What a truly strange and challenging year it has been. Through it all, we’re grateful to work with caring customers and our brilliant team of creative problem-solvers. We’ve made it through 2020 together and we’re looking forward to a brighter 2021! We’re slowing down to enjoy the Colorado mountains… …and the Pennsylvania views… …baking all […]
Been challenged this year? Work smarter, not harder.
By Jennifer Herron This weekend I read ASME’s Mechanical Engineering magazine issue No. 01/143. They published a survey regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on engineering businesses. The results are relevant to Action Engineering’s business operations over this year. So many of you have asked how we are doing; it’s always nice to know our […]
3D CIC: Home Edition – CAD Hackathon with Sigmetrix
Join us for a 3D CIC: Home Edition virtual event on January 20, 2021, with a little friendly competition! Enter your best show of tolerancing for a chance to win prizes up to $100. We all like to think we can tolerance our parts in accordance with ASME Y14.5, but the tolerancing game isn’t always […]
WATCH: What is OSCAR?
“What we’re doing is organizing consistent messaging around Model-Based Definition that can be pragmatically applied today.” Jennifer Herron “I wanted to bring Model-Based Definition within reach – and that means for anyone. Not only big, global companies, but also the smaller supply chains who are building all the parts and assemblies for those large global […]
Agile Mindset: Balancing Workloads
Developing the MBD processes is a cross-functional and multi-disciplinary project that requires participation from a lot of folks, but not always at the same level of involvement each sprint. What if dev team members don’t have any work in a sprint? How do we keep them in the loop? Not all team members have work […]
New OSCAR Content: GeoTol Pro & SOLIDWORKS
We’re pleased to share the following new content in OSCAR: Introduction to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing General overview, geometric characteristic symbols, rules, terms and definitions; Introduction to measurement principles, open set-up and Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM). Limits of Size Rule #1; Features with & without size; Regular & irregular features of size; Independency principle; Limits […]
