‘Chartered Engineer’

An Engineeringtalk guide

Start with the news release Mach 2010 to feature Open Mind product debuts from Open Mind Technologies, which we summarised at the time by saying "At this year's Mach 2010, Open Mind will present its Hypermill 2009.2 with CAD-integrated solutions for Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, Thinkdesign and its own Hypercad package.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Lattice3D Reporter offers increased functionality from Lattice Technology: "Lattice Technology has released the latest version of the Lattice3D Reporter application, which embeds 3D, BOM and related data in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. ".

In February 2010, we covered the news from Parametric Technology - take a look at Cocreate 17.0 enables short design cycles which says: "The Product Development Company has announced Cocreate 17.0, the next major release of its explicit modeling 3D CAD software. ".

Take a look also at the news release from Maxon Motor, Maxon motor helps control theatre lighting, as well as Fleetmatics software manages field-based engineers from Fleetmatics, and IVS inspection software is touch screen ready from Industrial Vision Systems.

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Misumi offers configurable-component seminars (February 2010)

Misumi will offer a series of free technical seminars on the value of specifying configurable components, to engineering professionals attending the 2010 ATX West show in Anaheim.

Kensey Nash selects PTC Windchill PLM software (February 2010)

Kensey Nash has selected PTC's Windchill PLM software to manage its product development, quality assurance and manufacturing for easier compliance with regulatory mandates.

Emerson technology monitors Nynas storage tanks (February 2010)

Nynas has installed Emerson Process Management's Smart Wireless technology to upgrade an underground storage tank monitoring system.

Schneider introduces power monitoring software (February 2010)

Schneider Electric has introduced the Powerview power and energy monitoring software solution, which is suitable for small system applications to help businesses save money and energy.

WEG motor-control package for Oman oil field (February 2010)

WEG motor-control packages comprise low-maintenance motors, ruggedised CFW-09 inverter drives and direct-online (DOL) starting controls.

CDS releases online Pro/Engineer CAD libraries (January 2010)

Catalog Data Solutions (CDS) has released the online computer-aided-design (CAD) libraries of PTC Pro/Engineer models for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (First) programmes.

Solidprofessor to present updated content (January 2010)

Solidprofessor will unveil its latest products featuring 2010 content at Solidworks World 2010, which will be held from 31 January - 3 February in Anaheim, California.

Cognex In-Sight does the work of 30 cameras (January 2010)

The Piston Group, which builds cooling modules for vehicles, has used a Cognex In-Sight 5603 vision system to improve quality and reduce costs.

Chartered Engineer is a rare breed

Female engineers are a rare breed in themselves, but Cardiff-based Project Engineer Clair Petheram has distinguished herself even further by earning Chartered Engineer status.