The objective of this session is to familiarize attendees with a state-of-the-art project pursued by Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS in collaboration with MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, to streamline manufacturing workflows in a standard digital fabrication lab, or fab lab, and run machines in a fab lab using real-time network interfacing. 

The 'Clank' is a Mini-fab tool designed by Jake Reed (MIT), to do precision fabrication. Most of the parts of this machine can be fabricated in a standard fab lab and it uses distributed data flow controllers designed by his group at MIT. 

Jake and Shawn (SOLIDWORKS R&D Director) will talk about their collaborative work around closing the loop between SOLIDWORKS and the Clank Machine, which includes learning step and direction, acceleration, kinematics, path planning (MODS) to Design for Manufacturing. It’s the first step in machines making machines, which can be scaled to labs making labs – a vision shared by MIT and Dassault Systèmes.

Manufacturing and Production ​​​​​​​SOLIDWORKS ​​​​​​​Jake Read Shawn Liu​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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