Shorten the Design Cycle with Virtual Prototyping

Virtual prototyping is rapidly transforming how engineering teams innovate, validate, and deliver products to market.

In this webinar, we explore the limitations of traditional design cycles where testing often happens too late, changes are expensive, and failures can damage timelines, budgets, and brand reputation. Drawing from real-world engineering environments ranging from high-volume consumer products to highly customized industrial equipment, the discussion highlights a common challenge: discovering design deficiencies only after physical prototypes or end-of-line testing. Virtual prototyping shifts this paradigm by allowing engineers to identify performance issues earlier, when changes are still affordable and impactful.

The session then dives into how simulation and virtual testing address these challenges across industries and applications. You’ll gain practical insight into core simulation disciplines such as finite element analysis (FEA) for structural performance and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for thermal and flow behavior to cover the majority of real-world simulation use cases. Through detailed case studies, including medical implants designed to meet stringent ASTM standards and conveyor oven systems optimized for uniform heating and higher throughput, the webinar demonstrates how virtual testing can closely replicate physical test conditions.

These examples show how simulation can reduce the number of physical prototypes required, cut testing costs, and significantly improve confidence before committing to manufacturing or regulatory testing. The focus is not just on whether a design will pass, but on understanding why it performs the way it does and how to improve it.

Join Adam Baker, Director of TriMech Design Solutions, to learn how organizations can practically adopt simulation and virtual testing by investing in software and training, leveraging expert mentoring, or outsourcing analysis as a service. Adam will walk through the SOLIDWORKS Simulation portfolio and advanced Dassault Systèmes tools, explaining how to select the right level of simulation for your needs without unnecessary complexity. You’ll also learn how TriMech approaches simulation not as a one-time report, but as an engineering partnership focused on problem-solving and design improvement.

If you’ve ever wondered whether virtual testing belongs in your workflow, how to avoid costly late-stage surprises, or how to get started without overcommitting resources, this webinar will give you a clear, actionable framework to move forward with confidence.

In this virtual prototyping webinar, you will learn:

• How virtual prototyping helps uncover design failures earlier in the development cycle
• When and why physical testing is still required, and how simulation can reduce costly retries
• Real-world examples of FEA and CFD improving product performance and time to market
• Different paths to adopting simulation: software, training, mentoring, or outsourced services
• How engineering-focused simulation partners drive actionable design improvements, not just results