Multisystem products require integration, collaboration

Think about the major systems in your body: vascular, muscular, skeletal, nervous, lymphatic, digestive. These aren’t even all of them, but if any of the body’s major systems stops working, the body …

Using agile processes and digital twin technology

The digital twin is enabling many companies to work faster and more efficiently, and it’s revolutionizing the ways people are able to collaborate in an engineering environment. Products used to be de…

Scalability is key to multidisciplinary design success

Improving innovation, controlling costs and accelerating speed-to-market are among the top needs driving manufacturers to use multi-disciplinary engineering for complex product design. A key to optim…

How could V2I and connected vehicles change car ownership?

Traffic congestion is a problem all over the world, and it’s getting worse. To reverse this trend, we can’t just add autonomous cars to the road. Siemens believes the most effective way to address th…

How a fennel bulb helped engineers innovate product design

Generative design leverages algorithms from existing design knowledge with autonomous computing, which evaluates all possible permutations of a design given a set of constraints.
It allows design…

Top Thought Leadership topics of 2017

I’d like to take a moment to reflect on how much the Thought Leadership blog has grown since last year’s launch and to extend my thanks to you, our readers. Your continued support has helped the blog…

Multi-disciplinary collaboration is driving complex-product success

Digital features used to be “nice to haves” in consumer durables and industrial products. Now, digital systems are must haves and are being designed-in alongside more traditional mechanical and elect…

How teams armed with the right technology transform product design

As a wave of new technologies continue to drive customer expectations, manufacturers, especially those in highly complex industries, such as automotive, aerospace and energy, are racing to adapt.
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Vehicle to infrastructure communication and driver safety

Traffic congestion isn’t getting worse only in the United States: it’s a problem all over the world, and records continue to be broken for congestion on the road.

When it comes to fixing t…