We scoured leading blogs and websites dedicated to engineering topics and identified 5 articles we found to be particularly valuable and think you will too.

1.Successful Sabotage of Drone Highlights Additive Manufacturing Security Needs

Additive manufacturers seeking to protect their products must secure every point in their manufacturing process, a need highlighted by the recent successful hack and sabotage of a drone produced by 3D printing, Richard Grylls, technical director at SLM Solutions, said. “Companies looking to safeguard their components should be concerned with securing all parts of the process – from data generation to shipping,” he added. Read article

 2. Carbon Expands Material Lineup for Ultrafast 3D Printing

When Carbon finally launched its M1 3D printer last year, the system came with a portfolio of several exciting photopolymers for use with the company's continuous liquid interface production (CLIP) technology. Materials are key to the applications of any 3D printing process, but when that process is fast and produces engineering-grade parts, every new release is an important one. Now, Carbon has unveiled three more resins for its CLIP technology, an epoxy material dubbed EPX 81, a Urethane Methacrylate resin called UMA 90 and a new Cyanate Ester formula, C221. Read article

3. EPlan vs AutoCAD Electrical Comparison

A peculiar topic and discipline in the field of CAD, from designing electrical circuits to laying out electrical schematics for a building, electrical CADing is a complete industry all together. Electrical designing for all scales, forms, architectures and even more practical applications need a solid software package to integrate the non-electronic drawings with the electric magic. As a computer science major, I am not jumping cliffs to learn or even read about electrical CADing, but then again that’s me. And the e-CADing enthusiast should read on for a comparison of EPlan vs AutoCAD Electrical. Read article

4. A "Geeky Drama" - Unstriking a Match Explained

This short movie clip appears to show a match being unstruck. The laws of physics would allow this to occur, except for one little law. A detailed narrative is available below. The clip was first shown publicly at Jim McGovern’s inaugural lecture as a Professor at the Dublin Institute of Technology on 25 September, 2008. Read story

5. Technologies for the Smartest Machines in the IIoT Era

What does it mean to make something smart? Consider the scope of this industry catch phrase and what it means for a machine to be smart and to provide advantages for increased use of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) design strategies. Read article