{"id":7485,"date":"2015-09-20T17:22:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2015-09-21T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T17:57:22","slug":"designed-in-solidworks-manufactured-in-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2015\/09\/designed-in-solidworks-manufactured-in-nebraska.html","title":{"rendered":"Designed in SOLIDWORKS. Manufactured in Nebraska."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lincoln<\/a><\/p>\n

The SOLIDWORKS community is stronger than ever in Nebraska! \u00a0What is the SOLIDWORKS community? \u00a0It is united\u00a0group made up of our commercial customers, resellers, educators, students, partners, employees, and user group leaders that are all a part of this amazing design and manufacturing network.<\/p>\n

I spent two days in Nebraska under the guidance\u00a0of user group leaders Todd \u00a0Blacksher, Chris Wurtele & Kyle Kraudy. \u00a0Manufacturing is happening everywhere I went in Nebraska. \u00a0Thanks to my new Fitbit, I walked \u00a020,853 steps, climbed 37 flights of stairs and shared with this community first hand – everything SOLIDWORKS.<\/p>\n

\"John<\/p>\n

My first stop was Chris Wurtele’s company RD Tool & Engineering. \u00a0Chris is a design engineer, John is co-owner and they introduced me to complex injection molding that I had never seen before. \u00a0SOLIDWORKS is more than the design software. \u00a0It is used to explore new processes for RD Tool’s customers.<\/p>\n

\"Trevor
\nChris introduced me to his young colleague, Trevor. \u00a0I was happy to see a Skills USA national final’s t-shirt and find out that Trevor\u00a0learned SOLIDWORKS in school.<\/p>\n

\"Metro<\/p>\n

My next stop was Metro Community College, Fort Omaha Campus. \u00a0This visit felt very familiar because I taught at Mass Bay Community College for 10 years. \u00a0SOLIDWORKS\u00a0and 3D Printing were totally integrated into the curriculum.<\/p>\n

\"Metro<\/p>\n

Kyle Kraudy, Omaha User Group leader and director of engineering for Conductix Wampler, joined us at Millard West High School. \u00a0We spoke with students from the Robotics AP class as they prepare for VEX Robotics and Skills USA competitions. \u00a0I shared how the VEX Robot components were designed originally in SOLIDWORKS and can be found on www.3DContentCentral.com – time saver.<\/p>\n

\"Marie<\/p>\n

The strength of our community comes from the support of our VARs. \u00a0I visited Josh & Matt from Alignex in their new Omaha office and training facility – just beautiful.<\/p>\n

\"Conductix<\/a><\/p>\n

My next tour was of Conductix -Wampler. \u00a0If a machine, vehicle, or any device is driven by an electronic cable, it probably has been designed and manufactured by Conductix. The outside custom test facility was every engineers’ dream workshop. \u00a0One of SOLIDWORKS main goals is to prepare engineering students for our commercial customers. Conductix held a SOLIDWORKS design skills – speed competition at University of Nebraska and SAE BAJA Team Captain Eric won – spending an internship at Conductix.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Conductix was host of the Omaha User Group meeting Monday night that featured First Robotics local LEGO team, the League of Legos. \u00a0Five girls presented to the SOLIDWORKS Omaha community on their design, community outreach and programming operation of the robot.<\/p>\n

\"Anna<\/p>\n

I was fortunate to talk with many commercial users here utilizing SOLIDWORKS to explore innovative products from the food we get from ConAgra to speaking with Engineer Anna Larson from ScanMed working on new MRI coil products. \u00a0Wow that was day 1 in Nebraska – Todd drove me to Lincoln.<\/p>\n

\"Tour<\/p>\n

Day 2 started in Lincoln with user group leader Todd and a tour of Duncan Aviation with host engineering director, Joep. \u00a0I walked through large airplane hangers to see the most amazing custom designed aircraft interiors. \u00a0We toured the shops each with master craftsmen – top in their field and the largest painting bays I had ever seen. \u00a0I talked with long time SOLIDWORKS user Tigh who proudly displayed his CSWP certificate from 10 years ago. \u00a0Fortunately, Todd gave me many more stories for he had worked for Duncan Aviation.<\/p>\n

\"CSWA<\/p>\n

The next stop was Southeast\u00a0Community College in Lincoln. \u00a0 I talked with William Gans-King that proudly showed me his CSWA certificate – he carried it in his back pack. \u00a0What a great achievement. \u00a0 \u00a0At both user group meetings, I met students that graduated from SCC and learned SOLIDWORKS. They have a great 3DPrinting lab too.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Next door to SCC was The Career Academy that just opened this August. \u00a0The Career Academy is a skills based, life long learning, education for\u00a0\u00a0junior and senior high school students that split their day between a comprehensive high school and technical job training. \u00a0 I got to see how models from 3DContentCentral were 3DPrinted. We visited the machine shop and the welding bays that were filled with new machines from Haas and Lincoln Electric.<\/p>\n

\"Todd<\/p>\n

Next is lunch! Todd gave me a quick tour of Lincoln that was filled with machined art from the company,\u00a0\u00a0Metal and Art, from decorative waste containers, to sheet metal movie figures outside the\u00a0theater, to metal leaves that seemed to float in the air. \u00a0Manufacturing was front and center Lincoln.<\/p>\n

\"Liana<\/a><\/p>\n

Our quick stop at Misty’s showed me University of Nebraska football was celebrated everywhere – our next stop was their new Innovation Campus and Studio, a maker space for both the artist\u00a0and the engineer. Liana proudly showed us this great space in the final phases of construction. \u00a0 I had to stop by and check out the SawStop – on of my favorite machines designed in SOLIDWORKS.<\/p>\n

\"U<\/p>\n

A trip to Lincoln Nebraska would not be complete with out visiting the University of Nebraska’s FSAE and BAJA teams. \u00a0Todd and I got to speak with Sam, Eric and Charles. \u00a0I was able to talk with Eric about interning at Conductix and later Eric would join us at the SOLIDWORKS Users\u00a0Group meeting. \u00a0 What amazing vehicles! \u00a0This team is host to Formula Lincoln and Formula Electric in June.<\/p>\n

One more stop before the Users Group. \u00a0This time Todd took me to his company, but it was more than just one customer. \u00a0The location\u00a0had many building that comprised more manufacturing in Nebraska that featured\u00a0tmcoinc.com<\/a><\/u>, metalandart.com<\/a><\/u>, national-mfg.com<\/a><\/u>, and nationalwalkingsprinkler.com<\/a>.<\/u><\/p>\n

\"FANUC<\/a><\/p>\n

I was fortunate to see it all from powder coating to tank welding. \u00a0Ok – I admit the Fanuc robots caused me to stop and watch their dance. \u00a0Todd took me into the labs of National. \u00a0I have great appreciation for the machines that engineers design to test our corn and wheat. \u00a0I will never look at a loaf of bread the same again.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_6749\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The last stop was back to The Career Academy for the Lincoln Users Group and caught up with Chris again. \u00a0Rapid and Aerotek were the sponsors and members from the local Society of Manufacturing engineers also attended. The crowd swelled, I stopped counting after 70 people and just had fun talking and watch our users playing with robots and eating pizza and speaking\u00a0about SOLIDWORKS!. \u00a0Todd, Chris and Kyle, thank you for a wonderful trip and the ability to share with the Nebraska SOLIDWORKS community. \u00a0Marie<\/p>\n

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