1. WHERE THE ENGINEERS ARE.
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Brown, Alan S.
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CONTRACTING out ,ENGINEERING ,COMPUTER-aided design ,THREE-dimensional display systems ,BUSINESS planning - Abstract
This article presents information on the reasons for outsourcing of the advanced jobs to Asia by various business enterprises in the U.S. Elkay Manufacturing Co. of Oak Brook, Illinois appreciates the powerful pull of low-cost offshore engineering services. When it decided to move to SolidWorks, a 3-D computer-aided design program, it had to break down 7,000 2-D legacy drawings of finished goods into their components and convert each component into a 3-D model. Elkay's goal was to create a library of models that its engineers could use to design new products faster and cheaper. INSET: IT TODAY, ME TOMORROW.
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- 2005
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