Thursday, August 4, 2011

Software Company Executive Believes Digital Tools, Techniques Will Shape Manufacturing's Future.

Technology Review (7/29, Simonite) reports that Autodesk, a California-based software company "is betting that" digital tools and techniques, such as 3-D printing, "will have an increasingly powerful role in what happens on factory floors, enabling manufacturers to embrace more flexible strategies that deliver more customized products." Buzz Kross, who is in charge of Autodesk's manufacturing industry group, "says that rising costs in China's maturing economy and high-profile problems with out-sourced components, like those that plagued Boeing's 787, are making the model of high-volume, low-cost outsourced production less economically attractive.
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