Year: 2016

AutoCAD 360 Pro

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The official Autodesk AutoCAD mobile App is the trending wave among CAD professionals today. This highly efficient mobile app offers an easy to use platform to create, edit, view and share your CAD drawings from anywhere. This amazing mobile platform helps you stay productive having some of the most exciting features.

Bridging Gaps between geographies

Access the latest CAD drawings between office and field and eliminate extra work cycles spent in communicating work.

Connect to the External  Cloud Storage

The app lets you access your work from the external cloud storage such as OneDrive, Google Drive, Box and Google Drive.

 

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Key Features

With the new AutoCAD 360 pro mobile app, you can do anything that can be done on a desktop system. The mobile app is loaded with capabilities to Draw, Edit, Measure, View, Annotate, Share, use external storage, work offline, sketch freehand, share read-only designs and orient yourself with the GPS.

 

 

New Features for the iPad users

Use the Apple pencil with your iPad Pro to access the CAD tools faster and work productively. You can split your screens to work with notes, images, and to access other files while creating your drawings.

Meeting the Needs

The app is available in Pro and Pro Plus editions to work as a perfect CAD partner for Architects, Engineers, and Construction Professionals.

 

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Institutional Training Services from CADD Centre

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With the boom in the technical industry, thousands of graduate engineers are pass out every year across the nation. Even after professionally qualified, these candidates are not directly employable as they fail to meet the needs of the industry.

Organizations today not only demands knowledge in engineering fundamentals, but also know-hows about CAD software skills, Business Etiquettes, Communication skills and other soft skills. Engineering graduates often do not meet all these requirements and therefore are not immediately employable.

The CADD Centre Training Services, the Asia’s Largest Skill Development Network have taken initiatives to empower the young engineers and help them grab their dream jobs. The centre has joined hands with a number of educational institutes across geographies to generate highly productive workforce for the industries. The centre offers highly customized programs filling the technical requirement gaps of engineering candidates offering them hi-end skills.

 

Program Highlights

  • Top-notch education and knowledge sharing by qualified and meticulously trained mentors.
  • Skill development programs enabling employability right from the first year of college.
  • On- premises programs for engineering candidates so that they do not miss the regular college classes.
  • Highly customized programs to fill the technical gaps.
  • Specially designed courseware for Institutional Training.
  • Placement World Wide Assistance (PWW) for fresh engineers to help them find right jobs.

 

Special Programs to Empower Engineers

CADD Centre offers two special programs for the engineering graduates empowering them with this extra dose of knowledge. The centre works in association with the educational institutes to train and endorse students for their future careers.

Paradigm Shift- This program is designed for all those students who have recently completed their schooling and are ready to join college. Paradigm Shift acts as a career shaping assistance for such candidates at a stage where it is difficult to make choices about which degree to choose.

Employment Skill Development program (ESDP)- This special program guides a candidate how to crack an interview to make an entry into the industry. Designed for the last year college students, this course covers areas such as interview skills, communication skills, resume writing skills, etc.

 

Other than the two courses mentioned above, other value added programs include:

  • Bringing Industry experts to talk about emerging trends & technologies to colleges.
  • Event sponsorship.
  • Faculty development programs.
  • Conduct Quiz program for engineering departments.
  • Project Assistance.
  • Assist students in creating product prototype, including 3D printing.

 

CADD Centre also provides customized programs for engineering students in the following products:

  • AutoCAD
  • CREO
  • Ansys
  • NCCAM
  • MX Road
  • NX Nastran
  • 3D Printing
  • Inventor
  • ProSteel
  • PDMS
  • Ansys Fluent
  • Ansys Civil

Universities / Colleges interested in customized programs can visit  for more details

https://www.caddcentre.com/institutional_training_program.php

The Evolution of the Engineering Services Outsourcing Industry

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The integration of IT into daily life has already impacted the world to a very great extent. And this implementation is expanding day by day. Every year, the products are introduced with tight IT integration in them. ‘Smart’ is a new concept today and every product is getting smarter every year. Smart objects such as lights that automatically turn on and off are the next big thing. With such expansion of IT, the growth of engineering service outsourcing (ESO) industry is also booming. The ESO providers have taken the lead when it comes to integrating IT and engineering. There are three waves of evolution in this industry, and we are currently in the second wave.

 

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Wave 1 (2000 – 2010)

The first wave of engineering services is the services of yesterday. The enterprises till date consider engineering services as an extension of the engineering organizations.  The market of ESO has remained smaller when compared to IT outsourcing (ITO) or business process outsourcing (BPO).  The ESO has always survived with a core group of service providers and the engagements have contacts that are tactical and delivered through time-and-materials (T&M) arrangements.

From the data collected in 2014, it was found that a quarter of the overall engineering services market was accounted by India-based providers. The worth of this quarter of the market is approximately US $80 million per year. The Engineering Service Providers (ESPs) and the Global Engineering Centers (GECs) make up the Indian ESO industry and almost half of the top 500 R&D spenders operate through these GECs in India.

Wave 2 (2010- 2017)

Technology has advanced in many fields like sensors, distributed company, wireless communications, and big-data. These technologies are provisioning the rapid transformation of the Internet of Things (IoT). The consumer expectations are increasing at a very fast pace and thus embedded electronics and IT are permeating the service and product engineering services.

In all the industries, the firms are dealing with a wide range of devices and data. These challenges create a unique opportunity for ESO providers. The ESO providers can create intelligent engineering applications that can monitor and customize the entire experience of any product.  There are several ideas such as real-time health care, smart homes and remote monitoring them, connected cars and much more. The created intelligent products store their own data and use it to establish a feedback loop. The OEMs can constantly deliver intelligent products as-a-service whose customer experience and product evolution are defined using software applications.

Wave 3 (2015 onwards)

In the third wave, the ESO industry integrates manufacturing as the third field of expertise. The security in the industrial internet is increasing day by day which is creating a new dynamic in robotics, 3D printing, and industrial automation. The third change is beginning and has two phases.

  1. With the evolution of “Digital Shop Floor”, the previously collected information will integrate with systems like product Lifecycle management (PLM), Enterprise resource Planning (ERP), and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). Such integration will increase the productivity, optimize the operational costs, improve the safety, and enhance asset uptime utility.
  1. The product maintenance and the repair requirements will have a lot of impact with the introduction of design-to-print concepts of additive and 3D manufacturing. For example, a washing machine that has the ability to provide 24/7 monitoring and can trigger the local provider with the need of printing a spare part.

Engineering Services and its changing nature

The need for change in the ESO delivery model has risen to realize the full potential of the growth capacities of technology. The current GECs must broaden their scope and invest further to meet all the upcoming challenges of IT-enabled engineering. Moreover, the GECs must also leverage the exposure, experience, and ESO providers’ investments.

In the future, the managed service contracts for ESO will require shifting from traditional engagement models to demand tight integration of service which includes key performance indicators, metrics of client business, and service level agreements that are stringent. In such way, the business model will move towards sharing risk and reward between the service providers and the client.

Careers in the Coming Future and The kills You Need to Grab Them

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Are computers killing jobs? Yes, they are! On the other hand, they also are creating a complete new area of job opportunities for the technical people. No doubt, the modern machines, and Artificial Intelligence have today made manual and paperwork disappear. And this trend is expected to rise in the next five years threatening many jobs in the market.

So where are the opportunities then? Well, the rapid increment in the Information and Technology sector has opened many profiles on the technical front. Artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and many other specialized fields today need skilled and well-qualified personnel to compete in the market.

This boom in the technology also challenged many Government employees working across organizations. And as a result, they were provided additional training and mentoring to be competitive in the rapidly changing market.

Owing to this approach in the employment, it is also estimated that children entering in the primary schools will work across profiles that no longer exist today. This revolution indicates a clear picture that this rapidly changing technology will indeed create unimaginable areas of careers and job profiles in the future.

Smart Engineering Killing Technical Jobs

Better machines have undoubtedly replaced jobs that involved risks in the technical field. Many industries are now using automated methods in the product or service processing, manufacturing and distribution too. These are the areas where technical people, mostly the engineers were working since ages. Although the introduction of advanced and hi-tech machines and intelligent algorithms have increased productivity and efficiency two-fold, it has also grabbed many jobs and profiles of people working in this discipline.

Technologies such as Artificial intelligence, Sustainable Production, 3D Printing, Robotics, and resource efficient techniques have introduced new ways and means to develop better products and services in this field. This technology also opened gates to a complete new area of job profiles across these fields.

So, what these industries really need? Keeping in mind the drifting work profiles, professionals now need to have strong communication skills, rather than, only the technical skills. Skills that can help them to coordinate best among each other – skills enough to dig deep to find out future possibilities with the technology, and open-mindedness to readily accept and appreciate innovations with an open mind.

3Robots made HealthCare easy!

Diagnosing diseases at an early stage and effective medication have saved several lives. Hi-tech machines and computer-driven robots have made complex surgeries simpler to use. Doctors are today not only specialists in their own fields but are also pros at using these smart machines. Technology has made surgeries possible even from remote locations and provides instant relief to the patients irrespective of their location.

So are the doctors, tech people too? The answer is apparently yes! As technology spreads its wings in the healthcare sector, now doctors are trained to operate these smart machines. This integration of technology and medicine has changed the way a patient is treated today.

And this shift of healthcare service made it necessary for the healthcare professionals to get trained to operate these computer driven machines. This trend now needs the doctors to not only have knowledge about healthcare but also to work with these machines.

The introduction of technology thus made it necessary for them to get trained to use them to match the changing trends in this sector.

Skills the Fourth Industrial Revolution Demands

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is expected to bring change in the professional lives of many people. People that possess multiple skills- not only technical but also mathematical and social will rise in their career.

On the other hand, people that possess single skill set may have to face many challenges in the market. This theory not only applies in the field of engineering or medicine but also across fields of business as well as agriculture.

With such a shift in the workflow, many experts argue that now with technical empowerment, social skills of negotiating and sharing will be crucial. Skills that we learn at the pre-schools will be valued highly as with technology doing most of the technical skills; people may have to move across projects and roles.

Soft skills that encourages employees to coordinate, cooperate and support one another across tasks will be crucial. Along with these, the mathematical and statistical ability will also be hugely beneficial.

So where do we need to Focus?

To match and sustain our position in the market, and also to accelerate in our careers, it is apparently clear that we need to bring change in the education system in schools and colleges. Candidates need to get trained today in both technical as well as social skills in order to cope up with the industry needs.

Anticipating the change in the market trends and the rise of technology, researchers now believe that jobs that required single skill sets will no longer exist in the future. To match the market needs and the changing business operations, students now should be encouraged to develop social skills, similar to that are taught at the primary schools. Business should learn the areas of development of their own activities and should be openly willing to share and contribute each other to develop.

These soft skills are also important because they help you reach new opportunities at workplace along with the current ones. These skills help you to improve your overall personality- attitude, work ethic, communication skills, emotional intelligence, personal attributes and the way you deal with different people.

These social and interpersonal skills have now become important as they play a crucial role in the success of a professional making them more productive and efficient. It has therefore become necessary for the students in the college and schools to be exposed to such soft skills.

Apart from mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, agriculture, or any other workplace, they also need soft skills to work together, share and negotiate empowering them to compete in the new job markets.

 

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution What to expect?

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Human civilization is encountering the outbreak of a technological revolution that is set to transform the way we live our lives in every aspect. Humankind has never experienced such a huge transformation in terms of complexity and scope in the past. The first Industrial Revolution followed the practice of mechanizing production using water and steam power. In the second revolution, we used electric power for mass production. In the third, we used electronics and information technology to automate production. Building on the third one, the fourth Industrial Revolution is emerging from the digital revolution that began in the middle of the last century. This revolution comprises a fusion of technologies and an interconnection of physical, digital and biological spheres.

The reason why we consider the fourth Industrial Revolution as a distinct revolution is that the pace at which it is evolving is exponential and not linear. It has the potential of transforming the way the entire system works. This new change has endless possibilities powered by the advancements in AI, 3D-Printing, IoT, robotics, autonomous vehicles, biotechnology, quantum coupling, energy storage, etc.
What lies ahead?
Unlike the preceding revolutions, the fourth Industrial Revolution can improve the quality of life for people around the globe. We will encounter long-term benefits in efficiency and productivity. Transportation and communication will get cheaper driving economic growth and the emergence of new markets. But, there are some challenges associated as well. Economists predict that this mighty change can disrupt labor markets, leading to greater inequality. Where labor is said to be substituted by automation, there will be a substantial increase in safe and rewarding jobs. This change is evident from the rising sense of dissatisfaction and unjustness amongst middle-classes with the winner-takes-all economy.
Effects on Business
There are great shifts arising in the demand side as well as supply side. New technologies are disrupting the present industry value chains. The demand side is experiencing a growing transparency, changing customer behavior and their ways of engagement. Companies are forced to adapt their ways of marketing, designing, and delivery of products and services.
Effects on Government
The merging of physical, biological, and digital worlds is bringing new powers to citizens to engage with governments and voice their opinions. Technology will enable governments to have more control over the population. Governments will fall under the pressure of changing their current approach to policy making and public engagement. The fourth revolution is increasingly blurring the lines between war and peace or combatant and non-combatant.
Effects on people
The fundamental determinants of how we identify ourselves will be changed. There will be a shift in how we define our ownerships, sense of privacy, time devoted to work and leisure activities, career choices, interaction with people and building relationships.

One cannot say that any technology or the associated disruption comes without humans having any control over it. It is directly guided by the decisions we make as consumers or citizens. It is, therefore, in our hands to give our future a face that is reflective of our common sense of destiny and moral consciousness.