GrabCAD CrowdSourcing in Design and Engineering

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Crowd-sourcing and open-engineering

Hardi MeybaumGrabCAD, CEO

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Class Summary

What is crowd-sourcing? How has it affected other industries? Crowd-sourcing in Engineering Lessons learned Benefits for companies How to get the most out of crowd-sourcing Future of crowd-sourcing in Engineering

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Crowd-sourcing

“the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community

(crowd) through an open call”

wikipedia.org

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Amazon Mechanical Turk (mturk.com)

$ 0.14 per job

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99designs.com

$ 99

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Kickstarter.com

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Innocentive.com

$ 1 M

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2009 – start of GrabCAD

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2009 – start of GrabCAD

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GrabCAD today

50.000 engineers joined

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Bad example of sourcing

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24 hours later

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CMI Durango

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GrabCAD Challenges

grabcad.com/challenges

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“Want to design the lightest electric superbike?”

http://grabcad.com/challenges/help-design-the-worlds-most-efficient-superbike-win-an-ipad-2

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150 designs, in 2 weeks

http://grabcad.com/challenges/help-design-the-worlds-most-efficient-superbike-win-an-ipad-2

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Shelby design challenge

http://grabcad.com/challenges/shelby-needs-your-input-on-their-latest-supercar-tuataras-interior

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Shelby design challenge

http://grabcad.com/challenges/shelby-needs-your-input-on-their-latest-supercar-tuataras-interior

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Crowd-Sourcing is not

Outsourcing Cheap way to send your work out and get great results Does not save time for person organizing the project Does not offer you final results you can take to manufacturing

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How to get best results?

Treat engineers with respectSet and define clear expectationsCommunicate with engineers throughout the process

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Benefits for businesses

A great number of ideas generated quickly Different angle to the problem you have been trying to solve Great marketing for engineers and designers

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Why engineers like it?

Can test themselves with new opportunities Can work on different projects for a variety of cool companies

Can earn extra money

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Future of crowd-sourcing in Engineering

Quality of design must not decline We have to treat engineers with respect

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If we get things right

It can be very powerful tool for the world

Hardi (hardi@grabcad.com)grabcad.com

twitter: @grabcad

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