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Below is a short video impression, featuring the authors, industry experts who appear in the book and other key people who made this publication possible.

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Supportive of our VC>RP book’s Future Chapter is this Microsoft vision on manufacturing:

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Rise of the Conversation Society, the Collab Economy,
and the Virtualization of the World

Today, thanks to the Internet and an abundance of digital data we are arriving at this new technology-based trinity of Sociology, Ecology and Economy, which we might call People, Planet, Profit 2.0. Its essence is the biological notion of Mutualistic Symbiosis, and therefore we are in need of a new metric. I would suggest to call this the Mutualistic Symbiosis Quotient. Reaching consensus on such a score would sound like MUSYQ to my ears

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Kicking off the foundation for a MUSYQ 360 view would necessarily involve: Social Responsibility, Stakeholder Selection, Social Intelligence, Social Quotient, Mutualism, Symbiosis, Industrial Ecology, Industrial Symbiosis, Social Media, Webscience.org, Sustainability, Ethics, Transparency, Return On Investment/Involvement), PPP 2.0 Domains, Intra & Interorganizational Sweet Spots,  . . .

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/social_intelligence.htm
http://ablebrains.typepad.com/ablebrains/2008/07/whats-your-social-quotient-a-method-for-assessing-social-media-risk.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(biology)
http://books.google.nl/books?id=3sKzeiHUIUQC
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http://blogs.imediaconnection.com/uploads/Social-Media-Symbiosis.JPG
http://www.webscience.org
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Industrial_symbiosis
http://www.appropedia.org/Industrial_symbiosis_literature_review
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146%2Fannurev.energy.25.1.313
http://www.lcm2007.org/paper/51_2.pdf
http://www.smart2020.org
http://www.wcit2010.com

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Rise of the Conversation Society, the Collab Economy,
and the Virtualization of the World

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From their article “The meta book and size-dependent properties of written language:”

“The writing of a text can be described by a process where the author pulls a piece of text out of a large mother book (the meta book) and puts it down on paper. This meta book is an imaginary infinite book that gives a representation of the word-frequency characteristics of everything that a certain author could ever think of writing. This has nothing to do with semantics and the actual meaning of what is written, but rather concerns the extent of the vocabulary, the level and type of education, and the personal preferences of an author. The fact that people have such different backgrounds, together with the seemingly different behavior of the function N(M) for the different authors, opens up the speculation that everyone has a personal and unique meta book, in which case it can be seen as an author’s fingerprint.”

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The Amazon Kindle 2 reads slightly better, while Sony’s PRS 600 Touch Edition supports the EPUB standard, as well as PDF and RTF. Only the Kindle 2 allows you to go online. All in all, the on-screen presentation quality of both devices still does not match that of normal paper, and they lack color support.

So, perhaps we should just wait for the dual-screen Asus eee Reader, which must be out any time soon now.

CHECK THIS: the German Gadget-Inspektor Thomas Kuhn reviews the Amazon and Sony devices in his mother tongue. Source: Wirtschaftswoche.

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Also be sure to visit the Minimoys 3DS website and of course the Virtual Concept > Real Profit site.

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On the eve of Dassault Systèmes’ European Customer Forum 2009, this book was launched in Disneyland Paris to mark the partnership with Sogeti High Tech. Digital manufacturing and simulation offer and will continue to offer even more huge opportunities throughout industries, from automotive and aerospace to pharma and fast moving consumer goods.

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Digital Factories
Today, in factories we can model the production line, change the equipment, and simulate how it reacts to that change. Modern manufacturing simulation supports material flow, machine utilization and robotics simulation. Sophisticated systems offer 3-D and 4-D visualization, menu-driven applications, and integration with other product design and enterprise data systems.

Benefits
Simulation and digital manufacturing improve design quality and speed throughout the product lifecycle. These benefits occur early in the product development process, during conceptual and design engineering, but also during production, maintenance and service. Also, cost savings, business value and market value increase significantly when more people from various disciplines in company networks use digital manufacturing technologies or their results.

Next Steps
The next step in improving collaboration and time-to-market is in getting experts and customers from outside the enterprise involved in digital engineering and manufacturing. This opening-up or democratization has been proven to boost innovation, improvement, productivity and revenue.

Democratization
Apart from lowering cost and improving time to market, digital manufacturing and simulation are targeted at intensifying the intimacy, efficiency and effectiveness of co-creation feedback loops, fostering the collaboration of manufacturers, customer communities, independent R&D institutes and individuals. This emerging democratization of design, engineering, production, maintenance, repair, overhaul and recycling marks the impending impact of digital manufacturing and simulation.

Our “ManuFuture”
At the start of the famous report “ManuFuture. A Vision for 2020″ Heinrich Flegel, the chairman of the EU High-Level Working Group involved, writes: “Standing still means moving backwards. This is particularly true for manufacturing and production. The production sector must continually confront new challenges in order to survive in competition. An active and foresighted technology development and a quick response to social and economic change are indispensable for this. Special R&D efforts are required for production to react quickly or, better still, to anticipate what is necessary.”

Main Objectives
The three main objectives for manufacturing industries in the years leading up to 2020 are competitiveness to thrive in the turbulent economic environment, leadership to lead manufacturing with global standards and environmentally friendly products, and production to reduce the environmental losses, to change the consumption of limited resources and to maximize the benefits of each product in its lifecycle.

Five Chapters
In five chapters this book discusses the various topics and issues that are central to the implementation and development of digital manufacturing and simulation. The first “Welcome” chapter presents key concepts, needs and issues. These are further explored in four other chapters: “A Crash Course,” “Challenges,” “Benefits” and “The Future.” Each chapter starts off with an introductory snapshot and concludes with a Bookmark section that relates the chapter to the other parts and the message of the book.

In these economically, competitively and environmentally challenging times it is imperative for manufacturers large and small to innovate further towards a seamlessly integrated fabric of information technology, digital manufacturing, simulation, robotics and physical production. The title of this book, Virtual Concept > Real Profit with Digital Manufacturing and Simulation, expresses this need.

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See Gerd Leonard in this new Penny For Your Thoughts (PFYT) production from Freedomlab. In the same PFYT series as Umair Haque and Don Tapscott that you can track on this web site.

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Dr. Gabor Forgacs made that prediction. Now, he is making it a reality. Gabor is a University of Missouri researcher doing groundbreaking work in regenerative medicine. He is also the Scientific Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Organovo, the latest company to receive support from you, the donors of the Methuselah Foundation.