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PAB Coventry

Automotive sheet metal prototype and production firm, Coventry

Size: More than 110 staff
Where: UK

The job

In a feasibility study backed by the BridgeAI programme, the engineering team tested Multi-X AI, a tool that predicts how vehicle parts will form in manufacture, in place of traditional physics based simulation.

Tool: Multi-X AI

What happened

Simulation time fell by 80% compared with traditional methods.

Simulation spend fell by 30%, with accuracy comparable to physics based simulation. After the study the firm committed to adopting the tool in its operations.

Before you believe it

These are feasibility study results reported through an Innovate UK programme whose subject is the vendor, Multi-X. Ask whether the savings held once the tool moved into everyday use.

Try this prompt

Test the job on your own material before buying anything. Replace the highlighted brackets.

Here are the forming simulation results we already hold for these parts: [RESULTS]. Summarise which designs failed and why, and list the design changes that fixed each failure, so we have a checklist to run before the next simulation.

Source

Innovate UK Business Connect ↗, 6 July 2026 · official

This source is an official publication.

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