Detail Design phase - Speed to Market Strategy
Continuing the series of previous posts on Speed to market started at:
Next comes the detail design. In this era of globalization, even design workspace has gone global. The design, analysis and generating codes for manufacturing are happening in different places. At times even the designs of different components happen in different places. There is a need to integrate designs done at different locations to complete the design of the product. In some cases, to cut costs the detail design is outsourced. The design engineers with CAD tools will be sitting in one location and the client may review the design on a weekly basis. There is no need for CAD licenses in Client end. They will be able to work in design engineers’ workspace from remote location or they may do all review markups offline and send it to design engineers. PLM systems have embedded tools that helps in opening any CAD file using a browser and do all markups which can be imported by the Design engineer and do necessary modifications. Design collaboration tools help in integrating detail design happening in different places, working from remote places on virtual design space without CAD license and also incorporating analysis results to correct the detailed design. All these help in completing the detailed design faster.
