One workspace from concept to compliance.
Design studio, guided FEA, material lab, DFM checks and PPAP documentation live in one place, so the part and its paperwork never drift apart.
Request early access →ETS Build · Early access · Enterprise pilot
Design it. Prove it. Ship it right the first time.
Today engineers bounce between CAD, FEA, material databases, DFM checklists and compliance trackers, and requirements get lost at every hand-off. ETS Build is one browser workspace for the whole life of a plastic part: parametric design, guided FEA, a material lab, DFM/DFA rule checks, an 18-defect troubleshooting matrix, and PPAP, DVP&R and FMEA built in, with eight collaborating AI engineering agents trained on 41 years of what actually fails in production.
Built on the same corpus behind the 10th-edition textbook · founding-member pricing for pilot teams
Live · four of ETS Build’s rules
Four proportions that decide whether a rib molds cleanly.
Wall, rib thickness, rib height and draft are where most tooling rework starts. ETS Build applies DFM/DFA rules for seven processes and an 18-defect troubleshooting matrix to the whole part. This is four of those rules on a single feature.
Request early access →70of 100
- WallInside the common 1–4 mm window
- Rib thicknessHeavy rib: sink risk on the show surface
- Rib heightWithin about 3× the wall
- DraftUnder 0.5°: ejection drag, scuffing and galling
General guidelines for unfilled thermoplastics. The resin, the process and the feature all move these limits. Making that call is what a design review is for.
One workspace, concept to production
Six tools you use today. Fused into one.
No context-switching, no lost requirements: the part, its analysis and its paperwork live in one place and never drift apart.
DS
Interactive design studio
Eight parametric component families with full dimensional control and animated exploded views.
- Snap-fit, press-fit, living hinge, threaded fastener joints
- Gaskets, springs, gears, bearings
- Material-aware rendering and in-viewport material swap
- Built-in secant-modulus and insertion-force calculators
GD
Generative & procedural design
AI-assisted optimization and parametric parts generated to your constraints.
- Topology optimization: genetic, gradient, simulated annealing
- 2D+3D parts: mounting plates, brackets, involute gears, outlines
- AI CAD from prompts (“mounting bracket, 4×M6, 60 mm bolt circle”)
- STEP / STL / SVG / DXF export for laser, CNC, waterjet
FE
Finite element analysis
A guided 8-step simulation wizard from model to export.
- Static, modal, dynamic, thermal, nonlinear
- Mesh control: TET4/10, HEX8/20, adaptive refinement
- 3D stress-contour viewer, safety factors, pass/warn/fail
- Export Parquet, HDF5, VTK, XDMF, JSON
ML
Material lab
Seven analysis modes across polymers, metals, composites and elastomers; 10,000+ grades.
- Stress-strain, fatigue S-N, temperature behavior
- Shrinkage prediction and environmental resistance
- AI material recommendations from natural language
- Long-term creep modulus, 1 hr–100 khr log scale
MI
Manufacturing intelligence
DFM and DFA that catch problems before tooling.
- DFM rules for 7 processes: molding, CNC, FDM, SLA, SLS, sheet metal, die cast
- DFA metrics, DFM score (0–100%), assembly complexity
- Tolerance stack-up, cost estimation, joining-method advisor
- Mold-fill simulation and 18-defect troubleshooting matrix
AI
AI engineering brain
Eight collaborating agents bring ETS expertise to every decision, with full observability.
- Materials, stress, manufacturing, creep, design, compliance, verification, optimization
- Document-grounded answers with citations
- Tool invocation: FEA, calculators, material lookup
- Live observability, model registry, prompt self-improvement
New · Hyperdrive
The engineer sets the destination. The autopilot does the laps.
Set a goal (minimize weight, maximize stiffness, optimize for DFM, or balance cost and performance) and Hyperdrive scans your project, runs the analysis loop and iterates the design toward it, streaming progress live while you keep control with guardrails.
Set a goal, let it drive
- Plain-language objective or preset: weight, stiffness, DFM, cost/performance
- Project scan and goal-definition wizard
- Constraints and budget up front
- Autonomous design iteration loop
Guardrails & control
- Configurable guardrail engine
- Pause, extend and advance controls
- Kill switch with full status tracking
- You stay in the loop at every step
No black box
- Phase HUD and activity sidebar
- Live metrics bar and streaming updates
- Overview overlay of current state
The AI engineering brain
Eight specialists that check each other’s work.
Grounded in your documents and ETS engineering knowledge; each agent owns one discipline.
01
Materials
Selection, properties, compatibility.
02
Stress analysis
Load paths, safety factors, failure prediction.
03
Verification
Result validation, standards compliance.
04
Manufacturing
DFM review, process and tooling selection.
05
Creep
Long-term deformation and relaxation.
06
Design
Geometry optimization, rule enforcement.
07
Compliance
Standard mapping, gap analysis.
08
Optimization
Multi-objective, Pareto trade-offs.
Compliance & quality, built in
The paperwork is part of the part.
Track posture against the standards your customers audit, with gap analysis and certification tracking.
ISO 9001:2015IATF 16949FDA 21 CFR 820AS9100DITARRoHSREACH
PP
PPAP
- 18-element production part approval packages
- Document upload and approval gates
DV
DVP&R
- Test plans with requirement traceability
- Result recording and status rollup
FM
FMEA
- Severity, occurrence, detection
- RPN and action tracking
PL
PLM & production
- Product structure tree, revision control, ECO
- Work orders, MES, supplier quotes
Built for the people who decide
Whoever signs off, the answer holds up.
A part-design decision crosses four desks before it ships. Here is what ETS gives each of them.
Risk you can put a number on.
A fixed-price pre-tooling review starts at $3,500. One line of the failure ledger costs $10K–$75K once steel is cut. Seats, training and engineering hours can share a single annual agreement.
What a review covers →An expert built for cross-examination.
Fellow of SPE and author of the field’s standard text. Expert-witness work since 1997. A conflict check comes first, and availability, a CV and fees follow within one business day.
Request a conflict check →Simple to buy, easy to audit.
Pay by check, ACH, purchase order or card. Fixed price where applicable, with scope, timeline and quote agreed before work begins, and an NDA signed on request before we see anything.
Start the paperwork →Next step
Build your next part right the first time.
ETS Build is opening to a small number of engineering teams as enterprise pilots. Tell us your parts and environment; we scope a pilot and walk your team through the workspace on a live part. Founding-member pricing for teams that help shape the platform. NDA before you share anything sensitive.
- NDA on request
- Senior engineer replies in one business day
- Fixed price where applicable
- Your data stays yours