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How can I turn virtual reality into a real career?
Todd Bengtsson dares to ask.
At Siemens, he’s working on the future of manufacturing technology.
Todd Bengtsson dares to ask. At Siemens, he’s working on the future of manufacturing technology. In today’s fast paced working environment, twenty years is a long time, especially when you’re involved with cutting-edge technology projects. Like Todd Bengtsson, who started doing research for robotic simulations in 1990. “It’s always evolving,” the Detroit-based engineer says with a smile. “In six months, I’ll be facing a new set of challenges, because what I’m working on right now will have become completely mainstream.”
Todd is part of a small team of experts for digital manufacturing at Siemens’ PLM branch. Their job is to optimize production processes by simulating whole factories in a virtual environment – before the actual factories are even built.
It’s definitely hard work, but that is exactly what Todd is looking for: “You need to enjoy challenges in this job. But on the other hand it is really gratifying when you see that your work is actually producing something tangible, something that people will be buying,” he says, although most of what he does is completely invisible to consumers. “Our job is done prior to investing in the actual construction or manufacturing. So we don’t produce specific parts people can buy, but for sure, a part of what we do is in a car we all purchase one day.”
Groundbreaking technology
What Todd and his team are doing, is making the production of cars safer, more efficient, and more reliable, and, in the end, the car itself safer and less expensive. “We are able to validate the complete behavior, performance, and safety characteristics of any single component in a future factory,” Todd says. “We run several cycles, over and over again, to find out: What is the steady state, how many parts can we produce, when does equipment start to fail and so on. Sometimes we ‘make’ millions of parts digitally before the first real one is produced.”
It’s groundbreaking technology, and Todd has seen it develop over the years: “It started many, many years ago with just looking at small portions of what we are able to do now. And it’s still evolving. This is definitely not a desk job, where you are doing the same thing day in, day out,” he says. “Here you have the freedom to come up with ideas, and to enjoy that.”
