How Bosch Mobility accelerated design with Siemens’ Designcenter NX and Simcenter 3D
In today’s fast-paced world, engineering teams are constantly striving for innovation, but often face significant hurdles. You may be familiar with situations where design and simulation teams work in isolation, juggling multiple disparate tools, and struggling to keep track of the latest design iterations. This common scenario leads to delays, inefficiencies, and limits the true potential of product development.
This was the challenge faced by Bosch Mobility’s Electrified Motion division, a leader in electric powertrain solutions for vehicles. They needed a way to bridge the gap between their Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) processes, streamline their workflows, and ultimately accelerate their time to market for cutting-edge low-voltage drives and electromechanical components.
We have significantly reduced waiting times, thereby accelerating the simulation cycles from weeks to days
Fabian Schirmaier, Digital transformation project manager,
Electrified Motion division of Bosch Mobility.
Breaking Down the Walls Between Design and Simulation
Bosch’s Electrified Motion division recognized that their traditional approach, with siloed CAD and CAE teams and a fragmented landscape of simulation tools, was holding them back. Different preprocessing tools for various domains meant a reliance on specialized experts and created bottlenecks in their development cycles. The iterative nature of their work also made tracking the most up-to-date designs a complex and error-prone task. They needed a unified approach, a single source of truth that could bring design and simulation closer than ever before.
The Siemens Solution: A Seamless Integration
Enter Siemens’ powerful combination of Designcenter NX for CAD and Simcenter 3D for CAE. Bosch chose these solutions precisely for their deep integration, which allowed engineers to make critical design changes directly within Simcenter 3D, eliminating the constant back-and-forth with CAD specialists. This wasn’t just about new software; it was about fostering a new way of working.
By standardizing on Designcenter NX and Simcenter 3D, Bosch unlocked significant automation capabilities. Features like rule-based modeling dramatically sped up the conversion of CAD models into simulation models, saving invaluable engineering time. The CAD model became the central hub, the “single source of truth,” ensuring all downstream processes and simulation models were aligned and up-to-date. The interoperability and flexibility of Simcenter 3D also allowed for a smooth, gradual transition, ensuring productivity remained high throughout the implementation.
From Weeks to Days: A Transformative Impact
The results for Bosch Mobility’s Electrified Motion division were truly remarkable. They experienced a significant leap in efficiency, moving beyond their old, cumbersome tools. The integration of Designcenter NX and Simcenter 3D led to:
- Increased Design Space Exploration: Engineers could now rapidly test and iterate on many more design ideas, gaining deeper insights without additional manual effort, leading to superior product designs.
- Reduced Simulation Cycles: What once took weeks for simulation and evaluation was compressed into mere days, enabling faster, more informed decision-making.
- Simplified, Automated Simulation: The new, standardized approach made automated simulation accessible across the entire company.
- Elimination of Manual Bottlenecks: Tasks like identifying and defining thermal contactors in thermodynamic simulations, which previously took a full day of manual work per model, were now automated.
- Reduced Human Error: Centralized changes eliminated the need for repetitive tasks and the potential for mistakes inherent in fragmented workflows.
Ultimately, these improvements are all geared towards one critical outcome: delivering better products to market faster. Bosch’s success story is a testament to how integrating cutting-edge design and simulation tools can revolutionize product development.
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