Product Development Predictions for 2025: AI, Agile, Additive
Summary
Fast forward to 2025, and these trends have evolved into even more powerful drivers of innovation, with AI taking a leading role alongside agile methodologies and additive manufacturing. While the 2022 conversation was focused on improving efficiency and flexibility, the advancements of the past few years have pushed these concepts into new territory—where automation is smarter, agility extends beyond processes to culture and additive manufacturing scales from not only better prototyping but increasingly to full production. AI-Powered decision support: Engineers will increasingly rely on AI to analyze massive datasets, predict performance outcomes and recommend design improvements. For example, Omnirobotic creates and manufactures robots that automate challenging industrial tasks and leverage rapid prototyping and cloud-native CAD to accelerate their product development process. With cloud-based CAD and PLM tools, manufacturers can interact with digital prototypes in real-time, leaving comments, annotations and suggested modifications directly in the design.