In today’s complex engineering environment, it is imperative to determine the outcomes of your product design & behavior in a controlled environment, to save cost, time, and resources. Organizations have long used simulations and modelling in the pre-production or the testing phase and gauge the product performance or conduct other evaluations before investing the cost of full-scale development. And as the products and processes get more complex, more tools, physics, expertise, and teams are involved in this process. Expeditated by the recent hybrid-work model, the teams are often located at various geographical locations, making collaboration even more challenging.

id8 is our solution to the challenges posed by the complexity of today’s engineering products, with the almost unlimited power of cloud. id8 connects team members regardless of geography and functional silos, enabling collaboration from the early stages of design process.

In this blog, we will discuss the top 3 challenges faced by organizations and how collaborating through the cloud platform of id8 enables them to address those challenges.

Bringing together often silo-ed teams:

Integration and automation of engineering workflows enables the product development teams to obtain the conceptual understanding of their designs from the early stages of the design process. Enabling collaboration as early as this process, while preserving the quality of the data remains a challenge.

id8 enables its users to create projects, add data files, and verified simulation processes that can be shared with team members and non-simulation experts, and to access and store their simulation data in one platform. The projects module of id8 collects all relevant information of the project, such as the owner, other team members with access, input data, produced output data, etc., and provides a framework to make output data available as input information for another task.

For e.g., using the cloud platform of id8, the product manager can create account and assign different roles and rights such as viewer or editor, to different teams and, trace the simulations and the analysis carried out by different team members within the project. This enables organizations to gain control of the product development from the early stages of the design process.

Democratization of technologies otherwise reserved for experts:

As we established before, it is imperative for organizations to enable collaboration between multiple experts to understand how small changes in product design might affect the product performance and understand the knowledge produced by the tools and technologies, that typically require deep domain expertise. One of the biggest challenges that organization face is to reduce the complexity that runs across various domains, tools, and infrastructure. Democratizing simulation and reducing the complexity of the process could allow more people to access simulation directly without waiting for the team in the middle.

For example, at the start of a new product development, the constraints of the maximum space and the cost are a first angle of analysis. The designer generates a parametric design and can test thousands of variations with only one simulation creation in id8. The chosen algorithm from id8’s simulation wizard will explore the design space based on the parameters defined in the geometry to find the sweet spot between performance of the product and its production cost.

Optimizing resources in an auto-scalable platform:

Creating cost efficiency is a crucial goal for organizations, and one effective way to achieve it is by optimizing hardware and license resources according to their usage. This optimization process involves rightsizing hardware infrastructure, consolidating licenses, or implementing cloud-based solutions. By aligning resource allocation with the actual usage, organizations can reduce unnecessary expenses, maximize the return on investment, and optimize the cost-effectiveness of their operations. Additionally, this approach enables companies to scale resources up or down as needed, ensuring flexibility and adaptability to changing business requirements. id8’s scalability ensures that it can accommodate projects of varying sizes and complexities, allowing organizations to adapt to their specific needs.

Collaboration is at the heart of our business

As tools get more accessible, we believe that organizations will begin to use them as a standard part and accelerate the product development process. We are consistently evolving our product and service portfolio to adapt to the latest market and customer needs, and how our customers can leverage the full potential of digital engineering teams to gain competitive advantages. id8 improves visibility of the project by having all relevant information available in one place, making it easy to keep track of individual simulation activities or collaborative workflows. This enables companies to identify bottlenecks and take corrective actions without losing track of the history of information.

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