Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Siemens PLM introduces new mobility App for iPad
Siemens PLM has launched an App that gives mobile users access to product data and workflows captured by Siemens Teamcenter software.
The App, called Teamcenter Mobility, will initially only be available on the Apple iPad.
Siemens said the App helps provide data access to traveling executives and managers who would traditionally, need to rely on office-based personnel to give them information from office systems and software.
Using the App, moreover, mobile workers will be able to enter data into PLM systems from remote locations.
“Teamcenter Mobility enables these individuals to quickly search, view and interact with product and process workflow information on the spot using a convenient mobile device,” Siemens said in a press release.
The App, called Teamcenter Mobility, will initially only be available on the Apple iPad.
Siemens said the App helps provide data access to traveling executives and managers who would traditionally, need to rely on office-based personnel to give them information from office systems and software.
Using the App, moreover, mobile workers will be able to enter data into PLM systems from remote locations.
Wave-modelling tool could improve offshore structures
The project is a collaboration between City University London and engineering consultant GL Noble Denton and is in response to oil and gas exploration moving into deeper waters and the take-off of renewable projects.
‘You need to estimate the wave force produced by very large waves, particularly overturning waves, and the impact of these on structures must be accurately modelled. At the moment there is no efficient tool to do this — people are using empirical, linear formulae to estimate waveload, which are not accurate enough,’ said project lead Prof Qingwei Ma of City University London.
The software tool will help design engineers build optimised structures that are resilient to a range of conditions. In addition, it will help insurers create risk profiles and inform the decision-making process around existing structures.
‘Some structures, such as offshore pipes, might have been built 20 years ago, when we had a poorer understanding of waves, and in addition to that, climate change has perhaps made wave conditions different. So we need to know if we can continue to use this structure for the same purpose or for other purposes — for example, we might want to build wind turbines on existing structures and we need to know if it will be sufficiently strong .
The university has received £103,000 from the EPSRC and Finance South East to commercialise research by its Hydrodynamic Engineering Group, and GL Noble Denton will also contribute £50,000 to the work.
‘You need to estimate the wave force produced by very large waves, particularly overturning waves, and the impact of these on structures must be accurately modelled. At the moment there is no efficient tool to do this — people are using empirical, linear formulae to estimate waveload, which are not accurate enough,’ said project lead Prof Qingwei Ma of City University London.
The software tool will help design engineers build optimised structures that are resilient to a range of conditions. In addition, it will help insurers create risk profiles and inform the decision-making process around existing structures.
‘Some structures, such as offshore pipes, might have been built 20 years ago, when we had a poorer understanding of waves, and in addition to that, climate change has perhaps made wave conditions different. So we need to know if we can continue to use this structure for the same purpose or for other purposes — for example, we might want to build wind turbines on existing structures and we need to know if it will be sufficiently strong .
The university has received £103,000 from the EPSRC and Finance South East to commercialise research by its Hydrodynamic Engineering Group, and GL Noble Denton will also contribute £50,000 to the work.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Inflatable underwater containment facilitates highly efficient storage of offshore wind, tidal and wave power as compressed air (> 30 MJ/m3 at 700 m depth). Attached to the seabed, the inflated vessels would expel the depth-pressurized air to power turbines generating electricity during periods of high demand or intermittency of supply. Thin Red Line Aerospace is supporting Prof. Seamus Garvey’s visionary ICARES Project at University of Nottingham, UK, with design and fabrication of undersea vessels to 50 m3. Project efforts include concept development for volumes to 6000 m3.
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