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As products become more complex, engineering decisions are getting harder. The good news is that there is help. Respondents report that both experience and better software tools help. In fact, 74% of Top Performing companies empower their design engineers with simulation tools. The research explored best practices for supporting design engineers to adopt simulation. Getting M

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• Design reviews are a top way to solicit feedback. They are critical, but also incredibly time-consuming, with much effort going into the preparation. In fact, preparing for design reviews is the most commonly cited activity that takes machine designers away from innovation work, reported by 41%. Machine designers also say preparation consumes 6.6 days.
• While engineering decisions are critical for product success, 44% say that the decisions that impact competitiveness have gotten harder. The graph shows the top five reasons why.
• Machine designers view many tedious design tasks as bottlenecks (see top graph). Unfortunately, these issues create additional work for engineers that don’t add value and make the job less satisfying.
• hallenges Associated with Problem Solving Digging further into the engineering process, we explored how engineers solve problems. Interestingly, they rely most on the methods used by those who say decisions have gotten easier
• The Cloud Increases Adoption Reasons like this contribute to why Top Performing companies are 3.9 times more likely to use cloud software, including for simulation (see graph on right).
• A cloud solution also supports simulation as an integrated platform. The graph shows the many benefits available with an integrated platform. What's interesting is that the more complex a companies' products are, the more likely they are to appreciate the benefit.
• Based on industry experience and research for this report, Tech-Clarity offers the following recommendations: • Empower design engineers to use simulation. Cloud simulation offers many advantages that can make that easier. • To support design engineers, facilitate easy and secure collaboration methods for them to connect with analysts. A cloud platform can support collaboration by merely sending a link to the model for real-time collaboration. • Accelerate the time to get simulation results with cloud computing. • Ensure design engineers have easy access to the needed data to support their simulations. Given the variety of different sources of data required to support simulation, the cloud is especially well suited to provide a single access point for the different data types. • Consider an integrated platform to support simulation. Sudden market changes or supply chain disruptions can require significant changes to requirements. The traceability of an integrated platform to identify impacts, simulate new options, and update the design can be an invaluable way to adapt without hurting time to market

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