Predictive engineering analytics, big data and the future of design

By combining physics-based simulations, data mining, statistical modelling and machine learning techniques, predictive engineering analytics can analyse patterns in the data to construct models of how the systems you gathered the data from work. IoT and sensors are already transforming products and mining the stream of information from products will be critical for maintaining products and designing their replacements. For many industries, the products they create are no longer purely mechanical; they're complex devices combining mechanical and electrical controls. That means engineering different systems, and the ways they interface with each other, and with the outside world. At one level you're coping with electromechanical controls, at another, you're creating a design that covers the cooling requirements for the electronics.