The complexity of E/E systems architecture is growing at a startling rate in the automotive and aerospace industries.

This brief offers more detail on the issues driving increased complexity in the automotive and aerospace industries. Then it explores the rising need for collaboration across supply chains and engineering teams to mitigate complexity, and discusses the role of SaaS solutions as a powerful enabler.

Today, engineering and manufacturing companies are entering a new era of complexity. 

This brief guides smaller engineering and manufacturing companies in addressing this product development challenge. It looks closely at the issues driving rising E/E complexity, assesses the need for more collaboration and coordination across suppliers and engineering teams, and analyzes the impact of cloud-based SaaS solutions.

Many organizations are working to improve their design documentation processes. Such investment can take many forms and include a range of initiatives.

 This brief unpacks how initiatives affect engineering productivity for manufacturers of varying digital maturity. It explains how and why companies often use reduced annotation initiatives with an MBD. It also details how new automation capabilities increase an organization’s engineering productivity.

Every product development executive has to juggle time, tasks, and resources. In today’s climate, however, leaders are consistently being asked to do more in less time and balance conflicting constraints.

To help shed light on how manufacturers are pursuing MBD initiatives, we conducted the 2020 Model-Based Definition Study. This report found that most successful organizations not only create an MBD, but also employ model-based practices across procurement, manufacturing, service, and more to maximize the MBD’s value.