Nothing against Paccar which makes diesel trucks, but I found just a touch of irony in that Gonzaga University’s first “green certified building,” a 29,000 square science center, is named after the maker of Peterbilt and Kenworth truck tractors (hardly green machines…). Paccar kicked in $2 million for the $8.5 million facility which will house “sophisticated laboratories dedicated to robotics, artificial vision, and transmission and distribution line engineering,” according to the press release. We all have to start somewhere.
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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