Staying on track - A guide to managing costs and optimising Time-To-Market

Time is money – especially when it comes to delivering products to market. This means engineering and manufacturing teams operate under constant pressure to ensure that new product introduction process runs on schedule. Design engineers, however, can inadvertently delay the process when working in CAD if they lack full visibility of the impact of any changes they make: even minor changes to the design can affect the cost and manufacturability of a product. This is often not discovered until much later down the line, which can result in excessive late-stage changes and delay time to market.

To address the issue, this paper looks at how utilising more sophisticated tools for identifying potential cost implications can help design engineers, as well as the wider production team, meet critical deadlines and reduce time-to-market.