Product Design & Lifecycle blog

Chris Atherton

Working for Symetri I currently have the role of Consulting Services Manager for the UK. This involves primarily providing and managing a technical team delivering consulting services based around Symetri and Autodesk's MFG CAD, Automation and Data Management products. Additionally, I provide pre & post sales support, standard and bespoke training as well as installation, configuration and mentoring around the Symetri and Autodesk manufacturing solutions.
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Product innovation through Design Automation

Time is life’s greatest commodity. Optimising time can seem an impossible task, most being spent on repetitive tasks, with important, innovative processes often put on the back-burner.

Fourth industrial revolution is here. A turning point for manufacturing?

All companies want their products to stand out and be the best at what they do: why else would we create them? But traditional revenue streams are drying up with cheaper competition from abroad....

How times have changed - From Product discussions to Business value partnerships

Not so many years ago the conversations most of our clients wanted to have with us was about our products; what would Autodesk Vault give them, What is Inventor's iLogic functionality and how do we...

What do I need from my PDM system?

When talking to companies about their engineering data I often hear the following words: "We manage our data via windows". When asked how they manage their data via windows they mean that there...