Mecanica Solutions inc.CTO, Director of Research & Development
Dec. 2004 - Jul. 2011Graz Austria and Montreal CanadaMecanica, in 2005 was a successful engineering services provider for Aerospace and Automotive sector with more than 1000 satisfied clients served including well known names such as Ferrari engineering team to Bombardier, Pratt & Whitney and Boeing. The mandate was to work with the president to establish a new business unit for product development to capture the 25 years of engineering knowledge within a new world-class engineering and manufacturing product to be developed, initially named PLM360, (Product Lifecycle Management). International research partnerships were established with leaders in Graz, Austria with the Virtual Vehicle Center (V2C2.at), Magna Steyr, Siemens, AVL and the Technical University of Graz (TU Graz), as well as local partnership with Concordia University, ETS University and the Computer Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM.ca) as well as a private Canadian organization named Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC). We created a Canadian Research Consortium dedicated to the research and development of the new product PLM360 which raised $42 Million of Tax-Credits for Mecanica and TEC. Collaboratively, seventeen whitepapers were published at international engineering conferences and one hardcover book entitled “The Future of Product Development”. PLM360 was built upon a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence related system of semantic-network and ontologies with concepts to uniquely identify every item of an engineering part, process, cost, meta-data as a KRL (Knowledge Resource Locator similar to a URL). Components were comprised of a 3D interactive visualization system providing a Digital Mock-Up (DMU), Universal Part Data Management system (PDM) which could integrate with 3rd party PDMs like Dassault Systems or Pro-E, Workflow Process and Document Management, Collaborative Distributed Project Management systems.