They work through a wide-area network and can produce engineering in work teams at decentralized workstations. Our company has always been decentralized, and very often, when we had several big projects at once, we d run out of capacity in a particular local office. Luckily, at the same time, another office was slowing down. Now, with the wide-area network we re developing, we can export the engineering effort to one or more branch offices and do the work remotely. The revolution in computers is such that your engineers can actually build a building onscreen and know what will or won t work before they ever touch a tool.
T hat s right.
We eliminate interferences on the computer screen. In fact, the design work for the recent expansion of Boeing s main assembly plant was done entirely on computer. While computer and communications technologies will never replace professional designers and engineers, they will continue to enhance the quality of service we provide our clients and improve our bottom line. Reprinted with permission from the July, August, September 1996 issue of Leaders Magazine.