Model Based Enterprise (MBE) has become a dominating manufacturing strategy during Industry 4.0 era where an annotated digital 3D model of a product serves as the single source of truth for all activities in that product’s lifecycle. In that sense…
With virtual merchandising solutions growing popular, more and more manufacturers embed interactive 3D web catalogues in their websites to boost sales, attract new audience and stay competitive. Immersive and fully interactive 3D visual context ma…
Manufacturing simulation solutions require 3D models and the kinematics for all manufacturing equipment, robotic cells, etc. Manufacturing simulation experts normally prefer to use their favorite software solutions. Meanwhile 3D models and kinemat…
It happens in many industries that different kinds of reconfigurations need to be executed for production optimization or better alignment of manufacturing with supply, distribution and market demand. Obviously, during these operations huge human,…
Engineering 2D drawings are widely used across various industries such as energy, offshore, oil and gas, mechanical engineering, etc. However, a large number of paper documents, constant modifications and updates, high variability of symbology and…
Periodic class approval requires that every marine vessel passes through inspection procedure. The objective of a ship inspection is to verify the structural strength and integrity of essential parts of the ship’s hull. During the inspections hard…
With immersive e-commerce becoming more popular and in demand, more and more companies use relevant solutions to attract new audience and look competitive. Not just high quality visualization matters, but more progressive functionality like, for e…
The lack of digital continuity in modern industrial world breaks down silos and leads to considerable communication gaps between different departments. Despite the evident benefits, digitalization still extends over a small range of businesses, wh…
Development of a highly technological object (like a cruise ship, a skyscraper or an airplane) involves multiple engineering disciplines, analysis types, physics domains etc. Traditional workflows consist in performing each type of analysis manual…
Annually, every industrial enterprise generates a great number of work instructions and manuals. Variant and configuration management of production modifications is not an easy task especially when it comes to frequent technological updates. Many…
Modern hi-tech manufacturing equipment implements complex and advanced machining algorithms and utilizes advanced physical principles. All this turns the embedded software that controls a machine into a kind of «brain» that often entails the main…
In the era of Industry 4.0, simulation software enables faster and more efficient workflows: instead of testing different scenarios in real-world what is time-consuming and implies considerable expenses, today’s enterprises more often resort to vi…
Modern complex enterprises and plants use a huge number of third-party systems from different vendors, covering all areas of activity of such enterprises. Integration of technical and business processes used to combine data from heterogeneous sour…
Regardless its complexity, modern metrology equipment becomes more affordable meaning that it is widely used by middle-sized and even small manufacturing enterprises for such specific tasks as reverse engineering, non-destructive testing, deformat…
3D visualization of industrial computed tomography results have tremendous potential when it comes to non-destructive testing and quality control procedures. What for medical field, specific slices are used mostly for diagnosing, however 3D volume…
Smart digitalization of production processes is essential to conform to modern tendencies and can act as a trigger for improvements at every level of an enterprise. This trend spares as well all kinds of technical documentation - work instructions…
Nowadays large enterprises from energy, nuclear, oil and gas, etc. industries use solvers to model and simulate complex physical processes. The resulted data is generally presented in big assets, containing millions of numerical values, very speci…
It occurs in many big companies that industrial projects need to be reviewed by a large number of stakeholders being geographically dispersed. When such multidiscipline projects are executed it is necessary to always get up-to-date information, tr…
Nowadays most of industrial areas involve the usage of complex and heavy digital assets. A digital twin of a factory, a 3D model of a ship or a plane require data storage solutions that meet contemporary requirements for accessibility, integrity,…
In case of limitation of accessing to industrial manufacturing environment, 3D digital twins represent a handy way for manufacturers to manage the performance, effectiveness, and quality of assets such as complex manufactured products, manufacturi…
A proper and timely response to emergencies, correct manipulations of complex equipment, acceleration of personnel trainings for high-stress processes - all of these scenarios regularly encountered for modern production facilities. Delays in the s…
With traditional 2D drawing-based workflows, many tasks are processed manually, stealing skilled engineer’s time for such a common work. Manufacturing and quality control engineers manually enter and interpret Geometric dimensions and Tolerances (…
Woodworking is one of the most ancient and steadily developing areas of industry. Today, the market volume of woodworking machines and software for them dictates manufacturers and software vendors the necessity for automation and technological adv…
Nondestructive testing has become an inevitable part of modern quality control processes for industries that require certain quality at their final products due to the high criticality of the components and the environment in which they are mounte…
Despite rapid development and good adaptation of VR for entertainment needs, this important technology has not achieved yet the expected level of implementation for industrial engineering. Nice looking 3D box with shadows and textures in VR does n…
The development of technologies makes telecommunication companies look for solutions enabling automation and synergy between newly developed hardware and existing software. New communication technologies (like 5G) as well as new equipment for powe…
The objective of a ship inspection is to verify the structural strength and integrity of essential parts of the ship’s hull and its appendages, and/or the reliability and function of the propulsion and steering systems, power generation and those…
Ship certification process is known to be sophisticated, costly, and time-consuming. Calculations automation and reliability is critical for the clients. Constant changes and improvements in certification processes following IACS directives and lo…
Software maintenance is often considered as nothing more than a bug fixing. However, international studies demonstrate that most of the maintenance efforts are in fact devoted to functionality enhancements and support of the existing IT systems in…
Enterprises working on large industrial projects need to perform sophisticated calculations on enormous amounts of data. Common examples include hydrodynamic analysis of a vessels motion or FEM analysis of the hull strength, etc. Such kinds of cal…
A common challenge for industrial companies is a seamless review of massive 3D digital mockups with all connected meta-data by various stakeholders including internal company engineers, clients, etc. The process becomes even more sophisticated whe…
As a very first and essential step in ship certification, it is necessary to prepare 2D and 3D models with meta-data of a ship for structural analysis. This model may come from a variety of CAD authoring tools used by shipyards and design bureaus,…
Massive 3D data visualization can be costly and time-consuming, especially when several data sources in different formats are involved. The process usually includes numerous manual iterations with files exchange. Visualization of hybrid data inclu…
As the move to Industry 4.0 gains momentum, connectivity is becoming the key to the future of the metalworking industry. Automated data processing for different types of metalworking and different metalworking applications takes this industry and…