Solid Edge How Are You Adapting to Industry Changes

Solid Edge’s latest iteration, ST10, provides some incredible advantages for design engineers:

• Solid Edge Flow Simulation: With FloEFD embedded in Solid Edge, engineers can front-load simulation in the design process, making it easier to fix problems sooner.
• Manufacturing: You can integrate CAM and 3D printing tools with Solid Edge, making your CNC machine tools more efficient.
• Technical Publications: Create detailed illustrations of your designs and develop work instructions, interactive part catalogues, product manuals and more. The best part: Your publications will update when you change your designs.
• Data Management: Fast access to associated drawings, enhanced revision management and faster and simpler setup and administration. Plus, there’s room for upgrading to Teamcenter for a total PLM experience.
• Solid Edge Portal: Take your work and files to cloud for better collaboration.

The way products are realized is changing: advanced robotics, intelligent automation and additive manufacturing. Now, the way ideas come to life is changing, too: crowdsourcing design, systems thinking and lifecycle analytics.

In order to adapt to an increasing technological world, there are four steps that every company has to achieve:

• Engage with users. The right customer information at the right time.
• Have intelligent models. Be able to accurately predict the product and manufacturing performance.
• Realize the product. Integrate the virtual data and the physical product development.
• Adaptive systems. Without intelligent, innovative systems to adapt to changing markets, products and customer needs, an innovative product is not enough.

This change isn’t a new phenomenon. The adaptation of industry is directly correlated to our changing technology.