What sits within the intellectual property (IP) of your company? Your designs, blueprints, logos and marketing collateral? What about your engineering calculations? If they don’t reside amongst the stuff you actively protect, they really should.
The process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from initial idea scribbled in the back of a notebook to eventual release is incredibly complex. It therefore stands to reason that manufacturers need the best, freshest tools if they’re to get products to market efficiently.
CAD has been used in certain industries for many years. Some industries couldn’t do without it. However, in areas such as packaging, CAD technology has not been seen as useful.
There was a time when the number of CAD software applications could be counted on one hand. Now, with a constantly expanding world of developers, and numerous tools with which they can create enterprise-level apps for multiple platforms, searching for new CAD software has become rather tricky.
For some, the words ‘augmented reality’ mean very little. It’s too complicated and too futuristic, yet the words are still flying around the office and in industry news. There are many things that people think about augmented reality and what it could do, without them realising that it is making changes right now.
“So, what are the timescales for engineering?” How often have you been asked that by those above you or by an expectant client? One of humanity’s greatest downfalls is its inability to provide accurate estimations of completion, so if your answer to such questioning is usually rather woolly, you’re not alone.
Bad design choices can lead companies to waste both time and money. Even good choices that take a little too long to come out of the design process can lead to costly delays.
Updating CAD software is costly, especially if the upgrades are released every one or two years. Yet there are practical reasons that make a CAD software upgrade more cost-effective than you (or your boss) might think.
