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Autodesk Inventor helps design world’s “greenest” car

Autodesk's Clean Tech Partner Program for Winipeg-based KOR EcoLogic’s 200 MPG Urbee.

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Autodesk adds offline editing to AutoCAD WS

Designers who have their heads in the cloud can access, edit and share their AutoCAD designs and DWG drawing files anywhere using web browsers and mobile devices with AutoCAD WS, but now the app supports offline editing, too.

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Sustainable manufacturing conference

Summit to explore strategies, risks, opportunities

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Labour Relations: Chinese autoworkers offer signs of hope

Leaders representing the G20 nations participated in a two-day summit in June to discuss a variety of global issues, including how to stop the slow, continuous bleeding brought on by the most devastating economic recession in recent memory.

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Conference preview: Protecting profits with cleantech

What does the man who coined the term ‘cleantech’ more than a decade ago think about its promise today? Nicholas Parker, executive chairman and co-founder of the Cleantech Group (San Francisco), and one of the first to invest in sustainable technologies, says cleantech might be the only way manufacturers can protect eroding profits. “Consumer-facing industries ...

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Oil sands are still booming

While activity in northeast Alberta may not be as red-hot as a few years ago, the oil sands will remain an important source of business for Canadian manufacturers and suppliers.

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Manufacturing: The Next Generation

Now the recession is over and the recovery is underway, what comes next for manufacturers?

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Autodesk University 2009 kicks off, physically and virtually

The end of the year means holiday planning, Christmas shopping and Autodesk University. The annual user conference officially kicked off today as more than an estimated 6,000 attendees escaped the cold back home to land in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the three-day event (Dec. 1 to 3), attendees will have access more than 600 classes, ...