When people think of the way new technologies are developed, they often think of the end product that people see on the shelf or showroom. This is true of any product, but it is most prominent in the ...

SolidWorks 3D mechanical-engineering software lets users quickly build solid models with familiar drag-and-drop, pointand-click, and cut-and-paste functions. You can easily create 3D models from ...

Simulation software maker MSC.Software Corp. of Santa Ana is expected to announce today that it will buy Mechanical Dynamics Inc. for $116.6 million in cash. Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Mechanical Dynamics ...

For many years, the design tool industry has entertained the idea of combining both electrical and mechanical design into a single user experience, with a single database as a foundation. Major tool ...

Join us on Wednesday, November 30 at 2:00 p.m. ET for Design News Radio's program, "Bridging the Mechanical & Embedded Design Worlds" (register here). I'll be talking with Pascal Vera, Siemens PLM ...

The terms electromechanics and mechatronics seem similar, but there are some subtle differences. It also appears that if and when the newer term, mechatronics, is fully defined, their differences may ...