Unite and Conquer Smart Product Development Challenges
Overcome complexities in smart product development with Dassault Systèmes' best-in-class systems approach on a unified platform.
As the smart connected product industry surges ahead to reach approximately USD616 billion in market size by 20321, the need for faster and better innovation in smart product development has never been more pressing.
However, the increasing complexities in multisystem integration, evolving consumer demands and technological advancements pose significant challenges. Overcoming this necessitates a cohesive strategy across multidisciplinary teams. The solution? A platform-driven, model-based systems engineering (MBSE) approach that provides a unified strategy and full visibility to tackle various smart product development challenges in real time.
Dive into our guide, packed with experts' insights to uncover our MBSE approach to effectively navigate and accelerate smart product development.
How to Integrate and Accelerate Smart Product Development
Speed up innovation with a best-in-class model-based systems approach and integrated platform efficiency.
Why Is It Difficult to Design and Develop Smart Products?
Designing and developing smart products presents various complex systems engineering challenges as it combines mechanical, electrical, electronic and software technology into a single product. Since most solutions are engineered independently for each discipline, they lack crucial interoperability and control — making it difficult for companies to balance the competing needs of different disciplines and functionalities.
Here are more challenges smart product companies must tackle from the outset while keeping an eye on profits.
Innovation often comes at a high cost. From acquiring the skills of diverse engineering teams to running research, development and testing, costs can escalate quickly and erode profits.
Amid fierce competition, companies must race to launch their smart products first, provide compelling innovation and exceed consumer expectations in pricing and user experience.
Smart designs integrating artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), hardware and software are highly complex. Point solutions often hamper such integration.
Sophisticated designs demand complex systems architecture. Without a unified model, all crucial system requirements, data and interfaces go unoptimized — affecting overall quality and performance.
Limited end-to-end visibility can make collaboration challenging, especially with engineering teams working in siloed operations and different locations across the value chain.
Making design changes, updates and improvements quickly requires traceability, agility and real-time collaboration. Without this, companies may miss production deadlines and cause reputational damage.
Detecting design errors early and assuring high-quality products can be a complex, lengthy and costly process, as this often involves rigorous testing and adhering to strict quality control protocols throughout the product development lifecycle.
What Is Dassault Systèmes' Approach To Smart Product Design and Development?
Dassault Systèmes' strategy to overcome the smart product development challenges leverages the MBSE approach on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform.
With the advanced tools and capabilities of our 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we simplify complexities to create a transparent end-to-end process. Unlike other digital models, our MBSE approach on a unified platform uses a standard language, such as SysML, to detect design errors early and integrate seamlessly. This improves accuracy, reduces development time and cost and enhances real-time collaboration.
In managing the multifaceted environment in product design, our MBSE approach provides a structured and efficient model to optimize complex designs:
Break down complex systems into manageable components and define requirements and interactions needed for smart, connected systems design.
Foster real-time, multidisciplinary collaboration across hardware, software and complex interfaces.
Create a centralized hub for data and documentation of knowledge that is crucial for future replication, maintenance and improvements.
Integrate and manage smart products' lifecycles for traceability and time and cost savings while accelerating innovation.
Our virtual twin experience empowers companies to make products smarter, establishing a competitive edge. Engineering teams can run multiple simulations to optimize product designs. This ensures products meet safety and performance requirements and comply with crucial regulatory standards, such as the Matter standard — all without expensive prototyping. Modeling and simulation also help companies lead the innovation race with quality that exceeds market expectations.
Enable Smart Product Development Today
To kickstart accelerated development, adopting a MBSE approach is essential. Watch the video below to discover why beginning with an MBSE approach in smart product development sets you on the right path to success, especially as we continue to face the surge in consumer demands and emerging new technologies.
MBSE in Smart Product Development: FAQ
Smart products in the home and lifestyle industry include robot vacuum cleaners, garden power tools, electric bicycles and more, which can be monitored and controlled remotely. These products are often built from a complex integration of diverse systems, resulting in more sophisticated, connected, user-friendly, sustainable and efficient products.
Dassault Systèmes' MBSE approach leverages our virtual twin technology to integrate diverse system architectures seamlessly. This real-time data from IoT devices helps with informed decision-making and performance optimization, allowing multidisciplinary teams in different locations to design, test and develop future products quickly without the need for many physical prototypes. Modeling and simulation of multiple what-if scenarios enable engineers to make real-time changes at every product lifecycle stage — offering speed and accuracy to achieve higher right-first-time rates and shorten the innovation cycle.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers end-to-end visibility to support quick and effective collaboration among stakeholders while providing data-driven insights and market analysis for seamless product launches. The agility achieved from the MBSE approach reduces development time, improves product quality and enables faster time-to-market. MBSE also supports multidisciplinary integration on a single unified platform, boosting rapid iteration and continuous improvement of products that will meet and exceed consumer expectations.
The MBSE approach powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is instrumental in achieving collaborative innovation as it provides a unified environment for design, analysis and simulation. The platform's virtual twin enables real-time simulation and product testing, creating a single source of truth for better traceability. Our platform-driven data analytics tools process crucial data, such as product and user behavior and keep them in a central repository hub. This data can then be shared and accessed anytime, anywhere, keeping communication open and data accurate for effective collaboration.
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