The world of design and engineering is changing, the complexity of today's products and market demands are reducing the timelines of the development process pushing designers and engineers to develop new product designs all the time to outperform the competition.

Deep design exploration relies on the knowledge of experienced professionals in different areas of engineering and working on multiple requirements, so it becomes necessary to organize product models effectively to ensure that the best solution is easily accessible and understandable.

In exploring the various possibilities at the design level, designers need to organize models effectively to make sure that the best solution is easy to identify and that the work already done is not duplicated. The possibilities for project exploration are endless, but budgets and timeframes are not. Manually tracking changes can contribute to significantly lengthening product development time, putting unnecessary pressure on designers who just want to explore and find a winning concept.

It becomes critical, therefore, to have tools that enable design exploration quickly, safely, and effectively, as designers and engineers must:

• Find effective ideas quickly with the right tool: designers can freely explore design alternatives to get the best solution without having to focus on details
• Working in a sandbox: the user can create a preliminary model that can be modified until the requirements are met and the product is optimized
• Managing Requirements: allows requirements to be easily broken down into sub-requirements
• Reuse work already done: Designers are able to modify a completed design, removing components and replacing them with alternatives to reconfigure it for a new purpose.
• Manage data securely: automate the tracking of different design iterations.

In this eBook, you'll discover how Siemens Digital Industries Software solutions make it possible to explore your projects without exhausting your budget and limiting the time needed for development.