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Virtual Engineering Fosters Real Collaboration

New visualization software and hardware re-establishes that personal connection.

One advantage of physical prototyping is the design collaboration it fosters. Project and process engineers, stylists, managers and even customers can gather around a physical mockup and, from that grouping, opinions and input will naturally follow. However, physical prototyping is expensive and is being displaced by computer-generated simulations in many stages of the design process. While cost-effective, the collaborative element so helpful to design decision-making can suffer in the new age of computer-aided engineering.

Sunday 15 July, 2007 10:53 AM

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