Industrial performance goes through an ongoing improvement of the whole process permitting the transition from R & D to product design, down to the industrialization or even the final recycling. Innovation plays a pivotal part in design, organisational changes and improvement: It makes it possible to define increasingly performing processes. However the first and foremost preliminary step quite obviously boils down to the improvement of the different tools used at one time or another throughout all the steps pertaining to the processes being used. This article hereby proposes an overall view of the innovating breakthrough in the field of improved design aid tools for laminated structures.