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Customer & Innovation Highlights from the Cost Insight Conference 2021

Highlights top Cost Insight Conference 2021 sessions on automation, digital tools, battery systems, simulation, and customer cost journeys.

3 Strategies for Electrification Product Development

Industrial electrification is accelerating; learn benefits, TCO drivers, and three product-development strategies to innovate with battery-powered designs.

How to Get the Auto Industry Back on Track Despite Chip Shortages

Auto chip shortages crippled EV production; learn how digital manufacturing simulation finds alternative parts, suppliers, and costs to restart.

Three Ways to Build a Better Supply Chain with Manufacturing Simulation

Digital factories use CAD-based simulation to cut supply chain cost and risk via planning, supplier efficiency, and faster quoting.

Two Innovative Strategies to Mitigate The Supply Chain Crisis

Supply chain chaos highlights need for resilient design: use DFM and digital simulation to diversify suppliers and cut costs.

Will It Be More Or Less Cost Effective To Additively Manufacture That Part?

Compare additive vs casting for actuator housing using digital simulation; learn volume breakpoints and cost drivers in under two hours.

Best Practices for Maximizing the Impact of DFM and DTC

Learn how digital manufacturing simulations enable real-time DFM/DTC insights, cutting costs, improving manufacturability, and prioritizing redesign opportunities.

The Future of Manufacturing is Digital Transformation

COVID exposed manufacturing fragility; digital transformation with twins and simulation speeds design, sourcing, and builds resilient supply chains.

How to Reduce Time to Market for NPI with Digital Manufacturing Simulation

Cut NPI time-to-market with digital manufacturing simulation: early-stage costing, real-time updates, and automated DFM across product lifecycles.

Managing Supply Chain Disruptions Using Digital Manufacturing Simulation Software

Use digital factories to model regional costs, materials, and routing, enabling resilient supply chains and fact-based supplier negotiations.

3 Ways the Pandemic is Driving Digital Transformation in Manufacturing

Survey reveals manufacturing’s digital gap post-COVID: most lack digital tech, NPI shifting, and costing consistency rising—time to transform.

Design for Manufacturability Accelerates New Product Pipeline

Accelerate new products with DFM software: simulate factories from CAD, fix manufacturability issues early, cut costs and launch delays.