Upskill every engineer with your company’s collective experience
CoLab captures, connects, and activates your organization’s design knowledge — so new and existing employees can make confident decisions like your most experienced engineers. By turning everyday reviews into an organized, living knowledge base, you mitigate the risk of losing technical expertise and raise the capability of your entire team.
- 30%shorter lead times
- 8 figuresannual cost savings
- 15%COPQ improvement
- 4Xfaster supplier reviews
- $3Msavings in one VA event
Stop relying on people to hold your team’s knowledge together
Design rationale is often disconnected from 2D and 3D design files – in notes, slide decks, or people’s memory. So, managers end up acting as the glue — re-explaining the same lessons to new engineers. CoLab captures design insight automatically during reviews, linking every comment and discussion to the right model or drawing. People that need to get up to speed can see why decisions were made — without someone else walking them through it.
Visual revision history that explains why designs evolved
Design feedback shouldn’t disappear into inboxes or get lost in notes. CoLab creates a visual record of each design’s evolution. You can overlay comments from past revisions onto the current model, showing both the design rationale and the decision in one view. It’s an instant, visual way for new engineers to understand the logic behind past work — and avoid repeating old mistakes.
Find the insights that matter to your role fast
CoLab makes feedback configurable, so insights can be tagged by category — quality, cost, manufacturability, and more. A cost engineer can instantly surface design decisions tied to past cost-down efforts, while a quality engineer can filter for recurring defect patterns. Every role can access the subset of knowledge that’s most relevant to them, right when they need it.
Capture and track the purpose of each review
With CoLab’s review notebooks, you can record the goal of each review and provide background context. Whether it was a DFM review, a cost-reduction workshop, or a design freeze meeting, that context stays attached to the feedback forever. Create a richer design history that can be used by people and AI to guide future design decisions.
Proactively surface lessons learned, so engineers don’t have to dig for them
Knowledge tracking, search, and even AI tools are often reactive: engineers have to know what they’re looking for in order to find it. CoLab takes a proactive approach, using machine-learning to analyze geometry and metadata, then identify similar parts from past programs. It automatically surfaces relevant design insights and lessons learned — so guidance appears in the moment of decision, not after.
Retain your expertise. Grow your capability.
Capture institutional knowledge automatically, so you can make it available to every engineer when it matters most.