Manufacturing Engineering for Body Assembly

Manufacturing Engineering for Body Assembly

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.

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.

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Our solutions allow you to connect your manufacturing enterprise in a digital thread to design, simulate and manufacture the automotive and transportation systems of the future.

For car body styling and design, the ability to capture knowledge throughout the process and connect it in a digital thread enables teams to rapidly capture and create re-usable design and manufacturing elements while participating in daily development processes at a global scale. Through the use of simulation, engineering studies and what-if analyses executed quickly at low cost during development and pre-production phases, this reduces the need for physical tryouts and ensure that any required physical tryouts can be executed faster.

Our solutions allow you to implement a manufacturing process management strategy to account for product to process to equipment completeness and identify the impact of changes in manufacturing engineering and production phases. The systems also allow you to capture and re-use best and proven practices on each new program and provide high visibility to variations and configurations across different plants, programs, and vehicles, including time-based effectivity. Another aspect is our support for the entire design-to-manufacturing process for lightweight materials, such as composites, for reduced vehicle weight that is critical for future vehicles.

Solution capabilities

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Additive Manufacturing Data & Process Management

Securely manage the data encompassing the entire additive manufacturing process including the printing process itself as well as material handling and manufacturing operations.

Author Manufacturing Process Plans More Efficiently

Efficiently author, analyze, manage and communicate manufacturing plans and information throughout your organization and extended enterprise.

Bill of Materials Management

By providing a common source of BOM information across your organization that is flexible and scalable, you can meet and exceed the market demand for more innovative and varied product offerings.

Deliver More Complete Manufacturing Work Instructions

Create and deliver comprehensive manufacturing work instructions into production and provide greater clarity of process steps on the shop floor.

Gain Flexibility & Efficiency with Robotics & Automation

Leverage robotics and automation equipment to boost production efficiency and increase flexibility for more complex manufacturing operations.

Improve Ergonomics & Plan Safer Workplaces

Design products with ergonomics in mind and assess human factors for operations to plan safer workplaces.

Navigate, Access & Visualize Manufacturing Information

Navigate, access and visualize up-to-date production information using the digital twin of your manufacturing facilities wherever they are located.

Optimize Factory Logistics & Material Flow

Create, simulate and optimize 3D factory designs faster to improve factory logistics and material flow operations in advance of full volume production.