Simufact.forming Technology

       When i was studying in Mechanical Engineering course, my interests were on metal forming technology and welding technology. Fortunately, there was a new software that available in UiTM which is Simufact.forming software. UiTM was the first university in Malaysia that granted with full license of this software. My team consist of  four members including two Germany students (Mark and Johannes), Azizul Azfar, and me. We were supervised by Assoc. Prof. Yupiter HP Manurung to explore this latest software that already installed to be used for simulation purpose in Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. 

    The software is a integrated product from two other softwares which are MSC.SuperForm and MSC.SuperForge.  It is very useful to simulate metal forming process. It can support in all metal forming applications machines or type of pressed to be used, types of materials, and other parameters. This software is very powerful since it can simulate very accurate and precise as close as the actual condition. It is very useful for the manufacturer to simulate their part in Research and Development stage before it can produce their prototype or mass production. If there are any problems or defects regarding the parts to be used, the Simufact.forming software will show exactly the location of the problematic areas. By having such information, the manufacturer will not waste their money to repeatedly produce the product before it will satisfied them.

       Because of the wide functions of this software, a company at Puchong, P.K Berhad Malaysia, has assigned us with a task to show the ability of the software to simulate one of their product which is Water    Meter Casing part. By using all the actual parameters that being used by the company to produce that product, we    have simulated it, and the result shows that the defected area is exactly the same with the actual one:

                                                           Actual (location of crack area)
                                                     

                                                   Simulated (same location of crack area)

                                                   

There are two videos that has been produced by our team as an experiment to expand and bend a pipe (trial version):

                                                                Expanding process

Bending process

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CyberKnife System

Having such an advanced technology to be used to treat tumors with high accuracy and can deliver the treatment precisely. It seem like a new hope for patient who are carrying a critical disease for both cancerous or non-cancerous tumors for any part in the body such as prostate, lung, spine, liver, and the most critical part like brain.

This cyberknife technology will strike the tumor with high content of radiation with very high accuracy without involving other parts of the body. This advanced technology is the best option for patient that has inoperable or surgically complex tumor because cyberknife technology can be categorized as non-surgical option.

How does it work??

CyberKnife technology uses image guidance software to track and continually adjust the treatment for other patients. Generally, this technology is equipped with two other advanced technologies which are image guidance systems and multi joint robotic arms with six degrees of freedom (6DOF). These two supporting technologies will help the CyberKnife to track and verifies the tumor locations and for the robotic arm, it will help this system to be in the best and correct angle before it started to emerge the high radiation to the problematic area.

Conclusively, there are three uniqueness of this advanced technology. Firstly, it uses image guidance software to track the tumor. Secondly, CyberKnife technology does not need the patient to be rigidly set up to the head-frames that screwed to the skull purposely to reduce any movements. And lastly, it is totally different with other radiosurgery technology which focuses on the brain’s tumor only, but by using CyberKnife technology it can also  be used for other parts of body.

p/s: I used to know about this technology because my late brother in law had used this CyberKnife for his brain’s cancer. 

source: http://www.aapm.org/meetings/06AM/images/cyberknife.jpg

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Technology Used in Avatar

     Everybody knows about the Avatar film directed by James Cameron. The film has used some advance technology in producing the film. Previously, the old 3D technology need us to use a pair of thick glasses that have green and red colour of the lenses. However, with the technology advancement, the modern 3D technology has been developed to drag them out from their B-movie past.
   The new technology has been grabbed to be used in producing Avatar film. The team development has used computer generated imagery and advanced stereoscopic filming methods purposely to build their virtual world. According to the director, the recording of Avatar’s film was based on 70% of CGI technique. Cameron also wanted to crank up the practicality of the actors by improving the way of capturing the actors’ facial expression by using a skull cap with a camera to monitor the eyes, mouth, and the mimic of the actors’ face.
     As been discussed by the expert, motion captures makes 3D much easier not because it allows the film makers to add special effects, by it can also let them to choose the right position of the camera as they desired to. The position of the camera can be shift from one to other places by only a single click, and the system will change the viewpoint of the camera.
     However, the most advanced technology in making the Avatar film compared to others is that the creation of a virtual monitor that can allow the director to see the motion capture results in real-time instead of wasting time to wait for the computer with old-fashioned technology to provide the recorded images.
    Besides, the director also make some improvements compared to the previous film. In Avatar’s film, there were some stereoscopic cameras that each use a pair of lenses built to mimic human eyes. The stereoscopic cameras can allow the film maker to capture two images at the same time which can provide the illusion of depth.
    The common technologies in producing 3D film are Bolt, Coraline, and Polar Express. Nevertheless, there are some technologies improvement in making the 3D film, the audience need also to wear a pair of polarized glasses which is looks  like a common glasses. 

source: http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/18100000/AVATAR-avatar-18181208-869-1280.jpg

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2_vB7zx_SQ&noredirect=1

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Dual OS instances for Verizon Smartphones

 Recently, VMware has released  their new IT product which is mobile device software with dual persona. The software is offered and suited with some Android Operating System (OS)-based devices especially for Verizon smartphones.

The new technology of dual persona is very important and special because it consists of two OS instances which are purposely for business and personal use.

VMware has created two different containers for business or formal usage and for personal use. It is important to have different containers in order to avoid from data leakage and keep the private and confidential information of any individual on the same device. Security for Android devices is enforced by isolating personal and corporate assets and encrypting all corporate assets that reside on the device.

This dual persona new application is also known as VMware Horizon Mobile and it is now already being used by the users of LG Intuition and also Motorola Razr M smartphones. However, many smartphone users are not aware with existence of this new application.

The other advancement of this technology offered by VMware is that there is no special device or hardware required in order to use the application. There two basic things needed which are, a single core processor and RAM of 1GB-capacity. This application is one step advance compared to the dual persona smartphone's software offered by Red Bend which offers the application through a special hardware. It is quite complicated for users to get it compared to the software which is available from VMware's website.

p/s: VMware is the global leader in visualization and cloud infrastructure. They also delivers customers' solutions to accelerate IT development.

Rec Bend is the software solutions provider to manage firmware, applications and devices over the air.

The 5 BEST Verizon Smartphones

1.         iPhone 5

      

source: http://cdn.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1.jpg

2.        Samsung Galaxy S4

source: http://cdn.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/31.jpg

3.        Samsung Galaxy Note 2

source: http://cdn.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2.jpg


4.          HTC One

source: http://cdn.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/41.jpg


5.        Samsung Galaxy S3

source: http://cdn.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/51.jpg

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Speed Booster and Lower Data Use on Mobile Device- by Google

Google IT team has launched new technology to be integrated into Android-powered mobile devices especially for smartphones. The technology is purposely to reduce the data consumption and of course to increase the performance of Web for mobile device. The technology advancement created by Google are:

• New image compression formats
•   New video compression formats

Basically, Google IT team wants to provide the same quality and performance that Chrome give to the desktop to the mobile’s Chrome browser. All these goals can be achieved through the latest technology named Google’s WebP open-source image compression technology. By using this technology, it will speed up the usage of mobile browser because it can reduce 30% out of the normal size of the image.

For the video, Goole IT team has created VP9 video compression format purposely to be used in mobile device application. Through this advance technology, the size of the video will be reduced to 50%. However, the quality of the video will not be distracted even though the data bandwidth of the video has been reduced.

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