ECAD vs. MCAD

ECAD and MCAD: Which to use and how to use them together  When it comes to wire harness design, there are two primary types of software: Electronic Computer-Aided Design (ECAD) and Mechanical Computer-Aided Design (MCAD).  These are essentially two different approaches to designing wire harnesses. ECAD software concentrates on designing the electrical components of a […]

Democratising Space: Private space investment

Funding your very own suborbital space flight in a custom-made spacecraft has become the ‘it’ thing for billionaires to do in recent times, with Elon Musk paving the way for private space investment two decades ago and tens of others following suit. Both Richard Brandson (with Virgin Galactic), and Jeff Bezos (with Blue Origin), have […]

Mobility as a service: Will you own a vehicle in the future?

Car ownership has already passed its peak, and in the year 2030, just nine years from now, around 10% of us may have given up our cars altogether…  So it’s not the future of flying cars we’d all hoped for yet, but it’s certainly a more sustainable one. It will be the world’s largest cities […]

Manufacturing Cloud – Optimizing Collaboration and Interaction

It may sound obvious, but every function in the supply chain is a specialist team with the sole focus of doing their own job. Designers like to design, manufacturers like to build, testers like to test. Problems arise when these groups of people must interact. Each operating with their own constraints, limitations, agendas and aims. […]

The Cloud vs Self Hosted

Do you feel safe knowing your data is under lock-and-key at your premises or does the thought of a big data loss incident keep you awake at night? Ultimately it is your responsibility to ensure that your IT systems and associated data are kept in a secure and healthy state for the continued benefit of […]

In an increasingly connected world, on-premises CAD is a dead end

Despite being designed for the cloud our Arcadia CAD suite can be installed into our customer’s own infrastructure. I am often asked what the performance benefits are. Suffice to say customers are quite shocked when I tell them that I do not recommend a local installation as we achieve a much higher performance on our […]

Time to move to the cloud — how to spot fake SaaS from true SaaS!

Let’s cut to the chase, fake SaaS is rife in the industry, I am sure you have seen in the industry several incumbent software companies now offering ‘cloud’ or ‘365’ styled products to their customers. I want to show you how this window dressing of their products are designed to lure you in and likely […]

When Your App Argues Back: AI in the Supply Chain

Ubiquitous and often pervasive – AI usage is growing AI won’t be taking over the world’s networks and exterminating humanity via clouds of drone swarms any time soon. But in a matter of a few years, AI will further be a part of our lives and wired into our homes, workplaces, shopping centres, doctor’s office, […]

Realities of Engineering post COVID-19

It is clear from current events and the global pandemic that we will never look at our position in the world in the same way again. We have all discovered new ways of working and interacting that moving forward we are likely to continue following. In December 2019 it became clear that an unknown viral […]