Thoughts on thoughtful design
February 13, 2021We live in a world full of amazing design software and hi-tech automated machines. These “tools” are designed to reduce design cycle times and leverage productivity. Companies spend a lot of money on these tools and expect a productivity pay off from their designers. Some of the new expectations...March 22, 2023Managers direct progress. Managers and designers report on progress. When reporting on progress, there is a natural tendency to pull focus to recent activities. This tendency is partially because what has most recently been worked on and discussed lingers in collective memory and is subject to...December 27, 2022A digital twin is a virtual representation of a real item/system, the physical twin. A digital twin is not a mashup of Arnold Schwarzenegger films. The term digital twin has been rapidly gaining popularity in mechanical design. For one thing, "digital twin" has a lot more cachet than the...
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