Does today’s product development process match current market demands or is it just a replica of the way we’ve “always done it”? Looking in from the outside, product development can often appear to be a sequential process on a one-way street running from design to production with a side trip for analysis. However, there are multiple touchpoints and feedback loops within and between these stages.

One of the most critical, yet often overlooked and underdeveloped, areas of collaboration is between the CAE analyst and design teams. More than an inconvenience, effects of this gap can ripple throughout the organization, causing delays, excessive costs and bad decisions.

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