This 25+ page white paper explores practical ways to simplify operations, accelerate throughput, and maintain quality in today’s most demanding production environments. It shows how modern execution strategies can close the gap between as-designed and as-built products while reducing costly delays.

Inside, you’ll learn about:

• Streamlining production flows and enforcing consistency across operations
• Advanced tracking, tracing, and defect management for full visibility
• Digital instructions and data capture that eliminate paper-based inefficiencies
• Scalable approaches for multi-plant execution and collaboration
• Integration across planning, quality, and execution for better outcomes

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This technical article examines how engineers can leverage modern manufacturing execution approaches to break down silos, improve collaboration, and maintain alignment between as-designed and as-built products. The result: faster ramp-up, fewer errors, and greater efficiency.

Inside, you’ll learn about:

• Why traditional disconnected systems create delays and errors
• How visibility, integration, and automation accelerate production
• The importance of digital continuity between design and execution
• Real-time monitoring and corrective actions to keep programs on track
• Ways to prepare operations for next-gen technologies like IoT, AR/VR, and additive manufacturing

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In addition, engineers increasingly need to run multiphysics simulations that combine structural, thermal, and fluid dynamics effects, adding further computational demands. Evaluating multiple design variations and running detailed optimization studies within tight deadlines only amplifies the pressure.

This is where modern high-performance computing (HPC) becomes essential. By providing the processing power and scalability required for faster and more advanced simulations, HPC enables engineers to tackle larger, more detailed models with greater confidence. It unlocks the ability to explore more design scenarios, run complex analyses, and iterate rapidly — accelerating time to insight and ultimately time to market.

Even better, today’s HPC solutions are becoming more accessible and easier to integrate, empowering more engineering teams to overcome simulation bottlenecks and drive innovation forward.

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This white paper discusses how such a VFD fits in the current marketplace with the following main topics:

• The benefits of VFD use beyond pumps and fans
• The increasing use of interior permanent magnet motors (IPMs)
• VFD demand in response to increasingly challenging applications
• How the Mitsubishi Electric FR-A800 Series VFD meets these demands

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Bariatric equipment refers to medical devices designed for bariatric (obese) patients. Bariatric equipment is designed specifically to meet needs of these patients, meaning they can handle heavier loads, have more robust supports, and are designed with wider widths to ensure patient comfort. Nearly all medical furniture, from chairs and beds to crutches and walkers can be designed for bariatric patients.

In healthcare, “bariatric” refers to equipment designed specifically for patients whose body weight exceeds the standard limits of regular medical devices. Bariatric equipment typically features reinforced frames, wider surfaces, and increased weight capacity often exceeding 500 pounds.

Read this white paper to learn more about bariatric equipment, and the potential of plastics in its design.

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This white paper covers why using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology in wireless battery management systems (BMS) communications offers great advantages. In this paper NXP explains the benefits of wireless communications such as higher energy density, easier pack assembly and second life options. It explains how UWB works and its advantages over narrow-band technology in battery pack environments. And finally, it explains NXP’s UWB wireless BMS full solution, its benefits and how it is protocol level compatible with NXP’s wired BMS solution.

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Powering the future of mobility requires sophisticated solutions, and NXP’s Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs) are at the forefront of enabling software-defined vehicles (SDVs). NXP’s latest innovations enhance efficiency, safety, and design simplicity for automotive manufacturers.

Discover the key benefits of NXP PMICs:

• Power Efficiency: Advanced low power modes to minimize energy consumption.
• Functional Safety: Built-in safety mechanisms meeting ASIL B or D standards.
• Simplified Architecture: Reduce complexity and component count with the ByLink System Power Platform.

Scalable PMIC solutions also support the growing demands of electrification and autonomous driving, paving the way for streamlined designs and faster time-to-market. Explore how this power management technology is driving a greener, smarter future in the automotive world.

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Production of everything from prototypes to end-use parts is faster, cheaper, easier to use, and more accessible than subtractive manufacturing methods — which are more complicated and expensive to operate. Investing in additive manufacturing can greatly improve efficiency and agility while minimizing supply chain risk, while its automated processes reduce the need for specialized labor. 3D printing is also efficient: you build only what you need to, and nothing more.

Additive manufacturing has seen widespread use due to these benefits. 3D printing technologies have continued to move forward and several key advancements have been made in recent years. Today, AM solutions are more reliable and effective than ever before. They have a wider range of capabilities and potential applications, and can print parts that address specialized needs.

So, what are these improvements, how do they translate into concrete benefits for manufacturers, and why is now the time for businesses to invest in additive manufacturing? Read this white paper to learn directly from resident engineers and technical experts at Markforged.

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As the high-tech electronics value chain continues to optimize manufacturing to get better, faster and cheaper, there is a paradigm shift emerging. Adopting new technology in the quest for efficiency gains must not be burdensome or constraining for the production team, but rather should adapt to the unique environment, workflows and cross-functional collaboration that fosters speed and creativity.

A manufacturing execution system (MES) that has broad and deep functionality yet provides a flexible user experience promises to bring an entirely new level of agility and productivity to the shop floor. The enabling technology for this shift is a low-code, multi-experience development environment that augments the core MES.

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