In July 2007, Jayco, a designer and manufacturer of custom input devices, received the Inventor of the Month designation for its work developing a new type of mobile electronic flightdeck for one of its aviation customers.

August is National Inventors Month. To help celebrate, Autodesk has been revisiting some past customers to find out what they’ve been up to. Here is the update on Jayco Panels.

In July 2007, Jayco, a designer and manufacturer of custom input devices, received the Inventor of the Month designation for its work developing a new type of mobile electronic flightdeck for one of its aviation customers.

Over the last year, Jayco has continued to use Inventor to help design innovative applications for a variety of industries.

The company uses Digital Prototyping in both the pre-development phase, when presenting concepts to customers, and in the engineering phase, where it takes those concepts and produces finished designs and parts.

For a recent automotive project, Jayco developed a user interface for an infotainment system that would be mounted on the central console of pickup trucks.

By using Autodesk® Inventor® software during the development phase, Jayco was able to ensure that the parts for the system were functional and met all specifications.

In the next phase, the company leveraged Inventor software to discover all areas of interference and optimize the design to avoid costly iterations of physical prototypes.

“Digital Prototyping allows us to discover potential problems and communicate them to our customers before we go too far down the design path,” says Hemant Mistry, President, at Jayco. “The early detection and communication of potential problems is appreciated by our customers and our company alike, as it leads to significant savings in time and cost.”