Transport & Mobility

The Transportation & Mobility sector encompasses the entire ecosystem of vehicles, including cars, motorcycles, trucks, and trains. This ecosystem involves the design, manufacturing, supply, retail, and maintenance of these vehicles.

 

Enhancing Transport and Mobility Accessibility and Service Quality for Increased Customer Satisfaction.

The Aftersales & Customer Service solution facilitates the creation and management of service and maintenance engineering data (such as Service BOM, Repair and Maintenance methods, etc.) in a seamless digital flow with the configured engineering definition of the vehicle. It considers regulatory compliance, adherence to aftersales guidelines, serviceability assessments, and feedback from field operations regarding the virtual twin.

Empower Your Skilled Teams to Innovate with Bid to Win

Bid to Win equips your teams with industry-tested tools and processes, enabling them to analyze opportunities, secure optimal new business, and subsequently design, engineer, validate, manufacture, and deliver with precision to meet customer satisfaction.

Experience the advantages of an integrated solution that serves as a centralized ‘single source of truth’ for coordinating multi-site projects, managing development changes, and overseeing product data and requirements. As you win and successfully complete business endeavors, key success factors are documented for future use in a systematic approach, strengthening your expertise and knowledge base.

Benefits of the Bid to Win solution:

• Grow and diversify your customer base through accelerated innovation
• Speed up the identification of profitable opportunities
• Maintain global project integrity and quality
• Seamlessly unify cross-disciplinary teams
• Establish processes that ensure profitable delivery
• Learn from past experiences while building on your legacy ideas and concepts.

Drive Emotion: Master the Design and Engineering Enchantment that Sparks Emotion

In today's market, where customer loyalty is paramount, automotive designers play a crucial role alongside various considerations such as costs, materials, ergonomics, and manufacturability. Drive Emotion offers a comprehensive design experience that maintains the enchantment from the first sketch to virtual design validation within a fully immersive digital space. This integrated platform allows for an iterative design process, enabling real-time collaboration between designers and engineers on a shared virtual model.

Benefits of Drive Emotion:

• Transform market trends into a wellspring of creativity
• Expand, explore, and refine a multitude of ideas and concepts more efficiently
• Engage the senses with a diverse range of powerful digital tools that help you capture your imagination and translate it into tailored experiences.

Unleash your engineering creativity and boost your confidence for success

The automotive industry is undergoing a significant transformation. New policies and regulations are driving global demand for electric vehicles, while there remains a short-term emphasis on hybrid and internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are now tasked with managing the simultaneous development and production of both electric and ICE vehicles during this transition.

The Efficient Multi-Energy Platform offers tools to tackle these challenges directly, including engineering and virtual simulation capabilities. Explore how you can create more efficient multi-energy vehicle platforms that not only meet customer expectations but also adhere to regulations. Efficient Multi-Energy Platform Solution.

Benefits of the Efficient Multi-Energy Platform:

• Fully embrace the electric vehicle revolution
• Enhance collaboration across disciplines and with suppliers
• Unlock new efficiency improvements for internal combustion engines
• Ultimately deliver outstanding driving experiences for passengers

Navigate the intricacies of vehicle development and utilize modularity to enhance profitability.

Implementing an agile and modular vehicle architecture offers the adaptability needed to meet ever-evolving customer needs while effectively managing costs. Move beyond conventional product data management and convert solid systems engineering into actionable outcomes.

Global Modular Architecture presents a revolutionary solution to address these emerging development challenges, advancing past traditional Product Data Management with a comprehensive systems engineering strategy that enables early Bill of Materials creation and a configured Digital Mock-Up to reduce design engineering complexities.

Advantages of Global Modular Architecture:

• Provide a flexible, modular global portfolio
• Create and manufacture a versatile and resilient global architecture
• Collaborate seamlessly with partners and suppliers
• Optimize sourcing, purchasing, standardization, and reuse
• Confirm and validate your ideal vehicle architecture.

Empowering Sustainable Mobility: Transforming Battery Design, Simulation, and Manufacturing for the Future of Transportation

The High-Performance Battery & Gigafactory solution combines innovative software for battery design and simulation with top-tier manufacturing techniques.

This approach utilizes advanced materials to create efficient and sustainable batteries during the design phase. It enhances safety, reliability, and performance through simulation, while optimizing gigafactory production for scalability and adaptability.

Benefits:

• Accelerated innovation and quicker time-to-market: The collaborative approach from design to manufacturing speeds up the battery development cycle. This rapid transition from idea to production enables companies to swiftly adapt to market needs and regulatory shifts, providing a competitive advantage.
• Improved efficiency and performance: Tailored material and cell design, along with engineering processes, lead to the production of batteries with enhanced energy density, longevity, and safety, fulfilling consumer expectations for reliable and efficient electric vehicles and devices.
• Streamlined and scalable manufacturing: Creating giga-factory layout models for adaptability and scalability allows companies to easily modify production levels in response to market demand.
• Lower costs: Utilizing advanced simulations and virtual testing significantly minimizes the need for physical prototypes. Additionally, optimizing manufacturing processes reduces production costs by improving efficiency and increasing factory output.
• Promoted sustainable practices: By emphasizing material efficiency and recycling in design and manufacturing, this solution encourages the development of eco-friendly batteries.

Deliver Reliable & Sustainable Modules and Components

On average, suppliers provide 75% of a vehicle's content, demonstrating their strong commitment to the success of new cars in the market. However, they are operating in a highly competitive landscape where innovation is essential for differentiation, all while facing shrinking profit margins.

The Innovative Modules & Technologies solution assists tiers 2 to 4 suppliers in delivering cutting-edge components and modules on time and within specifications across various domains, tailored to meet specific process needs. This solution complements the Bid to Win approach and offers suppliers access to top-tier tools.

• Enhanced Engineering Efficiency:
  • Cutting-edge Design Techniques and Specialized Applications: Die Design, Tooling, Electrical Engineering, etc.
  • High-Productivity Engineering Solutions: For example, 3D as a Master
  • Intellectual Property & Knowledge-Based Solutions: For instance, Design Standard Checks
• Simulation-Driven Engineering:
  • Collaborative design and simulation involving both designers and specialists
  • Integrated modeling and simulation within the same solutions (generative MODSIM)
  • Achieve a 60% to 70% reduction in creation and iteration time
  • Guided Design Applications: For example, eDrive Design
  • Automation: For instance, Knowledgeware & Design Templates
• Continuous Engineering Innovation:
  • Introduction of new industrialized and mature technologies: For example, Lattice Design
  • Research and optimization of new materials: For instance, Battery Cell & Pack Engineering

Effectively meet market demand through smart sales and supply planning, optimized production strategies, and comprehensive oversight of manufacturing execution across various plants.

Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers require a more agile, end-to-end approach to production and supply chain performance, while maintaining the quality, efficiency, and profitability inherent to lean manufacturing processes.

Lean Production Run solutions facilitate all planning and execution activities within and among plants, enabling manufacturers to swiftly adapt to strategic changes, fluctuating market conditions, and unforeseen circumstances.

• Boost overall manufacturing efficiency
• Improve the precision of sales forecasts and supply plans
• Streamline production planning to minimize lead times and inventory
• Gain timely insights for improved decision-making and outcomes
• Strengthen quality processes and controls
• Seize sales opportunities and ensure timely delivery

Launch Your Vehicles Ahead of the Competition with Unmatched Profitability and Precision

The most lucrative opportunities lie within the realms of manufacturing and production. As global and regional vehicle programs undergo significant transformation, a versatile and adaptable virtual platform is essential to support multi-energy powertrains and ensure vehicles are produced on-target.

The On-Target Vehicle Launch enhances your responsiveness, allows for earlier validation of manufacturing processes, and streamlines production ramp-up. By validating vehicle production processes in a virtual setting, you build collective confidence before making investments and can swiftly assess the best production alternatives.

• Identify the appropriate resources and their optimal allocation sooner
• Concurrently design both the product and manufacturinga processes
• Achieve efficiency improvements, quicker ramp-up, and enhanced planning

Smart Mobility Operations: Envision, Execute, and Enhance Sustainable and Engaging Mobility Services

To address the congestion of transport infrastructure and combat pollution, it is essential to provide shared and sustainable mobility solutions. The “Smart Mobility Operations” initiative facilitates the creation of new mobility service architectures using CATIA System No Magic, ensuring their effective operations through DELMIA Quintiq planning and optimization. This approach aids Mobility Service Providers in envisioning complementary services alongside efficient rail systems, which remain crucial for mass sustainable mobility. Drawing on numerous successful customer experiences with Train Operators, the inaugural release of “Smart Mobility Operations” prioritizes the efficiency of rail services through Rail Crew Planning, Scheduling, and Operations IPEs. The intricate nature of rail operations planning often leads to challenges in managing Rail Crew, which faces numerous constraints and disruptions.

• Design Innovative Mobility Systems: Create appealing door-to-door mobility services that encompass all modes and systems.

• Validate / Certify New Mobility Systems: Implement automatic mobility operations, such as advanced train control systems, more quickly and cost-effectively.
• Public Transport Planning: Suggest enticing services that require minimal resources.
• Public Transport Scheduling: Organize the necessary resources to provide services under optimal conditions.
• Public Transport Operations: Alleviate disruptions to maintain the quality and efficiency of services.

Design, Validate, and Deliver the Intelligent Vehicle Experience

As global innovators strive to create smarter, connected vehicles, they must navigate complexity, enhance performance, and prioritize vehicle safety.

Our Smart, Safe, and Connected solutions propel product and service innovation while strengthening your capacity to manage embedded systems and electronics. This is achieved through an integrated platform for Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), electrical design, mechatronics, and software development. By meeting industry and safety standards, your team can shift its focus to strategic new innovations.

• Accelerate the market introduction of vehicles for a smarter and safer future in mobility
• Optimize rapidly evolving technologies Ensure compliance with emerging regulations
• and safety standards for electronics and embedded software (ISO26262, ASPICE, etc.)
• Encourage the adoption of systems engineering on an open platform, utilizing legacy tools and industry standards

Rapidly Develop Optimized Vehicles for Comfort and Safety

The advent of self-driving technology opens up entirely new possibilities for how we can utilize the space within vehicles. The car of the future could serve multiple purposes: it might function as an office for work, a social hub for gatherings, an entertainment center for leisure, or a cozy retreat for relaxation and rest.

This transformation is made feasible by innovative technologies and the growing demand for multifunctional vehicles.

The Sustainable Multi-functional Vehicle framework enables the development and testing of these novel experiences, utilizing engineering and virtual simulation. By integrating various disciplines—ranging from body design to interior trim, and from systems to complete vehicles—this approach addresses the engineering challenges of achieving optimal performance while balancing cost and efficiency.

Enhancing Marketing Campaigns and Improving Purchasing Experiences

The automotive and mobility sectors are striving to provide exceptional product and service experiences for their customers while balancing rising costs with sustainable growth.

Virtual Garage solutions offer impressive automotive sales and marketing materials, collaborative tools, and immersive virtual event experiences. This platform allows your company to utilize existing vehicle CAD data, boosting the speed, quality, and reach of your digital product promotions and customer engagement initiatives across all brand and product priorities.

Benefits of Virtual Garage:

• Capture hearts and minds through effective brand building
• Elevate brand engagement with optimal virtual experiences
• Enhance the buying experience, reduce inventories, and strengthen sales
• Streamline production with increased speed and improved quality