Design-to-cost
Cost alongside design. Ship better, faster
Competitive pressure is compressing product development cycles, leaving engineering teams without time to run enough cost iterations, defend tighter margins, or surface the designs that could have been the best. Synera is agentic AI for engineering, costing every variant in minutes alongside the design itself.
For engineering teams across automotive, aerospace, defense, consumer goods, and consumer electronics turning design-to-cost into a competitive advantage.
Engineering teams in automotive, aerospace, and defense run on Synera
How agentic AI runs your design-to-cost process in Synera, in four steps
A team of agents designs, costs, and iterates with your engineers to ship the winning variant. Here's how Synera makes it happen.
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Map your quoting process in a digital workflow.
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Connect your CAD, PLM, and costing tools. Synera connects with Facton, ....
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Add a team of agents that use LLMs to think and your workflows to act, reading the RFQ and running the engineering across your tools. Share it across your organization so every engineer gets the same expert knowledge, precision, and processing speed at their fingertip, securely on premises.
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Engineers become expert supervisors, reviewing the quotes and sending them. One engineer can handle twice the quotations.
See an agentic design-to-cost workflow run on Synera
The SEAT body-in-white development team walks through how agents cost a design alongside the engineering tools they already have in place.
"Hundreds of optimizations run automatically, and we get back the best result for the design."
"The process used to take four to six weeks of lead time because of all the meetings and connections. We reduced this lead time, on these intermediate [design-to-cost] steps, to below one day."
Ready to see it on your own processes?
Talk to an expertWith Synera: faster cost, better designs, shorter cycles, captured methods
What changes for your engineering team when Synera runs design-to-cost
From weeks of lead time to one day
The cost analysis loop that took weeks of meetings now runs in a day, alongside the design.
Hundreds of variants. The best design wins
Hundreds of design variants explored automatically. Engineers pick the one that wins on cost and function.
Faster development. Same quality bar
Shorter development cycles without dropping the engineering quality your team has always defended.
Cost knowledge that stays in the company
Senior cost engineers' knowledge captured in workflows that survive job changes, retirements, and team rotations.
Proven at scale, Built into your stack, Engineer-controlled
Production proof, with ROI
170,000 engineering workflows in production. 685% ROI at a global home appliance manufacturer. BMW design cycle 3 weeks to 2 minutes.
Other AI tools advise. Synera's agents act
Chatbots and copilots suggest. Synera agents do: read the design, cost the variant, and iterate the trade-offs until the design wins.
A full-stack engineering team, with yours
Synera trainers, solution engineers, and customer success teams work alongside yours from pilot through full deployment.
Auditable by design
Every Synera workflow is logged, traceable, and inspectable, so cost decisions stay defensible.
On-premise, architected for EU AI Act
Synera deploys on-premise, is TISAX Level 2 certified, and is architected to meet EU AI Act requirements.
Easy to roll out, easy to scale
Synera plugs into your costing stack and goes from kickoff to production use cases in months, not years.
Built to run inside your engineering stack
Not replacing your costing tools or target-cost rules. Just speeding them up.
CAD
CATIA • NX (Siemens) • Creo (PTC) • Autodesk Inventor
Simulation / CAE
Ansys • Abaqus • Optistruct
PLM
Teamcenter • Windchill • Contact PLM
Cost engineering
FACTON
LLM providers
OpenAI • Anthropic • Google Gemini • Meta Llama • Mistral
A representative sample of 80+ integrations. See the full list in the integration directory.
