"Additive Manufacturing and Simulation Driven Design" - AZ Chapter
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Additive Manufacturing and
Simulation Driven Design -
A New Competitive Edge in
Aerospace and Defense
Simulation Driven Design -
A New Competitive Edge in
Aerospace and Defense
Guest Presenter and Tour Guide:
Eric Miller
Co-Owner & Principal, PADT
Exceptional performance goals coupled with limited resources and increasing pressures to get parts to market quickly are driving adoption of innovative engineering design, product prototyping and validation as well as manufacturing techniques.
Conjointly deploying Simulation-based Design and 3-D printing provides an increasingly valuable pair synonymous with design performance validation and market-ready additively manufactured products.
Phoenix Analysis and Design Technologies (PADT) is the Southwest's largest provider of numerical simulation, product development and 3D Printing services and products. Eric Miller, our keynote speaker will be elaborating on the techniques and tools that PADT deploys to help A&D companies make things better and more consistently. Partnered with ANSYS and STRATSYS (among others), PADT is leading the charge driving product development through the proper application of simulation early in the design process.
A tour of the Tempe campus will highlight the full spectrum of capabilities that PADT is developing and deploying from their facility right here in the valley.
Guest Presenter and Tour Guide
Eric Miller is the co-founder and a co-owner of Tempe based PADT, Inc., where he is involved in providing tools and services to companies who design and manufacture physical products.
Mr. Miller holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He moved to Arizona in 1986 and joined Honeywell then Garrett Turbine Engines as a Finite Element Analysis - FEA engineer with the Modeling and Analysis group focusing on the application Computer Aided Engineering to turbine engine components.
In 1994, Mr. Miller co-founded PADT, which has since grown to become the most respected product development engineering service provider in the region.
Today, Mr. Miller has a diverse set of responsibilities at PADT, Inc. including oversight of services, IT, marketing, operations, and administration. His scope of work also includes technical undertakings involving software development, design, solid modeling, 3D Printing, and numerical simulation.
Eric is a regular speaker, blogger, and contributor to publications on all things engineering and the business of technology. He writes, speaks and provides technical expertise to customer projects on software development, simulation, design, solid modeling, numerical simulation and 3D Printing. An Angel investor himself, Eric is passionate about the effective and profitable application of advanced engineering technologies, such as simulation and 3D Printing, to product development as well as on startups and the high-tech sector.
In addition, he is a member of the Arizona Technology Council Board of Directors, the BioAccel Advisory Council, and the screening committee of Arizona Technology Investors.
Outside of PADT, he enjoys being involved in the local startup community, traveling, running, cooking and learning about new things. Organizer The Aerospace & Defense Forum
Organizer of "Additive Manufacturing and Simulation Driven Design" - AZ Chapter
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