Renishaw is proud to announce that the company has joined Land Rover BAR’s Technical Innovation Group (TIG) as an official supplier – joining the quest to bring the America’s Cup home to Britain. The company will contribute its expertise in metal 3D printing and position feedback encoding.

The America’s Cup is the oldest international trophy in world sport, pre-dating the modern Olympics, the Ryder Cup and the World Cup – and Britain has never won it. It’s the world’s premier sailboat racing contest, and the 35th edition will be held in Bermuda in 2017, in foiling multi-hulls. Land Rover BAR is the British challenger, and Ben Ainslie, winner of four Olympic gold sailing medals, is the Team Principal and skipper.

The Land Rover BAR Technical Innovation Group was formed to bring together the best of British talent and industry. The goal is to find advanced technologies and develop them to give the team a competitive edge. The TIG complements the existing Land Rover BAR design team and allows it to rapidly develop, test and prove these technologies.

The TIG has already engaged a number of key partners and suppliers from British industry, including Land Rover, BT and BAE Systems. The TIG is governed by a steering group, chaired by PA Consulting’s Dr. Phil White with the BAR team represented by Andy Claughton, Land Rover BAR’s Chief Technology Officer.

Renishaw is one of the world’s leading engineering and scientific technology companies, with expertise in precision measurement and healthcare. The company supplies products and services used in applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to metal 3D printing, dentistry and brain surgery. The Renishaw Group currently has over 4,000 employees, of which 2,700 people are employed within the UK.

“As a British engineering company with core skills in precision and performance, combined with expertise in position encoding and metal 3D printing, we are delighted to have the opportunity to make a valuable contribution to the TIG and help Land Rover BAR bring the America’s Cup back to Britain”, explained Robin Weston, Marketing Manager of Renishaw.

Renishaw’s contribution will be through its expert metal additive manufacturing knowledge, helping to optimize the design and construction of critical, 3D printed metal parts of the team’s race boat. It is also contributing by providing ongoing expert advice on position encoder technology.

Ben Ainslie commented, “We don’t underestimate the challenge ahead of us. We are a first time challenger for the America’s Cup, and only one challenger has ever won it at the first attempt. We want to leave no stone unturned in our search for new technologies that will help us to bring the Cup home. That’s why we have developed the Technical Innovation Group and are pleased to have the support of Renishaw with its heritage of over 40 years of breakthrough innovation.”

On the auspicious occasion of Diwali, DesignTech CAD Academy announced the biggest competition of the year “3D Diwali” – Design- Develop- Decorate. Overwhelming response was received from the students across all the centers.

DesignTech CAD Academy, an authorized training partner of Siemens Industry software for their CAD and PLM solutions, and Altair Engineering for their CAE HperWorks suite of Solutions, celebrated Diwali with a unique contest in their institute.

The contest began on 6th October and ended on 10th October 2014. In this competition students had to develop designs and 3D Models of Diwali related artifacts using some of the most advanced CAD software solutions in the training institute. Students were given one hour every day for four days after their classes to develop these designs. In four hours students had to develop creative designs that would best reflect their representation of Diwali and what it means to them.

The award presentation and felicitation ceremony was done at the hands of Mr. Sachin Chougule, Founding Director, DesignTech Systems Ltd. On this happy occasion, Mr Sachin Chougule exclaimed, “Students showed excellent creativity and designing skills in coming up with wonderful 3D models using various CAD Software. This contest not only gave them a platform to display and present their creativity, but also to prove their designing potential and proficiency in making the best use of CAD software to even create intricate and fine designs and detailing. I was thrilled to see how well these students could work with advanced software like NX CAD, which is also one of the most popular CAD software and widely adopted by the engineering companies in India. I am sure all these students have a bright future ahead in store for them, and great opportunities will be beckoning them outside the door of CAD Academy once they successfully conclude their courses.”

These designs were judged by DesignTech Systems Ltd.’s very senior and experienced Technical Expert Mr. Raju Batulla. The student who won the judge’s heart with creativity and excellent designing skills by developing a 3D Model of décor of Goddess Lakshmi’s Poojan in NX CAD software from Siemens is Rahul Kanse. The second award went to Mahesh Shingare for having designed a beautiful decorative lantern. Vishal Khairnar won the third prize for designing an oil lamp, while Gaurav Tambe and Suresh Jadhav were presented special appreciation awards for designing wonderful lanterns

Mr. D.A. Darekar, Centre Head at DesignTech CAD Academy, added, ‘We were overwhelmed and amazed to see such enthusiastic response to this contest. All the students across all centers in Pune Kothrud, Autocluster Chinchwad, Hyderabad, and Nashik were very excited to be a part and to put on their best performance in this competition. The competition was really close. As a contest this was our first initiative, and looking at the response we are now geared up to conduct such contests more often which will give students a chance to demonstrate their creativity, talent and expertise in using the CAD Technology and also increase the confidence of the companies in them for getting better placements.”

The 3D design of Décor of Goddess Lakshmi’s Poojan developed by the first winner Rahul Kanse was 3D Printed using Stratasys 3D printer and was gifted it to him along with other attractive awards from DesignTech CAD Academy. The other winners were also presented various exciting prizes from DesignTech CAD Academy.

In particular, AITA will focus on issues concerning the role of additive manufacturing in production processes relying on the aggregation of materials, starting from metal alloy powders.

A significant number of membership application has already been filled. The association can be joined by manufacturing companies, universities and market players wanted to exchange information of additive manufacturing and explore new developments and business opportunities that this technology has in store for the manufacturing sector.

AITA’s official presentation will take place on the occasion of the congress series “Quality Bridge” organized by 29.BI-MU/SFORTEC during an event named “3D Printing: Applications and Opportunities for Mechanical Engineering”, due to be held in the Scorpio Room of the Milan fair’s Congress Centre on Wednesday, the 1^st of October 2014 at 10 am.

AITA was officially founded on 2^nd of September 2014, before the notary public. The head of UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE and Owner of the Italian company Cesare Galdabini Spa, Luigi Galdabini was appointed as Association President. The board of directors will include the President of Rosa Sistemi Spa Fabrizio Rosa and the CEO of EOS Srl, VITO Chinellato.

Establish ‘Geometric 3D Make Lab’, a 3D printing lab for the engineering and manufacturing community

Geometric Ltd, a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Global Engineering Services, and Offshore Software Product Development (OSPD) solutions and technologies, today announced the signing of an MoU with College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) and Colorado State University (CSU), USA for setting up the ‘Geometric 3D Make Lab’ at the COEP premises. The lab will be open to students/faculty of all colleges as well as industry personnel and the community at large allowing them to build 3D printed objects and explore the hardware and software used in the additive manufacturing process. The Lab will be managed by the COEP.

Geometric will invest up to USD 200,000 (Rs. 1.2 Crores) over a period of three years towards setting up the lab, after which the lab is expected to be self-reliant. Geometric will also provide software expertise in the area of 3D printing, scanning, PLM, CAD and related areas; as well as projects for graduate/post graduate students on the additive manufacturing process. Colorado State University on the other hand, which already boasts a similar lab, will provide the requisite know-how in additive manufacturing, setting up a broad-access 3D printing lab, and software tools, and will be actively involved in making the lab a success.

Signing the MoU, Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Director, COEP said, “We are very happy to be associated with a leading engineering technology company like Geometric and the innovative educators at CSU. We are sure to gain from the company’s extensive experience in new age technologies. 3D printing and additive manufacturing are expected to transform the way we manufacture today, and this lab will be critical in ensuring our students and faculty are future-ready in every way.”

Mr. Manu Parpia, MD & CEO, Geometric said, “We are proud and excited to be associated with this path breaking initiative. Geometric 3D Make Lab will make exploring the power of additive manufacturing easier for the engineering community in Pune. We will get a first-hand view of the challenges and issues faced by users during 3D printing, helping us enhance our products and solutions for the design and manufacturing process of the future, thus enabling us to better serve our global customers. Moreover, I think it is critical for business and academia to come together for such commitments and hone the skills of the next generation of talent in our country.”

Dr. David Prawel, Director of CSU’s Advanced/Additive Manufacturing Laboratory added, “At our lab in Colorado, we’ve seen that hands-on experience with additive manufacturing goes a long way in building the right software solutions for this technology. We applaud Geometric’s and COEP’s efforts in setting up a lab of this caliber in India, and we are happy to provide our expertise to jump-start the initiative. We are sure to see some exciting and innovative products from this new lab.”