Data-Driven Engineering Design: Intelligent data-driven design for digital manufacturing

The design complexity and flexibility enabled by Digital Manufacturing is disrupting established production processes. However, as manufacturing technology keeps evolving, the gap between "what we can produce" and "what we can design" is growing steadily. In this talk, I will describe an architecture for intelligent design software that leverages data and computation to augment human design capabilities. This approach relies on three key components:

1. Tailored computational models that manage complexity by exploiting problem-specific physical and geometric insights,
2. Data-driven abstractions that condense simulation results in reduced-dimensional representations for fast, optimization-driven design, and
3. Intelligent design interfaces that enable users to interact with simulation and optimization data in order to explore complex design spaces in intuitive and efficient ways.