The Virtual Engineer: 21st Century Product Development - Hardcover

Crabb, Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791800660 ISBN 13: 9780791800669

Publisher: Amer Soc of Mechanical Engineers, 1998

Synopsis

This new volume discusses -- in business and engineering terms -- the reinvention of the product development process. It addresses the tough questions about time-to-market and time-to-money in light of recent advances, such as those in predictive engineering software capabilities and in workstations that bring the power of supercomputers to an engineer's desk. Examining current technology and its implications for your future success or failure, Howard C. Crabb demonstrates how your company can integrate advances into your existing systems and organization. Dr. Crabb is president and CEO of Interactive Computer Engineering. He had over 30 years of experience at Ford Motor Company, where he pioneered the concept of visual engineering -- the representation of CAD data as realistic images.

About this title

Synopsis

Drawing on experience gleaned from 30-plus years at Ford Motor Company and his pioneering work in representing CAD data as realistic images, the author argues that in the face of the rapidly and constantly changing marketplace, engineers need to step up to the challenge by modernizing and overhauling the organizations of which they are a part in or

Edition details

• Publisher: Amer Soc of Mechanical Engineers
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791800660
• ISBN 13: 9780791800669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 166