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
What changes when the geometry is fabricated directly, and where the tolerance goes.
Start lesson →Cloud solvers, monitoring, connected models — and the five risks that come with all of them.
Start lesson →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
Question 1
An analysis is run on a vendor's cloud solver. Which of the engineer's responsibilities has moved?
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?
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.
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?
Question 5
Which of the five questions about computation happening elsewhere is answered by the platform working well?