Siemens PLM Software Helps Automakers Meet new Fuel Economy Standards

By DE Editors

Siemens PLM Software’s technology can help automakers design and validate plants to support flexible manufacturing and drive innovation into vehicles to meet the new, stricter Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard of at least 35 mpg by 2020.

“To achieve the new CAFE standards, automakers will need to re-tool manufacturing facilities and make them much more flexible to accommodate the significant increase in variation of powertrains and the trend toward more models on fewer platforms,” said Dave Taylor, senior director, Automotive Industry Marketing, Siemens PLM Software. “Increasing collaboration between manufacturing engineering and product development will be critical in helping engineers develop vehicles that can be built in the same plant. Siemens PLM Software is dedicated to helping the automotive industry fulfill its commitment to the development of next-generation green vehicles by delivering software solutions that help our customers address these stricter requirements.”

Siemens PLM Software’s technology provides an integrated environment for the development, management and simulation of vehicle platforms, model variants, manufacturing processes and plants. By integrating information about the product and the manufacturing processes, companies can drive knowledge about manufacturing best practices into the early phases of product development. Simple constraints such as common lifting points can be defined by manufacturing for product development, helping companies define a portfolio of products that can be manufactured in the same plant.

Teamcenter software, Siemens PLM Software’s digital lifecycle management solution, serves as a manufacturer’s information backbone. Teamcenter manages product related data and makes it available throughout an entire organization, helping to integrate manufacturing with design, and enable flexible manufacturing.

Tecnomatix software, Siemens PLM Software’s digital manufacturing solution, helps automakers evaluate manufacturing alternatives by enabling them to better understand plant capabilities through simulation, and by facilitating increased planning accuracy and efficiency.

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