DEVELOP3D - Technology for the product lifecycle

If you’ve been following the outstanding work Stephen has been doing on the blog, you’ll have read earlier last week about how Siemens PLM has teamed up with the current ‘Engineering Company du Jour’ Local Motors to help its crowdsourcing projects to develop new vehicles.

Well now those details have become more clear - a few hours earlier than was planned, following Mr Mings getting it up and online first.

For those that aren’t familiar with the concept, crowdsourcing is defined as “the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community (crowd) through an open call.” (thanks Wikipedia and Erin at PTC who has a well thought out post on the whole subject).

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