Prewitt Ridge Named to Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas
Prewitt Ridge, the requirements management and digital engineering company, was named to Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards, an annual ranking which honors the businesses and organization
LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2024, — Prewitt Ridge, the requirements management and digital engineering company, was named to Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards, an annual ranking which honors the businesses and organizations that are developing creative solutions to the most pressing issues of our time.
Prewitt Ridge received honorable mention in the Science & Technology category, highlighting how digital engineering accelerates the development of high-impact technology. Built by systems engineers with experience at SpaceX and Slingshot Aerospace, Prewitt Ridge applies DevOps principles developed to rapidly build and scale software to the design of hardware systems, ranging from earth observation satellites to lunar rovers. The company’s platform delivers an authoritative source of truth, digital threads across toolsets, and automated compliance.
Highly technical engineering projects require multiple tools for design and analysis. Requirements help constrain these designs and make these projects achievable, however, those requirements and data often remain siloed. At the same time, assessing the impact of variations to these requirements can be a challenging and manual process, and any mistakes can lead to cost overruns, schedule delays, and even catastrophic system failures. Prewitt Ridge’s software helps engineers seamlessly access and distribute requirements across all engineering toolsets, resulting in 100x efficiency and breaking down communication barriers between teams.
“Zeke and I started Prewitt Ridge to support engineering teams building world-changing technology, so we couldn’t be more humbled to be honored among a group of companies that are not only pushing the limits of what’s possible but building products that have a meaningful impact on humanity,” said Steve Massey, Co-Founder and CEO of Prewitt Ridge. “Our software boosts productivity so that hardware engineering teams can move faster while breaking less hardware along the way. Ultimately, this provides more space for the creativity and collaboration that is necessary to solve hard problems.”
This year’s World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 50 winners, 127 finalists, and 172 honorable mentions—with health, education, energy, and AI among the most popular categories. A panel of Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners from a pool of more than 1,300 entries across climate, social justice, wellness, politics, technology, corporate social responsibility, and more. Several new categories were added this year, including beauty and fashion, health products, health services, materials, and science and technology. The 2024 awards feature entries from across the globe, including the Republic of Korea, Brazil, and Madagascar.
Fast Company’s Spring 2024 issue (on newsstands May 21, 2024) will unveil some of the world’s most creative minds and pioneering organizations that are seeking to disrupt the status quo. The solutions cover everything from renewable energy storage and waste in the fashion industry to a building made entirely from recycled concrete and a fridge that’s solar-powered and designed to run off the grid.
“I was struck this year by the global sweep of the honorees,” says Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. “It’s endlessly inspiring to see how the world is coming together to devise inventive solutions to our most challenging problems. We need ideas from everywhere, and this year’s World Changing Ideas Awards are an extraordinary encapsulation of the innovation and creativity that is so abundant around the globe.”
ABOUT PREWITT RIDGE:
Prewitt Ridge delivers requirements management software to 100x the efficiency of engineering teams. The platform provides an authoritative source of truth, digital threads across toolsets, and automated compliance. Built by systems engineers with experience at SpaceX and Slingshot Aerospace, Prewitt Ridge applies DevOps principles developed to rapidly build and scale software to the design of hardware systems.
ABOUT THE WORLD CHANGING IDEAS AWARDS:
World Changing Ideas is one of Fast Company’s major annual awards programs and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and bold concepts that make the world better. Judges choose winners, finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and the potential for impact. With the goals of awarding ingenuity and fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to work on solving the problems that affect us all.
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