What are the pain points that Digital Prototyping addresses?
The manufacturing product development process today is dominated by islands of competency, each presenting its own technical challenges: • In the conceptual design phase, industrial designers and engineers often use paper-based methods or digital formats that are incompatible with the digital information used in the engineering phase. A lack of digital data, compatible formats and automation keeps this island separate from engineering and manufacturing, and means that the conceptual design data must be recreated digitally downstream, resulting in lost time and money. • In the engineering phase, mechanical and electrical engineers use different systems and formats, and a lack of automation makes it difficult to capture and rapidly respond to change requests from manufacturing. Another problem in the engineering phase is that with typical 3D CAD software, the geometric focus makes it difficult to create and use a digital prototype to validate and optimise products before they are built,
