News
GE is leveraging artificial intelligence to cut product design times in half. They are utilizing data-intensive technologies and tools to speed up the evaluation of the projected performance of design alternatives utilizing Artificial Intelligence to estimate the impacts of design changes much faster than possible using traditional methods.
Today’s typical technologies, like computational fluid dynamic analysis of a turbine blade, would typically require a couple of days for an engineer to complete a computational analysis. With machine learning, a computer can develop a surrogate model that can evaluate a million variations of a design in only 15 minutes. That breakthrough in design support can cut the product development lifecycle in half, helping get new products to market more quickly and less expensively.
Analysis
AI and information technology are automating more and more tasks in design, enabling engineers to focus on the important elements of creativity and developing new solutions, something AI cannot currently perform very well. Ideation occurs typically with human interaction and intuition, and cannot be formalized today with AI tools. So don’t worry, engineers aren’t going away, but their creativity will be highly valued.
