Operations Management - Computer Aided Design

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Operations Management - Computer Aided Design

One of the first processes in the manufacturing task is designing a product or service that has been identified by the marketing department as important to existing or potential customers. In either case computer aided design is an important tool in this process.

IMSI CAD Software

This site is a vendor of Computer Aided Design (CAD) technology. Students should acquaint themselves with the concept of CAD through this site.

Try the following tour of the site:

Look at the CAD product features and benefits under Products
Explore the capabilities of CAD software.
Visit the Support Forums (through the 'Technical Support' link), access and review the subjects being discussed

Assignment

This site could be the basis of an assignment on the benefits of CAD systems, also noting the limitations of current software in terms of their integration with Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) systems.

Students may like to search for similar sites using keywords such as:

drawing, 3D, bill of material, product modelling, design engineering

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