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Digital engineering and R&D

Transforming engineering to enable sustainable innovation, increase development performance and reduce risk.

Reimagining engineering, supply and production

Three actions to build resilient operations

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Reinvent your Engineering and R&D operations

We digitize, optimize, and transform your traditional R&D and cloud engineering organizations by combining our deep knowledge of engineering process excellence with empowering technologies. This can greatly increase returns on R&D investment, reinforce security by design, and enable design for sustainability. Leveraging the power of cloud engineering, we connect and integrate product data end-to-end across the value chain and create digital representations of products and services.

Products are changing. Can your engineers keep up?

The rise of IoT-connected, software-enabled equipment is creating extraordinary opportunities—and major challenges. With component complexity increasing bringing products to market becomes more complex. So, development performance plummets, success rates suffer, and returns on R&D spending shrink.

How can R&D executives and product owners respond? By boosting efficiencies, driving effectiveness, and expanding innovation through innovative digitization solutions.

Let’s speed up your R&D

We help you embed connectivity, data, and AI along your company’s core R&D, product development and product lifecycle processes.

Potential benefits include:

Accelerated time to market

better visibility and integrated and automated processes.

Reduced cost of quality

less rework for product/process defects and service quality issues.

Reduced carbon emissions

from processes/products along the entire product lifecycle.

Reduced R&D costs

through operating model transformation, agile concept adoption and other next generation engineering methodologies.

Higher R&D efficiency

using automation and data digitization/AI analytics to enable engineers to focus on high-value engineering.

Higher product success rate

through customer-centric products/services based on customer insights.

Our capabilities

We support your digital engineering transformation from strategy to operations, and from initial pilot to at-scale deployment, with our wide network of experts and innovative technology partners.

Full value digital twin & thread

We'll help build full value digital twins with combined AI and cloud engineering tools to deliver next-gen, algorithm-driven R&D, engineering, and PLM.

Engineering and R&D Strategy

We'll help you with R&D Op Model, Product Portfolio and Model-Based Engineering transformations to increase returns on R&D investment.

Engineering and R&D Services

Our engineering excellence helps with engineering design/CAD services, industry publications, engineering simulation services, and data management. Learn more. 

Awards and recognition

Expertise you can build upon: Independent research organizations continuously recognize Accenture as a best-in-class provider of operations consulting, solutions, and services.

SIEMENS

Siemens names Accenture 2022 Global Service Partner of the Year

Alliances & partners

We work with a global network of market leaders and innovators to give you the ability to move quickly and scale faster, with unrivalled access to top talent, technology, and expertise.

Case studies

Automotive

CNH Industrial: Innovative application management

Learn how we helped CNH Industrial with their application maintenance services transformation.

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Industrial Equipment

Refreshing product design at LU-VE

LU-VE Group collaborated with Accenture to transform product design with centralized processes and digital tools.

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What we think

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Automotive

Automotive industry fast lane is software‐defined

Accenture identified four approaches to help OEMs transform software defined, service-driven mobility experiences to compete effectively.

R&D and Engineering Solutions

How thread-first thinking maximizes value

Accenture details how to fully integrate digital thread approach from a digital twin focus and stay in front of the immense wave of product data.
Smart Products and Embedded Solutions

Prioritizing an "Experience-First" connected products strategy

Accenture explains the key steps to building a viable connected products business for your company.
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Reimagine: The Industry X blog

Insights on digital engineering and manufacturing.

The Industry X Magazine

The answer is scale…what’s the question?

On their journey to digital operations, organisations must overcome some transformation challenges.

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Meet our lead

Matthew Thomas

Managing Director – Industry X, Digital Engineering and R&D, Global lead
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Related capabilities

Smart connected product solutions

Design, develop, and launch software-enabled devices, equipment, products, and services.

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Engineering Services

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