LEIP – Lean Engineering and Innovation Process
LEIP builds on Zuti’s experience in simulation-driven design and successful application over many projects in diverse industries. The approach integrates
designing both at the conceptual and practical engineering levels to make the product development process efficient and fast. It focuses on application of
numerical optimization techniques for synthesis of innovative concept designs that are efficient and accommodate design variant possibilities. Numerical
optimization in conjunction with analysis is further used in context of engineering to automate the iterative design change process and design validation.
The approach leverages our deep engineering expertise and know-how to make the process lean and add value. The salient features of the process are:
Design Setting:
Using engineering experience and imagination, creative design space is modelled to accommodate multiple design possibilities.
Computation:
Numerical optimization techniques are used to computationally explore the design space for geometric forms that follow design functionality closely. The
emphasis is on finding concept designs that are not only optimal in performance but are also viable from a manufacturability point of view.
Design Synthesis:
An optimal concept design is synthesized from many possibilities. Engineering experience is used to guide the synthesis process to find concept designs that
meet functional requirements and also accommodate design variants leading to an optimal platform concept.
Design Tuning:
The best possible concept is engineered to meet the design attributes. The final designs are validated and engineered for robustness for real world
uncertainties such as manufacturing, loading variations and material changes.
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Key Benefits of LEIP
- LEIP leads to design concepts that are innovative, lightweight, efficient and yet manufacturable.
- LEIP provides high design maturity to components very early in the design process thus avoiding expensive design changes later in the process.
- LEIP applied at the system level leads to rationalized product platforms that are optimal and efficient. The product platforms can later be used to engineer design variants with a fast turnaround time.
- LEIP enables rapid experimentation with low risk for concept designs and low cost iterative development of the concept designs using simulation and virtual validation.
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