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VPS-MICRO® Featured in Aviation Week’s MRO-Network.com
Simulation Software to Solve Certification Challenges in Additive Manufacturing In an article published for Aviation Week's MRO-Network.com, author Lindsay Bjerregaard, discusses VEXTEC's VPS-MICRO® simulation software and how it promises to reduce product development time and cost through optimization of design and manufacturing processes. Click here to read the full article.
Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) & DMSMS 2018 Trip Report
In the first week of December 2018, VEXTEC’s hometown of Nashville, Tennessee played host to the co-located meetings for the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) and the working group for Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Materials Shortages (DMSMS). These are the premier annual meetings related to the US defense manufacturing sector, and VEXTEC was proud to [...]
Additive Manufacturing ASTM Symposium Trip Report
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 and Fracture; E07 – Nondestructive Testing) as well as [...]
VEXTEC Seeking Analytical Engineers to Join Our Team
We are seeking enthusiastic, hardworking, and self-motivated applicants to be a part of our engineering analysis team. Qualified candidates will have the following requirements and skills: […]
VEXTEC Exhibiting & Presenting at DMC & DMSMS 2018 in Nashville, TN
VEXTEC’s hometown of Nashville, Tennessee is the site of this year’s co-located meetings of the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) and Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS). VEXTEC staff will be on-hand all week long in the Exhibition Hall (Booth #151) to answer questions and give demonstrations of our VPS-MICRO® predictive durability software. […]
VEXTEC Presenting at ASTM Symposium on Structural Integrity of Additive Manufactured Parts
VEXTEC is excited to be participating in this year’s ASTM Symposium on Structural Integrity of Additive Manufactured Parts. The symposium, co-sponsored by multiple ASTM Committees, takes place during ASTM Committee Week (November 4-9 in Washington, D.C.). […]
On the Brink: Materials Science Poised to be the Next Great Digital Transformation
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 parallel design inquiries are rooted in materials science, which [...]
The Predictive Post: Focus on Additive Manufacturing
Published October 2018 Featured Article: Focus on Additive Manufacturing VEXTEC will be in Washington D.C., presenting at the ASTM Symposium on Structural Integrity of Additive Manufactured Parts (November 7, 2018). During ASTM’s Committee Week, Dr. Robert Tryon (VEXTEC Chief Technology Officer) will present on our deployment of VPS-MICRO® probabilistic computational fatigue software for AM-built parts. VEXTEC is also authoring a [...]
Reporting on AM-Bench 2018
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 compare their simulations with rigorously-accumulated physical data. These activities [...]
Global Leader in Manufacturing Innovation Contracts with VEXTEC to Deploy Simulation Software for Additive Manufacturing (AM)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRENTWOOD, Tenn., June 13, 2018 –VEXTEC’s predictive VPS-MICRO® software has been applied to test structural, mechanical and electronic products in automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and medical device industries for nearly 20 years. The company’s clients, which include giants like American Airlines and the US Air Force and Navy, experience significant reductions in testing cost and time-to-market. [...]
Additive Manufacturing Part II: Where Do We Need to Go?
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 repeatable production of reliable parts, for critical applications. To [...]
Virtual Twin® Treatment for the Corrosion Control Headache
In our last blog on the topic of corrosion, we discussed how corrosion control can be a “headache”, and how controlling corrosion implies controlling the man-made contributors such as corrosion fatigue, which is a very dominant corrosion factor. Nowadays, integrated computational material engineering (ICME) and recent advances in computational capabilities can alleviate that “headache”. VPS-MICRO® [...]
Additive Manufacturing Part I: How Did We Get Here?
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 history of material development – mud, stone, wood, concrete, [...]