How Simulation & Modeling coupled with Industry 4.0 Process Controls can Improve Quality, Reduce Energy Consumption and Lower Prototype and Startup Costs.
From concept and design to production readiness,
introducing a new product or service can be expensive. Because of the lower cost of smart
technologies, it is now possible to validate designs with less rounds of
prototyping and testing. This leads to
savings in the design phase.
Thanks
to Industry 4.0, lower technology costs can be extremely beneficial to the modeling,
simulation, and prototype testing phases.
By feeding the data collected from these phases back into the design engineering,
companies can see a return on investment from less rounds of testing and less
overall startup lead time. Industry 4.0
can also lead to faster optimization of your process to save energy as well as
faster problem solving and improved quality control.
Prototyping
and validation testing can cost well over $10,000 per round depending on the
size, scale and tooling cost of the prototype parts and validation cost of
required testing. By feeding test data
from the testing rounds back into the simulation stages, designs can and should
become predictable. This feedback loop
should create a long-term reduction in the number of prototype rounds needed
before long term testing and production validation can begin. With prototype parts costing anywhere from
100 to 1000 times the cost of production parts, the costs or savings of
predictable designs and accurate simulations can add up quickly. Accurate virtual validation reduces the
number of rounds of physical testing leading to physical verification and
certification testing only. This also
shortens production tooling lead time.