India emerging as design outsourcing hub
CAD/CAM tools have proved more versatile than anyone could have anticipated. Once used only by large industrial and automobile manufacturers like the Tatas and Bajaj, today small and medium enterprises have taken to CAD/CAM as these tools help reduce design cycle time, number of errors in the initial stages of production and help cut time to market. Akhtar Pasha and Pankaj Mishra delve into CAD/CAM usage, acceptance and trends in the Indian market and find that India is fast emerging as a hub of design outsourcing services for the likes of Boeing, GM and Ford