Design reuse. The idea is simple. Take past designs and repurpose them into new ones. The benefit? Starting with an already completed design allows engineers to avoid starting from scratch. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. Design models with hundreds of interrelated features can be very difficult to change. They often end up spending more time fixing models than if they had simply started from scratch. Yet, despite these problems, some engineering organizations are seeing considerable success.

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