What are you really doing out back in the lab?
Your attitude towards physical prototyping and testing often bleeds directly into your attitude towards CAE simuation. Which is it going to be, design verification or design innovation?
It’s the CAD, stupid
An upfront CAE tool might be easy as pie. If you are wondering why your Engineers aren’t productive with it, take a look upstream. Your bottleneck may well be on the CAD side.
Upfront CAE might take a little effort
It will be great when every software GUI features a single “easy button” in the center of a blank screen. Don’t hold your breath. On the other hand, it really doesn’t take much extra effort to beat the pants off the mediocre masses.
