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DFM Summit with Design-to-Cost Panel Thursday March 20!

Mar 182014

If you are in the New York area and interested in product profit, you should attend the DFM Summit which is THIS THURSDAY MARCH 20? The event includes sessions on distributed manufacturing, Design-to-Cost, Industrial Design, and networking.

Design-to-Cost Panel

The design-to-cost panel will include the following panelists:

Jon Hirschtick is the founder and Chairman of Onshape, developing new not-yet-announced products for the CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM market. Previously he founded and led SolidWorks.
Jon Washington is the founder of The Innovation Garage, a business innovation firm that partners with its clients in the design of product, process, service, and supply chain solutions.
Ben Gebhardt is a co-founder of Refactory, making hardware easy. He was the lead electrical engineer on the Beats By Dre team for all of 2012 until spring 2013.
Eric Arno Hiller is the principal of Hiller Associates and one of the pioneers in Product Cost Management (PCM). Hiller co-founded technology companies aPriori and End Around.

To read more about the panelists and the subjects to be covered read Designers need to be responsible for cost by conference organizer Peter Verkooijen.

Hope to see you there!

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