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Module 19

Digital fabrication, cloud and connected workflows

Model to machine, computation somewhere else, and the risks that come with both — plus a short, sceptical note on quantum computing.

What this module covers

  • Explain what changes when a model drives a machine rather than a drawing
  • Say why tolerance moves rather than disappears in a digital workflow
  • Identify the risks in a connected workflow: security, confidentiality, versioning, access and dependency
  • Distinguish a stable principle from a dated claim about capability
  • State what quantum computing might help with, and what it will not
  • Read the course's currency register and use it honestly

Lessons

  1. What changes when the geometry is fabricated directly, and where the tolerance goes.

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  2. Cloud solvers, monitoring, connected models — and the five risks that come with all of them.

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  3. What it might help with, what it will not, and why this lesson is short.

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Module checkpoint

Check what you have taken in

5 questions

  1. Question 1

    An analysis is run on a vendor's cloud solver. Which of the engineer's responsibilities has moved?

  2. Question 2

    A rationalisation reduces 289 distinct member lengths to 12, at a material cost of 4 % on 210 tonnes. How many fewer distinct components are there to draw, order and track?

  3. Question 3

    A course's currency register holds 16 claims. 7 require verification. What percentage of the register is unverified? Give the percentage to one decimal place.

  4. Question 4

    A workflow moves a model through six links. If each link has a 3 % chance of losing something, what percentage of models arrive intact?

  5. Question 5

    Which of the five questions about computation happening elsewhere is answered by the platform working well?