Donald Godfrey, Honeywell Engineering Fellow for Additive Manufacturing will be presenting a seminar at Arizona State University on the status of metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) within the company worldwide. This live event, being held at the ASU Polytechnic Campus in Mesa, Arizona, will be a fantastic opportunity to learn how this exciting technology is used in the real […]
For those of us that are part of the Arizona Technology community, the official kickoff of holiday and end of year celebrations is the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation, or GCOI. A who’s who of key people from startups to large aerospace firms gather at the convention center to recognize students, academicians, companies, and individuals who have […]
I had a very cool music teacher back in 6th or 7th grade in the 1970’s in upstate New York. Today we’d probably say she was eclectic. In that class we listened to and discussed fairly recent songs in addition to general music studies. Two songs I remember in particular are ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’ by Donovan […]
How do you figure out when and why a product is failing? When the failure is due to repetitive operation the only practical way is to build a machine that operates the product over and over again. Designing, building, and running this type of device is one of the many services that PADT offers its […]
Part of my job at PADT is writing custom software for our various clients. We focus primarily on developing technical software for the engineering community, with a particular emphasis on tools that integrate with the ANSYS suite of simulation tools. Frankly, writing software is my favorite thing to do at PADT, simply because software development […]
Every year around the end of October PADT has our holiday season kick-off event, our Pumpkin Fest and Launch. This year we also added in a company meeting, killing three birds with one pumpkin. The weather was fantastic, and we all enjoyed sitting outside in the sun under a clear blue sky. Our pumpkin catapult, […]
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When ANSYS, Inc. released their ANSYS AIM product they didn’t just introduce a better way to do simulation, they introduced a tool that will change the way we all do simulation. A bold statement, but after PADT has used the tool here, and worked with customers who are using it, we feel confident that this […]
This video shows a really quick and easy way to extract a fluid domain from a structural model without having to do any Boolean subtract operations.
It has been a long time since I have written any articles. I thought to get me back into the flow of writing and share a recent fun project that I completed at work, where I was able reuse and re-purpose abandoned 20 year-old office desks. We are talking about excellent quality desks, just as […]
We have been talking a lot about ANSYS AIM lately. Mostly because we really like ANSYS AIM and we think a large number of engineers out there need to know more about it and understand it’s advantages. And the way we do that is through blog posts, emails, seminars, and training sessions. A new tool […]
It seems like I’ve been explaining large deflection effects a lot recently. Between co-teaching an engineering class at nearby Arizona State University and also having a couple of customer issues regarding the concept, large deflection in structural analyses has been on my mind. Before I explain any further, the thing you should note if you […]
What is this 3D Printing anyway? It doesn’t take long for someone new to the technology to see the wide range of applications and implications it brings to the table. But what how does it actually work. Our friends at Shapeways have put together a great infographic that explains things well. Take a look and […]
The local SEMI chapter here in Arizona held a breakfast meeting on Monetizing Internet of Things (IoT) and PADT was pleased to be one of the presenters. Always a smart group, this was a chance to sit with people making the sensors, chips, and software that enable the IoT and dig deep in to where things are […]
Here at PADT we help people who make products, stuff that gets manufactured. So we focused our open house yesterday on advanced manufacturing and invited the community to come out and network, learn, and share. Even though it was a busy week for technology events in Arizona, we had a great turnout on a surprisingly cloudy Wednesday […]