Rethinking design evaluation in a digital-first era

Design careers, these days, sit at the intersection of creativity, technology, and fabrication. Industrial designers ...
EDN

Digital prototyping for a changing manufacturing world

Bob Dylan famously remarked that “The times they are a changing” While he might have written that lyric to comment upon the sociopolitical climate of the 1960s, it also describes the manufacturing ...
Machine Design

Machine Tools On-the-Fly? Yes, Thanks to Digital Prototypes

Richlin Machines in Farmingdale, N.Y., does just that, custom engineering lathes for cutting whatever a customer makes. “We have been building small lathes for years, targeting the niche market for ...
Electronic Design

Navigating the Prototype-to-Production Pipeline

How to work out a prototyping strategy that eases the transition to mass production. The advantages of using data from devices in the field to improve designs over time. How to make products more ...
Electronic Design

FPGAs And Virtual Prototypes Share Common Design Space

Much has been written about the rise of field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) -based platforms over application-specific-integrated-circuit (ASIC) implementations. During the last few years, FPGAs have ...
Forbes

The Air Force Says It’s Digitally Designed And Flown A Fighter Prototype Super Fast. Can It Field The Plane At Anything Approaching That Speed?

By now, you may have heard that the Air Force revealed Tuesday that it has secretly designed, built and flown a prototype of its next-generation fighter jet. It’s an attention-getting tidbit with the ...
Computer Weekly

Scotland digital identity prototype pilot successful

The Scottish Government’s testing of a digital identity prototype has instilled confidence that users understand why and how they can benefit from a digital identity system, according to Gavin Ross, ...