Why SaaS-Based CAD Is Taking Over Wire-Harness Design

Consider exactly what wire-harness solutions are: comprehensive systems that integrate electrical wires, cables, connectors, and other components into structured assemblies.  They have to provide reliable and organized means of transmitting electrical signals and power in various applications. It’s complicated, in other words. If you’re working manually, the complexity only heightens, along with the costs. Working […]

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 […]

Accelerate Harness Design In Your Industry with Arcadia

We are all aware of the old adage, use the right tool for job? But what happen when the nature of the job and surrounding industry changes? That right, you end up using the best software and practices from two decades ago! We are living in a cloud age where online engineering is key with […]

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? Discover the differences of cloud vs Self Hosted options when selecting an ECAD solution. Ultimately it is your responsibility to ensure that your IT systems and associated […]

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, […]