How-to Guide: Design Release and Accelerating the Engineering Design Review
The increasing complexity of today's products has many companies struggling to hit design release deadlines.
This ebook by Lifecycle Insights: "How do I fast-track the execution of design release," outlines how you can:
- Create a single source of truth for product design requirements.
- Manage design updates and review in one centralized location.
- Automate manual tasks to streamline the design process.
- Provide easy and secure access to design documents.
Find out how you can speed up engineering design reviews while reducing the number of errors.
Hitting Design Release Deadlines With Improved Design Review Processes
Design release deadlines have become more and more challenging to achieve since the engineering design review requires engagement with multiple engineering domains.
In a typical design release process, engineers collaborate with the necessary stakeholders to drive a superior product design, and once complete, downstream operations use the final design to begin planning their operations.
However, this complex, iterative process can involve a lot of back-and-forth, resulting in missed deadlines and delayed timelines.
Companies investing in the right product lifecycle management (PLM) software have found ways to decrease time to market, improve their brands, get higher marks for customer service, and increase their profit margins.
What Do Design Reviews Accomplish?
Most companies mandate multiple reviews before a design can be finalized and released, but for those reviews to be successful, organizations need to ensure requirements are current and accurate.
Multiple design reviews make certain the end result includes an improved design that meets not only regulatory requirements but also includes feedback from customers.
This is more easily done with progressive PLM software that offers a single source of truth with one location for CAD files, communications, and requirements.
The same PLM software can even be used to automate certain reviews that update tasks to further accelerate the engineering design review process.
How Design Release Should Leverage the Digital Twin
The increase in smart, connected products goes hand in hand with the number and diversity of design stakeholders.
Each stakeholder has a different set of requirements, which makes the entire product design process more complicated and time-consuming.
Modern PLM software simplifies this process by accounting for all design domains with a comprehensive digital twin of the product.
The digital twin provides a clear-cut product definition that's easily accessible to all stakeholders via a common digital thread.
This speeds along the engineering design review process and ensures more projects hit design release.
Engineering Design Review From Anywhere With SaaS PLM Solutions
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) PLM via the cloud offers a solution for both large corporations and small to medium-sized businesses with plenty of benefits:
- Efficiency: Tailored solutions to meet specific needs
- Productivity: In-depth understanding of company workflow
- Fast implementation: Immediate access through a browser
- Distributed total ownership: Subscriptions don't require a large, up-front technology investment
- Extended collaboration: Enable input from internal and external stakeholders
- Security: Intellectual property remains secure
With a SaaS PLM solution in place, every stakeholder involved in the product design process can access the documentation and the data they need from anywhere at any time.
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