How to coordinate automotive design across engineering disciplines
Automobiles are growing more advanced and more complex. Demand for features such as autonomous navigation and smart functionality, along with increasing interest in electric vehicles (EVs), has introduced numerous engineering and design challenges. One such challenge is coordinating engineering teams across domains. The work of other critical stakeholders across the design, procurement, manufacturing, and service departments must also be efficiently integrated. This coordination is essential to developing products on time and within budget.
Avoid costly redesigns and time-consuming searches for the cause of failure
Failure to address this challenge creates significant issues. Engineers may lose track of design changes made by others and continue their work with outdated or missing information. Resulting errors may not be caught and corrected until the prototyping and testing phase, leading to costly redesigns and time-consuming searches for the cause of failure. When stakeholders possess outdated or incomplete data, it increases the risk that essential parts and supplies will be more difficult or more expensive to source.
Improve product quality and reducing development costs using PLM solutions
These issues are particularly likely to occur when companies manage the product lifecycle and related data using traditional tools such as email, shared documents, and spreadsheets. In contrast, using product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions mitigates such problems. PLM connects people, processes, and technologies through a common digital thread, which provides a single source of truth for every team member from concept through production. This allows all stakeholders to make decisions based on accurate, real-time product data, minimizing delays, improving product quality and reducing development costs.
In this eBook, you will learn:
- The need for collaboration across engineering disciplines
- Employing a comprehensive digital twin
- Coordinating among the mechanical design team
- Collaborating with electrical and electronics engineers
- Working with customers, suppliers, and partners
- The advantage of SaaS solutions
- Monitoring through field data
This eBook will focus on the challenges automotive companies face when collaborating with an ever-growing number of stakeholders, and how software-as-a-service (SaaS) PLM can help overcome them.
