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Transitioning to Foundry 4.0 is Easier Than You Think

If your customer called on you today to increase the production of a part, at a lower price per part, would you be prepared? It’s a nice thought to believe you would be but believing and being are two very different things. Don’t be left scrambling to keep your business.

Reality: Extended and Unplugged - ESI Joins NVIDIA CloudXR Early Access

The power needed to deliver professional-grade, high-fidelity virtual realities has required VR gear to be tethered to a powerful engineering workstation, capable of delivering the performance needed to meet validation requirements on assembly processes and service procedures. But for how much longer? NVIDIA CloudXR with ESI IC.IDO shows the sky is the limit.

Control Distortion in Your Body in White Assemblies

Shorten your time to market and minimize manufacturing planning, tryouts, and fabrication validation costs with welding & assembly simulation

Staking a Place in Space - a Landmark Achievement in the Aerospace Industry

Using composite materials can be risky, especially when the end-product is subject to high-intensity stresses and need to comply with stringent certification requirements. Fortunately, there is a solution that enables you to identify the best suited composite material and confidently design and build your product to achieve the optimum performance and quality, while improving your bottom line.

Are You Reaping the Benefits of the Manufacturing 4.0 Transformation?

Attaining greater process efficiency through digital transformation is vital if you want to get ahead in today’s manufacturing environment. In this interview, Dr. Fouad el Khaldi, discusses critical parts of the manufacturing 4.0 transformation which enable predictive maintenance, detection of early signals of deviation and prediction of future incidents with precision.

For Nissin Kogyo, ESI ProCAST is an Indispensable Tool for Assuring Production Quality

As lightweight materials become more reliable, automotive OEMs depend on them more to reduce the weight of their automobiles. Naturally, that trickles down to their suppliers who now struggle to incorporate lightweight materials into their castings without sacrificing on quality, performance or durability. So how do suppliers keep up with the demands the industry puts on them while keeping their good name? We’ll tell you how the Japanese automotive parts company, Nissin Kogyo, did it and gained even more confidence from customers like Honda and Toyota.

How to Fight Range Anxiety with Zero Prototypes

Range anxiety is a leading cause of why consumers remain hesitant to make the switch from traditional combustion to electric vehicles. In turn, frustrations mount for manufacturers as they test new solutions to alleviate this issue. The automotive French start-up Gazelle Tech was one such manufacturer until they found a solution that solved their problem, reducing energy consumption of their vehicle by half and making their vehicle one third the weight of its competition.

Hybrid Twin™ vs. Digital Twin: We'll Tell You the Difference and Which Can Save the Life of Your Asset

Digital Twin and Hybrid Twin™. You may have heard these seemingly synonymous terms before, but do you know the difference between the two? In an interview with Dr. Slim Soua of TWI, an independent research and technology organization, he shares with us the subtle yet important variances in them as well as how using one of them can save your company tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A Smarter Battery Management System

Data-driven Battery Management Systems (BMS) models become inaccurate over time due to degeneration and environmental changes. Physics-based BMS models are often too slow to provide useful real-time information. Alone, each have their issues; together they create a BMS model with huge potential gains. Hybrid Twin™ combines both models to produce a real-time, accurate system. Find out why this is what you need to reassure your customers that they’re getting the best monitoring and predicting BMS.

How FCA Brazil Cut Costs and Timelines with VR

As the automotive industry becomes increasingly competitive, reducing costs for unnecessary downtime and launch delays due to production risks becomes that much more important. What if there was a way you could predict potential issues before they become a problem, avoid pre-production pilot assembly and tooling costs and shave off weeks from your production and launch timeline? Marcelo Lima at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles explains how they achieved all of this, and more and how you can too.

Optimizing Energy Consumption in Electric Vehicles

Energy demand is set to increase with the use of electric vehicles. Manufacturers need to optimize energy consumption in their vehicles to reduce the impact on energy supplies. One way is to decrease overall weight by reducing body and trim mass. Hervé Motte at ARRK - a company specializing in Prototyping, Tooling and Low Volume Production - explains how, by taking a different approach, they achieved 30% mass saving. How did they do it?

Use Virtual Reality to Beat Out the Competition

You discover from your customer, at the last minute, that major changes need to be made to your manufacturing program to match a competitor’s offer. Problem is you have neither the time nor the resources to change anything. We’ll tell you how you can immerse yourself into the cyberworld and solve these types of issues quickly and never lose out to a competitor ever again.