We’re all told that social networking is next wave of interaction between collagues, but now there’s Yammer. I’ve checked and and it looks like it could be pretty useful for engineers. It’s secure chat within your enterprise based on one simple question made famous by Facebook: “What are you doing right now” except Yammer asks “What are working on right now?” It’s a great way to exchange posts, images, ideas and links all within your own company Yammer network. In aggregate the discussions can be saved and accessed. In the process, the discussion create a knowledge base. The basic service is free, but companies can pay for administered networks that could conceivably supplant exspensive and internal e-mail servers (can you say Exchange?).
It sounds like a nifty tool for engineering collaboration. And it’s frighteningly simple and could get that social networking monkey off your back. Check out the demo (Yammer calls it a “tour”).
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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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