Asia’s second largest manufacturer of earth-moving equipment is advertising in the United States for engineers who will work from their homes to design new higher-level products. “The company requires the services of ace & experienced designers/institutions having expertise in the design of high end dump trucks, bulldozers, excavators and related aggregates to keep pace with global technology trends and to surpass them,” says an advertisement in today’s Wall Street Journal placed by BEML Ltd., a company founded by the government of India in 1964.
BEML is a fast-growing company that apparently wants to take advantage of laid-off engineering personnel in the USA. It says compensation “would not be a limiting factor”. This doesn’t sound good to me. Outsourcing usually goes the route of an American OEM looking to find lower-cost labor to do noncritical technical work in India. So now, a veteran engineer living near Davenport, IA, or Peoria, IL, could conceivably use proprietary IP to help advance a Third World construction company? Sure, we all have a right to work, and use our talents, but is that what’s really going on here?
India doesn’t suffer from a shortage of engineers due to the Indian Institutes of Technology. It does suffer from a lack of experience and know-how.
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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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