Bench

Bench is a revolutionary platform designed to bring engineering workflows into the AI era. It addresses the slow, fragmented, and manual processes that traditionally dominate hardware development. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Bench empowers engineering teams to automate both simple and complex design workflows, drastically reducing iteration times from days to mere minutes. The core mission of Bench is to free engineers from tedious, repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on high-leverage R&D and innovation.

The platform seamlessly integrates into your existing engineering toolstack, including popular CAD (Computer-Aided Design), CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering), and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software. This plug-and-play approach means teams can adopt AI-driven automation without painful or costly migrations, enhancing their current processes rather than replacing them. With Bench, teams can ship products faster, maintain a competitive edge, and scale their operations without proportionally increasing team size.

How to use Bench

Using Bench involves a streamlined process designed for maximum efficiency:

1. Integration: Connect Bench to your current engineering software. It offers live integrations with tools like Onshape and SimScale, with more on the way for Solidworks, Catia, SiemensNX, and ANSYS.
2. Define Workflow: Using simple prompts or a dedicated interface, define the task you want to automate. This could be anything from making specific revisions to a CAD model to setting up a complex simulation loop.
3. AI-Powered Execution: Bench's AI engine interprets your request and automatically executes the workflow across your connected tools. For example, it can generate hundreds of design variations and run performance tests on them in parallel.
4. Analyze & Iterate: Review the results instantly. The platform provides a seamless review process, allowing team members to collaborate, provide feedback, and make informed decisions to uncover the best-performing designs.
5. Optimize and Finalize: Use the insights to refine your designs, running further automated iterations until the optimal solution is achieved, ready for the next stage of development.

Core Features of Bench

• AI Workflow Automation: Automate menial and complex tasks, from CAD edits to simulation orchestration, using AI.
• Parallel Scenario Exploration: Test countless design variations simultaneously to compare performance and identify optimal configurations at scale.
• Automated CAD Revisions: Accelerate design cycles by automating repetitive CAD edits, freeing up engineers for more critical tasks.
• Performance Optimization Loop: Fully automate the CAD-to-simulation loop to iterate on designs and improve performance at an unprecedented speed.
• Seamless Toolstack Integration: Plugs directly into your existing CAD, CAE, and PLM software without requiring tool changes.
• Enterprise-Grade Platform: Features robust security, granular role-based access control, and scalability for global teams of any size.
• Collaborative Review Process: A built-in system to ensure all feedback is captured and all stakeholders' voices are heard during the design process.

Use Cases for Bench

Bench is versatile and can be applied across various engineering domains:

• Hardware Product Development: Drastically shorten the concept-to-launch timeline for new hardware products by automating design iterations.
• Aerospace & Automotive: Optimize the performance and weight of critical components by exploring thousands of design permutations in parallel.
• Consumer Electronics: Rapidly iterate on enclosure designs and internal layouts to balance thermal performance, durability, and aesthetics.
• Industrial Machinery: Automate the process of updating and revising large, complex CAD assemblies based on new requirements or component changes.
• Multidomain Optimization: Solve complex engineering problems that involve trade-offs between different physics domains, such as structural integrity and fluid dynamics.

Advantages of Bench

Adopting Bench provides a significant competitive advantage:

• Accelerated Iteration: Reduce design and analysis cycles from days or weeks to just minutes.
• Enhanced Productivity: Allow engineers to focus on creative problem-solving and innovation instead of manual, repetitive work.
• Faster Time-to-Market: Eliminate key bottlenecks in the development process to launch products sooner.
• No Disruptive Migration: Enhance your existing workflows with a plug-and-play solution that works with the tools you already use.
• Competitive Edge: Stay ahead of the curve by adopting an AI-first engineering workflow that outpaces traditional methods.

Pricing and Plans

Bench is built for enterprise needs and offers tailored solutions. The pricing is customized based on the scale of the team, specific integration requirements, and overall usage. To get detailed pricing information, you need to book a call with one of the founders for a live demo and a personalized quote.