This week I’m preparing to attend the HyperWorks Technology Conference (HTC) in Pune, India. This is part of the 2011 Global HTC Series. The events so far in Tokyo, Japan and Orlando, Florida have been well attended and have included some great customer presentations in addition to excellent keynotes. India will be no exception with, among others, Charlie Loh from Jaguar Land Rover addressing the “Journey from Physical to Virtual Verification” and Suresh Nandagopal, President, Autoliv India providing a “Safety Outlook for Automotive”.
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Core Strategy – conversation with John Chalifoux, President of MERA

With the increased focus on sustainability across the automotive industry reduce and recycle have become established considerations, but reuse is less often considered.
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This week we finished a set of 5 automotive industry webinars that showcased some technologies and methods to assist in the constant fight to reduce cost and timing while exciting consumers with innovative, better performing products.

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Discussion with Tim Smith, Director of Design Engineering with Altair ProductDesign, about the use of aluminum extrusion to build the structure of the Altair Bus.