What's Your Automotive Supplier Advantage?

Today’s industry suppliers are working in an era of unprecedented opportunities.  As the industry re-invents its trajectory, from combustion to electric-based vehicles, suppliers can choose to fortify or re-tool their capabilities and resources, or risk falling further behind, as their competitors secure new, profitable business.

There are four strategic capabilities where suppliers should  re-focus their advancement:

• PLM collaborative data management
• Generative design  engineering
• Virtual simulation and analysis
• Leaner, quality-driven manufacturing

Fulfilling OEM customer demands is imperative, which means innovating one concept at a time is no longer sustainable.   CATIA Function Driven Generative Designer (GDE) enables non-specialists to automatically generate optimized components from an OEM or industry specification at the push of a button. By varying inputs design engineers are able to generate multiple variations to compare and analyze. GDE uses the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, where concepts can be comprehensively refined, validated and completed collaboratively and in-context by other disciplines:

• Optimize product weight and performance with lightweight engineering
• Reduce time and cost by evaluating concepts faster
• Evaluate more concepts while maintaining design specifications 
• Leverage real editable geometry for both conventional or additive manufacturing

Virtual simulation & analysis has become an invaluable, core capability of the component or systems engineering and development process from beginning to end, becoming valued for being easier to use, enriching conversations and enhancing communication throughout the enterprise.

Digital simulation enables engineers to navigate the full range of component solution possibilities associated with key industry or OEM challenges, test hypotheses, and rapidly refine designs for optimal outcomes.

Suppliers need to manage new opportunities and expectations for highly customized components/systems, and shorter delivery times. To address these new challenges requires more flexibility and higher efficiency from their manufacturing assets.

Managing quality and lean manufacturing & production efficiencies are more critical than ever during industry transformation.  The Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE twin allows manufacturers to model and perform “what if” analysis on manufacturing assets, products and processes to address current and future opportunities.

To address the increased complexity of its smart mobility solutions, Bosch Car Multimedia, a division within Bosch Mobility Solutions, needed to transition to a collaborative and integrated engineering approach where each discipline sees, in real time, how other domains impact the end-to-end process.

Based on a successful proof of concept to develop a heads-up display, the model-based systems engineering approach will be followed using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.