Increase design speed through better design review

The key to staying competitive is transforming how people work together to evolve designs.

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Modern Engineering Hurdles

In a world driven by relentless innovation, engineering and design teams aren't just up against technical challenges. They're wrestling with communication gaps, fragmented workflows, and ever-increasing customer demands. A disjointed process doesn't just delay product launches—it jeopardizes quality and drives up costs.

Disconnected Process

The whole process is manual, frustrating, and disconnected.

Endless Meetings

Visibility and oversight require endless updates, emails, and meetings.

Wasted Time

Teams spend more time doing admin work than actual review.

Slow Cycles

Review cycles are slow, especially outside of the immediate team.

Silos of Information

All communications and critical feedback/review data live in silos.

Increased Risk

Key errors are missed and result in manufacturing changes, and risk exposure.

These challenges can turn into big issues

Errors slipping to later stages increasing rework and delays
Missed cost reduction targets or lower gross margins
Having to compromise time to market for quality, or vice versa
Last minute changes from suppliers, leading to late deliveries

Companies use CoLab to increase design speed and overcome big issues

Formal Design Review

  • Drawing Reviews and Approval
  • Gate Reviews
  • Change Reviews
  • Data Driven Design Improvements
  • Documentation and Audit Automation
Core Values
Accelerate Time to Market
Reduce Costly IP Breaches

External Collaboration

  • Secure File Sharing / Viewing
  • RFQ Collaboration
  • DFM Collaboration
  • Visual Change Notifications
Core Values
Accelerate Time to Market
Reduce Costly IP Breaches

Cost Reduction

  • Virtual Cost Reduction Events
  • Integrated Value Engineering
  • VA/VE Idea Prioriation and Mgmt
  • BOM Reviews
Core Values
Execute More Quality Ideas
Reduce Product Costs
Faster review cycles
More mistakes caught earlier
Better collaboration, better decisions
Visibility on progress
Actionable and contextual feedback
Minimal administrative work
Simple, secure sharing with anyone
Better team dynamics and emphasis on collaboration
Your engineers will start having fun again
Immediate value
Traceable and repeatable design review process
Decreased cost of engineering changes
Less repeat-offending mistakes
Better understanding of decisions
Better knowledge sharing, legacy silos disappear
Reduction in "up to speed time" for new employees
Data to determine where to invest in improvements
Top talent envious of tools and processes
Team deemed "the innovator" that others look to for help
12 months value
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Trusted by Fortune 500s and innovators

Mike Zamalis
VP Engineering

"Being a web-based tool, there is no software distribution nor installation and very little training. It is VERY intuitive with easy-to-understand icons. We typically 'train' during one of our event kickoff sessions."

Igor Beric
Global Manager

"But one of the best things about CoLab?All the time it saves by cutting out needless slideshow prep and manual admin work...CoLab helps make the onboarding process a breeze"

Kevin Walters
Senior Director

"In six months, I think the key success point was that we did a cost reduction redesign of our product enclosure. We realized we'd landed a 50% cost reduction on that, and our overall design cycle was half the time of prior design cycles. So something that used to take a full year, we got it done in six months."

Milan Shah
Director

"CoLab digitizes all of that. It creates that design environment on a single online platform, so it simplifies that product design journey - makes it much more interactive, collaborative and quicker turnaround times."

Ivan Filipic
Director

"We figured out that CoLab would basically resolve our issues and get us off the paperwork and the manual process, to something more digital. Not only would this satisfy our immediate needs, but also it would open up new opportunities for the organization."

Dr. James Kerr
Engineering Director

"When it comes to sharing data and being able to transfer accurate files between the three different parties, it's really important for us to be able to make sure we're all working on the same piece of CAD, so that there's no ambiguity when it comes to what we're discussing."

The best engineering teams don’t throw talent resources at a process problem

Every engineering team is different. Your team’s product development challenges might look different than another engineering team. But, the common thread is this: the best engineering teams want to solve the root cause process problem forcing them to delay product launches. So, let’s talk about it.

With a product launch consultation, you’ll talk with a CoLab product expert about:

  • Your team’s product development challenges
  • Where the gaps in your process live
  • Whether a DES can address those gaps
  • How your team can start launching products faster

Fill out the form to schedule a product launch consultation.

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