3D Printing in the product design process: a novelty or an evolution?
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- Mar, 15, 2016
- Declan Scullion
- Design Engineering, Videos
What was your first experience with 3D printing in the design process? For some it was a novelty, let’s face it, adding ‘3D’ to anything makes it cooler, how could that not improve the lowly printer. For some it was a luxury and they needed a real good reason before going down that road. For […]
Read MoreCould this happen to you? – Product developments hiding in plain sight
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- Mar, 03, 2016
- Declan Scullion
- Design Engineering, Videos
Design For Manufacturing in its simplest form asks for you to understand the manufacturing processes and apply that understanding to your designs. Let’s not over-complicate it just yet with tools and software and cost analysis – just design your products giving consideration to the manufacturing processes you are going to use to make them. That […]
Read MoreDoes our ‘throw-away culture’ include Graduate Engineers?
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- Mar, 03, 2016
- Declan Scullion
- Design Engineering, Videos
The best that most of us in small to medium sized companies can hope for when hiring a graduate mechanical or design engineer, is someone who has had a summer job changing tyres or a placement year where they have done a bit more than sweeping the floor or running errands. To expect graduate engineers to understand […]
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- Day 6, Graduate Engineer’s New Job: Confident not Cocky
- Day 5, Graduate Engineer’s New Job: Mind Reading
- Day 4, Graduate Engineer’s New Job: The Fear
- Day 3 As a Graduate Engineer in Industry – Build Relationships
- Day 2 As a Graduate Engineer in Industry – Questions
- Day 1 As a Graduate Engineer in Industry – First Impressions