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- Implementing Lean for Green Sustainability

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- Documenting Your Designs Made Easy Continued

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- Customising the Quick Access Toolbar
- Object Properties at Your Fingertips (Circles and Lines AutoCAD Tutorial)
- Inline Work Features in Autodesk Inventor

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- HTC Sweden Reduces Product Materials Use by 10-20 Percent

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- Autodesk Inventor Tips & Tricks and Technology Preview Event
- Digital Prototyping Seminar for Industrial Machinery Industry - Improving Productivity to Win Business Faster in Tough Times
- Autodesk CEO Talk for Manufacturing Companies - Accelerating The Growth of Your Business with Sustainable Manufacturing

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Dear [customer first name],

Welcome to the November 2008 issue of Manufacturing News, the newsletter designed especially for professionals in mechanical engineering, engineering design, process engineering and electrical engineering.

In this issue, learn how Digital Prototyping helps manufacturers weather the economic storm and how companies who’ve implemented lean and sustainable initiatives in their businesses, gain the competitive advantage and profitability that many manufacturers are looking for. You will also learn how to document your designs easily. As always, we'll share our usual dose of Tips and Tricks for you; and we showcase our customer success story – HTC enjoys a reduction of product materials with Digital Prototyping.

If you would like to share your comments on how we can improve this newsletter, please send them to keepintouch@autodesk.com.

Happy Reading!

The Manufacturing News Editorial Team

Digital Prototyping Helps Manufacturers Weather Economic Storm

In this US Business Review article, Buzz Kross, Senior VP of Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division describes how Digital Prototyping can help manufacturers achieve cost savings in a receding economy. Manufacturers in ASEAN can draw parallels to the challenges their counterparts in the US face and how they can seize the opportunities the economic uncertainty bring about. Read more here .

Implementing Lean for Green Sustainability

At a time when many manufacturers have been forced to lay off workers, cut margins and relocate overseas just to compete, some companies have been able to hire more workers, increase profits and keep operations in North America simply by implementing and improving lean and green sustainability initiatives…...With today’s tight credit market, rising raw materials costs, the high price of transportation and stiff global competition, lean and green manufacturing can provide the competitive advantage and profitability many manufacturers are looking for. Find out more on this interesting read here .

Documenting Your Designs Made Easy Continued

In the second part of ‘Documenting your designs made easy’, Dennis Jeffrey, The Creative Inventor columnist, explores the pros and cons of using Inventor® Studio to create illustrations and animations for documentations. Find out more here .

Tip 1: Customising the Quick Access Toolbar

With AutoCAD 2009, there are many ways to access your favorite or frequently used commands, which increases your productivity. Find out more here .
Posted by Jaya Christiyan K G, a member of the AUGI India Chapter.

Tip 2: Object Properties at Your Fingertips (Circles and Lines AutoCAD Tutorial)

Reduce repetition with the Quick Properties tool and Rollover Tooltips feature in AutoCAD 2009. Click here to learn how to do this.
This handy tip is provided by Lynn Allen a Cadalyst columnist and worldwide Autodesk Technical Evangelist with over 20 years of experience with Autodesk software.

Tip 3: Inline Work Features in Autodesk Inventor

Check out Autodesk Inventor’s new functionality with Inline Work features and WorkPoints here .
Posted by Erik Kurek, tutorial courtesy of Avatech Solutions

Get Trained At Your Own Pace With e-Learning

Only for subscription customers. The online training catalog provides a variety of learning experiences. Featuring self-paced lessons that are a quick and convenient way to learn the Autodesk suite of Manufacturing solutions. Each lesson usually takes 15 to 30 minutes to complete and includes hands-on exercises so you can practice what you've learned.

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Autodesk Shows HTC Sweden Reduces Product Materials Use by 10-20 Percent

Professional flooring systems company HTC Sweden has used Autodesk Digital Prototyping to increase the strength of its diamond-based concrete floor grinding systems while reducing overall product weight. Using tools such as sheet metal analysis, HTC designers optimise the metal frames in their products, helping to decrease the amount of materials used by 10-20 percent. Read more here.

Join us at the Autodesk Inventor Tips & Tricks and Technology Preview Event in Singapore

Specially organised for users of Autodesk Inventor, join us for an afternoon with our very own Autodesk Inventor technical team to increase your design innovation and productivity. Pick up useful tips and tricks and also preview exciting new features. Limited seats available, register now. Click here for more event details. (only available in Singapore)

Digital Prototyping Seminar for Industrial Machinery Industry - Improving Productivity to Win Business Faster in Tough Times

Join us and see how Autodesk solutions for Digital Prototyping provide scalable, attainable, cost-effective software for issues faced in each phase of the industrial machinery development process - conceptual design, engineering and manufacturing. Through a single digital model, your teams are able to test and optimise designs before they hit the shop floor, helping to drive innovation, achieve higher quality, and speed time to market. In essence, improving your ability to win business by lowering development costs.Seats are limited, register here now! (available in Singapore only)

Autodesk CEO Talk for Manufacturing Companies - Accelerating The Growth of Your Business with Sustainable Manufacturing

Sustainable manufacturing provides businesses with a distinct competitive advantage. By re-examining the design, engineering and manufacturing process to make it more environmentally friendly, businesses also improve their operations efficiency in tandem. Material and energy use is optimised, less wastage is incurred and more cost and time savings enjoyed. All these improvements made even more apparent in times of economic uncertainty. Learn how you can incorporate sustainable practice with sharings from industry experts - Dr Christopher Holmes of Manufacturing Insights, an IDC company and more.
For more information, please contact Ms Devona Chia, devona.chia@autodesk.com or +65 6461 8463.
(available in Singapore and Malaysia)