Smoothie and juice bars have become a $2.2 billion industry, projected to rise 2% annually on average over the next five years. To remain competitive, commercial smoothie providers need to combine aesthetics and performance to provide the best blending machinery on the market. Their quest is to create the Ferrari of blenders. Founded in 1921, […]

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 […]