The trick to getting better products out the door faster is design reuse. You start with a legacy model, incorporate a vendor’s new PC board, add some mad curves to the grip, and before long, your electronic ice cream scoop is on the market and you’re collecting a Red Dot... read more →
Jul
14
Jul
10
Somewhere lurking in your Bill of Material (BOM), there just might be a hidden surprise, and not the good kind of surprise with cake and balloons. (more…)
Jul
07
One of the great things about a SaaS product like GrabCAD Workbench is that it is always improving. An example of this is Partner Spaces - an improved way to work with partners inside and outside of your company. Today we’re announcing a change to our pricing based on improvements... read more →
Jul
07
Parts don’t have revisions. Such a broad statement seems a little absurd especially considering today’s available software technology, but it’s nonetheless a long-held tenet of engineering configuration management. (more…)
Jul
03
Manufacturing quality can only live up to the quality of the design. What you design is as good as the product will ever be. It’s relatively “easy” to make one widget. But making 100K widgets that perform according to spec under a variety of real-world conditions? That’s another story entirely.... read more →
Jul
02
For many of us, productivity is always an issue, as well as the time it takes to perform each individual task. If you can save a few seconds here and a few seconds there, before you know it, you will have increased your productivity without the need for big changes.... read more →
Jun
27
Once the MSA is signed by both you and the contract manufacturer, it’s time to start the steps leading up to production. A good place to start is the schedule. (more…)
Jun
26
What are Bill of Material (BOM) find numbers and why do they exist at all? Find numbers are a feature of the very first BOMs, a simple method to individually distinguish BOM lines in order to explicitly identify or "find" the corresponding callout and depiction on an engineering drawing. In... read more →
Jun
25
GrabCAD member Boyan Slat is a 19 year-old engineer from the Netherlands who is determined to change the world. He has invented a method to clean the ocean from plastic debris and started a company called The Ocean Cleanup. We interviewed Boyan about his impressive undertaking. (more…)
