{"id":2471,"date":"2014-04-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/NX-Case-Study-NX-helps-Pratt-amp-Miller-design-and-build-winning\/ba-p\/27116"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:25:39","slug":"nx-case-study-nx-helps-pratt-miller-design-and-build-winning-racecars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/nx-case-study-nx-helps-pratt-miller-design-and-build-winning-racecars\/","title":{"rendered":"NX Case Study &#8211; NX helps Pratt &#038; Miller design and build winning racecars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prattmiller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Pratt &amp; Miller Engineering<\/A> used&nbsp;<a title=\"NX\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX\u2122<\/A>&nbsp;software from Siemens PLM Software to develop the racing version of the 2014 Corvette, which was named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chevrolet.com\/culture\/article\/2014-car-truck-of-the-year.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">2014 North American Car of the Year at the North American International Auto Show<\/A> in Detroit. The racing version, the C7.R, was also unveiled at the show and races in the new TUDOR United SportsCar Championship race series, which began with the Rolex 24 at Daytona.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN><IMG src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/4628iF50A7D90F7DDC9A4\/image-size\/medium?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Pratt &amp; Miller\" title=\"Pratt &amp; Miller\" align=\"center\" \/><BR \/><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Challenges:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Developing racecars<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Designing defense vehicles<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Manufacturing in low volumes<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Keys To Success:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Dedication to winning<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Focus on engineering and design<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Using the right tools for the job<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Results:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Streamlined design-through-manufacturing operations, gaining notably faster development turnaround<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Gained repeat business through performance<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Finished first in class at Le Mans seven times<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Delivered continuous and significant product innovation year-to-year<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Industry:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Automotive &amp; Transportation<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Client&#8217;s Primary Business:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>A proven formula of integrating people, processes and technologies has helped make Pratt &amp; Miller\u2019s world-renowned motorsports operations an innovative, full-service engineering and low-volume manufacturing company. With more than 200 employees, Pratt &amp; Miller serves a global customer base, including the automotive, defense and power sports industries.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/success\/case_study.cfm?Component=222756&amp;ComponentTemplate=1481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Read more here<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Jerry<\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pratt &amp; Miller Engineering used&nbsp;NX\u2122&nbsp;software from Siemens PLM Software to develop the racing version of the 2014 Corvette, which was named 2014 North American Car of the Year at the Nor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[3],"industry":[117],"product":[304],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-success-story","tag-cad","industry-automotive-transportation","product-nx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}