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Automotive design solution

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The goal
The solution you need
Increased customer demand makes faster automotive design crucial for introducing new products into the market. The automotive design solution from IBM can help your company speed up product design, development and production by enabling the sharing of design information across the organization to increase process efficiency.

The advantage
The experience and expertise of IBM
The automotive design solution leverages our extensive product lifecycle management (PLM) experience and puts it to work for you.
  • IBM is a leader in the automotive field with almost 20 years of experience.
  • We have more than 20 years of development experience with Dassault Systemes.
  • IBM has more than 150,000 services professionals in 160 countries, with over 1,000 professionals dedicated to PLM.
  • IBM is one of the few companies that offers an end-to-end automotive design solution.
  • With more than 10,000 successful PLM implementations and the most comprehensive and integrated solution portfolio, IBM has the capability to implement the right PLM solution for your business.

The benefits
Practical solutions for today’s businesses
The automotive design solution can provide you with the tools necessary to stay competitive in the automotive market. Our solutions help with:
  • Integration
  • Simplification
  • Digitization
  • Customization

By improving automotive design processes, you can reduce delays in production and ultimately shorten product development cycles through the use of:
  • Standardization of software and hardware for easy integration with existing and disparate systems.
  • Digital prototyping of tools and products.

The underlying architecture for the automotive design solution is built on Dassault Systemes’ CATIA solution that allows you to perform:
  • Styling
  • Class A surfacing
  • Reverse engineering
  • Body-in-white design
  • Mold & die design and manufacture
  • Powertrain design
  • Chassis design
  • Jigs and fixtures

The approach
Get the most from your investment
The automotive design solution can help you implement standards-based design architecture through Dassault Systemes’ CATIA solution to help shorten your overall automotive design and production cycles.

Your company can benefit from:
  • Digital mock-ups—full digital prototyping that allows computerized analyses formerly performed only in the physical world.
  • Generative, specification-driven, hybrid designs—a single data model allowing multiple representations of a task, without the worry of data integrity or exchange.
  • Design navigation—simplifies the location, and subsequent modification, of individual components within complex design.
  • Web-based collaborative design—supports collaboration between departments, or between manufacturers and suppliers.

The financial advantage
Maximize your revenue
The automotive design solution can help you adapt quickly to individual customer preferences and shorten production time, maximizing your revenue. We can help you:
  • Reduce operating costs associated with product research and development.
  • Improve product time to market.
  • Develop better, more innovative and personalized products for an ever-changing market.

Next steps
 
Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM automotive specialist.



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