A part passes every check in the structural review. Static stress well under yield, safety factor comfortable, sign-off granted. Eighteen months later it cracks in the field, and nobody can explain why, because the load never came close to breaking it. We've seen this play out enough times to know it's rarely a mystery. The cause is almost always the same, and it's mundane: a modest load, well within what the part can take, that came back a few million times until something c

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PMSM design optimisation usually gets structured the same way: pick a topology, run FEA, evaluate the result, pick the next topology, repeat. Most teams accept this as the price of rigor. In our experience, it is not rigor — it is a sequencing problem that inflates runtime and delays the decisions that actually matter. A paper published in March 2026 in *Electric Power Components and Systems* (ScienceDirect) demonstrated a different approach: an AutoML surrogate framework th

# How Engineering Simulation Supports CE Marking for European Product Companies If your company develops physical products for the European market, CE marking sits somewhere in your development process — probably near the end, probably handed to someone else, and probably involving a pile of documentation that proves the product is safe. For most 50-person product companies, that documentation gets assembled after the design is locked. That approach is about to become signif

Most engineering teams that commission topology optimization work focus on the same things: which software is being used, what the volume reduction target is, and whether the resulting geometry can be manufactured. These are reasonable questions. But there is an earlier question — one that most teams never ask — that determines the structure they receive before the solver runs a single iteration. That question is: which objective function formulation is being used, and is it

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