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Article: Fast and virtual: Eight experts from three companies network their skills to land a rocket engine in record time.(MSC.Software provides example of business collaboration strategy)
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- Mechanical Engineering-CIME
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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WE WERE AT THE annual meeting of the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences in Nashville when MSC.Software got a call from Bob Carman. The company had collaborated with Carman over the previous several years on a number of advanced technology programs. He is the program manager for advanced technology and advanced propulsion systems at Boeing's Rocketdyne business unit in Canoga Park, Calif.
We didn't know it at the time, but Carman's call involved us in a program that tested our arguments about the value of collaboration in engineering.
Collaboration is just a fancy word for working together; everyone does it all the time in almost everything we do. ...