Automotive PLM with multi-domain BOM management to accelerate product development

As you push to develop the next generation of autonomous, electric, connected, and shared vehicles, you face new design challenges. Customer and industry needs are changing faster than products can be launched into the market. How can you speed up product design and get it right the first time? Product lifecycle management (PLM) software helps automotive companies accelerate innovation from concept through production.

To deliver the Automotive and Transportation systems of the future, we need to truly understand the market and customer dynamics. Requirements that are maintained outside the product development lifecycle, or delivered through documents and spreadsheets, prevent collaboration and can’t deliver products efficiently. Collaborating on requirements is critical to successful product realization and innovation. Our solution allows you to capture, keep up with, and deliver requirements to the entire enterprise.

Designing and simulating the Automobile and Transportation systems of the future that are more complex and sophisticated requires a sophisticated program management tool. Siemens Digital Industries Software provides a systems approach to project planning integrating cost, schedule and technical requirements in a fully planned, resourced and budgeted program management solution to accelerate vehicle product development to design, engineer, reproduce and optimize vehicle platforms.

Designing and Simulating the Automobile and Transportation systems of the future that are more complex and sophisticated requires a sophisticated program management tool. Siemens Digital Industries Software provides a systems approach to project planning integrating cost, schedule and technical requirements in a fully planned, resourced and budgeted program management solution to accelerate vehicle product development to design, engineer, simulate and optimize vehicle platforms.

Designing and simulating automobile and transportation systems of the future requires a sophisticated program management tool. Our solutions bring a systems approach to project planning, resulting in accelerated vehicle product development.

Optimize your ability to bring products to markets, fully leverage your IP portfolio, and maximize reuse with our unified solutions for IP Management. This proven solution will help your team reduce cycle times, decrease costs, and remove risks around compliance and litigation. The easy-to-use search functions allow distributed design teams to securely access and reuse best-in-class IP. Our platform also ensures improved visibility and data sharing as well as secures your IP by controlling and recording access.

As OEMs shift design responsibility to partners and lower-tier suppliers, they must be able to effectively use data generated by these partners as the basis for risk and hazard analysis. This ensures reliability of the highly complex cyber-physical systems used by the next generation of transportation systems. By enabling integrated “Design for Support”, our solution increases the system reliability while decreasing the maintenance/logistics footprint—contributing directly to the bottom line.

The Verification Management solution enables companies to achieve faster time to certification by providing a single integrated environment. This ensures that all product verification events, whether simulation modeling and analysis or physical tests, are driven by requirements, planned and executed in the correct sequence. Our solutions provide full traceability by linking individual tests and analyses to the necessary resources.

The Verification Management solution enables companies to achieve faster time to certification by providing a single integrated environment. This ensures that all product verification events, whether simulation modeling and analysis or physical tests, are driven by requirements, planned and executed in the correct sequence. Our solutions provide full traceability by linking to individual tests and analyses to the necessary resources.

Stricter fuel economy and emissions regulations are driving automakers and suppliers to develop more efficient powertrains and vehicles. Vehicle teams must collaborate with powertrain engineers to reduce vehicle energy demands. 

Our solution provides a modeling environment to quickly create design studies to evaluate powertrains using digital mockups of the vehicle compartment, subsystems and components.

Automotive embedded software is increasingly displacing mechanical engineering as the differentiator in the creation of brand experiences. Automotive OEMs are facing tremendous pressure to deliver differentiating mobility experiences or risk being left behind. The differentiation will not be in the traditional vehicle hardware anymore but in the user experience, autonomous, electric, safety and connectivity capabilities powered by software and electronics. In-vehicle embedded software development is increasingly displacing mechanical engineering as the differentiator in the creation of brand experiences. Automotive embedded software is critical for creating the mobility experience of the future.

Explore our simulation and testing solutions to frontload vehicle multi-attribute performance engineering and mechatronic system innovation throughout development.

Discover how Simcenter simulation and testing solutions enable to balance powertrain fuel economy, drivability, energy management, NVH and acoustics.

The power of additive manufacturing is the ability to generate new designs that could not be developed by traditional manufacturing processes. This capability allows us to create organic shapes that normally are impossible to manufacture. Additive manufacturing permits exploration of multiple design alternatives to find optimal designs quickly. Our solutions for additive manufacturing enable you to re-imagine products, retool manufacturing and rethink business models.

Most auto OEMs no longer compete solely as autonomous corporations. They also compete as participants in integrated supply chains. Synchronizing processes and collaborating on data between the OEM and the supplier is therefore critical. Siemens Digital Industries Software provides an easy-to-use, secure platform for collaborating with suppliers, even those outside the PLM environment. Our solutions to support multiple use cases including design data exchange, direct materials sourcing, and supplier program management.

For automotive manufacturers scaling up to deliver autonomous, electric and hybrid vehicles, highly integrated manufacturing processes are needed to produce a vehicle that is far more complex while increasing margin and getting products to market faster. Our solutions bring a systems driven approach to automotive body engineering and manufacturing connecting all aspects of vehicle design in an end to end digital thread with design, simulation, and manufacturing applications. This provides OEMs and suppliers with the ability to build the automotive and transportation systems of the future.

Today, manufacturers are building multiple car models, along with their associated trim levels, in a single assembly line. Managing this complex mixed-model production process presents an enormous challenge for automakers as more complex vehicles need to be manufactured. With our digital manufacturing solutions, you can perform early evaluation of cycle time, estimate budgets and analyze assembly costs. Our solutions offer capabilities such as line balancing, enterprise process planning, throughput analysis and resource planning. With these tools, you can reduce engineering change orders (ECOs) and increase final assembly productivity.

Automotive paint shops must meet the highest demands for maximum availability, energy efficiency, round-the-clock production, and operating in a harsh production environment. With Siemens Digital Industries software tools you can develop and simulate robotic operations of your paint processes, including tooling and peripherals. You can enhance communication and coordination among manufacturing disciplines, enabling smarter decision-making.

With our solutions for powertrain production automakers can easily plan complete powertrain manufacturing operations. You can define CNC tool paths and calculate machining cycle times for specific stages of operations. Using integrated G-code-driven machine tool simulation, you can identify and avoid potential collisions between parts, machines or fixtures. Furthermore, the CNC work package can be delivered directly to the machines. This streamlined process chain can help you reduce powertrain manufacturing setup times and increase product quality.

Suppliers need to maximize profitability in automotive part manufacturing by improving collaboration with OEMs. Our digital manufacturing solutions help automotive part suppliers maximize business performance by improving manufacturing planning collaboration, defining and optimizing proposed manufacturing processes, designing and manufacturing high-performance tooling, supporting effective communication with production and shop floor systems, and monitoring and controlling quality.

The integration of smart manufacturing systems is enabled by connecting people, systems and machines through a digital thread of information from design, manufacturing and field support. As a result, the enterprise can collaborate instantly and securely across the product design and process planning functions. By consistently and accurately connecting planning to production, we ensure that the correct manufacturing data is delivered to and accessible from the shop floor.

Our digital manufacturing solutions help maximize business performance by improving manufacturing planning collaboration; defining and optimizing proposed manufacturing processes; designing and manufacturing high-performance tooling; supporting effective communication with production and shop floor systems; and monitoring and controlling quality. With all these systems and processes connected in a digital thread, greater levels of efficiency are achieved by designing, engineering and simulating products virtually.

Automotive stamping dies and press lines are high-cost, long lead-time investments. To maximize return on investment (ROI), it’s important to streamline development and commissioning of new lines, while flexibly adapting existing lines to new designs. Our automotive stamping solutions are used by leading companies to optimize operational efficiency and reduce time, cost and errors in design, planning and production of sheet metal parts and dies. Performance improvement include: reduction of try-out time by 70 percent, reduction of tooling design costs by 20 percent, reduction of stamping die design errors by 90 percent, and increase of stroke rate by 10 percent.

Easily plan complete powertrain manufacturing operations to reduce powertrain manufacturing setup times and increase product quality.

Transform automotive manufacturing by embracing digitalization for more competitive, cost-effective, and efficient processes. Our solutions streamline the entire tool development process including part design, tool assembly layout, and detailed tooling design and validation. Using the advanced functionality of our solutions, step-by-step guidance, and associativity with part designs, you can work with even the most challenging tooling and fixture designs.

Automotive and Transportation systems are exponentially adopting sophisticated electronics, sensors, and internet of things (IoT) devices. Electronics manufacturers are using digitalization technologies to deliver more sophisticated and reliable electronics at scale. Our solutions provide a suite of digitalization technologies used by electronics manufacturers to design and manufacture electronic systems to help achieve this new level of innovation and efficiency.

Factories are being architected and simulated virtually through digitalized processes to create the smart factory of the future. The virtual factory is created in 3D with layout and optimization tools, allowing you to design, layout, and configure the factory environment and optimize factory operations. By giving facility planning and line design teams the ability to see the outcome of plans virtually, you can avoid costly expenses and wasted resources that occur when problems are discovered in real facilities.

When systems and machines are connected in a digital thread, they are easy to simulate. Automation equipment that is controlled by programmable logic controller (PLC) programs can be virtually tested to meet performance requirements, resulting in reduced system startup time. With our solutions, you can debug PLC codes in a virtual environment before integrating them into real systems and machines.

The smart factory of the future will connect people, systems, and machines through a digital thread from design, manufacturing, and field support. Synchronization of production planning and scheduling is pivotal to maintain a digital thread within the enterprise. Siemens PLM Software Advanced Planning and Scheduling is a solution for constraint-based production planning and shop floor scheduling.

In today’s competitive environment, it’s a challenge to deliver a product that meets all technical and performance requirements at cost and on schedule. Our quality management solution gives you the ability to improve quality and reduce costs along the entire product lifecycle. By allowing you to know and meet all relevant standards, this solution helps you become best-in-class with regard to regulatory compliance, quality, and operational effectiveness.

Market demands are forcing automotive companies to adopt new materials and production methods to improve strength, durability, and NVH. Today, chassis design involves adding more electronically-controlled systems while continuing to look for new ways to reduce weight. Siemens Digital Industries Software provides an integrated platform for chassis design, engineering simulation, and manufacturing validation of chassis parts. Our solution helps you achieve high-performance design, simulation, documentation, tooling, and manufacturing of chassis systems.

Automotive trim components with superior fit, finish and aesthetic properties are critical to conveying design and brand appeal to the consumer. Interior quality and comfort is one of the top reasons owners cite for new vehicle selection. Thus, Interiors are now being redesigned every 2 years instead of every 5. This time to market pressure is driving OEMs and their supply chains to find the right solutions for them todeliver innovative and attractive interiors that meet all specifications on time and on budget.Siemens gives you the comprehensive interior trim design toolset you need to stay ahead of the competition and deliver a highly competitive product to the market that consumers will buy. 

In automotive styling, creativity, productivity and the ability to rapidly iterate different design concepts are critical for success. Our tools for concept design, reverse engineering and high-end rendering give you the power and freedom to push your creativity, all in one system. For exterior and interior Class A surfaces, we provide pole manipulation and surface alignment tools while giving you full control and real-time analysis of surface quality.

Changing consumer preferences and regulatory pressures are forcing automotive companies to find new ways to improve vehicle aerodynamics, enhance visual appeal, and increase interior space. Today, automotive companies rely on a systems-driven approach for automotive body engineering and manufacturing to realize body systems innovations. Our solutions provide an integrated automotive body systems design, simulation, and manufacturing solution in a managed environment to help you respond quickly to changing market demands.

The user experience in the vehicle’s interior is becoming one of the most important buying criteria for today’s consumers, making innovation, quality and improved feature content critical success factors when designing instrument panels and HVAC systems. Siemens PLM Software offers a comprehensive design solution for interior and HVAC systems. From concept to finished design and manufacturing, you can work in the context of the vehicle, perform electrical and mechanical routing, work seamlessly with ECAD solutions to integrate your electronic systems, and continuously validate against customer and regulatory requirements.

Address the driving dynamics performance of your vehicle, chassis or suspension with Simcenter tools and services to ensure your vehicle has precisely the desired driving characteristics.

Explore our simulation and testing solutions to optimize safety and performance linked to ADAS by validating resulting behavior when integrating active and passive safety systems.

Get better insights on airflows and aerodynamics to increase vehicle efficiency, comfort and safety, improve handling and reduce noise using 3D CFD simulation.

Analyze the vehicle’s interaction with water and dirt, and predict its behavior in harsh conditions, improving driver safety and vehicle reliability.

Optimize the overall energy management of innovative, eco-friendly concepts while improving drivability, thermal comfort and performance.

Successfully develop mechatronics systems and optimize mechanics, electronics and software simultaneously as an integrated system.

Experience optimal driving sensations with the added comfort of a quiet hybrid or electric powertrain. Optimize the NVH & acoustic behavior of your powertrain or vehicle with Simcenter tools and services.

Get a deep understanding of the engine and powertrain systems performance early in the design cycle to help you meet fuel economy, emissions and drivability requirements.

Our physical world is being designed and simulated virtually through digitalized processes as a digital twin before a physical product is even created. This is done using the 3D Visualization and Digital Mockup capabilities. Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer-generated simulation of a real-life environment; immersing the user to experience the simulated reality first hand. Augmented Reality (AR) merges computer-generated graphics on top of real world, to digitally enhance what we see.

Our physical world is being designed and simulated virtually through digitalized processes as a digital twin before a physical product is even created. This is done using the 3D Visualization and Digital Mockup capabilities. Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer-generated simulation of a real-life environment; immersing the user to experience the simulated reality first hand. Augmented Reality (AR) merges computer-generated graphics on top of the real world, to digitally enhance what we see.

Strength and durability solutions for automotive performance engineering.

Automakers are faced with constant changes that impact the industry, including globalization, stricter sustainability, and regulatory requirements, and growing consumer demand for new innovative designs and features, increasing pressure on them.

The next generation of autonomous, electric, connected and shared vehicles requires a next-generation design solution that removes the barriers to innovation with an integrated set of design and validation tools that accelerate your product design and help you get it right the first time. Our solutions deliver the full set of tools to create the next generation of vehicles.

Implement efficient design exploration, validation and verification of ADAS and autonomous driving systems at vehicle level.

Eco-friendly measures impact the powertrain NVH and acoustics performance. Simcenter helps diagnose, analyze and resolve powertrain NVH issues.

Virtually explore and physically validate critical xEV components and subsystems, as well as their performance during integration to meet range, drivability and performance expectations.

Siemens Vehicle Electrification offers a comprehensive set of digital solutions to slash development time, increase manufacturing adaptability, improve energy efficiency, and deliver high-quality electric vehicles (EVs) on time and on budget.

Electrified mobility possesses the significant potential to create short-term disruption in the automotive industry. Electric vehicle manufacturing, however, presents unique challenges to automotive companies. By leveraging comprehensive digital twins of the product and production lines, manufacturers can design and validate assembly processes and entire facilities virtually, improving quality and accelerating production ramp.

Wire harness manufacturers are heavily impacted by increased electrical content and complexity, new process requirements, and ever-increasing counts of engineering changes, Tier-1 harness suppliers must adjust their ways of doing business. The concept of digital twins of product and manufacturing processes can help enterprises to become more successful. Siemens Digitial Industries Software solutions can enable them to become true digital enterprises.

Our solution delivers a comprehensive digital twin for E/E systems development and supports multiple development approaches including industry-leading generative design for electrical systems.

Accelerate the design and engineering of electric motors by virtually exploring design variants and assessing multi-level performance.

Deploy an integrated, multi-scale battery modeling and simulation approach, enabling to drive innovation and improve design from cell electrochemistry to battery systems integration and performance validation.

Understand the behavior of power electronics and power modules using power cycling, structure functions, and calibration methods to improve global reliability and reduce costs.

The Automotive market is changing. Consumers are demanding more connected vehicles. Governments require greener transportation. In addition, new competitors are delivering on these needs and much more. This leads to a more complex vehicle development process. The only way to address these issues is an integrated Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach. With Software & Systems Engineering, your teams can manage this complexity to deliver the right vehicle on time, every time.

The pace of innovation in the automotive supplier industry has never been greater. Suppliers face technological as well as economic challenges as the needs of their customers and the overall environment undergo radical shifts. Electrification, connectivity, autonomous driving, and lightweight construction are changing vehicles and the way that people interact with them. Suppliers must remain at the forefront of new technologies while keeping costs down and navigating an uncertain market.

A revolution is transforming the automotive industry. Powerful digital technologies are driving demand for autonomous transport solutions, and they are disrupting existing approaches to car building. These smart and connected vehicles powered by Artificial Intelligence represent a considerable challenge and opportunity for automakers. Developing future vehicles comes with a great increase in complexity, so the right tools and technology partners will be needed.

Siemens Autonomous Vehicle Development solutions offer a full set of tools for all key technical domains to cover every development aspect, on the level of the chip, E/E system, full vehicle, and even city level.

The next generation of vehicles requires a next-generation of product development solution that removes the barriers to innovation with an integrated set of development and validation tools. Siemens solutions for Accelerated Product Development are all you need to develop world-class products faster.

Integrated manufacturing is a revolutionary solution that provides start-ups, OEMs, and suppliers with the flexibility to plan, optimize, automate, and validate assembly processes in parallel with product development.

Robotics simulation and virtual commissioning solution allows automotive OEMs to design, engineer, and optimize factory production lines virtually before installing them physically.

By incorporating a smart and integrated manufacturing quality solution, a digital transformation works to connect the typically disconnected quality processes within an organization.

A manufacturing execution system (MES) takes control of factory operations by acting as the fundamental bridge between the enterprise business systems (ERP), the product lifecycle management (PLM) system, the quality management system (QMS), and factory automation to produce the right products at the right time with the expected quality.

Actionable insights gained through the digitalization of manufacturing prevent expensive errors, eliminate time-consuming rework, and produce first-time quality parts at launch and throughout the entire product lifecycle.

With our Smart Manufacturing solution, automakers and suppliers can rapidly update existing equipment, processes, and resources to accelerate the modernization of their plants and maximize the value of intelligent technologies.

With Siemens Digital Industries Software smart manufacturing solutions, production and quality issues can be addressed automatically and in real-time using edge-based automation, the industrial internet of things (IoT), and closed-loop manufacturing to reduce cost, maximize throughput, and visualize the flow of value from end to end.