Mike使用SolidWorks公有云SimuliaWorks

寂静回声

Mike’s always had a healthy appetite for business and innovation. When Mike and his twin brother, Mark, were only 15, they launched a business building decks for their neighbors in Utah. By the time they graduated from high school, their deck-building company had grown significantly, employing nearly 200 people. In their late 20s, the twins separately came to the same conclusion (in a way that only seems to make sense because they are twins!), after experiences at airshows/airports, that they wanted to get their pilot licenses.

It’s well-worth mentioning that Mike has also been a SOLIDWORKS user for quite some time (as has Mark, who owns a company, Best Tugs, building tugs for planes – all designed in SOLIDWORKS!). Even before working on planes like Scrappy, he co-ran (with Mark) an engineering firm called Prodigy Engineering. When you run a design and engineering firm, you need to be concerned with handling expectations. In one sense, “failure” in such a context can be equated to falling short of set and/or understood expectations.


Today, when Mike flies planes like Scrappy, there’s a lot at stake. “Failure” of any number of systems in the plane needs to be considered. And so, a lot of thought, effort, and analysis must go into minimizing risk while optimizing performance.


This is why, when he’s looking for answers to some of his engineering problems, Mike uses the capabilities of SIMULIAworks to gain insights that would otherwise be fairly hard to get without doing things like wasting tons of material and relying solely on gut instinct.

With SIMULIAworks, Mike and his team are able to test things that ‘could’ happen in the real world with his planes. In the examples here, Mike talks to his viewers about how he’s able to make decisions on the landing gear assembly for Scrappy by running an analysis on the landing gear assembly on different loading conditions.