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Virtual reality techniques, involving three-dimensional imaging and surround sound, are increasingly being used in diagnosis, treatment, and medical education. Initial applications of virtual reality in medicine involved visualization of the complex data sets generated by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. A recent application of these techniques for diagnostic purposes has been the “virtual colonoscopy,” in which data from a contrast-enhanced abdominal CT scan is used to make a “fly-through” of the colon. Radiologists then use this fly-through for colon cancer screening. Recent improvements in methodology have brought the sensitivity and specificity of this technique closer to the levels of optical colonoscopy, and patients prefer the technique to the traditional method.

Virtual reality has also been used extensively to treat phobias (such as a fear of heights, flying and spiders) and post-traumatic stress disorder. This type of therapy has been shown to be effective in the academic setting, and several commercial entities now offer it to patients. In one of my projects using the multi-user virtual reality environment offered by Second Life, one of several easily available online virtual reality environments, we have used a virtual psychosis environment to teach medical students about the auditory and visual hallucinations suffered by patients with schizophrenia.

Virtual reality has been used to provide medical education about healthcare responses to emergencies such as earthquakes, plane crashes and fires. While the primary advantage in phobia treatment is a “safe environment” which patients can explore, the primary advantage in emergency preparedness is simulation of events that are either too rare or too dangerous for effective real-world training. The immersive nature of the virtual reality experience helps to recreate the sense of urgency or panic associated with these events.

Virtual reality programs have also been used for a variety of medical emergency, mass casualty, and disaster response training sessions for medical and public health professionals. One study developed a protocol for training physicians to treat victims of chemical-origin mass casualties as well as victims of biological agents using simulated patients. Although it was found that using standardized patients for such training was more realistic, the computer-based simulations afforded a number of advantages over the live training. These included increased cost effectiveness, the opportunity to conduct the same training sessions over and over to improve skills, and the ability to use “just-in-time” learning techniques and experience the training session at any time and location, while adjusting the type and level of expertise required to use the training for various emergency response professionals. Others have explored the potential for training emergency responders for major health emergencies using virtual reality. Their objective was to increase exposure to life-like emergency situations to improve decision-making and performance and reduce psychological distress in a real health emergency.

Experience with recent natural disasters and terrorist acts has shown that good communication and coordination between responders is vital to an effective response. In my work using Second Life to develop a virtual mass disaster emergency clinic to hand out antibiotics to the population following a massive anthrax bioterrorism attack, we have found a number of important advantages of the virtual world, over the real world, for training first responders.

Responders to such events come from many different organizations, including fire, police, military, and hospital personnel. There are three major difficulties in training and evaluating these first responders in the real world:
1. They have little or no chance to train together before the event occurs and hence lack teamwork skills.
2. What training they may have had comes at great cost, in large part due to the effort and need to transport so many people to a specific training site at a specific time.
3. The training sites frequently cannot be the most common targets – for example, one cannot shut down the Golden Gate Bridge during rush hour to train for an earthquake or terror scenario.

Virtual reality offers some intriguing advantages over the real world for these aspects of first responder training, as all of the above difficulties can be overcome. Virtual reality systems can support multiple simultaneous users, each connecting to the system using standard office personal computers and broadband Internet access. Lifelike models of buildings, roads, bridges, and other natural and man-made structures where the users can interact can be constructed. Finally, the whole scenario can be digitally preserved and a full workflow analysis can be performed retrospectively. Public health officials and first-responders can work through the scenarios as many times as they like to familiarize themselves with the workflow and emergency protocols, without encumbering the time and expense of organizing a mock emergency in real life.

Virtual Reality treatments are rapidly becoming more available. They are currently being used to treat post-traumatic stress disorders caused by wartime experiences, and US servicemen are now increasingly being offered such programs. Rather than the traditional method of confronting old nightmares, online technology is able to deliver treatment in a far more therapeutic and humane way. Patients are “transported” to the battlefront and fears and traumas are resolved in virtual place and real time. Virtual Reality is here to stay, and will increasingly be used widely in a number of areas of healthcare.

CATIA stands for Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application and is one of the most widely known and used software systems in the CAD world that is marketed and technically supported by IBM. The software is very intricate and is used by some of the biggest names in the business world. Currently over 20,000 companies use it worldwide and the distinguished list of names that use the software are top names such as Goodyear, Ford, Toyota, Hyundai, Boeing, Porsche, and Lear Jet just to name a few. All these top companies and more take advantage of the powerful applications that the software has to offer in order to help develop and design their products.

If you are planning on getting into such careers as design, manufacturing, or architecture then learning CATIA software will most likely be required of you at some point in time. So how do you go about learning the ins and outs of CATIA?

Because CATIA is such an intricate program the only way to adequately learn CATIA is to get some training with the software. There are several ways to go about this such as:

Training Seminars: There are a number of training seminars that are conducted each year all geared towards teaching you how to use CATIA software. Depending on where you live you can sometimes find many providers of such trailing or a limited number, but you should be able to find some level of help either way. A quick search online will reveal the numerous establishments that conduct such training seminars. Many prefer this type of training as they can actually learn by doing as the CATIA training seminars will have a lot of hands on training.

Online Training: Thanks to the internet it is no longer necessary to leave you home in order to learn how to use CATIA software. Many institutions and even colleges will offer a class and training online making the learning of CATIA software something that can be done around your busy schedule. Sometimes it is not necessary to even have the CATIA software on your computer as there are places that will offer a modular type of training where you will learn certain aspects of the software as you go along.

Colleges and Tech Schools: Many colleges and technical schools across the country now offer classes specifically for CATIA software. These classes are a better way to learn the program if you do well in a classroom environment. Many students prefer to be in such an environment so that they can raise their hand and ask questions should the need arise. Not that you cant ask questions in an online setting, they just may not get answered right away.

No matter how you decide to learn CATIA it is a necessity if you plan on having a successful design, manufacturing, or architecture career. CATIA is used in every corner of the globe and only by mastering the software will you give yourself the best opportunity to succeed no matter which way your career path takes you.

Introduction

Founded in 1997 IDSPL has grown rapidly to become the leading providers of CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM/KBE/RE solutions to the mechanical industry in India. With a “Customer Centric” focus, IDSPL has always been very attentive to the changing manufacturing landscape and customer feedback to enhance the product portfolio as well as the customer support mechanism to ensure that our customers get nothing but the best.

Beliefs

We take pride in our culture which is based on the belief that our customers are the reason we are in the business and we want to be a partner in their success.

We like to base our business on very honest commitments are accountability for the same to become and remain a trustworthy partner with our customers.

We also very strongly believe that for us to be successful each member of the organization has to have enthusiasm, competency, innovative thinking and urge to share the growth and development of the company.

Another very important ingredient to the company to the company’s growth is quality. Being a service organization, this parameter is of the utmost importance to us and we are always looking for ways and means to evaluate and upgrade ourselves in this area.

We strongly believe in building relationships and we believe that it is always easier to do business with satisfied customers and a satisfied customer brings in more customers, Keeping this philosophy is mind our endeavor is to keep all our customers satisfied and make them our references. For us it always is “Customer First”

Strengths

Extremely focused, energetic and competent team with thorough experience and exposure to all the products and services being offered. Result oriented and target based approach. Knack of understanding customer issues and problems to deliver a solution in least time frame. Positive attitude and aggression to become successful. Sensitivity to customer feedback and will to incorporate best working practices for continuous development.

Our Vision

“To Become the Leading Design Solutions Provider in India”

Mission

Deliver maximum benefits of technology to the customer by providing strategic training and unconditional support

We have always tried to look at a bigger picture so that we can make contribution to the growth of any organization by not just providing them with software but by offering a complete solution keeping in mind the real issues that bother the mechanical manufacturing industry

We believe that following points are the reasons of worry in any manufacturing industry

On time delivery of projects Reduction in rework due to incorrect drawings Product standardization / modularization Design to specification to prevent product abuse Maintain best quality to minimize warranty reworks Best usage of material to keep costs low Design communication within and outside the organization Increase market share by bringing innovative products

Products

SolidWorks 3D MCAD

SolidWorks Simulation Finite Element Analysis

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Product Data Management

HSMWorks Manufacturing

DriveWorks Design Automaton

3D Via Composer Technical Illustration

RapidForm Reverse Engineering

DECREASE COSTS

Ø Our Software Solutions help you to

Ø Beat your competition by Designing Better Products and bringing them faster to the market

Ø Beat the rising material costs by designing the products optimally for weight strength and life

Ø Create compelling product documentation and presentations

Ø Manage and share data across enterprise

Ø Reduce new product development time and cost by modularizing and automating design

INCREASE SALES

95% of the companies reported an increase in productivity.

81% reported better design visualization with SolidWorks.

69% reported that SolidWorks enables them to design better products

54% reported faster product time-to-market

The average time-to- increased-productivity was about ten weeks

Training to Succeed

At IDSPL, training is not just another thing that we give as part of the package, We believe it is critical aspect that determines if your investment in the software is going to get you the expected ROI or not.

We are very particular about our training programs and have put in years of understanding of the product and its application to the various verticals of the mechanical industry. Our training programs not just make you proficient with the software but lay a very strong emphasis on in-depth understanding of the software in your particular application.

Corporate Training

We provide custom training programs focused on the specific requirements and application of any individual organization. We also do skill gap assessment to find out areas that require more training to make optimum use of the software in the design section.

The types of training required are discussed at length at the time of software sale and subsequently the training and support team provides a road map training calendar to meet the company’s requirement.

The training programs are available on

Ø 3D Design using SolidWorks

Ø FEA using SolidWorks Simulation

Ø CFD using SolidWorks Flow Simulation

Ø PDM using SolidWorks Data Management

Ø Design automation using DriveWorks

Ø Technical Illustration using 3D Via

Ø Reverse Engineering using RapidForm

Ø CAM using HSMWorks

These short term programs running for 1-5 days are available to all companies using our software.

Individual Training

Today SolidWorks is one of the most widely used 3D Mechanical CAD system not just around the world but also in India. More & more companies are choosing SolidWorks as their preferred product to migrate from 2D. This has created a huge demand for SolidWorks trained manpower. Industry is looking not just at a engineer who knows how to operate a software but the expectations are that the designer knows a thorough application of the technology in the respective field. During the last years of serving our customers we have heard them over and over again asking to provide application trained engineers. To fulfill this demand, IDSPL runs the following training programs focused on industry applications using SolidWorks.

Ø 3D in Machine and Equipment Design

Ø 3D in Product, Tool & Die Design

Ø Industrial application of Finite Element Analysis

These programs are available are available to all individual who want to grow their career by using SolidWorks in the application of their choice. The program duration is 15 days to 2 months.

All Training programs are conducted in our state-of-the-art training labs equipped with high-end workstations and multimedia capabilities.

“We also offer CSWA & CSWP Certifications”

This is a training video on how to load and unload the Dimension work group printer. Produced by PADT presented by Mario Vargas and produced by David Mastel and Sam Goff