The Clouds – Why clouds are neither pure nor innocent and how humans can artificially create them?

I use to travel by plane every year, sometimes for holiday; sometimes for business. Everytime when I am up there I take a look out of the window and I see the clouds just below the plane I am in. They appear to be objects, sometimes fluffy as if made of wool, and sometimes denser,... Continue Reading →

The Chocolate – The most deliciously engineered material on Earth_Part 2_ Where does the Chocolate comes from?

Chocolate is a key ingredient in many foods such as milk shakes, candy bars, cookies and cereals. It is ranked as one of the most favourite flavours in North America and Europe. Despite its popularity, most people do not know the unique origins of this popular treat. Chocolate is a product that requires complex procedures... Continue Reading →

The Chocolate – The most deliciously engineered material on Earth_Part 1_How Chocolate is made?

Materials Science is not only about the ingredients from which objects are made but is also about what we eat. As I am from Belgium, I would like to tell you about our number one product we proudly spread around the world which is CHOCOLATE. It is our national product and let me also mention... Continue Reading →

LEAN MANUFACTURING – DESIGNING A CAR – Inventing something new

Inventing something new doesn' necessarily means that you come out with a revolutionaly product which nobody ever seen or though about before. Nowadays with so much tech available the possiblilty to really do so it exceptionally low. Yet improving an existing product adding features on it like no-one did before and create a memorable user... Continue Reading →

SOLIDWORKS_Viking Helmet

In this post I'll show you how to design a Viking Helmet made of 2 main componets :The Helmet Body and the Horn Body, which will make the final assembly in a Viking Helmet Product. Let's start with The Helmet!! THE HELMET STEP 1 Create new part STEP 2 Create 2 reference planes, each at... Continue Reading →

LEAN MANUFACTURING – DESIGNING A CAR – The Techniques of Lean Design

It's wonderful to know that new products can be produced faster with less effort and fewer errors. However, innovations are most useful when they are available to everyone and practices at General Motors, Volkswagen and the other mass producers, lag far behind. I know because myself I was doing this for years and during the... Continue Reading →

MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING – Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing_What is the SYMMETRY tolerance?

Among the 14 used GD & T symbols in the category of Location Tolerances there are 3 types. 1. The Position Tolerance 2. The Concentricity Tolerance 3. The Symmetry Tolerance From these 3 tolerance types, only the Position Tolerance is often used as it is also easy to measure. The other 2 are in general... Continue Reading →

MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING – Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing_What is the CONCENTRICITY tolerance?

The functionality of a part in an assembly is usually well defined by the 4 form tolerances (straigthness, flatness, circularity and cylindricity) and among the orientation tolerances by the 3 most frequent ones: the position, the perpendicularity and the parallelism tolerance. Yet we have 14 different types of tolerances in total, which can be anytime... Continue Reading →

CREO PARAMETRIC 6.0 – Audi Wheel Rim Design

A wheel rim design can be done in different ways, depending on the wanted pattern and the used CAD software. In this example I show you a version of Wheel Rim used on AUDI cars and how to do it in CREO Parametric CAD software. A wheel rim can also be done in 1 piece... Continue Reading →

THE ART OF COFFEE – How to make a good Coffee?

After Water and Tea, the 3rd one most consumed drink must be the coffee. At some point I am tempted to put coffee in the same position as tea as both being the 2nd most consumed drinks on the planet. Like Tea, coffee is also an art. You must know how to make a good... Continue Reading →

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