Whether designing the sleek body of a new Ferrari or laying out a mould for its brake casings, engineers spend an inordinate amount of time searching through design data. A new semantic engineering environment developed by European researchers promises to save time and boost productivity.
The pioneering system, which hit the market late last year, offers a more flexible, scalable and user-orientated means of managing design data and product lifecycle information than the mostly monolithic solutions currently on the market.