What We Learned Deploying vCAD at a Fortune 100 Medical Device Company

#vCAD #CloudCAD #Engineering #ProductDevelopment #CloudComputing 00:00 – Introduction 01:35 – Business Challenges Before vCAD 02:15 – Provisioning CAD Environments for Suppliers and Contractors 03:40 – SOLIDWORKS Deployment and Remote User Challenges 04:52 – Inconsistent CAD Workstation Performance 05:30 – Supporting Mac Users with SOLIDWORKS 05:57 – Recovering Work in Progress 06:55 – Lessons Learned from the vCAD Deployment 07:38 – Meeting Increased Security Requirements 09:38 – Cost Projections and Unexpected Adoption 10:54 – Business and Operational Outcomes 11:23 – Consistent Performance and Faster Provisioning 12:15 – Avoiding Hardware and GPU Capacity Constraints 12:50 – vCAD vs. Building Your Own Virtual CAD Environment 14:14 – Advice for Companies Evaluating Virtual CAD 15:10 – Key Takeaways Moving CAD workloads to the cloud sounds straightforward until you have to support real engineers, contractors, security requirements, large CAD applications, GPU performance, and existing PLM/PDM environments. In this SPK and Associates vlog, Michael Roberts, VP of Sales & Marketing, talks with Mike Solinap, Head of Cloud & Infrastructure, about lessons learned deploying SPK vCAD at a Fortune 100 medical device company. Mike was directly involved in the deployment and discusses the problems the company was trying to solve, challenges SPK encountered during implementation, and the results after vCAD was put into production. The discussion covers slow workstation provisioning, providing CAD environments to suppliers and contractors, SOLIDWORKS deployment, Mac users, GPU performance, work-in-progress recovery, cybersecurity requirements, cost forecasting, and the tradeoffs between vCAD and building virtual CAD infrastructure using platforms such as Azure, AWS WorkSpaces (https://www.spkaa.com/blog/virtual-wo..., or VMware Horizon (https://www.spkaa.com/blog/vcad-the-b.... You'll also hear what engineering and IT teams should consider when evaluating virtual CAD: performance, security, integration, scalability, user experience, and the way engineers actually work. If your organization is evaluating virtual CAD or looking for a better way to provide distributed engineering teams with access to CAD and PLM environments, SPK can help determine whether vCAD is a fit for your environment. Check out more on vCAD here: https://www.spkaa.com/vcad ABOUT SPK AND ASSOCIATES SPK and Associates (https://www.spkaa.com/) is a leading woman-owned Engineering & IT Services Company that serves product and software development teams. For 20 years, we have helped our customers harness technology to optimize engineering and attain their business goals. We understand the systems, processes, data and applications critical to successful product development, and dedicate ourselves to helping you build, test, and release your products faster and better. Our core expertise covers four functional areas: – Product Lifecycle Management (PLM, PDM, QMS, MCAD, ECAD) - https://bit.ly/3nr3D6F – Software Lifecycle Management (ALM, DevOps) - https://bit.ly/3JSK3HQ – Cloud for Engineering (Infrastructure, Security) - https://bit.ly/3nrVD54 – Data Engineering and Analytics - https://bit.ly/3KcmMlx Subscribe to our blog: https://bit.ly/40HuMk7