Successful product innovation requires strategic portfolio management and connected development. The Virtual Product Development portfolio unifies mechanical, electrical, systems and software designs into a single, holistic product definition—enabling real-time collaboration that keeps projects on schedule, aligned with business goals and responsive to market needs.
Generative Design
Generative design uses AI to explore countless design options based on set parameters, helping engineers discover optimal solutions beyond traditional methods.
What is Generative Design?
Generative design is an advanced, algorithm-driven process that streamlines iteration, sometimes with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It transforms how designers and engineers approach problem-solving by systematically exploring vast solution spaces based on predefined criteria.
Unlike traditional design methods that rely heavily on human intuition and experience, generative design creates multiple design alternatives simultaneously, evaluating each against performance requirements to identify optimal solutions.
Key Benefits of Generative Design
Accelerated Innovation
Generative design allows engineers to explore thousands of options in minutes. It speeds up concept-to-prototype cycles, helping companies launch products faster and stay competitive.
Enhanced Collaboration
By centralizing design data and documents, generative design tools enable real-time access for all stakeholders. This supports efficient teamwork early in development, improving quality and productivity.
Expanded Design Exploration
Generative design uncovers solutions beyond traditional methods. It explores wider design spaces to produce lighter, stronger and more efficient products that drive innovation.
Resource Optimization
Generative design improves material use and reduces waste. It creates efficient designs that meet performance needs while cutting costs and supporting sustainability goals.
Sustainability & Eco-Friendly Innovation
Enabling a generative economy and sustainable innovation through optimized design processes.
Driving Eco-Friendly Innovation
Generative design is pivotal in driving sustainable practices and eco-friendly innovation across industries. By integrating sustainability considerations into every stage of the product lifecycle, this technology enables companies to reduce their environmental impact while improving efficiency.
Life Cycle Assessment
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tools within generative design systems allow businesses to evaluate and optimize the environmental footprint of their products from cradle to grave. This holistic approach helps identify opportunities for reducing resource consumption, minimizing waste and improving energy efficiency.
Generative Design across the Industries
Discover how generative design is applied in various industries and how advanced solutions stand above the rest.
Aerospace & Defense
Generative design in Aerospace & Defense helps manage the intricate systems and strict regulatory requirements. Dassault Systèmes solutions support long product lifecycles, enhances supply chain visibility and enables virtual twin technology for performance optimization and predictive maintenance.
Consumer Packaged Goods & Retail
In consumer goods and the retail sector, generative design accelerates product innovation and time to market. It manages diverse product portfolios, supports sustainability initiatives and enables personalized product experiences to meet rapidly changing consumer preferences.
High-Tech
In the high-tech sector, generative design manages rapid innovation cycles and complex supply chains. It supports the collaborative design of sophisticated electronic systems, ensures compliance with evolving standards and efficiently manages product variants and configurations.
Industrial Equipment
By centralizing data, optimizing processes and ensuring compliance, generative design enables industrial equipment manufacturers to improve design efficiency and product quality while providing better aftermarket service and support for equipment in the field.
Life Sciences & Healthcare
Generative design in Life Sciences & Healthcare supports stringent quality and regulatory requirements. It manages the development of medical devices and pharmaceuticals, enables traceability throughout the product lifecycle and supports personalized medical initiatives.
Marine & Offshore
Managing complexity, safety and regulatory compliance are top concerns for marine and offshore organizations. Dassault Systèmes solutions helps minimize risks and maximize the sustainability of offshore structures by offering essential support throughout the entire lifecycle.
Transportation & Mobility
In the automotive sector, Dassault Systèmes solutions enables efficient management of complex vehicle systems, from initial design to after-sales service. It facilitates collaboration between global teams, supports regulatory compliance and accelerates the development of electric and autonomous vehicles.
Driving Innovation with our Generative Design Solutions
Empowering innovation and efficiency, Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform transforms business with scalable, cloud-based generative design solutions tailored to specific industry needs.
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Unlock New Design Horizons with CATIA Generative AI
CATIA’s Generative AI empowers engineers to explore wider design spaces and create optimized, high-performance products faster. By embedding intelligence into design workflows, it accelerates innovation while addressing complexity, cost and sustainability.
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Performance-Driven Generative Design
CATIA's performance-driven generative design solution enables designers to rapidly create innovative designs meeting precise requirements using advanced algorithms and simulation.
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Generative Therapeutics Design
BIOVIA's generative therapeutics design revolutionizes pharmaceutical development by using AI algorithms to explore chemical spaces and predict drug efficacy effectively.
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Additive Manufacturing Simulation
SIMULIA's additive manufacturing simulation optimizes 3D printing processes through powerful simulation, predicting issues and generating designs suited for additive manufacturing.
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Cloud-Based Generative Design
Dassault Systèmes' cloud-based performance-driven generative design empowers teams to explore optimized, manufacturable solutions anytime, anywhere. Leverage AI and simulation to accelerate innovation with scalable cloud resources.
Experience the Real-World Value
Let's explore how companies of various sizes have benefited from implementing generative design solutions.
Generative Design: Key Business Functions and Applications
Discover how generative design enhances key business functions—from quality assurance to cost management—by streamlining processes, improving collaboration and ensuring compliance across the product lifecycle.
Efficient Engineering Data Management
Effective management and security of engineering data is critical for innovation. A comprehensive Engineering Data Management (EDM) framework centralizes design files, simulations and documentation while ensuring controlled access, regulatory compliance and accurate version tracking. By automating workflows and enabling cross-functional collaboration, EDM solutions reduce risks, minimize errors and free teams to focus on strategic initiatives such as design innovation and product development.
Multi-Discipline Engineering
Modern products require seamless collaboration between mechanical, electrical and software teams. Dassault Systèmes' generative design solutions break down silos, providing a unified digital environment where engineers can work in parallel, ensuring data consistency and accelerating development cycles.
Virtual Product Development
Quality Assurance & Compliance
Product quality and compliance are critical in regulated industries. By embedding Total Quality Management principles across the product lifecycle, Dassault Systèmes ' solutions enable real-time traceability, integrate Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA), and ensure consistent performance, reliability, and safety.
Bill of Materials
Managing a Bill of Materials (BOM) is crucial for maintaining consistency across design, production and compliance. When used with PLM, generative design centralizes BOM data, ensuring accuracy, version control and efficient change management. Dassault Systèmes' solutions provide real-time BOM visibility, reducing errors and improving product development efficiency.
Supply Chain Planning & Optimization
A complex global supply chain requires visibility and agility. Generative design, when used with our PLM and supply-chain management solutions, enables real-time supplier collaboration. This allows businesses to model sourcing scenarios, anticipate risks and align decisions with cost and sustainability goals. Dassault Systèmes' solutions help optimize supply chain flows, reduce lead times and improve resilience.
Virtual Twin Extends Beyond Design & Engineering
The platform delivers virtual twin technology to create virtual representations of physical products. This enables companies to simulate, analyze and optimize product performance throughout its lifecycle, reducing the need for physical prototypes and accelerating development cycles.
Dassault Systèmes' Key Values in Generative Design
Innovation-Driven Solutions
Dassault Systèmes prioritizes cutting-edge technology to drive product innovation.
Sustainability Focus
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform integrates eco-friendly practices throughout the product lifecycle.
Industry-Specific Expertise
Dassault Systèmes offers tailored generative design solutions for industry-specific needs.
End-to-End Integration
The platform provides seamless, real-time connectivity for all stakeholders and across all product lifecycle stages.
Customer-Centric Approach
Dassault Systèmes focuses on meeting unique client needs and fostering long-term partnerships.
Anytime, Anywhere Availability
Break free from IT constraints and unify your business with real-time collaboration on a cloud-based platform.
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