ASTM’s Symposium on Structural Integrity of Additive Manufactured (AM) Parts was held in the first week of November in Washington, DC. Being part of ASTM’s Committee Week, the symposium was sponsored by a number of ASTM Committees (F42 – Additive Manufacturing Technologies; E08 – Fatigue [...]
The largest time chunks in any product’s life cycle are in the design and engineering phases. This is because there are questions that need to be answered, both in how the product will perform and how the product itself will be made. Each of these [...]
The inaugural Additive Manufacturing Benchmarks (AM-Bench) event was held last month (June 18-21) at the headquarters of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) near Washington, D.C. The benchmark tests are a set of ongoing experiments, designed to enable modelers to evaluate and [...]
In Part I of this blog series, we give a brief history of Additive Manufacturing (AM), as well as some of the obstacles that are still holding AM back. Everyone is excited about the potential of this technology, but it’s quite a different thing to have sufficient confidence in [...]
Read Part II of Blog Series The history of customization is as ancient as the history of design. And there are three principles that have governed the need for customization – form, fit and function. Intimately intertwined with this quest for customization is the [...]
VEXTEC is sponsoring and presenting at AM-Bench 2018, being held at the headquarters of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) near Washington, D.C. June 18-21 2018. The event is co-presented by NIST, the Naval and Army Research Labs (NRL & ARL), and The [...]
Watch our recent presentation on "Computational Modeling of Complex Systems using Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)" given at this year's Simulia fe-safe User Group Meeting:
A turbocharger client of ours wanted to improve durability and reduce warranty costs on cast wheels made from a nickel superalloy with a radially-solidified (RS) microstructure. A significant portion of their previous field failures had been attributed to high cycle fatigue (HCF). […]
VEXTEC & Eaton Vehicle Group will be presenting at the ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2017) August 8, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. […]
In a 2006 Nielsen study1, auto industry manufacturing executives reported that stopped production costs averaged $22,000 per minute or $1.3 million per hour of downtime. When surveyed, 53% of the manufacturers agreed that predictive and preventative maintenance was the key to reducing this loss of productivity and revenue. So, [...]