Cross-domain design collaboration for automotive product development
Product development in the automotive industry is becoming increasingly complex. Today’s smart, connected vehicles include an incredible variety of mechanical, electrical, electronic, and software components. These vehicles also need to meet tougher regulatory standards. Additionally, modern product development processes are inherently collaborative, requiring engagement with multiple engineering domains, customers, suppliers, contractors, and other collaborators to create design deliverables.
New challenges with collaborating across multiple domains in automotive product development
“Data professionals are losing 50% of their time every week – 30% searching for, governing and preparing data plus 20% duplicating work.”
IDC Research
Collaborating across multiple domains creates a new set of challenges for automotive companies with:
- Finding the right information quickly
- Synchronizing the global design chain
- Sharing design information with manufacturing
Easily find, share and re-use automotive product information across multiple domains
However, with cross-domain design collaboration solutions, automotive designers and engineers can easily find, share and re-use information across multiple domains:
Automotive mechanical design
- Manage multiple MCAD tools, data and processes
- Leverage and re-use multi-CAD data and assemblies
Automotive electrical and electronic engineering
- Manage multiple ECAD tools, data, and processes
- Manage and synchronize part libraries across ECAD tools
Automotive software
- Manage software and hardware relationships
- Manage software and hardware dependencies
Automotive simulation
- Manage multiple simulation tools, data and processes
- Use and re-use a library of multi-domain, multi-physics models
Benefits of a single, integrated design environment for automotive product development
There are multiple benefits of a single, integrated design environment for automotive product development. Teams will be able to drive engineering productivity and innovation. They can easily find data to improve design re-use, quality and reliability. And lastly, they can gain visibility into cross-domain dependencies to improve product decisions.
With cross-domain design collaboration, you’ll be able to:
- Increase productivity: find the right information when you need it
- Understand context: see relationships to the whole product
- Increase design re-use: find, share and re-use data across domains
- Improve quality and reliability: make better design decisions
- Assess impacts: see cross-domain dependencies
- Transition to manufacturing: one integrated source of design data
Using Teamcenter has enabled us to greatly shorten the vehicle development cycles and improve the product development quality.
Luo Li, Lead, Product Lifecycle Management, Shanghai Real Information Technology
