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Mechanical Design Automation: A Case Study On Plastic Extrusion Die Tooling, Allen Prasad Varghese
Mechanical Design Automation: A Case Study On Plastic Extrusion Die Tooling, Allen Prasad Varghese
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The Skills Gap in Mechanical Engineering (ME) Design has been widening with the increasing number of baby boomers retiring (Silver Tsunami) and the lack of a new generation to acquire, practice and perfect their knowledge base. This growing problem has been addressed with several initiatives focused on attracting and retaining young talent; however, these types of initiatives may not be timely for this new group to be trained by an established Subject Matter Expert (SME) group. Automated Engineering Design provides a potential pathway to address not only the Skills Gap but also the transfer of information from SMEs to a …