56 Michael Kroll Bereichsleiter Industrie Mensch und Maschine Systemhaus GmbH Liliencronstraße 25 D - 21629 Neu Wulmstorf Germany michael.kroll@mum.de www.mum.de
Sustainable Design and Innovation in Clean Tech
Michael Kroll
Mensch und Maschine Systemhaus GmbH
“Autodesk” and “Mensch und Maschine” are companies which have the vision to help people to imagine, design and create a better world by developing and using clean technologies.
But what is the concrete meaning of “clean technology”? If you ask Wikipedia, you will get the following answer: “Clean technology includes recycling, renewable ener-gy (wind power, solar power, biomass, hydropower, bio-fuels), information technology, green transportation, elec-tric motors, green chemistry, lighting, Greywater, and many other appliances that are now more energy effi-cient. It is a means to create electricity and fuels, with a smaller environmental footprint and minimize pollution.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_technology)
The Clean Tech Partner Program of Autodesk and Mensch und Maschine represents the part of information technolo-gy in the definition of Wikipedia. The Program supports cus-tomers who are engaged in clean technologies by providing software, training and support. In this way they are able to design, visualize, and simulate their ideas. Clean tech compa-nies which are interested in benefiting from computer aided design solutions are invited to apply to the Clean Tech Part-ner Program. Under certain conditions customers get up to 120 000 € worth of software for only 50 €.
The customers of Autodesk and Mensch und Maschine are architects, designers and engineers who are creating
everything built, designed and manufactured. There are many industries that are complying with the conditions of the Clean Tech Partner Program.
The software which supports customers in developing clean technology solutions consists of several CAD software tools: • Autodesk Product Design Suite Ultimate: a software solution suite which enable 2D and 3D mechanical design as well as electrical design, simulation and visualization. • Autodesk Building Design Suite Ultimate: Software Products which are supporting the Autodesk Building Information Modeling (BIM) that supports the customers to integrate analysis, simulation and visualization for a better realizing of green architecture, engineering and construction.
• Autodesk Vault: a product data management tool which manages data of engineering and documentation processes.
• Autodesk Vault might be completed which special tools from Mensch und Maschine (e.g. “pinpoint”) to a very powerful and configurable Data Management tool. In this lecture a historical overview of clean tech design for the harnessing of wind energy is given. Additional there will be mentioned the possibilities of Autodesk Clean Tech Soft-ware and some examples for using these products by well-known customers.
