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Platform Design Helps Cut Costs, Improve Quality

By barb schmitz | Published: Feb 6, 2012

Manufacturers are always searching for ways to cut costs and speed development times of new products. One way they have found to do that is by deploying platform design, which is also referred to as platform sharing. Platform sharing is a product development method where different products share the same underlying components. By sharing components [...]

Using Creo: Editing Curvy Geometry on The Verge and Foliot Clock

By Admin | Published: Feb 2, 2012

The latest tutorial for making a verge and foliot clock by Ben Eadie is here! In this 7th installation of the series, Edie shows his viewers how to edit the curvy geometry found on the verge and foliot clock he works to build in the 6 previous parts. Edie uses Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express to do this. [...]

Creo Customer: Designing Successful Prosthetic Legs

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Feb 1, 2012

Major Dave Rozelle turns amputees into athletes. After losing his right foot in Afghanistan during a mine explosion in 2003, Dave returned to active duty in Iraq 20 months later to command a cavalry troop. For Dave, nothing is impossible. Now he works at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. inspiring and training [...]

Modularity Helps Companies offer More Variety at Lower Costs

By barb schmitz | Published: Jan 30, 2012

The challenge for manufacturers who wish to remain competitive today is to conceive, develop, design and produce innovative new products that drive future revenues and mesh perfectly with the needs of users. What makes this even more challenging is they must do so quickly and cost-effectively. After all, coming out with innovative products works only [...]

Creo Customer: Police Robot

By Lindsey Christensen | Published: Jan 27, 2012

In the cage, large, 220-pound robots dual: the first robot throws the other upside down, but the second robot inverts. With a surprise right-hook and a hidden flame thrower, the robot throws its opponent eight feet into the air, slamming it into pieces. In April, thousands will descend upon San Mateo Convention Center for the [...]