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The internet becomes a very exciting platform in leveling the playing field for small business to grow and compete with bigger businesses. The global reach of businesses to talents has never reached this wide before. Hence the term “crowdsourcing”, a client can generally tap and choice the right person or team to handle a specific job he require. With this, job opportunities know no limits or boundaries. What is more exciting is that this strategy can help boost your business financially for the following reasons:

Cheap Labor
There is a reason why Apple factories are being set-up in China. This is simply because it has the technology to create the product and of course it has the cheap labor. But of course, cheap labor doesn’t necessarily mean low quality product. The outcome or output of the product can be the good if not best if there are certain mechanisms to check this. In case of CAD outsourcing, proper screening, choosing the right person, clear instructions and open communication is very important to create the best output.
Pay per hour of work
Since you worker is from outer space, you save yourself from the hassles of creating a documents that normally you would do when you hire a person to work in your office. You do not need to pay them for overtime premiums, health care benefits, 13th month pay, bonuses and so on (although we would appreciate if client’s do). This could be a disadvantage of the part of the worker but that is part of the game.

You can get the best output
Because the resources you can choose is global, the greater the chances of having the best output. A lot of skilled and talented persons out there are just waiting to be discovered. Some people are good at the get-go and some needs a little rub to bring out the shine in them. Screening of applicants and creating pilot projects are mechanisms for ensuring that you have the right talent for the job.
Also, talents give their best output since these people lives on what other people says about their work. They live on feedback from previous employers.

More skills that you thought
Some talents are not only good at one aspect. They are great, for example, at CAD design but they can also be good at MSExcel, Adobe Photoshop, Web design etc. It’s like hiring a 3 people at your office for the price of ¼ ? Talking about efficiency.

Flexible
Outsourcing is a system that is flexible enough to change from one project to another. If one of your project needs X number of persons and another project requires Y number of persons, you can easily do that. That cannot be always true to your physical employees. Virtual employees thus present a flexible workforce especially in this rapidly changing business landscape.

CAD Outsourcing and Computer Aided Design Outsourcing has become one of the business processes that can be easily outsourced to talents around the globe. CAD Outsourcing is one of the Samotech’s core competencies. We have received compliments from our previous and current clients for our dedication and accuracy in our work and thus we continually strive hard and do the best we can to exceed their expectations.
You too can experience Samotech can help you and your business grow in these challenging times.

Embracing the cloud

September 8, 2011samotechArticles0

One technology that we need to embrace right now is the Cloud. We at Samotech believe that cloud computing is the next big innovation that enables designer to tap the internet and collaborate online.

Among the notable cloud platform are the following:

Dropbox.
The phenomenal success of Dropbox or Online storage is a testament to the growing needs to storage data in the cloud. Of course, security is always an issue especially if we are talking of sensitive data. Recent security issues might make people hesistate to go for cloud storage. As a general rule, if you are not comfortable with a particular file to be stored in the cloud, then do not store it.

Google apps.
Forget Microsoft Office, Google docs will do the same thing for you in the cloud. If you are a startup looking to save on software, then Google docs is for you for free.

And please welcome, AutoCAD WS.
AutoCAD, the industry standard for computer aided design software also recognizes the need for online CAD collaboration and storage. Here comes AutoCAD WS, a plugin for desktop AutoCAD, where designers has the capability to upload drawings into the cloud as well as modify the same in the cloud. This is an exciting update for engineers as this will enable us to collaborate people from anywhere in the world at any place (as long as you are connected to the internet). This is also available in Apple IOS and Andriod phones.

Outsourcing your CAD Projects to the Philippines

January 17, 2011samotechArticles0

CAD is now the language of engineers and designers, and a wide range of solutions are outsourced in this area, such as cover drafting, plotting, drawings, animation, 2D and 3D modeling for different engineering fields.

Typical CAD Services which are outsourced:

CAD Conversion
CAD Drawings
CAD Drafting
CAD designing
2D draughting
3D modeling
AutoCAD consultancy

Fields

Mechanical
Civil design
Plumbing
Residential
Commercial
Architectural
Electrical
Landscape

Some examples:

Preparing fabrication drawings
This includes drawings of pressure vessels, supports, ducting, statutory drawings, steel structures, piping for many types of boilers, machinery, etc.
Recreating drawings
This involves recreating drawings from sketches, design data, assembly drawings, layout for mechanical parts, and other metal parts.
Drafting and detailing services in 3D environment
For example, drafting and detailing in 3D for steel structures such as stairs, bridges, hip and valley, industrial structures, or any other structures.
Design development
This entails design development from sketches to preparation of architectural and construction documents including plan, sections, etc.
Converting, remaking and integrating drawings/technical documents
This can be done in a variety of formats — paper to CAD conversion, 2D and 3D layering, raster to vector text conversion, indexing, etc.
Drafting and modeling
For example, drafting and modeling electrical plans relating to lighting, power, panel schedules, and riser diagrams; civil engineering plans such as grading and drainage, utilities, critical environmental areas, and erosion sedimentation control; and structural plans relating to aluminum, steel and wood detailing, and framing.
Product and concept designing and 2D and 3D modeling
Creating animated designs for feel through’ experience This involves creating animated designs of buildings, objects, and products to give a ‘feel through’ experience – people and object moving, parts functioning, changing of colors and texture, etc.
Besides the above mentioned areas, CAD solutions are also offered for other purposes, such as:
Data exchange and translation
To exchange data from a variety of CAD and CAE systems – CAD to CAM, RP, virtual Prototyping, CAD to analysis, etc.
Forensic support animation work
For demonstrating live actions for communication of critical ideas, for example, how an industrial accident happened, how an explosion happened etc.
Animated films creation
This is used for showing complex operations implementation procedure, such as under sea operations, mining operations, functioning of different machines, etc.