Digital Prototyping in Industrial Design Pipeline PHD Ivan Paduano 1. Introduction Prototyping is not new to Software Engineering, primarily in the development of digital or computational artifacts, and hardware Engineering where early product prototypes isaed to evaluate functionality, which typically fueled the design process and requirements elicitation (M. Devadiga, 2017). There were even frameworks, such as Spiral model, that incorporated these as dedicated phases into a customized version of the Waterfall Lifecycle. Slowly, manufacturing companies and basically the whole of the R&D industry have taken a leaf from these books and adopted the same practice in its product development lifecycle, launching extensive research efforts for rapidity in product development. The aforesaid cause has also led organizations to adopt rapid prototyping to this phase of prototyping. Large-scale manufacturing companies in the likes of Ford and Rolls Royce have completely /partially shut down their physical prototyping facilities for many of the small components they used to get manufactured for their assembly lines like master models of Cora lamps, Voice-Boxes, Horns, Side Mirrors, License Plate Lane Readers. They racked up extensive savings in tolling costs, warehousing costs, and survived the aftermath of the global supply chain crisis. The enormous success of digital prototyping in the industry also led to it being employed in the era of industrial design. To reduce response time to client's requests, and to minimize physical prototyping iteration time, tool, in its various name or forms have been employed in the product development lifecycle. Whereas software engineering is generally looked at from the computational perspective, the role of software in use of modern products is huge-no less. (Hartmann & van der Auweraer, 2020). For one, products are intending for a long lifespan because the cost of their material and energy are held into their production, distribution, operation and use. 2. Benefits of Digital Prototyping Though there are many advantages and benefits of venturing in real time, the society is not ready to opt for real-time digital prototyping due to apprehensions as it is probably not used to fully transform oneself and completely embrace digitization. Real-time digital prototyping is a success only if industries are ready to adopt and use them for quick decision making in short period. The concept of form and shape from real-time digital prototyping can be useful just as the disease controls charts in the healthcare system. It also provides insights for quick decision making during the product development and speeds up the product development process. However, it has been realized that the overall design and adoption time constants of digital products or devices have not been thrown open with any key-level advances until recently. Although, digital prototyping was born because of Computer Aided Design (CAD), it did not use to exhibit the same time-constant in its development (Qin et al., 2017). With cloud-based CAD systems and improvements in linear and non-linear analysis capabilities of the CAD systems, over the years, it has opened up the possibilities of venturing into digital prototyping and reduced the design as well as the development time to ‘zero’. This concept can be called as the real-time or instant digital prototyping. Digital prototyping has proved to be a beneficial concept in terms of accelerating the design pipeline. Though it reduces cost and time of development but does not hesitate compromises the qualitative measures of the product (Dashti et al., 2022). One of the most prominent benefits from the point of view of a designer or an engineer, choice of digital prototyping over the other methods is the easy and efficient creation, exploration and optimization of physical as well as the geometrical shapes. Also, the test physical properties such as stress are much easier with digital prototyping (Hartmann & van der Auweraer, 2020). 3. Tools and Software for Digital Prototyping The prototype layout for the application was designed throughout this paper as a Windows app. Any graphic libraries like SkiaSharp or Windows Presentation Framework can be implemented for the user exhibition on selected devices. As a digital prototyping strategy for computational support in adaptive design, a new interactive 3D modeling system is proposed. Virtual interaction devices (like 3D TV glasses and 6-D laser head) can give a more realistic environment but are disgusting, while audio is achieved naturally without touching limitations. This study proposes the incorporation of virtual interactive techniques to improve the reality of the designed system considering the advantages and disadvantages identified. (Zacharia et al., 2012) Results confirmed that digital pen-tablet interfaces can be fruitful in this type of creative design processes, and could be an exciting way of continuing the tradition of researching freehand draughting interfaces into future constrained creative design prototypes. (Lhachemi et al., 2019)