{"id":2215,"date":"2011-01-24T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2011-01-24T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T18:16:29","slug":"jeff-ray-gets-a-kind-sent-off-at-solidworks-world-2011-general-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Ray talks about Chilean miner rescue at SolidWorks World 2011 general session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jeff Ray, former CEO of SolidWorks Corp, opened up SolidWorks World 2011.\u00a0 He profiled several companies that were involved in the rescue of the Chilean miners.\u00a0 The common thread for each those companies is the fact that they design their products with SolidWorks.\u00a0 <a title=\"Schramm Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schramminc.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Schramm <\/a>produces drill rigs, including the drilling of the first hole that found the miners.\u00a0 <a title=\"Center Rock Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centerrock.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Center Rock Inc <\/a>made the drill bits used in the rescue operation.\u00a0 <a title=\"Oakley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oakley.com\/product?promotion_id=6&amp;cm_mmc=google-semsearch-_-brand-active-terms-_-exact-oakley-_-%5bOakley%5d\" target=\"_self\">Oakley <\/a>provided special sunglasses to protect the miners&#8217; retinas when they first come up from the mines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0483.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2217\" style=\"margin: 2px;\" title=\"Jeff Ray opens for SolidWorld Works 2011\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0483-1024x768.jpg?resize=450%2C375\" alt=\"Jeff Ray opens for SolidWorld Works 2011\" width=\"450\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bertrand Sicot then came on stage to thank Jeff Ray for his 7 1\/2 years of service to SolidWorks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Ray, former CEO of SolidWorks Corp, opened up SolidWorks World 2011.\u00a0 He profiled several companies that were involved in the rescue of the Chilean miners.\u00a0 The common thread for each those companies is the fact that they design their products with SolidWorks.\u00a0 Schramm produces drill rigs, including the drilling of the first hole that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=2215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jeff Ray talks about Chilean miner rescue at SolidWorks World 2011 general session&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,27,1065],"tags":[1216,400],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-solidworks-world","category-sww11","tag-bertrand-sicot","tag-jeff-ray"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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