Connecting Design Across Europe with 3DEXPERIENCE

Snoeks Automotive is the leading partner and preferred supplier to vehicle manufacturers looking to extend their light commercial vehicle range with innovative interior and modification concepts.

Best known for its seating conversions, turning a panel van into a crew van with an extra seat row and integrated partition. Snoeks helps OEMs serve new niche markets with vehicles that carry both people and cargo. From its innovation centre in Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands, where its R&D, homologation, and test teams are based, Snoeks coordinates global operations and delivers conversions and complete kits across Europe.

Selecting 3DEXPERIENCE was a deliberate and scalable decision rather than a single transformational leap. In partnership with TECHNIA, Snoeks started with a small, focused team and a clearly defined cloud deployment, validating the value of a connected environment before expanding its adoption across the wider organization.

Managing multi-CAD data across distributed design teams

Snoeks brings together design and engineering expertise across multiple European locations, working within a diverse CAD environment that includes both CATIA and SOLIDWORKS. As the business continued to grow, maintaining seamless collaboration across teams, tools, and locations became increasingly complex. Ensuring that product data, design processes, and engineering knowledge remained connected required a more unified approach.

Key challenges included:

• Collaboration across multiple European locations requiring stronger alignment and connectivity.
• The complexity of managing a multi-CAD environment across different engineering teams and tools.
• Fragmented design processes and data flows between locations and systems.
• The need for a scalable, cloud-based foundation that could evolve alongside business growth.
• A preference for a focused starting point, enabling gradual expansion with confidence and proven value.
• A unified 3DEXPERIENCE cloud environment for CATIA and SOLIDWORKS

In partnership with TECHNIA, Snoeks adopted the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on cloud as part of its continued digital evolution, creating a scalable foundation to connect teams, processes, and engineering data across its European operations. The cloud-based environment provides enterprise-grade design, engineering, and lifecycle management capabilities without the complexity of managing IT infrastructure, enabling teams across multiple locations to collaborate seamlessly within a single, connected workspace.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides Snoeks with:

• A unified, cloud-based environment connecting European offices.
• Support for a multi-CAD design and engineering processes, bringing CATIA and SOLIDWORKS data together within a governed environment.
• Connected design processes and a shared view of product data.
• Lifecycle control across the design workflow.
• A scalable foundation that can grow from a focused team to the wider business.
• Connected engineering workflows in a scalable cloud environment

With TECHNIA’s expertise and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Snoeks has taken a confident, scalable step toward connected design. Bringing its European offices and multi-CAD work into one cloud environment strengthens collaboration, links design processes that were previously separate, and creates a foundation the company can build on

Benefits include:

• Stronger collaboration across European offices.
• Connected design processes in a multi-CAD environment.
• A scalable, cloud-based platform that grows with the business.
• A proven starting point for wider adoption across Snoeks.

This step positions Snoeks to keep innovating in light commercial vehicle interiors, designing and delivering smarter conversions, faster, across its European operations.