Concurrent Design Dreams

by Robert J. Smith, IDSA
Robert Smith is operating manager of AnvilWylde Design, LLC. He is a designer,
inventor, instructor and CAD trench-dweller. E-mail: rjsmith@anvilwylde .com.
Deep in the grim final phase of the mechanical product design-when the
CAD models are nearly complete, the detail drawings bleed red from ECOs
and the prototypes are finally starting to behave-the marketing department
suddenly calls its meeting...