Technology development in many high tech industries like semiconductor, photovoltaic, and MEMS becomes more complex every day. At the same time, development cycles need to be shorter and shorter. Due to the required increase in speed, the question arises, how organizations can cope with this ever increasing pace and gain efficiency through digitization in engineering. Because after the general movement to digitize manufacturing the next logical step is to digitize engineering.

In this whitepaper, we describe an approach to take the next step to improve engineering efficiency. Intelligent usage of software allows efficiency gains by digitizing and automatizing several tasks traditionally performed manually by engineers. These gains are enabled by the virtualization of experiments through simulation and emulation and by the holistic collection and management of all information generated by virtual and physical
experiments.