The Growing Demand for Mechanical Engineers using CATIA
The engineering world is an ever changing environment with new developments influencing key decisions and practices. We live in world where ideas that seemed impossible years ago are now part of our everyday lives. Keeping up and staying ahead of competition has never been more challenging for the engineering and manufacturing industries.
CATIA is one of the leading product development solutions for engineering and manufacturing organisations, from OEMs through to their supply chains. The range of CATIA capabilities allows it to be applied in a wide variety of industries such as aerospace, automotive, industrial machinery, electrical, electronics, shipbuilding, plant design, and consumer goods.
Since its inception in 1980 it has been constantly developing and today it’s one of the world's leading cae solutions for product development and innovation in almost all high technology and engineering industries. It is used for the design of many products, from tableware, dental equipment, equipment for skiing, prosthetic devices, equipment for playgrounds, yachts, tankers, submarines, the virtual reconstruction of buildings and, of course, cars. CATIA as a brand is more popular than the company that made it because CATIA is used in all industries and in companies worldwide.
Here at Redline our CATIA jobs are handled by experts with a knowledge-led approach to technical and engineering recruitment. Redline recruits mechanical design engineers who are typically involved in developing multiple product concepts or improving existing products such as aircraft structures and automotive chassis; developing mechanical solutions using standard industry principles for product design; developing solid models and layouts, selecting appropriate materials, performing engineering Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and generating production drawings through to NPI.
We asked Brett Longden, Redline’s R&D / Engineering Senior Consultant why there is such a high demand for mechanical design engineers with expertise in CATIA and other similar cae software?
‘CATIA has a global footprint; from the top 20 manufacturers of cars 14 used CATIA-in as the main CAD system. CATIA was a main tool used for the design of the Space Shuttle and over 80% of civil aircraft designers are working in CATIA. CATIA also uses automatic updates, lessening the impact of changes to the design-to-manufacturing process thus saving costs. At Redline we have seen a growing demand for CATIA jobs and CATIA mechanical design engineer jobs due to shortages of graduate engineers and competition from global businesses in the aviation and automotive arena’.
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CATIA allows the creation of 3D areas, from 3D images, sheet metal, compounds, shaped, made or pedalling areas up to the meaning of technical devices. The application provides advanced technological innovation for technical appearance & BIW (Body in White). It provides tools to complete product meaning, such as functional specifications as well as kinematics meaning. CATIA provides an extensive variety of applications for pedalling style, for both general pedalling and mold and die.
The software enables manufacturers to create complex products at a very fast rate and allows mechanical design engineers to also make multiple prototypes. On the same platform it provides tools of analysis for the design of products, thus leads to time and cost saving of failures in products prior to manufacturing.
Gone are the days when a designer would use a pencil to draw a 2-dimensional layout on a paper. Using CAD software (CATIA, ProE/Creo, Solidworks etc.) one can easily create a 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional model and modifications to the designs are really easy and smooth.
With Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) design engineers can create simulation and understand the effect of various factors on anything just like using a computer. This helps in saving a lot of time, money and wastage.
The functionality of these software are vast and mechanical engineers have the best mind-set to understand and implement the same. Hence why mechanical engineer trained in these software are in high demand.
For more information on our latest CATIA design job opportunities please click here or if you have experience and knowledge in 2D or 3D CAD or specifically CATIA V4, V5 and/or V6 and are looking for a new mechanical engineer role please contact Brett Longden on 01582 450054 or email BLongden@RedlineGroup.com.