Automotive PLM
Digital engineering solutions for the transportation and mobility sector, covering automotive, public transportation, logistics and freight, and mobility as a service.
Automotive organizations face a raft of challenges which put innovation and efficient operation at risk. But that’s just where it starts. You’ve also got changing customer demands to consider, data security and emissions standards – the list goes on. So, how can PLM help?
Every successful business depends on a set of solutions that fit their specific requirements. Let’s find out how we can help you get ahead in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving industry.
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Product development
Efficient product development enables companies to reduce time to market, manage costs effectively, and roll out new features that meet consumer demands.
Time-to-market
Reducing the time and cost associated with physical prototyping while allowing for rapid iteration and refinement of designs. Enabling engineers to explore more design options and identify potential issues early in the development process.
CATIA simplifies the way engineers model products in 3D. By using CATIA, engineers can simulate different scenarios, test various design configurations, and analyze the performance of products virtually. This early exploration and analysis helps with detecting issues, optimizing designs, and ensuring product quality before physical prototyping, leading to more efficient and innovative product development processes.
Engineering simulation services
For empowering automotive manufacturers to deliver innovative, high-quality products to market faster and more efficiently. Through concurrent engineering and early-stage testing, we’ll assist your teams in identifying and addressing potential issues before physical production begins. Our automotive engineering simulation services include structural and crash analysis, thermal, stress, and vibration analysis, computational fluid dynamics, vehicle dynamics and powertrain simulation, comprehensive systems engineering, and more.
Innovation
Concept design is critical for setting the direction of the project. Well-documented and iterated innovation can significantly influence your product's success in the market by ensuring it meets consumer needs and preferences.
CATIA provides advanced 3D modeling capabilities that enable engineers to create detailed and realistic concept designs. These capabilities are essential for concept design as they enable engineers to visualize and simulate ideas, ensuring that the initial design phase is accurate, innovative, and aligned with project requirements.
Engineering simulation services
For driving innovation in automotive design and manufacturing, TECHNIA’s advanced simulation services enable exploration of cutting-edge materials, processes, and systems. Our composites analysis, optimization analysis, and electromagnetic simulations empower you to push the boundaries of vehicle technology. By leveraging these tools, your team can rapidly iterate on designs, experiment with novel concepts, and develop groundbreaking solutions that set your products apart in the market.
Costly prototyping
Evaluating designs under various conditions without the need for physical prototypes, saving time and resources. It's crucial for ensuring the reliability and safety of vehicles before they reach the market.
SIMULIA enables engineers and analysts to evaluate the performance, reliability, and safety of parts and materials. By using realistic simulation software, automotive organizations can simulate real-world conditions, conduct structural analyses, and assess the behavior of vehicle components under various scenarios. This process helps in identifying potential design flaws, optimizing product performance, and ensuring that vehicles meet safety standards without the need for costly physical testing.
Engineering simulation services
To significantly reduce costly prototyping and physical testing, our suite of automotive engineering simulation services provides a comprehensive virtual testing environment. From structural and crash analysis to computational fluid dynamics and load reconstruction, we help you minimize the need for expensive physical prototypes. This approach not only cuts development costs but also allows for more extensive testing scenarios, ensuring your products meet the highest standards of quality and safety before moving to production.
Product performance
Evaluating designs under various conditions without the need for physical prototypes, saving time and resources. It's crucial for ensuring the reliability and safety of vehicles before they reach the market.
SIMULIA covers a wide spectrum of engineering disciplines, including finite element analysis for structural mechanics, computational fluid dynamics for aerodynamics and fluid flow simulations, electromagnetic field simulation for devices like antennas, multibody systems dynamics for mechanical system motion studies, and vibro-acoustic simulation for noise and vibration predictions.
Engineering simulation services
For enhancing overall product performance, our automotive engineering simulation services cover every aspect of vehicle design and functionality. Our structural and crash analysis improves safety and regulatory compliance, while thermal, stress, and vibration analysis optimizes component durability. Computational fluid dynamics enhances aerodynamic efficiency, while vehicle dynamics and powertrain simulation leads to superior handling and performance. Using these advanced tools, we help you create vehicles that excel in safety, efficiency, and performance, meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
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Collaboration
Global team collaboration
With teams often spread across geographies, effective, controlled, and secure collaboration tools are essential for synchronizing efforts, sharing insights, and speeding up the development process.
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides a cloud-based environment where teams share a common infrastructure and language. 3DEXPERIENCE brings people, processes, and data together, enabling real-time collaboration between designers, engineers, partners, suppliers, and customers.
PLM services
Whether you’re integrating new tools, enhancing workflows, or scaling operations, we provide unique solutions that drive efficiency, collaboration, and innovation. With TECHNIA as your partner, you can confidently unlock the full potential of your PLM investment and stay ahead of your competitors.
Data management
Dealing with fragmented data sources, managing large and complex product data sets, time-consuming and error-prone manual data entry, and sharing data with downstream systems. These challenges can lead to issues such as inaccuracies, inefficiencies, and difficulties in maintaining up-to-date and standardized product information across various systems.
ENOVIA is a versatile PLM (product lifecycle management) software that can help automotive companies manage product data effectively, streamline collaboration among teams, and ensure data accuracy and consistency throughout the product development lifecycle
Integration Framework is a robust solution for data management for simplifying integration between enterprise applications through industry-standard protocols. Streamline data integration processes, enhance interoperability between systems, maintain data accuracy and consistency, reduce complexities in integration tasks, and improve overall operational efficiency.
PLM services
Our PLM solution extensions and integration services enhance and expand PLM system capabilities to meet unique business needs. Ensure your systems are scalable and aligned with both short-term goals and long-term business strategies.
Version control
Ensuring that all team members work on the latest version of a design, preventing conflicts and errors that can lead to delays and increased costs.
ENOVIA ensures that all stakeholders have access to the latest version of design files, reducing the risk of working on outdated information. ENOVIA’s version control capabilities enable organizations to maintain data integrity, improve traceability, and comply with industry regulations, ultimately optimizing efficiency and productivity in automotive design and manufacturing processes.
Regulatory compliance
Emissions standards
Ensuring that products meet environmental regulations, which is essential for market access and avoiding penalties.
Compliance monitoring with SIMULIA simulation and analysis helps companies demonstrate regulatory adherence, meet environmental requirements, and avoid penalties or fines for non-compliance, ensuring continued operation within legal frameworks and maintaining a positive brand image.
Crash Testing
Allows for the assessment and improvement of vehicle safety features, which is critical for consumer protection and regulatory compliance.
CAVA provides a comprehensive solution for validating vehicle design compliance with international rules and standards during the design process. This software analyzes crucial vehicular data such as impact zones, driver visibility, passenger positions, and safety aspects to ensure legal compliance
Engineering simulation services
Our automotive engineering simulation services provide comprehensive virtual validation for ensuring vehicles meet rigorous safety standards and regulatory requirements. We’ll carry out detailed crashworthiness testing and full-vehicle body analysis, assessing structural integrity, stiffness, and safety performance in various crash scenarios. We create highly accurate simulation models for a wide range of vehicles, including cars, trucks, and buses, allowing you to validate safety and regulatory compliance well before physical testing begins. Our expertise extends to virtualizing critical regulatory tests, such as those required by FMVSS and NHTSA, covering crucial areas like seat belt anchorages, interior integrity, fuel system integrity, and roll-over performance.
Recall Management
Avoid the requirement for product recalls, and efficiently manage the process of recalling defective products, minimizing harm to consumers and reputational damage.
ENOVIA provides comprehensive management of quality events such as corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), product nonconformance, and audits. This software empowers manufacturers to design for quality and compliance from the start, ensuring that quality processes are enforced, global regulatory requirements are supported, and all quality events are effectively managed to prevent costly mistakes like recalls.
Data security
Cybersecurity measures
Protecting sensitive customer and company data from cyber threats is essential for maintaining trust and complying with data protection regulations.
ENOVIA includes cybersecurity measures such as role-based access control, encryption protocols, and audit trails to enhance data protection and mitigate cybersecurity risks. It enables organizations to implement security best practices and comply with industry standards.
PLM services
With a focus on security operations and scalable solutions, TECHNIA enables businesses to optimize workflows, enhance collaboration, and ensure compliance. We provide end-to-end solutions for seamless deployment of PLM systems whether on-premise or in the cloud, ensuring the development of robust solutions and technical architectures tailored to unique business needs.
Data privacy compliance
Ensuring that your organization adheres to laws and regulations regarding the handling of personal data is crucial for avoiding legal penalties and safeguarding customer privacy.
ENOVIA supports compliance with data privacy regulations by offering tools for managing personal data in accordance with legal requirements. It helps organizations adhere to laws like GDPR by providing mechanisms for data anonymization, consent management, and data retention policies.
PLM services
With a focus on security operations and scalable solutions, TECHNIA enables businesses to optimize workflows, enhance collaboration, and ensure compliance. We provide end-to-end solutions for seamless deployment of PLM systems whether on-premise or in the cloud, ensuring the development of robust solutions and technical architectures tailored to unique business needs.
Manufacturing
Production Scheduling
Optimizing manufacturing processes, ensuring timely delivery of products, and maximizing resource utilization.
DELMIA provides advanced tools for production scheduling, allowing automotive businesses to optimize their manufacturing processes, ensure timely delivery of products, and maximize resource usage
Resource Optimization
Reducing waste and operational costs by ensuring that resources are used efficiently throughout the manufacturing process.
DELMIA software helps automotive businesses reduce waste and operational costs by ensuring that resources are used efficiently throughout the manufacturing process. This software enables organizations to make data-driven decisions that optimize resource usage and improve overall operational efficiency in manufacturing.
Engineering simulation services
Explore cutting-edge material combinations, rapidly iterate designs, and simulate manufacturing processes to optimize components for both performance and production. By working with multi-objective optimization studies and advanced simulation techniques, we help you achieve significant weight reductions without compromising stiffness, crucial for developing more efficient and high-performance vehicles. Our services not only reduce costly prototyping and accelerate time-to-market but also facilitate the transition from design to mass production by considering manufacturability early in the development process.
Shop Floor Control
Monitoring and controlling the production process, ensuring that manufacturing goals are met, and maintaining product quality.
DELMIA provides solutions for shop floor control by offering real-time visibility into manufacturing operations, enabling efficient monitoring and control of the production process. This software helps in ensuring that manufacturing goals are met by optimizing production schedules, resource allocation, and overall shop floor efficiency.
Quality Control
Ensuring that the final product meets the required standards and specifications is vital for customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance.
DELMIA includes quality management capabilities that are essential for ensuring that the final product meets the required standards and specifications. It enables manufacturers to implement quality checks, inspections, and corrective actions throughout the production process to ensure consistent product quality.
RPA (robotic process automation)
Enhancing manufacturing efficiency and consistency by automating repetitive tasks, with the aim of lowering production times and costs.
The implementation of RPA streamlines manufacturing operations, allowing for consistent and precise execution of tasks. This not only accelerates production processes but also ensures a higher level of quality and reliability in the manufacturing environment.
Smart Manufacturing
Creating a more flexible, efficient, and responsive manufacturing process is key to adapting to market changes and consumer demands.
The integration of IoT and AI technologies empowers automotive businesses to enhance their operational agility, improve resource utilization, and deliver products that align with market trends and customer expectations.
Supply chain management
End-to-end visibility
Monitoring the flow of materials and products, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing the supply chain for efficiency and responsiveness.
3DEXPERIENCE provides a unified virtual environment that connects all stakeholders in the supply chain, enabling real-time visibility into the flow of materials and products. This visibility allows for the identification of bottlenecks, optimization of processes, and improved coordination between different stages of the supply chain.
Issue tracking
Rapid identification and resolution of issues, reducing delays and improving customer satisfaction.
3DEXPERIENCE enables real-time tracking of materials, products, and processes. This functionality allows for immediate identification of issues, proactive problem-solving, and timely resolution of supply chain disruptions. By providing up-to-date information on inventory levels, production status, and logistics movements, the platform helps reduce delays, improve responsiveness, and enhance overall customer satisfaction.
Inventory management
Minimizing costs associated with holding inventory while ensuring that production schedules can be met.
Optimize inventory levels, reduce excess stock, and ensure that production schedules are met efficiently, using DELMIA. This software’s capabilities in inventory management contribute to cost savings and improved operational performance.
Demand forecasting
Aligning production with market demand, reducing the risk of overproduction or stock-outs.
By analyzing historical data, market trends, and other relevant factors, DELMIA enables businesses to generate accurate demand forecasts. This helps in avoiding overproduction or stock-outs, optimizing production planning, and ensuring that the right amount of inventory is maintained to meet customer needs effectively.
Supplier risk assessment
Identifying and mitigating risks associated with suppliers, ensuring a stable supply chain.
DELMIA can proactively identify and address supplier-related risks, ensuring a stable and reliable supply chain. This helps in maintaining operational efficiency and reducing disruptions caused by unreliable suppliers.
Contingency planning
Preparing for effective responses to disruptions to minimize the impact on production and delivery.
Use DELMIA to create contingency plans to respond effectively to unexpected events like supplier failures, natural disasters, or other disruptions. This proactive approach minimizes the impact on production and delivery schedules, ensuring business continuity.
Customer Experience
Customization options
Allowing customers to tailor products to their preferences, aiming to enhancing satisfaction and loyalty.
3DEXPERIENCE enables you to create personalized options for customers, enhancing satisfaction and loyalty by allowing them to tailor products to their preferences.
User experience design
Ensuring that products are intuitive and enjoyable to use is crucial for attracting and retaining customers.
CATIA’s tools for ergonomic design, visualization, and simulation, enable engineers to create products that meet high standards of usability and appeal to customers.
Engineering simulation services
Refine vehicle designs efficiently, optimize performance characteristics, and enhance overall customer satisfaction. By integrating advanced multi-physics models into high-fidelity driving simulators, we enable human drivers to experience and evaluate any type of vehicle before physical prototypes are built. This immersive simulation allows for real-time assessment of vehicle dynamics, responsiveness, and overall driving experience. Our technology captures nuanced feedback on aspects such as steering feel, acceleration response, braking performance, and comfort levels across various driving scenarios.
Remote diagnostics
Enabling quick identification and resolution of issues, improving customer satisfaction and reducing service costs.
ENOVIA’s remote diagnostic capabilities allow for early detection of maintenance needs, improving customer satisfaction through timely interventions, and reducing service costs associated with unplanned downtime.
Maintenance planning
Scheduling maintenance activities efficiently, ensuring vehicle reliability and longevity.
DELMIA’s tools enable efficient scheduling of maintenance activities by optimizing resource allocation and planning preventive maintenance tasks.
Customer sentiment analysis
Provides insights into customer perceptions and preferences, guiding product improvements and marketing strategies.
By aggregating and analyzing data from various sources, NETVIBES enables companies to gain insights into how customers feel about their products and services. This analysis helps in identifying trends, sentiments, and areas for improvement.
Product improvement suggestions
Allows organizations to continuously refine and enhance their products based on direct feedback from users.
NETVIBES supports continuous product refinement by offering tools that enable organizations to gather direct feedback from users and implement improvements effectively.
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Essential software for transportation and mobility businesses
For end-to-end PLM (product lifecycle management) and collaborative innovation.
For robust product data management, business analytics, and decision support.
For complex engineering design and assembly modeling.
For optimizing manufacturing processes, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing product quality.
For ensuring vehicle designs meet global compliance standards efficiently.
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