Generative Design: Redefining Engineering in the 21st Century

AI-driven generative design will change how and what engineers design in the future.
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Key developments changed engineering from art to applied science: the standardized and calibrated measurement systems, the evolution of rendering into standardized technical drawings, and the computer. As a computational aid and as a tool to streamline engineering rendering, computers made the modern world possible. Still, the art and science of engineering is about to undergo a seismic shift: artificial intelligence. AI, and more specifically, generative design, promises to change everything about engineering, from basic ideation to rendering, two-part and product development and manufacturing. Industrial automation seeks to replace human muscle power with machines, but the automation of the engineering process itself promises to change the way humanity lives and works in fundamental ways.
Exascale computing and widely distributed computing through the cloud allows modern AI-driven engineering design software to iterate complex designs millions or billions of times to generate optimized results quickly and at low-cost. And the next generation of generative design (GD) promises to go further: suggest design, and ultimately create new solutions to existing problems with little or no human intervention at all. GD promises to create the “everything” engineering machine: describe a problem, and get an engineering solution that’s robust, fully simulated, and ready to implement with a high degree of confidence. That level of sophistication isn’t here yet. Still, AI and generative design in their current form have already shaved weeks and months from development times and significantly reduced error and risk in development programs.
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