DIGITAL FACTORY
“ Digital design provides manufacturers with a ‘ blueprint ’ to help them reduce the product life cycle time from R & D to prototypes to full production ”
DAVE NOWOSWIAT , ENTERPRISE MARKETING MANAGER AT NOKIA
are being implemented which offer manufacturers the flexibility to change the layout of the machinery and boost productivity . The local edge provides computing power for advanced data analytics and machine learning ,” he adds .
Other innovations that Liddell is seeing when it comes to digital design include the end-to-end digital thread and simulations . “ So this digital thread , being able to go through the concept to design , to modelling , to manufacturing , and then into sales and customer feedback , this information from this can be fed back in and be immediately usable in the digital design of a particular component . So I call this the full feedback loop into the design , and that complete life cycle is something that ' s fairly new .
“ But one of the other things that we ' re seeing a lot of focus on is centred around simulation and being able to bring that right into the design cycle . So being able to design a component , and run simulations to see how it will operate in the real world helps to identify any flaws or shortcomings that can then be readdressed in the design before you ' ve ever manufactured a component . We ' re seeing this simulation being used across sustainability . Manufacturers are one of the biggest producers of carbon , but being able to simulate and model the carbon generation and not just the process , but
52 December 2021