The design reuse benchmark report: Seizing the opportunity to shorten product development

Design reuse. The idea is simple. Take past designs and repurpose them into new ones. The benefit? Starting with an already completed design allows engineers to avoid starting from scratch. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. Design models with hundreds of interrelated features can be very difficult to change. They often end up spending more time fixing models than if they had simply started from scratch. Yet, despite these problems, some engineering organizations are seeing considerable success.

Key business value findings:

• Top performers hit engineering targets on a 76% or better average. Laggards hit these same targets on a 26% or worse average. 
• While facing challenges for design reuse, best in class companies are responding by designing for modifications (64%), centralizing design data (43%) and providing design details in model (43%).

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