Digital twin prototypes: the minimalist approach

The benefits of the digital twin in the manufacturing industry are many. However, how and where to implement, along with considerations of time and cost, are difficult questions to answer based on a …

Digital twin implementation: steps to leverage the benefits

Digital twin implementation can be daunting. In my last blog about the digital twin, I mentioned how many manufacturing companies are hesitant to take advantage of it. Though they know the benefits o…

Realise the power of the dirty digital twin

While presenting at a recent digitalisation conference in the United Kingdom, I asked the question of over 200 people in the audience, “Who uses digitalisation in your companies right now?” All 200 h…

Assess the value of intelligent design space exploration solutions

Engineers and companies that think they don’t need intelligent design space exploration (DSE) software are operating under old assumptions. They’re probably thinking of traditional DSE, which is expe…

New opportunities, new thinking on design simulation tools

Within every design engineer, it seems, is a perfectionist—someone driven to identify the absolute, best possible designs. The trait is so prevalent that it’s earned a special phrase: engineers who k…

Expand design space exploration with intelligent automation

What if your product development team had a genie in a bottle that could pop out and optimise virtual prototypes every time your team tried something new?

No highly trained optimisation sp…