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Cloud computing, the Industrial Internet of Things and advanced automation promise to fundamentally change the way manufacturing operates in the next ten years. Multiple software platforms will give way to unified, integrated systems that operate from the front office to the loading dock. But how?
Dassault Systèmes’ Vincent Frerebeau talks about this issue and the future of manufacturing.
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Advances in affordable computational capability changed engineering fundamentally with the advent of CAD/CAM. It has changed civil engineering too, in disciplines as diverse as materials, site and structure design, and building performance.
Today, it’s even more complex as the Internet of Things promises to connect everything, everywhere, feeding vast amounts of data into engineering management and design systems. Key to managing this dataflow is the digital twin. Digital twin not only facilitates the simulation of complex designs and construction tasks virtually, it allows engineering professionals to feed building performance data into virtual systems, giving unprecedented modelling power to create higher performance, lower cost, safer buildings and systems.
Jim Anderton speaks with Bob Bray, Senior Director and General Manager, Autodesk Tandem, who outlines how the digital twin will revolutionize multiple aspects of the architecture and engineering sectors.
Autodesk Tandem Digital Twin Platform Launches for AEC. Learn more here.

On this episode of Designing the Future, we speak with Dania El Hassan, Autodesk Product Management Lead for AutoCAD desktop products. Dania takes us through how design software is evolving to provide a more connected, more automated experience for designers. We discuss the growing role of web and mobile platforms, the advantages of personalized software insights, the impact of COVID on design software, the future of the file, and much more.
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Computer-aided design changed the way engineers and designers turn ideas into renderings. Like most paradigm shifting technologies, the full implications of CAD weren’t initially understood by design engineers or the coders that created the software, but the results have been undeniable. Better designs, faster to market. Today, the combination of vastly more powerful, affordable hardware plus cloud connectivity with technologies like AutoCAD has freed engineers and designers from the office workstation and made the design process something done anywhere, anytime. Autodesk vice president Rob Maguire is an expert and former coder himself with deep roots in CAD software development. He speaks with engineering.com’s Jim Anderton about AutoCAD, the cloud, and the future of engineering design.
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Phil Kinnane is the Vice President of Sales at COMSOL and holds a PhD in electrochemical engineering. In this episode of Designing the Future, Phil discusses the evolution of simulation software, the importance of democratization, the role of high performance computing (HPC), why simulation is ripe for use in life sciences, and his take on the age old question: are we living in a simulation?
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On this episode of Designing the Future, James discusses the evolution of topology optimization, the applications of artificial intelligence in design software, the new generation of meshless technology, the importance of systems-level thinking, data in the context of digital twins, how the pandemic is shaping simulation, why user interfaces should be fun, and what design software could look like in the year 2070.
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