The more I use facebook, the more powerful it has become professionally. That’s for two reasons:
1) I have over 300 "friends" now in my facebook account, most of them professional colleagues. Some of them are former rivals and there was no love lost when we started at each other over the cannons. Facebook breaks down those barriers. Some of these folks are very influential in our business and industries they cover. facebook also puts you back in touch with colleagues from long ago that I never would have from again. We have doubled the number to 134 in our Design News facebook account. Come join us.
2) If I comment on or post something, all 300 plus "friends" get notified. It’s like my mini-circulation list which I own and control. You have to be careful, though, and not spam them (i.e. over-communicate) and make sure a comment or link to something is meaningful. As for expanding that crowd, I’ve already picked the low-hanging fruit. Now I have to selectively and more slowly grow my list. But expansion is important.
Almost every automaker has had to 'pick a side' when it comes to alternative fuel options and ways to divest from a reliance on gasoline. Fiat is looking to back compressed natural gas or liquid propane as an interim solution.
Plastic may not be the most beloved of materials to the more environmentally minded, but Plasti 2012 aimed to mold a different opinion of the material in people's minds.
The rare earth element market has become steadily more rational, and new sources coming online will continue to reduce costs. Still, it is unlikely that prices will drop to their former lows.
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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