A new survey of 250 engineering leaders at US and European manufacturing companies found that 95% believe it is either critically important or important for design teams to fully adopt AI within the next twelve to twenty-four months. And in the survey, commissioned by Colab, 100% of survey respondents said that AI would speed up design review times, with answers indicating that reviews could be conducted nearly three times as fast (2.8x). Nearly three-quarters (73%) of drawing reviews could be automated with an AI checker trained on company standards; and by using AI, design teams have the opportunity to not only increase the speed, but also the quality of design reviews. All of this underlines the growing importance of AI, but CoLab CEO Adam Keatling asserted that this isn't replacing engineers: "It's giving them instant access to their organisation's historical technical know-how so they can make more informed decisions. The AI handles the repeatable checks, the engineer makes the judgment calls. We think that's the sweet spot for both performance and adoption.”