SolidWorks World 2018年会:各方精英

寂静回声

第一位发言的是SolidWorks全球认证的高级经理Mike Puckett，SOLIDWORKS World started off with Mike Puckett, Senior Manager of the Worldwide Certification Program, who gave the audience a glimpse of the workforce of the future. According to Mike the SOLIDWORKS certification program, which celebrates its 20th anniversary, initially took 16 years to reach 100,000 certified users, but over the last two years it’s doubled in size with 200,000 new users now certified. In 2017 alone, the program added over 52,000 new certified users. In fact, every 10 minutes another SOLIDWORKS user becomes certified. Bottom line: if you want to be part of the workforce of the future, get SOLIDWORKS certified.
新的考试Mike also introduced two new, industry-focused exams to the program. Want to get schooled in additive manufacturing? There’s a new Certified Additive Manufacturing Associate exam coming in April on MySolidWorks, and there’s a new Mold Making Associate exam now available. To mark its 20th anniversary, the CSWP exam has been redesigned with new content, new models and new challenges.

接下来是Brand UX Leader at SOLIDWORKS组合管理副总裁Kishore Boyalakuntla，他介绍了来自Arrivo的工程师Ryan Kraft。a company focused on the goal of eliminating traffic. Kraft told the crowd that people who live in the larger urban areas of the country spend an average of 100 hours a year in traffic and as a nation we lose billions of dollars as a result of traffic.
The company is using SOLIDWORKS and 3DEXPERIENCE solutions to design a high-speed super urban network to move people around cities. The Arrivo network would be composed on a magnetized track that parallels existing freeways. The system could support existing vehicles as well as cargo sleds and its own specially designed vehicles.
When asked why the company selected the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Kraft said that they are first and foremost a company of builders, and their strategy for CAE, CAD, and PLM must support that. The company selected the minimum set of tools and processes to enable quick but accurate manufacturing and testing, and will add in further toolsets and processes as they move to a production mindset in the coming years.
What’s next for these pioneers of the brave new world of transportation? The company will spend the next 18 months to two years focusing on moving forward with technology, partners and customers, and it is actively seeking engineers to join the company, with hopes of doubling its engineering staff. The company also has plans to build a test track in Colorado and if all goes well, construction of that will begin in 2019.

第三位是产品组合管理总监Milos Zupanski，他主要介绍SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE PLM Services。As products are getting more complex and time to market is getting shorter, there is a growing need to take control of your company’s data and protect IP. SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE PLM Services provide an affordable data and lifecycle management system regardless of company size and does not require investment in or hosting on your own hardware infrastructure.Due to the fact that 3DEXPERIENCE PLM Services are hosted in the cloud, there is nothing to install, no hardware requirements.Whether people are using SOLIDWORKS Desktop or xDesign and whether their needs require PDM or PLM, SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE PLM Services enable users to take the steps they want to take and grow at their own pace. As their needs increase, they can scale up and add additional capabilities with a click of a button. Users can start with xDesign today and can have full PLM capabilities connected to SOLIDWORKS by the end of the year.注意，SolidWorks用户现在就可以使用Xdesign在线CAD服务。

产品组合管理总监Stephen Endersby接下来要介绍Tarso Marques Concepts的老板和创始人Tarso Marques以及前F1车手。Tarso said, however, being able to communicate that vision was an issue early on as he made his transition from driver to custom car designer. He admits that when he first started designing, his initial sketches were not great, which made explaining his ideas difficult and clay modeling was too time-consuming.
Fortunately Tarso’s experience with SOLIDWORKS changed the game for him. He said that SOLIDWORKS literally changed his life, making it much easier and faster to get his vision on the road. Once parts are created, the company’s designers must focus on performance so they have begun using the new Topology Optimization features in SOLIDWORKS Simulation, which he calls “truly transformational” and has resulted in stronger, lighter parts that deliver high-end performance.
The company has now changed the way it designs its car parts and components, starting a design using topology optimization, which enables them to create organic parts that not only look cool but can be 3D printed, something that would have been impossible with any other means.

产品组合管理总监Kurt Lundstedt接下来讲述一个惊人的客户成功案例。，ENVE是由一小群对碳纤维技术感兴趣的工程师组成的公司。该公司使用SOLIDWORKS和SOLIDWORKS Simulation来设计高强度工装夹具。随着公司的发展，出现了在局域网上存储数据容易导致版本控制和丢失文件的问题。在2012年，该公司实施了SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional，以帮助他们更好地管理其设计数据。该公司现在正在使用SOLIDWORKS Manage，其中包括强大的项目，流程和项目管理工具以及交互式仪表盘和报告。 ENVE将使用项目管理功能来跟踪他们的新产品开发活动，并正在考虑使用项目功能和报告工具来创建其备件订单。他们还将使用内置的数据导入和导出功能将SOLIDWORKS Manage连接到其ERP系统，以将相关数据导入到管理并发回产品信息。

Another cool customer, Gilo Industries, and its founder Gilo Cardoza, was next on the main stage to share how his company is using SOLIDWORKS to design the Mako jetboard. Cardoza said that while the concept of a jetboard has been around since the 1930s, no one has ever done it really well. It needed to be lightweight, like a surfboard and travel fast. The Mako goes 35 mph and has a 12-horsepower engine and goes from zero to 35 in a blazing 2.8 seconds. Using SOLIDWORKS the company went from art to finished product in 12 months.