James Anderton

4 days ago | engineering.com | James Anderton

Mike Ouellette on separating fact from fiction in industrial artificial intelligence. Engineering.com senior editor Mike Ouellette covers global manufacturing, including the hottest topic today, artificial intelligence. But is it all it's cracked up to be? Ouellete is skeptical, and pulls no punches in conversation with host of the Industry Insights & Trends podcast edition, Jim Anderton. ***Catch up on the latest engineering innovations with more Industry Insights & Trends videos and podcasts.

1 week ago | engineering.com | James Anderton

Michael Alba on why the human touch isn't going anywhere, yet. Today's advanced design software often includes the capability to do advanced computational tasks that ere traditionally done by physical testing. The original engineering methodology was always iterative. Design, test, break and redesign has been the hallmark of engineering for millennia, but a new generation of advanced tools suggest a future where the physical fit and test functions are replaced by software.

2 weeks ago | engineering.com | James Anderton

Jim Anderton in conversation with additive editor Ian Wright on the latest developments. It's been said that additive manufacturing is the newest 25-year-old technology in industry. The science-fiction quality of complex part making from powder or liquid precursors does seem like magic, but it has evolved from a laboratory curiosity to a serious manufacturing technology.

1 month ago | engineering.com | James Anderton

Engineered products get better over time. User manuals don't. Engineered products, particularly consumer goods, have improved continuously since the advent of mass production century and a half ago but that process is accelerating as more devices become software defined. Assembling, configuring and preparing software defined devices for the end user usually require some kind of instruction manual, and one way that manufacturers save money is to move those manuals online.

1 month ago | engineering.com | James Anderton

Bentley Systems' Julien Moutte on how future tech will affect complex engineering project management. This episode of Designing the Future is brought to you by Bentley Systems. Engineering is applied science. It's also an art, the confluence of creativity and blue sky thinking, constrained by physics. For large engineering projects, particularly in the civil engineering space, it's also about project management.