With new industry trends such as cloud technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, digitalization, and Industry 4.0 & 5.0, engineering organizations of today function with an imperative to innovate and bring competitive products to market at a much faster pace. This has forced them to bring together multidisciplinary and/ or cross-functional teams across geographies to work together to realize the full potential of digital engineering transformation.

Having said that, we conceived the idea of an engineering collaboration platform for years with the first implementation of web-based technologies that were available back in the days. With COVID-19, and the increasing adaptation towards a hybrid work model, and the drastic evolution of cloud-based technologies, organizations have witnessed a drastic change in the way that teams collaborate and build products. And that was the seed, that reshaped the product journey of id8 for us. With id8, we have moved a step further, from enabling access to best-in-practice simulation workflows; to granting access to AI-powered powerful design space intelligence technologies for a wider audience within organizations. This enables non-simulation experts to access and analyse the simulation data in an organized and adaptive way, which fuels trustworthy data-driven decisions enabling organizations to create competitive products.

Additionally, the need for solutions that can manage efficiently a larger amount of data in scalable environments has consistently increased over the last few years, and we decided to respond to that with a product platform that meets and evolves with the changing market and customer requirements.

Collaboration at the heart of engineering

With the ever-increasing product complexity and production scales, organizations are forced to collaborate between multiple teams, across disciplines and geography, through the product development journey - from the ideation of a product to the manufacturing and the end consumer. This usually means that the output of one team becomes the input for the next. Collaboration and communication of data, between these often-siloed teams, becomes imperative in this process. We believe that breaking these silos is key to not only producing better products faster but also more efficiently.

Noesis Solutions is dedicated to making advanced technology easily accessible to engineers and professionals in a straightforward manner. Through intelligent product design and user-friendly features, id8 democratizes technologies that were otherwise reserved only for experts. As a result, organizations can minimize the complexity and create competitive advantage, by enabling a single platform for all the teams involved in the ideation, design, and engineering phase of a product development process. We want to enable them to work better together faster and make decisions that are backed up with trustworthy and expert-verified data.

Role of AI/ML in id8

Industries across sectors are quick to adapt the latest AI/ML technologies, especially in the manufacturing sector. With Machine Learning technologies at the core DNA of Noesis Solutions, we closely monitor the latest advancements in the field and how they can impact the way products are designed, and it can add value to the customers. In the cloud-native collaborative engineering platform of id8, organizations can access advanced design space intelligence technologies, which have a lot of AI/ML practices in their DNA, that are pre-defined in the platform. Practically, it means that the users are equipped with advanced algorithms that they need to explore the design space effectively and understand the behaviour of their system, or to optimize their design without the need of countless simulation iterations. Additionally, high quality data leads to high quality insights, which is imperative for data-driven decisions, and certainly the AI-based technologies in id8, enables organizations in that direction. Obviously, id8 is consistently evolving, and it is a part of our short-term roadmap to make surrogate modelling technologies, that Noesis Solutions has pioneered for 20 years, available in id8.

To know more about the idea behind id8, listen to the latest interview where Anisha Gopinath, our marketing experts interviews David Franke, our CEO and me about the product - https://www.noesissolutions.com/webinars/elevate-your-product-designs-through-cloud-launching-id8-a-cloud-based-collaborative-engineering-platform-by-noesis-solutions