I'm at the SolidWorks 2009 conference in Orlando, Florida, looking out my hotel room window, which oversees a lake lined with palm trees, the Swan Resort with giant statures of swans on its rooftop, and blue, sunny skys. I heard it is warmer in Cleveland, but I am in no rush to get back home to snow, ice, and near zero temperatures. ...

  With the economy in the toilet, there has been a lot of hand wringing over government attitudes toward manufacturers. It’s often said that legislators favor companies that just push money around over firms that make things. The result has been an erosion in the U.S. manufacturing base and, simultaneously, a loss of middle-class ...

Boston is sunny but cold -- a nice break from our gloomy Cleveland winter and its excessive snowfalls. PTC is holding its annual media event at the company's Needham corporate headquarters. Attending are about 100 to 150 media analysts and a few trade journalists from Japan, Italy, Germany, and the U.S., among other countries. Part of ...

CAD at the Venetian Resort   Autodesk is again hosting its annual Autodesk University (AU) event at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. It's still pretty early, so things haven't yet geared up. The developer must have sympathy for those of us who travel a distance to get here and thus are still reeling from jetlag -- the keynote ...

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   Well, it was bound to happen sometime the way things are going. Now it looks as though it will happen next year, according to this story from MarketWatch.com. Here is a link to the full ...

hi All,  I have designed a motor using halbach array (rotary machine, with the halbach array based rotor). At this point, the halbach array is realized using magnet segments which are magnetized in particular directions. Can anyone please tell me any suitable manufucturer who can support to make such motors? Particularly ...

A few readers wrote in to MACHINE DESIGN commenting on the mistake I made on my blog item ''Artistic EDM''. In it, I said that ''electrically conductive materials cannot be EDMed.'' Ovbiously, this is incorrect. As one reader says, ''EDM will spark-erode any material that conducts electricity.'' Dear readers, thanks for keeping me on my ...

Initial thoughts on my tour of Tata:First, some quick background...My Italian client, Maus, part of the Carraro Group in Italy, builds grinding, finishing and other machining centers, as well as turnkey production lines for wheel end components, gears and other end products, usually heavy cast parts.  Another of the Carraro family is ...