Abstract :
The computer-aided engineering workstation is growing at an extremely rapid rate, in both market and technological advance. While even the earliest systems were valuable to designers and managers, the second generation is a quantum leap ahead in accommodating the real on-the-job needs of the designer. Advances in sophisticated tools, the interface, I/O, and communications through the network have been particularly telling, and the next generation promises even more. Five companies lead the field in sales. They are identified and described here, and their products are compared.
