Wednesday, February 15, 2012

BlogNotions Engineering Newsletter February, 2012


Earlier this week, I had a conversation with engineering IT manager of a manufacturing company. Without mentioning names, we’ve been discussing how manufacturing companies are adopting technologies in general and PDM/PLM technologies specifically. According to him, software companies largely misunderstood the way manufacturing companies perceive technology adoption. The conclusion we [...]


This is the last post of series simulating dynamic tanks using EMSO simulator. The first one shows the direct implementation of the dynamic tanks case using the modeling language of EMSO that applies concepts of object-oriented languages (part 1). The second one used (part 2) resources of EMSO GUI to link models to figures and [...]


Design News is for design engineers in the original equipment manufacturing (oem) market.





According to the United Nations-Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in the context of production, technology is a combination of four basic components that dynamically interact with each other in a process of transformation, where technology is used to transform inputs into outputs. The fourth component is technoware (facilities [...]


Today I was criticized for failing to clearly set out the project objectives.  Damn me, I know what we are setting out to do.  “But the rest of us do not,” was the reply. And so I wrote out the project objectives in deliberate detail.  And that set me writing the rest of this posting.  [...]

Shiga toxin is a dangerous by-product of certain infectious bacteria, such as strains of Shigella and E. coli, which causes symptoms ranging from intestinal pain to kidney failure and death. Over 150 million people are afflicted with Shiga toxicosis every year, mostly in developing countries where waterborne diseases are prevalent. It is estimated that Shiga [...]

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