Autodesk takes aim at the factory

Once upon a time, the way the world worked in manufacture seemed pretty clear: the big engines of China and nearby smaller countries pumped out low-cost products. Consumers in the west bought whole bunches of the low-cost products and then sent them back to Asia to recycle. It was efficient, if not particularly equitable, or sustainable. Meanwhile, software vendors in the design and engineering space have nattered on about sustainability as a transformational trend for the manufacturing industry. Then, covid turned the world upside down. Well, actually politics and trade disagreements started rocking the boat until it did take much