecengg.com
    +91-77082 55753

    Minda Corporation - Case Study


    Design reuse:
    Initiative:
    Manage the entire design data in a centralized repository with complete control on data security
    Result:
    Increased design reuse, reduced errors and cut design cycle time

    Design collaboration:
    Initiative:
    Having the same drawing version at all point of use for manufacturing, purchasing and etc. Eliminating paper drawings submission for design review
    Result:
    Design collaboration within engineering team and extended team is easy and eliminated manual intimation.

    Improve Design Re-use:
    Initiative:
    Re-use old project designs for new projects
    Result:
    Sharing data between design & manufacturing departments , Other plant, and vendors was made easier by using PTC Windchill

    Automate Design release process:
    Initiative:
    All designs need to be released through auto routing process and system driven.
    Result:
    Re-works due to referring wrong drawing version was completely eliminated. Entire design & related data in one location for easy search & retrieval

    Adroitec Electronics Focused Solutions:-BOM Intelligence




    Adroitec Engineering Solutions (P) Ltd is an Global Engineering Solutions provider with state-of-the-art development centers in India and a 100% owned US based subsidiary HOPE Consulting Inc.. With a team of over 300+ highly qualified and experienced professionals, Adroitec delivers services which are closely aligned with the design-through-manufacturing strategies of its global manufacturing customers, crashing cycle times and reducing costs.
     
     
     

    CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS - BOM INTELLIGENCE

    Our customers rely on us to be a traffic light, to let them know the health of their bill of materials. IHS Markit is one of our top three strategic advantages to stay competitive. Essentially, we’re providing our customers an insurance policy. By understanding – very acutely – product lifecycle, we can collaborate with our customers on their products and design.
    - Tiger Biletnikoff, Director of Supply Chain, IEC Electronics Corp
    With the IHS Markit data, we can gain a true picture of the composition of the product from top to bottom, so we can instantly and confidently tell the import/export country and customers whether or not we comply. We reduced delivery time of compliance documentation about RoHS and REACH from weeks to less than 2 days. That’s an estimated 86 percent increase in efficiency.
    - Kimara Chin, Data & Business System Manager, Trimble
    A lot of companies ‘obsolete’ their way to profitability. We don’t do that... When a competitor obsoletes a part, customers can run into inventory shortages for that part. Our customers know that if they come to the TI site, they’ll find a cross.
    - Mike Hastings, Director, Content Syndication, Texas Instruments

    Making Better Decisions, Faster:MATHCAD



    Making Better Decisions, Faster: How Engineers are Improving Efficiency with Engineering Calculations Software - MATHCAD.
    On March 28, 1979, America’s worst nuclear accident took place at Three Mile Island – due in large part to a faulty valve that got stuck in the open position. According to writer Mike Gray, interviewed for the PBS program American Experience: Meltdown at Three Mile Island, the valve that sat on top of the pressurizer was “like a drawer that’s too wide. You know how you pull on a drawer and, if it’s wider than it is deep, it kind of – well, that valve had been designed that way. That was a mistake, an engineering error. So that instead of sliding freely, it had a tendency to twist. So it failed, and it failed in the open position and they didn’t know it.”
    The same thing occurred at a plant outside Toledo, Ohio, a few months before. But fortunately someone closed the lower block valve on a hunch, which sealed the line and saved the plant. The accident from Toledo was never properly communicated to the operators of identical plants across the country, but that’s another story. The brush with nuclear catastrophe is a lesson for all mechanical engineering organizations that require precision, high performance and effective knowledge management for success. Can your engineering processes prevent a similar situation from developing? Are you able to provide sufficient documentation to mitigate your mistakes?
    The right calculation software can be a powerful tool that enables engineering teams to more easily solve problems, generate ideas, share important data and catch mistakes before they have major consequences. Why then, do so many mechanical engineers rely on error-prone, limited and often paper-based legacy calculation methods, like Microsoft Excel spreadsheets or even a programming language like FORTRAN? This short paper will explain some of the important reasons why modern mathematical software is a much better alternative for mechanical engineers – not only for performing complex calculations but also for understanding the intent behind them. You’ll learn how more mechanical engineering enterprises are finding that their best interests lie not in the incidental information that spreadsheets provide, but in mathematics software that treats every calculation as a key business asset.
    Ten Mechanical Engineering Calculations that Are Easier with Dedicated Software
    • Gear Speeds/Gear Sizing
    • Power Output
    • Torque and Speed
    • Heat Dissipation
    • Friction Loss
    • System Dynamics and Responses
    • Engine Performance
    • Coil Spring Analysis
    • Velocity and Acceleration
    • Systems of Linear/Nonlinear Equations
    Success Factor #1: Accelerate design time to market
    “I have 30 people reporting to me,” says an engineering manager for Arbor Networks, a company that designs Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection for enterprise computer systems. “I’m under pressure to deliver projects on time and to ensure that our engineers have the resources necessary to do their job.” This should sound familiar to you, since most engineering-oriented companies have the same top-of-mind concerns. Engineers in all disciplines are struggling with decreasing time-to-market deadlines and many don’t even realize how much time they’re wasting by trying to document calculations done in Excel. Dr. Robert Phillips, an engineer who spent much of his career reverse engineering cars for General Motors, uses PTC Mathcad® software with his engineering team to save time on every project. When he first came to understand the benefits of the software over his old way of doing things, he realized that “if you can double productivity, you can reduce staff by a factor of eight and keep delivery constant or keep those people and kill the time to market.” Because many new products are variants of existing designs, it’s important to capture and organize the original analysis tied to these products for others to find. Legacy calculation methods frequently lead to significant rework, which in turn creates longer development lead times, ties up valuable resources and ultimately results in a delayed time to market.

    Spreadsheets and programming languages are optimized for specific types of calculations, while engineering math software like PTC’s Mathcad are good for virtually all types of calculations – from the simplest to the most complex.

    Success Factor #2: Get your creative juices flowing more freely
    Exploring multiple design concepts and what-if scenarios early in the design process is important for projects that demand innovation and design optimization. It can be mission-critical for mechanical engineers to solve challenging problems in key disciplines such as mechanics, thermodynamics, robotics and mechatronics. Design studies and trade-off analyses are best practices that help engineers make better design choices faster, knowing that they’ve evaluated all the best options. Using mathematical models to establish performance envelopes and cost trade-off curves, engineers can quickly identify the design solution that most effectively meets product requirements. A well-documented study or analysis should make it clear why the proposed design offers the best tradeoff between performance and cost – and give reviewers a high degree of confidence that a better solution has not been overlooked.
    By using mathematical calculation software, mechanical engineers can predict the performance of designs before modeling the physical geometry. Calculation software can be used early on to determine the appropriate physical design dimensions and parameters used in CAD models. Unlike spreadsheets that require complex formulas to convert measurements, the right mathematical calculation software provides built-in unit conversion and unit intelligence so that engineers can spend their time creatively solving problems rather than on mundane tasks.
    Success Factor #3: Improve precision and minimize costly mistakes
    Speed and creativity don’t mean much if your designs aren’t accurate and easy to understand. Calculation software can also improve the precision and thus performance of individual engineers and engineering teams. Robert Phillips acknowledges that he “can generally clear things up as I work through a Mathcad model, instead of saying, ‘Oh no, what’s wrong here?’ later in the process.” Spreadsheet expert Raymond Panko points out that “every study that has attempted to measure errors, without exception, has found them at rates that would be unacceptable in any organization.” Rick Butler, an auditor who writes and speaks widely on the error prone nature of spreadsheets, concurs, asserting that spreadsheet developers miss more than 80 percent of their own errors, and outside testers miss more than 50 percent of design logic and 34 percent of application errors.
    Spreadsheets and programming languages essentially hide the logic behind engineering decisions, which makes it much more difficult for complex work to be quickly and properly verified. With legacy calculation methods, errors are more likely to show up downstream in a project, when the costs of rework are multiplied exponentially. Or worse, the errors may make their way into the final product.


    Even honest mistakes pose a serious risk to most product development organizations, and calculation software does a much better job of keeping them to a minimum.
    A Disaster Waiting to Happen: Why Risk Your Most Important Calculations to Spreadsheets?
    According to researcher Raymond Panko, 94 percent of spreadsheets have errors, and the average cell error rate (the ratio of cells with errors to all cells with formulas) is 5.2 percent.  Out of 25 operational spreadsheets studied by S.G. Powell, 10 had an error impact ranging from $216,806 to $110,543,3052. Olson & Nilsen found a 21 percent cell error rate among experienced spreadsheet.
    Success Factor #4: Collaborate with less friction
    By standardizing the way calculations are solved and documented, organizations can make valuable engineering information visible and accessible to key people throughout the organization. This makes it easier to check another engineer’s calculations, reuse calculations without having to rewrite them, gain management approval and otherwise collaborate more effectively. The calculation methods available for solving engineering problems are not always the best tools for capturing and sharing intellectual property. Calculations are valuable to engineering organizations not only because of the end results, but also because of the assumptions, methods and values behind the results.
    Mathematical software provides engineering teams with sharable documents that explain everything they need to know about the design process, including text, interactive math calculations, graphs, and actual drawings and models. Reusable worksheets can be saved in several formats, including Microsoft Word, Adobe® PDF, HTML and XML, making it easy to share information with a variety of stakeholders, even if they’re using different document management applications, CAD programs and PDM solutions.

    Natural math notation enables Collaboration


    The logic of engineering calculations can get buried in spreadsheets, while it is perfectly clear in calculation software. Using standard math notation, integrated text and graphical displays, calculation software can automatically generate readable documents that are easily understood up and down the management chain and across diverse teams.
    Success Factor #5: Reduce the stress of regulatory reporting
    In addition to facilitating knowledge transfer internally, calculation software makes it easy for organizations to report to regulatory agencies and clients responsible for auditing vendor quality processes. Spreadsheets lack the controls and documentation capabilities needed for proper traceability. Calculation software, on the other hand, simplifies and streamlines documentation that’s critical to communicating and to meeting business and quality assurance standards. All engineering information is in one place with appropriate annotations: Calculations, methods and values can be shared as the company sees fit with a wide variety of parties outside the engineering division.
    Case Example: Evaluating Yield Strength in candidate materials for Robotic Armature
    The engineering team at an industrial equipment manufacturer is asked to evaluate the yield strength
    and cost trade-offs for robotic ‘finger’ materials under different gripping forces. The materials evaluated include steels like ASTM A36, ASTM 514 and stainless steel ANSI 302, along with high density poly-
    Ethylene (HDPE). Using calculation software, engineers quickly formulate a series of visual trade-off equations and plots to calculate the area moment of inertia for bending of the armature model.
    The built-in equation editor enables the team to express component solutions in familiar, natural math notation with automatic unit checking for accuracy. The team can focus on the design experiments and analysis itself, rather than laboring to “program in” formulas that are hard to read and difficult to communicate. Evaluating maximum stress as a function of material thickness is given a jumpstart by the calculation software’s open architecture. Collected in an earlier project, the yield strength, ultimate strength, and density values for the materials under evaluation were imported from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

    The built-in equation editor enables the team to express component solutions in familiar, natural math notation, with automatic unit checking for accuracy. The team can focus on the design experiments and analysis itself, rather than laboring to “program in” formulas that are hard to read and difficult to communicate. Evaluating maximum stress as a function of material thickness is given a jumpstart by the calculation software’s open architecture. Collected in an earlier project, the yield strength, ultimate strength, and density values for the materials under evaluation were imported from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Considering all the constraints and stated goals, the team concludes that the optimal

    material is HDPE. There’s ample room in the design envelope to accommodate the thicker armature, which also meets the tensile and yield strength requirements. The resulting mass is 37.5 percent of the equivalent A36 steel structure, and the cost of HDPE is less than the steel. The entire analytic process is automatically documented, step-by-step, in the calculation software worksheet, and can easily be reviewed or reused by subsequent teams on different projects. The team could also import armature dimensions and gripping geometry directly from a CAD model into the calculation worksheets. With everything tied together, any changes to the calculation software model would dynamically modify the CAD model.

    Conclusion: Finding the right math calculation software for mechanical engineering
    Engineers in all disciplines are struggling with decreasing time-to-market deadlines – and many don’t even realize how much time they’re wasting by trying to document calculations done in Excel. Spreadsheet developers miss more than 80 percent of their own errors, and outside testers miss more than 50 percent of design logic and 34 percent of application errors. Using standard math notations, integrated text and graphical displays, calculation software can automatically generate readable documents that are easily understood up and down the management chain.
    Modern calculation software is a much better alternative for performing complex calculations and understanding the intent behind them. Your best interests lie not with the incidental information that spreadsheets provide, but with calculation software that treats your calculations as key business assets.





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    Adroitec conducted the “Train the trainers program” at SASTRA’s Technology Business Incubator. Adroitec has delivered a training session to the faculty of department of mechanical engineering on Creo Parametric for their 3D modeling. This was a 2 day program delivered by Adroitec professionals, made used by 12 professionals.
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    Adroitec has suggested the best practices to proceed the design procedure in step-by-step structured manner. Training program included Enhancements in Creo 4.0 Part, Assembly, Drawing and Surface tools. Explanation was included to execute the same model using different commands within limited time. Futuristic model for manufacturing has been suggested. Practice sessions were conducted to help reduce in errors.

    Adroitec skilled instructors helped faculties in training at a faster rate. The participants were pretty excited on these solutions provided by Adroitec as these tools helped producing designs with high accuracy which made the scope for errors much lower. They were enthusiastic to develop innovative products and gain expertise to engage students directly at industries. Faculties felt the training was informative and effective and it was conducted in a well-structured manner.