Blog – Page 12 – Design and Manufacturing Futures Lab

23rd September 202121st January 2025By Chris CoxCFMS, Chris Cox, Project: DETI

Demystifying Digital “X” – ICED Conference Paper

The DMF lab recently (remotely) attended the International Conference of Engineering Design (ICED) 2021 to present seven papers. One of these, authored […]

23rd September 202127th January 2025By Chris Cox

DETI & Digital Threads

DETI and Digital Threads By the end of this decade, to deliver a low carbon global economy, everything we make will need […]

23rd September 202128th January 2025By Chris CoxDesign

Haptics in Engineering Design

Haptics in Engineering Design Haptics is the study of touch, and its application in engineering has risen in recent years due to […]

23rd September 202128th January 2025By Harry FeltonDesign

Emulating Mass Properties

Emulating Mass Properties With 3D Printing When 3D printing products it is common for the fabricated component to have significantly different mass […]

23rd September 202121st January 2025By Mark GoudswaardDigital-Physical Twinning, Seamless Digital Physical Prototyping

Revisiting prototyping in 2020: A snapshot of practice in UK Design Companies

Prototyping is an indispensable activity in the product development process but what does prototyping practice in industry look like? In this video […]

23rd September 202123rd September 2021By Mark GoudswaardNon-Identical Digital Twins, Seamless Digital Physical Prototyping

Comparison of digitisation methods: photogrammetry and structured light scanning

What are the differences in performance and usability of digitisation techniques? In this video we compare two such methods; photogrammetry and structured light […]

22nd September 202121st January 2025By Mark GoudswaardDigital-Physical Twinning, Pro2booth

The IDEA Challenge 2021

The IDEA (International Design Engineering Annual) Challenge just completed its first iteration! Inspired by current events, this year’s participants competed to develop […]

22nd September 202122nd September 2021By Mark GoudswaardDigital-Physical Twinning, Fungibility, Non-Identical Digital Twins, ProtoTwinning, Seamless Digital Physical Prototyping

How are prototypes fungible?

Prototyping constitutes a wide range of methods spanning both physical and digital domains, each with their respective benefits and drawbacks. Different methods are […]

22nd September 20213rd February 2025By Mark GoudswaardDesign

The Neuro-cognition of Digital and Physical desiging

The Neuro-cognition of Digital and Physical desiging When prototyping, a number of different tools and technologies exist in physical and digital domains. […]

17th September 202115th October 2021By James GopsillProject: Brokering Additive Manufacturing

Brokering Additive Manufacturing has published and presented their second paper entitled “Achieving responsive and sustainable manufacturing through a brokered agent-based production paradigm” at the International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM).