Aston Martin Racing Selects PTC Creo Elements/Pro and Windchill

By DE Editors

PTC has announced that Aston Martin Racing has selected and implemented Creo Elements/Pro for the 3D CAD design of its racing vehicles and Windchill for product lifecycle management (PLM) in its race car division.

Aston Martin produces a car to compete in every category of the FIA GT Championship sports car racing series. Models range from modified standard vehicles in the GT4, GT3 and GT2 classes — including the high-performance V12 — to the 6.0 liter 600 BHP DBR9 in the GT1 class and the Le Mans prototype LMP1 Aston Martin.

Aston Martin Racing has moved away from its previous third-party chassis strategy to develop its next generation LMP1 from scratch. This new racing vehicle is now being designed and engineered from the ground up using Creo Elements/Pro and Windchill to manage the development process. In addition to the designers, the purchasing department uses Windchill for its request for quotation process, enabling collaboration with suppliers.

"The PTC solutions have far greater capabilities than our previous toolset,” says Ian Ludgate, chief designer at Aston Martin Racing. “Although we are still very early in our learning of the system, we've already seen significant benefits in simple things like mechanism design, which is built into the Creo Elements/Pro toolset and subsequently distributed by Windchill."

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.