Future Of Tools and Design

All the tools for the product design will be applied in the next decade. Change will be their share. Currently, computer tools for conceptual design and rapid prototyping is the most influential tools used in product design.Simulation products, technologies, manufacturing and assembly processes will be increasingly important and will be partially substituted by prototypes and experiments.The next most important technologies are design of experiments and competitive benchmarking. They are tools that work in both the physical and the virtual environment. Design of experiment tools are often used to validate simulation and augment the simulation results in areas of the design that cannot be simulated. These tools will gain in importance as experiments become easier to conduct in simulation, and competitive benchmarking results are more rapidly analysed, disseminated, and integrated into the overall product plan.Research has confirmed the potential of virtual design tools that reduce the production costs of natural samples and prototypes. Currently, however, can not completely replace experiments. 

Challenges for the future quality of the product design:

• System integration product - process - information - knowledge
• The transfer of innovation from aerospace and military industries to automotive
• Products for low cost, flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing, products for sustainable
• production: reducing consumption of materials, energy and waste in product life cycle
• Electronic data interchange in the design, analysis, manufacturing, testing and operation
• Allowing an increase in quality, competitiveness and customer orientation, standardization of virtual reality
• Information security and protection of intellectual property
• New tools and techniques for analysis, the migration of knowledge, generate innovation, design, testing, simulation and virtual reality.

Innovations in the next decade will shape these trends:
The development of product design tools will be affected smart consumers. Consumers in the future will be better informed about the quality of products and their use. Transparent information and benchmarking to better decisions about purchasing products. The trend is interested in intelligent products. If the incentives for innovation today managed by increasing the functionality, quality and effectiveness of products, in the near future products will compete well in intelligence.