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Automotive Engineering Innovation Framework from IBM

Executive summary

Business view

Technical details

The goal

Revolutionizing product development and delivery

For many automotive manufacturers and component suppliers, speeding design and engineering analysis is key to getting more products to market faster. We’ve found that if you integrate and automate the design and analysis process more effectively, you could dramatically reduce cycle times and improve design integrity. To achieve this requires an integrated approach that addresses business processes, applications and IT infrastructure.

The advantage

Customer-driven projects and offerings

Working with leading automotive engineering solution providers, IBM is applying innovative on demand technologies to enable the automation, integration and optimization of iterative design and analysis processes, and simultaneously optimizing the supporting IT infrastructure.

Through the global IBM Automotive Engineering Innovation Framework (AEIF) initiative, IBM leverages our expertise, breadth of best-in-class offerings and the strengths of key relationships to achieve this goal.

To help you implement AEIF-based solutions, IBM has established AEIF Centers of Design Innovation in France and Michigan. Through these centers, your organization can tap into the expertise of IBM and our Business Partners in a variety of ways, including:

Technology briefings
Application workshops
Solution design workshops
Proof-of-concept projects
Implementation services

The benefits

Bring value by optimizing processes, infrastructure

High performance computing has been used by automotive companies for years to analyze and simulate product performance—Computer Aided Engineering (CAE). The improvement in performance and reduction in cost of hardware, coupled with increasingly sophisticated software help predict and analyze product performance virtually in the computer, reducing the need for physical prototypes and testing.

Today, our clients face challenges that simply adding more computing power can’t solve. These include analysis and simulation processes or ‘workflow;’ the integration of design tools with analysis (e.g. automatic and accurate mesh and model generation); high-volume data management, collaboration with suppliers and the efficient use of IT investments.

AEIF combines solutions and technologies from IBM and our Business Partners to meet these challenges. As a flexible, open, framework AEIF can be adapted to your company’s specific needs.

Benefits of AEIF can include:

Integration of design and analysis tools to:
- Speed the creation of analysis models.
- Create consistent design and analysis models.
- Improve model quality.
Management of analysis and simulation processes to:
- Streamline and automate workflow.
- Reduce time delays.
- Comply with engineering standards and best practices.
- Reduce tedious and error prone IT administrative tasks.
Simulation Data Management to:
- Increase design reuse.
- Reduce manual data management tasks.
- Integrate design and analysis.
- Improve product integrity and quality.
- Simplify storage management.
Design optimization to:
- Automate design and analysis iterations.
- Meet multiple performance requirements.
Enterprise IT optimization through grid computing to:
- Improve the capabilities of the IT infrastructure.
- Reduce development lead times.
- Speed job turnaround.
- Enable business priority-based resource allocation.
Provisioning of supercomputing resources to:
- Use these resources “as needed” to help reduce costs.
- Run more jobs, more quickly.
New, scalable approaches to visualization to:
- Enable high-end immersive visualization environments.
- Enable distributed remote viewing of complex models.

The approach

Get the most ROI

In support of your bottom line, IBM AEIF can help:

Improve knowledge reuse through enhanced product and simulation data management.
Reduce design and simulation cycle time with greater integration of analysis and simulation, advanced optimization techniques and visualization.
Improve efficiency of IT investments through dynamic provisioning, infrastructure virtualization and capacity on demand.
Consolidate simulation and product data management to further simplify data administration and streamline the interaction between design and engineering.
Be more responsive by enabling on demand resources via the IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand offering or IBM ® pSeries Capacity on Demand program, providing systems with excess processors that can be activated as needed.

The financial advantage

Get the most ROI

In support of your bottom line, IBM AEIF can help:

Improve knowledge reuse through enhanced product and simulation data management.
Reduce design and simulation cycle time with greater integration of analysis and simulation, advanced optimization techniques and visualization.
Improve efficiency of IT investments through dynamic provisioning, infrastructure virtualization and capacity on demand.
Consolidate simulation and product data management to further simplify data administration and streamline the interaction between design and engineering.
Be more responsive by enabling on demand resources via the IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand offering or IBM ® pSeries® Capacity on Demand program, providing systems with excess processors that can be activated as needed.