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From Months to Days: Rethinking Hardware Prototyping Velocity
This paper examines how leading R&D teams are breaking free from sequential prototyping workflows that constrain innovation velocity. Through analysis of current hardware development practices, it reveals why traditional approval gates and manual iteration cycles no longer match the pace of modern product development. Readers will discover how adopting parallel experimentation, automated validation, and development-mode thinking enables teams to compress time-to-insight from months to days—without compromising quality or manufacturability.
Key Takeaways
- Understand why traditional stage-gate prototyping creates artificial bottlenecks that compound across development cycles
- Learn how parallel candidate generation replaces sequential iteration with simultaneous exploration
- Discover the economic impact of shifting from optimization-first to learning-first prototyping strategies
- Identify which manual approval processes can be automated without sacrificing design integrity
- See how physics-based validation enables rapid iteration while maintaining production readiness
From Months to Days: Rethinking Hardware Prototyping Velocity
