Innovation in Action: Highlights from Rescale Customer Day 2025

How industry leaders are shaping the future of digital engineering with Rescale

Celebrating Innovation, Together

Last week we had the privilege of hosting the annual Rescale Customer Day at Rescale’s company-wide annual gathering, where some of the world’s most innovative companies came together to exchange ideas at the cutting edge of digital engineering. Beyond the exciting keynotes, customers had insider access to product roadmap previews and peer-to-peer roundtables sharing insights from the front lines of industry. From pharmaceuticals and clean energy to aerospace and electronics manufacturing, these leaders shared how they are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Their products range from life‑saving medicines to next‑generation energy systems and aircraft components, but what unites them is a commitment to harnessing advanced modeling, simulation, and AI to accelerate innovation. As one customer put it, “This is an event where I can learn what Rescale and other companies are investing in and stay up to date on the latest trends.”

Rescale Customer Day 2025 underscored what makes our community special: a shared passion for innovation, a commitment to solving humanity’s toughest challenges, and a belief that advanced simulation and AI can unlock new possibilities. This was more than a meeting—it was a front‑row seat to the future, and a reminder of why Rescale is leading the charge to help industries advance and evolve the tools and processes used in product development. Attendees networked with Rescale executives throughout the day and capped the day with an evening mixer and dinner overlooking Austin’s downtown and lakefront. Rescale CEO and Founder Joris Poort kicked off the event, sharing: “We are witnessing rapid acceleration in engineering and scientific innovation. The pace and passion with which our customers are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible reminds us why we’re here: to be the foundation that enables these breakthroughs.”

One of the most impactful aspects of Customer Day was the opportunity for customers to help shape the Rescale roadmap of new products and investment initiatives. Attendees provided candid input on product enhancements, feature requests, and initiatives that will unlock new capabilities across compute, data, and AI. From smarter automation and agentic workflows to more intuitive data management tools and expanded AI assistants, these conversations underscored the collaborative spirit that drives Rescale forward. Customers didn’t just hear about what’s next—they helped build it, ensuring the platform evolves to meet real-world challenges and create new possibilities for digital engineering.

Product Innovations That Enrich Humanity

The innovations being pursued by Rescale customers paint a picture of how engineering breakthroughs can reshape both industry and daily life. Examples of industries represented include:

• Life Sciences: Customers like BMS are accelerating the path from molecules to medicine, using simulation to improve scale-up from bench experiments to industrial production.
• Energy: Customers like Kairos Power are pioneering next generation nuclear facilities and TechnipFMC are delivering oil and gas services globally for cost-competitive, reliable, and responsible energy.
• Electronics Manufacturing: Customers like Molex are developing electronic connectivity solutions powering everything from smartphones to electric vehicles.
• Aerospace and Defense: Companies like Collins Aerospace and Northrop Grumman are innovating in flight systems, mission intelligence, and defense solutions.
• Digital Networks: Companies like TE Connectivity are enabling global digital communication, advancing high-speed connectors and data infrastructure.

Insights from Experts in their Fields

The customer participants represented a wide array of roles, from R&D engineers and CAE managers to HPC directors and engineering systems leads. Each brought unique perspectives on how simulation, data, and AI intersect with their responsibilities:

HPC and AI Leaders: The perspectives offered by the technology side represented the forefront of organizations pioneering advanced computing technologies. Their focus was on the optimization of cloud operations, the growing role of GPUs, and how AI is reshaping traditional HPC workflows. These leaders underscored the critical need for scalable, flexible infrastructure that can support next‑generation aerospace and defense applications, as well as the governance and security required to enable classified and enterprise‑wide adoption.

Engineering and R&D Leaders: The perspectives from the engineering and R&D side shared how advanced modeling and simulation are central to their research and product development. Their roles spanned chemical engineering, electronics, energy systems, and digital networks, but they echoed common needs: better data capture and traceability, improved simulation workflows, and faster design iteration. These voices highlighted how AI and data‑driven methods are accelerating everything from medicine development and clean energy to electronics design and industrial innovation.

Rescale Experts in Technology and Industry: Beyond the formal sessions, customers also had the chance to meet the people behind the scenes who support their success every day: Rescale’s dedicated support engineers, HPC specialists, and product experts. These are the teams, many of them with deep industry experience, who quietly solve problems, optimize performance, and ensure customers can innovate without interruption.

Harnessing Data and AI for Engineering Innovation

While compute scalability remains critical, new data and AI capabilities emerged as top priorities across customer discussions. Recurring themes of what customers are interested in:

• Embracing a modeling-first approach to engineering, prioritizing simulation and digital experimentation before physical testing
• Harnessing all historical simulation data for analysis and reuse across teams and projects
• Exploring domain-specific AI assistants to extract insights from large and complex simulation output files
• Applying AI to automate routine workflow tasks like job setup, configuration, and troubleshooting

Need for a Foundational Platform

A recurring theme was the need for a foundational platform to unify diverse engineering tools and workflows. Customers noted that their organizations rely on dozens of solvers, applications, and versions spanning structural, fluid, thermal, electromagnetic, and molecular simulations. Without a common platform, engineering teams struggle with inefficiency, wasted runs, and silos. Rescale’s platform was validated as a single, integrated environment purpose-built for digital engineering where organizations can:

• Standardize and Democratize Simulation Workflows: Build consistent engineering processes across global teams and projects, eliminating silos and improving collaboration.
• Manage Data and Licensing at Scale: Centrally organize software, licenses, and simulation data with intelligence that overcomes the limitations of traditional systems.
• Gain Elastic Computing Capacity: Seamlessly scale workloads into the cloud with elastic compute to meet peak demand without costly infrastructure.
• Automate and Enhance Workflows with AI: Integrate AI and agentic automation to capture, analyze, and optimize engineering data directly within simulation environments.
• Prepare for the Future of AI in Simulation: Automatically structure and enrich simulation information so it is searchable, reusable, and ready for training advanced AI models.

As one customer put it, “Attending this event shows us we’re not alone—these challenges are common across industries, and Rescale helps us address them together.”

The Bigger Picture and Industry Forces

Discussions at Rescale Customer Day 2025 mirrored broader industry dynamics:

• Faster Innovation Cycles: Global competitive pressures require more design iterations in less time.
• Increased Complexity: Products now integrate multiple disciplines (e.g., structural + thermal + fluid interactions).
• Powering Increased Compute: Power constraints and environmental goals are accelerating shifts from on-prem data centers to cloud HPC.
• AI Transformation: Teams are experimenting with AI to accelerate discovery, even as questions remain about data, security, and adoption.

These shared needs validate Rescale’s mission to empower innovators with scalable compute, intelligent data, and AI-native tools.

Looking Ahead with Lessons Learned

We at Rescale are immensely grateful to our customers for taking the time to share their experiences and aspirations. Their feedback ensures that our roadmap is guided by real-world needs from regulatory compliance in clean energy, to metadata traceability in manufacturing, to AI exploration in pharmaceuticals and aerospace.

As we look ahead, Rescale is committed to:

• Expanding our data and AI capabilities
• Delivering more automation and workflow intelligence
• Supporting hybrid and classified computing environments
• Continuing to be the trusted foundation for digital engineering innovation

Rescale Customer Day 2025 highlighted what makes our community special: a shared passion for innovation, a commitment to solving humanity’s toughest challenges, and a belief that advanced simulation and AI can unlock new possibilities. We’re proud to partner with these industry leaders and excited to continue empowering their next breakthroughs.