Traditional methods involved in the design of products have at times made variations in cost, carbon or other design criteria difficult to compute. This coupled with the complexities of the design impact on supply chains often leads to hidden or poorly understood costs or risks.
Product Design Hub is an analytical tool to help your designers and engineers design cost-effective and carbon-efficient products, faster and more collaboratively, with dynamic modelling that takes into account external factors.
Using cloud to harness data from multiple sources – such as your PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems and external data sources – our solution provides designers and engineers powerful, live insights on the cost and carbon impact of their decisions.
This can make your organisation more resilient to disruption, helping you understand the latest price fluctuations in materials, time constraints of different manufacturing methods or the operational challenges across supply chain logistics.
1. Get products to market faster
Product Design Hub provides everyone with greater visibility of the design process. A collaborative approach, with teams thinking and working together from manufacturing, finance, sustainability and beyond, leads to a more efficient and effective process. This can help you cut lead times in development and get products to market faster.
2. Hit targets on safety, quality, carbon and cost
Cloud connects data from multiple sources, allowing AI and machine learning to shape recommendations on key design components, such as materials, manufacturing methods or supply chain logistics.
This visibility helps you understand trade-offs in the design process and become more resilient to geopolitical turbulence, enabling more strategic decisions on product quality, safety, time-to-market, carbon emissions, and costs.
3. Give engineers the space to engineer
The nature of our collaborative tool empowers designers and gives engineers the space to engineer. This means that the variations in key design features can be understood based on real data in a concurrent manner. Our solution also continually learns and improves over time, taking into account what’s worked, what hasn’t and what should come next, and then shares learnings across your organisation.
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Operations & Supply Chain Transformation Partner, PwC United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7824 608304
