MCADCafe Industry Predictions for 2019 – Onshape

1. Security and compliance issues will become an even bigger priority in 2019. With major data and privacy leaks seemingly happening every other week, more companies will follow IBM’s lead and ban employees from using portable USB or flash drives. A decade ago, very few companies had Chief Security Officers — the job title barely existed. Now companies will have to adopt some kind of agile security model to handle emerging threats.

2. As technology platforms for CAD systems continue to evolve, look for the first Augmented Reality CAD application in 2019 that is not just a viewer, but a brand new design platform where life-size 3D models can be created and edited in an engineer’s physical surroundings without a screen. Whether AR will transform the CAD world or just become a novelty is yet to be determined, but the technology is coming soon.

3. It will be inevitable that CPQ systems – configure price quote systems – will start to be adopted on a mainstream basis. Companies are demanding a better and faster way for their sales teams to help customers configure products to their specifications – and make sure that those configurations are manufacturable.

4. Mobile phone and robotics technology will continue to drive huge innovations in medical device design in the same way that the space program spun off new technologies that impacted multiple industries.

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