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The transportation industry is facing the most significant disruptions since the transition from carriages to motorcars. Advances in technology, new materials and heightened customer expectations are raising the innovation stakes and fostering a more symbiotic relationship between OEMs and suppliers as they try to outpace the competition.

The supplier role is rapidly shifting from servicing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) design directives to becoming a strategic collaboration partner driving new vehicle innovation. Trends such as hybrid and electric powertrains, onboard consumer electronics and autonomous vehicle operation fuel a level of specialized complexity that has many OEMs pushing to share research and design responsibility with suppliers.

These close-knit partnerships are being forged against the backdrop of a market changing at a frenetic pace via new government regulations, consumers’ focus on value purchases and shorter time-to-market cycles. According to market research firm IHS Automotive, new vehicle model launches will increase from 35 in 2016 to 47 in 2019 — a surge of about 25%.

To effectively engage in a more tightly-integrated relationship, suppliers and OEMs must leverage technology and establish better global collaboration processes that can support requirements management, engineering changes, compliance tracking and product data management while providing visibility into performance, quality, reliability and safety of components and subsystems. This requires an open, robust platform tuned for innovation so they can successfully and rapidly navigate the industry changes as a strategic co-pilot along side of OEMs.

Transportation & Mobility Solutions

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes powers our Brand Applications to deliver full capabilities of 3D Modeling, Content & Simulation, Social & Collaborative innovation and Information Intelligence to build the right business value for your ultimate consumers. Industry Solution Experiences, tailored to the Transportation & Mobility sector, include:

• Global Validation, Proven Performance, which leverages simulation and other capabilities to improve both physical and virtual testing as well as validation to help companies enhance quality and reduce development costs.

• Smart, Safe and Connected accelerates product innovation to market, fortifies your ability to manage complex systems and provides an integrated solution for mechanical, electronics, software and simulation.

• Bid to Win brings together a variety of industry-proven tools and processes to help companies analyze new opportunities, win new business, and then design, engineer, validate, manufacture and deliver products on target with customer requirements.

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables requirements, design variants, simulation models and results to be maintained as part of the “single source of truth” throughout the development process. The integration of multiphysics simulation and analysis, process capture, automation, optimization and decision analytics within the platform enables organizations to share best practices, accelerate design exploration and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams. Industry Solution Experiences of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, combined with the power of SIMULIA applications help companies deliver high-performing, innovative prod­ucts while reducing cost, time and risk.

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