There are six basic components in traditional vacuum cleaners: An intake port, which may include a variety of cleaning accessories An exhaust port An electric motor A fan A porous bag A housing that contains all the other components These pieces work together in a simple process: the electric motor powers the fan, which pushes […]

Design cycles are unpredictable. Every engineer, designer, and project manager has a horror story about unforeseen design changes, client requests or malfunctioning technology completely threw their plan off-schedule. What was a carefully crafted timetable suddenly turns into a scramble to deliver a product on time that also has to meet completely new requirements. No, this […]

According to a recent study by PTC, 37.9% of engineers experienced dramatic or multiple last-minute changes working on a recent project. That means over one-third of engineers require extensive “design agility” as part of their modeling process. “Design Agility” is the quickness, ease and flexibility one has to have in order to make changes in […]