Can you tear down a car without ever picking up a wrench? 🚗🔧 That's the question BMW Group set out to answer. For years, comparing vehicle component designs meant physical inspections and manual CAD searches. It worked, but couldn't scale. Meet BMW Group’s Virtual Teardown Assistant, an automated workflow that takes a full CAD model, breaks it into systems, explodes and color-codes each part, then creates renders. Those renders, paired with bill-of-materials data, go straight to an LLM, which returns engineering insights on weight, cost, and functional improvements. The takeaway for any team eyeing something similar: pick a real problem, build a fast proof of concept, and let the results speak. 🔗 Read the full article: