A couple of months ago, there was an anniversary that might not be very well-known: July 27, 1949. It is a date as momentous for air travel as it is for the advancement of the field of fatigue and fracture mechanics. On this date, the de Havilland Comet, the [...]
Image by Praisaeng at FreeDigitalPhotos.net While plenty of industries abhor corrosion and its consequences, another sector has welcomed it as a step in the healing process: medical devices. Devices have evolved over the decades to be less-intrusive during (and after) implantation.The bio-inert nature of titanium (along with [...]
Read Next Blog in the Series Image courtesy of sakhorn38 at FreeDigitalPhotos.net The topic of corrosion makes recurring appearances in the media; it seems that when you hear about one corrosion-related problem, invariably there will be others reported-on at around the [...]
Dr. Sanjeev Kulkarni, VP of Sales and Business Development will be a featured speaker at this year’s Design of Medical Devices Conference in Minneapolis, MN, April 1 1-14, 2016. […]
VEXTEC’s software VPS-MICRO® VEXTEC is pleased to announce that a demonstration is now available on our website of the proprietary software VPS-MICRO. VPS-MICRO is a patented software used for material model development and VLM predictions. […]
March 2, 2016, by: Sanjeev Kulkarni, PhD–One realizes that they are in Nashville when the largest convention complex is called Music City Center, is humongous (12 million square feet) and has the shape of a guitar. And you know are at the TMS when all everyone is talking about [...]
Author: Dr. Sanjeev Kulkarni, Vice President Sales and Business Development. Last week, I was at the 2015 SIMULIA West Regional User Meeting held at the historic Hayes Mansion in San Jose, CA! VEXTEC was one of the sponsors of the event and is a partner of the Advanced Integration [...]
“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Perhaps this was the goal of Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam in June when he returned from his economic development trip to Asia unwilling to share details with the public. Soon after his departure, a flurry of news [...]
VEXTEC’s Vice President of Business Development, Dr. Sanjeev Kulkarni is an invited speaker at the ASME Advanced Design and Manufacturing Impact Forum 2014, August 17-20, 2014 at the Buffalo-Niagara Convention Center in Buffalo, NY. He will be presenting a talk entitled “Medical Devices & Life Sciences: Innovative Medical Device [...]
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, [...]