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High-Speed Data in Industrial, Automotive, Healthcare, and Data Centers 20 In engineering and operational contexts, efficiency is often represented as a percentage. But efficiency is also an imperative for progress and innovation. Being more efficient really has no limits because what may be 100% efficient today can only ever be measured against what the current solutions can provide to drive that efficiency. When new technology is introduced, efficiency has to be reassessed because technology is constantly evolving. Thus, what may have been viewed as 100% efficient a year ago may be considered considerably less efficient by today's standards. This is very much the case in product development and manufacturing, where efficiencies that can be gained in the manufacturing process actually begin as part of the original design. Only companies that provide services spanning both domains can bring real leaps in efficiency by leveraging advancements made possible in both the design and manufacturing processes. The Power of Automation: Bringing New Products to Market with Speed and Quality Doug Busch | Vice President and General Manager of Optical Solutions Group at Molex Design for Success Using collaborative design tools, including simulation, makes the design process itself more efficient. But these gains can be amplified by looking at the design goals more holistically. There will always be more than one way to design a product to meet a specification, and if that specification doesn't include manufacturability, then the challenge becomes greater from the standpoint of optimization. Of course, many companies today follow best practices in terms of Design for Manufacturability (DFM), but not all have the expertise to tailor the components to deliver that optimization. Companies like Molex, which can take on new product design and manufacture with a holistic and systemic approach, can bring these potential efficiency gains together to deliver measurable improvements. And as components become more complex—this capability becomes even more vital.