| | December 20188CIOReviewTHE FUTURE OF MODELING AND SIMULATION FOR DESIGNING INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS USING PERVASIVE ENGINEERING SIMULATIONndustrial design used to be an incremental procedure: take last year's model and tweak it a little to produce this year's "new and improved" product. Available manufacturing technologies were partly to blame for this limitation. Casting and forging gave engineers little room for radical design changes. Even sophisticated, precision CNC machinery, with its reliance on top-down (subtractive) manufacturing methods, was limited in the shapes it could produce. Also, because the performance of a finished component could only be predicted by rule of thumb or "back of the envelope" calculations, it was best for engineers not to stray too far from proven designs.But this paradigm no longer holds in the era of robotics, autonomous vehicles, augmented and virtual reality, big data and the Internet of Things. It has been supplanted by pervasive engineering simulation. Pervasive engineering simulation involves the use of simulation at all stages of the product lifecycle:· Ideation· Development and testing· Manufacturing· Operation and maintenance IN MY OPINIONBy Prith Banerjee, CTO, ANSYSIPrith Banerjee
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