Carl Bass left Autodesk with big shoes to fill. Autodesk has decided to fill each shoe with one person. Until the company names a new CEO, Andrew Anagnost will share CEO duties with Amar Hanspal, who is responsible for all product development. We had not heard of an engineering and design software company splitting and sharing CEO duties, so we rang up Autodesk to see how this would work. Answering his phone was Andrew in his San Francisco Market Street office.

A series of Q & A's with engineering.com

Congratulations, Andrew!

It had only been last November at Autodesk University that we congratulated Andrew for his promotion to head of Autodesk marketing. While it was a big step up on the career ladder, Andrew, with his education and background (a PhD in aeronautical engineering and computer science from Stanford, for example), is not the same as other marketers. But Andrew, new in his role as co-CEO, claims he is not far from his roots.

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Peter is the Autodesk Senior Manufacturing Technical Specialist & South Island Area Manager for CADPRO Systems.  At the CoLab Conferencehe  will be explaining how to use VR to engage prospective clients on a whole new level.

After learning AutoCAD 2.6 whilst studying Manufacturing Systems at Coventry University in the UK, Peter realised that digital design and manufacturing was the future. Having gained over ten years industry experience in the UK, he moved to New Zealand in 2003 to work for CADPRO Systems. In 2005 he became involved in a design project which later broke the World Land Speed record for a motorbike and sidecar. In 2012, the SAHMRI project (façade design for Adelaide hospital) consumed 18 months during which he and a team of others designed a factory-built panelised steel & glass cladding system for one of the most complex and beautiful facades in Australasia.

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Cadpro's Matthew Weake spends a fair bit of time on the factory floor so this gives him a pretty good idea of how smoothly  or otherwise an operation is running.

Here are a couple of examples of what he has come away with from recent visits:

Hi MaxIn the past few weeks 2 company visits really stood out for me – Metro Glass and Sistema. Metro process raw glass sheets into finished panels with laminating, printing, double glazing units, tempering etc. They use a range of automation equipment from robots to waterjet cutters. What really impressed me was the way they have worked out to track complex jobs through production in a timely manner.Sistema has been in the new of late with the change in ownership and they deserve the credit they have been given. It appears that they use as much local expertise as they can before heading off-shore in their automation processes and suppliers.I’m always interested in the design side of things but invariably the conversations lead to data management and workflows through factories.

It is really refreshing to see local companies doing significant manufacturing here and doing it well with a focus on continuous business improvement.

Cheers for now

Matthew

Matthew Weake BE(Mech)(Hons)Mechanical & Manufacturing Sales

CADPRO Systems LtdPhone: +64 9 302 4028Mobile: +64 274 820 845Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Autodesk Announces CEO Transition

Cadpro's Matthew Weakes commenting on the news that Carl Bass has resigned  as CEO of Autodesk:"Carl has been fantastic as a leader leaving Autodesk in a very good position in each of the markets it operates in. With a very hands on practical and pragmatic approach he has overseen the creation of such outstanding facilities as Pier 9.

As a ‘maker’ he really understands the issues manufacturers face, he even directly helped us with getting a post processor working for machine he has at home that one of our customers also had!

He will be missed."

Matthew

Matthew Weake BE(Mech)(Hons)Mechanical & Manufacturing Sales

CADPRO Systems LtdPhone: +64 9 302 4028Mobile: +64 274 820 845Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Autodesk Announces CEO Transition

On Monday, Carl Bass, the CEO of $18 billion Autodesk, gave an interview with Pando Daily’s Sarah Lacy where he described President Donald Trump as “actingsomewhere between a dictator and a small business owner.”

On Tuesday, Bass announced that he’s stepping down as Autodesk CEO, effective immediately.

He’ll stay on the Autodesk board and assist with the search for a new chief executive, with senior executives Amar Hanspal and Andrew Anagnost holding down the fort as interim co-CEOs.

Autodesk is best known as the company behind AutoCAD, the ubiquitous design software for the worlds of architecture, manufacture, and construction.

In a blog entry, Bass says he’s been discussing the possibility of this move “for the last couple of years.” Still, the timing of his departure is interesting, given the explicit nature of his criticisms of Trump.

“I’ve known Bass for a while, and I am used to his outspoken nature. But even I couldn’t’t believe he said some of this on the record,” Lacy wrote in preface to her interview that was published on Monday.

Tech companies like Google and Netflix have spoken out against Trump’s policies, particularly the recent order temporarily suspending immigration from predominantly muslim countries. But those comments have focused on Trump’s policies, whereas Bass’s comments were aimed directly at the President’s character.

“We are talking about a guy who likes belittling people. He really is a bully. Look, everyone I talk to, the tech guys, who went to that first meeting, well, you saw what they looked like. They didn’t want to be there,” Bass told Lacy.

It’s possible that Bass felt more free to express his opinion knowing that he was about to step down from the CEO job.

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