Bobcat Company and Doosan recently opened the doors to their new Acceleration Center, located within Bismarck, N.D.'s Northern Plains Commerce Centre. The facility will employ 175 individuals tasked with initial design, prototype engineer- ing, prototype manufacturing, computer simulation, and testing of ideas and concepts. The Acceleration Center will be a key engineering facility for all Bobcat compact equipment distributed globally, and it will help serve some of Doosan heavy equipment's research and development needs for the North American market. The $28 million project involved expansion of an existing building to include office and lab space, classrooms and demonstration areas, and both indoor and outdoor machine operation areas. The facility has two stories and 190,000 square feet under roof, with an additional 22 acres of outside test and product development space. An open office environment is equipped with modern devices, tools and software systems that expedite leading-edge engineering, and product and process development.
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