We have all seen the devices. Whether it’s in a hospital, a clinic, an ambulance, or possibly where you work, and they are all truly lifesavers in every sense of the word. Now come see where they are designed and made! There will be a short tour of the Zoll facility along with an intro presentation from the Director of Engineering, Tom Hagerty, and our good friend from the early days of the SWUG community, Bob Wing, Senior CAD / PDM Administrator at ZOLL Medical Corporation.

Our first presentation is from Joe Riel, Sr. Partner Business Consultant at Dassault Systemes. Joe is a long-time SOLIDWORKS user and native New Englander now living in Florida. I've known Joe just about as long as I've been using SOLIDWORKS and he is a super great guy! Chat it up with him when you arrive, he lives for these opportunities! His presentation is on Model Based Engineering or MBE. What is that you ask? Here is Joe's provided abstract:

The implementation of Model Based Enterprise best practices are typically underestimated in terms of the full organizational impact it will render. MBE products are often brought on line too quickly with not enough thought given to the effect it will have on cross-functional groups. This ultimately will lead to low adoption rates as well as internal cultural instability. The aim should be to understand who benefits, how success is defined and how it’s quantified in order to win over executive sponsorship and ensure a timely, efficient and cost-effective deployment.

For our second presentation, we have Sal Lama and Chin-Loo Lama in the house! Sal is Director of Product Definition at SOLIDWORKS and Chinloo is Director of UX at SOLIDWORKS. They are a powerhouse married couple, very well known among SOLIDWORKS users, and are the nicest people you will ever meet in the industry. They plan to bring a little SOLIDWORKS and a little Makers to our meeting. Ever watch "Our Next Make" on YouTube? I highly encourage you to get some popcorn and dig in. They will be bringing a good dose of technical and maker fun that will "make" you ask for more! (see what I did there 😎)

As usual, we'll have fun, food, drinks for all, surprise special guests as usual, some giveaways, and YOU!!!

Come join us!!!

Ed~

https://www.zoll.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@ournextmake