SEVEN WAYS TO REDUCE NON-VALUE-ADDED WORK IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
An overwhelming 76% of manufacturers agree that spending more time on concept and industrial design would improve products. Unfortunately, industrial designers waste significant time on non-value-added work, which holds them back. Further, detail designers waste even more time recreating industrial design details. Reducing this non-value-added work could help a company get to market faster, optimize profitability, maximize revenue potential, and offer more competitive offerings
HOW TO SURVIVE AND WIN NEW MARKETS BY GETTING EVEN MORE VALUE FROM SIMULATIO
- An overwhelming 76% of manufacturers agree that spending more time on concept and industrial design would improve products. Unfortunately, industrial designers report that many challenges hold them back, preventing that from happening. The graph reveals the top challenges associated with industrial and concept design.
- To define Top Performers, Tech-Clarity identified the top 25% of companies who outperform their competitors in metrics that indicate product development success. These metrics were the ability to develop: • High-quality products • Innovative products • Products efficiently • Products that meet cost targets We then focused on what Top Performers do, especially what they do differently compared to Others. This analysis was then used to identify the factors contributing to their success and as a basis for recommendations.
- Industrial and detail designers have different needs due to their unique design approaches. For example, industrial designers need flexibility, while detail designers require precision and structure to communicate design details to manufacturing properly. Consequently, industrial designers typically use a separate design tool rather than the CAD tool used by detail designers.
- Much work goes into developing concept designs and perfecting them to be just right. Unfortunately, when industrial and detail designers use separate tools, it can be difficult for detail designers to take advantage of all that work. Consequently, detail designers lose valuable time when they must recreate what already exists in the concept model (see graphic).
- Recommendations and Next Steps Based on industry experience and research for this report, Tech-Clarity offers the following recommendations: • Investments to improve the efficiency of industrial and concept design can offer a competitive advantage. • Consider a single solution to support industrial and detail design so that rather than wasting time importing, exporting, fixing, and recreating data, designers can spend more time on critical design work. • Ensure that detail designers can reuse as much of the concept design as possible. Reinventing the wheel by recreating design details already in the concept model wastes their time. Instead, they could use that time to innovate, improve product quality, or beat deadlines to get to market faster. • Reduce barriers to iterations so industrial and detail designers can remodel the design as needed to improve upon ideas, implement engineering changes, or fix manufacturability issues. When their work is siloed, iterations involve importing and exporting data, which wastes hours. • Improve the timeliness of internal feedback with more streamlined ways to solicit feedback and more efficient design reviews. Real-time visibility to design progress on a single, integrated design collaboration platform can improve collaboration to efficiently collect feedback. • Involve customers as early as possible to provide feedback to help ensure your product aligns with customer needs. • When selecting a single solution for industrial and detail design, ensure it supports both subdivision and parametric modeling. • Tie everything together with a cloud platform so that you have the infrastructure to support better collaboration, and designers can access the software capabilities they need on the hardware they prefer.
I will receive information, tips, and offers about Office and other Technology Trends products and services. Privacy Statement.
White Paper from Technology Trends
