March 1, 2017
Email: The Enemy of Collaboration
Let’s face it: Design by its very nature is an iterative and collaborative process. In any design project, you will often try one thing to see if it works. When that fails, you try a different approach and eventually (hopefully) meet success. This happens again and again, day after day, as engineers develop new designs. The effort includes problem solving, …
October 31, 2013
Arena Exchange: Secure Yet Hands-Free Collaboration
This post provides an overview of the capabilities that this new product, Arena Exchange, provides as well as my commentary and analysis on what it means for engineering organizations.
December 17, 2010
Is Teamwork the Key to Simulation Driven Design?
Back at the beginning of December, I published a post titled The Very Real Skillset Challenges of Simulation Drive Design. It identified four main areas of knowledge or skills needed to really make a simulation driven design initiative successful including. It also looked at some typical engineer roles and their ability to gain and keep these four types of skills or knowledge.
December 1, 2010
The Very Real Skillset Challenges to Simulation Driven Design
It feels like we've been talking about simulation driven design for a really really long time. Doesn't it? The whole idea is to setup and run simulations of a product's performance early in the design cycle and base design decisions off those results. This approach is in contrast to using simulation towards the end of the design cycle, prior to prototype and testing or even just prior to design release, to validate and verify product performance. It might seem like a nuanced difference to some, but theoretically it can make a huge difference.
In the last post on collaboration, we covered a lot of issues surrounding collaboration. It's been overused. It's been used without specificity. As a result, we all cringe a little bit whenever we hear it being trotted out to describe another process or set of engineering software.
Do you remember when you first got email? Mine was through work and I remember something clicking in my head when I realized what it meant. It's changed the way we work. We no longer had to get on the phone to communicate remotely. It enabled faster and more accurate decisions.