Siemens PLM Software NX for automotive Driving fast and efficient

siemens.com/plm Faster, more efficient design can help automotive companies comply with changing regulatory standards and capitalize on growth in emerging markets.

2 Push your to new limits with speed and efficiency

Reduced emissions, improved fuel econ- design and manufacturing processes. “Reduced the time from styling freeze omy, weight reduction and alternative The CAD tools in NX are tailored to meet to start of production from 20 technologies all demand faster and the requirements of a broad automotive months to 10.5 months.” more efficient innovation in automotive customer base, and include special- Nissan products. You can’t afford to slow devel- purpose capabilities for automotive opment with unproductive design meth- . “…by implementing NX, we have ods and technology. NX™ software, the reduced die design costs and time, product development system from Proven value for automotive design and have increased productivity.” Siemens PLM Software, can help you With proven value for automotive origi- MUSCO Stamping design and deliver improved products, nal equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and respond quickly and insightfully and suppliers, NX delivers solutions to “More than 70 percent of our to new market opportunities and nearly every major automaker and many top- and bottom-line growth has challenges. Tier 1 manufacturers. Thirty of the top come from new high-margin 50 global automotive suppliers use NX products developed using NX NX is an advanced computer-aided for design. solutions.” design, engineering and manufacturing (CAD/CAE/CAM) solution that offers Vishwas Auto Engineers power, control and performance to improve and accelerate automotive

3 Speed and efficiency throughout design

With NX you work in one unified You can improve speed and efficiency With NX you work in one unified environ- environment, using the same throughout the entire automotive design ment, using the same model data in each model data in each stage of process with NX. Integrated tools in a stage of product development, from con- product development, from single system support all areas of cept through manufacturing. Your teams concept through manufacturing. automotive design: can communicate and collaborate better • Concept styling with model-based processes so you can • Vehicle packaging and interiors design work more efficiently. You can work faster • Class A surfacing and more flexibly by eliminating delays • Powertrain and data conversions between depart- • Body design ments and disparate systems. • design • Component and assembly design Integrated simulation and • Routed manufacturing • Drafting and documentation NX is a complete product development • Tool and fixture design solution, with industry-leading capabilities • Design and manufacturing validation for simulation/CAE and manufacturing. • Digital When you design with NX, you create mas- • Data collaboration and migration ter models that are used directly in NX engineering and production. Because all applications are dynamically associated with the design, your teams can work concurrently and accelerate change as the design develops.

4 Fast, efficient methods and Design faster by using your unique NX can be used to accelerate technologies knowledge and expertise design by helping you leverage For complex design challenges, you can NX can be used to accelerate design by your unique knowledge, intellec- rely on the broad and capable toolset of helping you leverage your unique knowl- tual property, part models, product NX to get the job done quickly. You have edge, intellectual property, part models, and process expertise and best the flexibility to choose among high- product and process expertise and best practices. performance design techniques powered practices. Many tools are available to by innovative technologies. You can select enable you to capture and re-use knowl- from 2D and 3D tools, using curves, edge instead of reinventing it. With an surfaces and solid geometry modeling extensive library of knowledge for re-use in a single design, or work with mixed at your fingertips, including designs, geometry representations, including standard parts, design features and nonuniform rational B-spline (NURBS) product templates, you can quickly and faceted geometry. Parametric locate what you need and use it again. feature-based design, direct modeling Knowledge-driven automation provides an with synchronous technology, subdivision open environment that includes tem- modeling for freeform shapes (using NX plates, programming, customization and Realize Shape™ software for subdivision knowledge-based engineering tools that modeling), template-based design, modu- you can use to extend and tailor NX solu- lar design and assembly modeling are tion capabilities to your specific needs. always available as needed by your design team, even when they are working with data from other CAD systems.

5 Faster design with product lifecycle management

With NX, you can use visual tools to You company’s agility and productivity can requirements. These capabilities are seam- gather data, organize information be improved with robust organization and lessly integrated within NX; can and present it in the context of the management of your product information use them quickly and efficiently in a trans- 3D product model to better inform and design processes. When you design parent manner while developing your and accelerate decision making. with NX, you can use Teamcenter® soft- product. ware and its leading product lifecycle man- agement (PLM) tools to manage engineer- ing data and processes, materials and

6 Enhance speed and efficiency with smarter decisions

Automotive design entails hundreds of CAD systems can use this format to inte- decisions that rely on up-to-date informa- grate with NX for , collabora- tion. With NX, you can use visual tools to tion, data sharing, assembly mockup and gather data, organize information and design-in-context applications. present it in the context of the 3D product model to better inform and accelerate Move to NX with speed and efficiency decision making. These visual analytics When you move to NX, you can use robust help you track work in progress, identify content migration tools, services and train- and resolve issues, assess change impacts, ing to maximize your return on investment monitor costs, manage risk and check for (ROI) for legacy product data. Whether you compliance with standards and adopt NX to align with partners and suppli- requirements. ers, or to improve your product develop- ment capability, Siemens PLM Software’s Collaborate with speed and efficiency content migration reduces the time, effort With NX, you can easily communicate and and risk required to re-use information collaborate with other departments, cus- from other systems. Moving to NX often tomers, suppliers and partners – even if requires less effort and expense than they are using other CAD systems or no moving to the next version of your current CAD system at all. For collaborative design, CAD system. NX makes extensive use of the JT™ data format, a CAD-neutral exchange standard for design data that is used widely in the . Partners using other

7 Concept design

The concept design tools in NX You can quickly capture and refine design ity. For shape manipulation, you can select give you the power and freedom concepts – and get them into production freely from global shaping, 3D synchro- to push your creativity, all in one faster – with the integrated tools in NX. nous modeling or feature-based paramet- system. Your designers have the power and flexi- ric modeling. To help ensure surface bility to explore as many design alterna- quality and continuity and to optimize tives as possible so they can quickly and visual , NX includes a broad easily change direction and validate that range of analysis and rendering tools. concepts meet design requirements. Initial concepts can be captured digitally in 2D The concept design tools in NX give you or 3D, from images, physical models, the power and freedom to push your model-based sketching and direct creativity, all in one system. The design sketching to surface and solid modeling concepts you develop with NX are fully or subdivision sculpting. manufacturable digital models: you can use concept geometry directly in other For exterior and interior Class A surfaces, development departments for detailed NX provides pole manipulation and surface engineering, simulation, validation, alignment tools while giving you full con- tooling and manufacturing. trol and real-time analysis of surface qual-

8 Accelerate vehicle packaging and interiors design

For automotive mechanical and occu- specialized solution for designing and pancy packaging, NX offers intelligent manufacturing seat trim covers and special-purpose tools that use industry interior components ensures that the standards and process knowledge to product is cost effective and efficiently automate packaging tasks. These tools manufactured by automatically generat- help certify designs for compliance with ing all needed documentation and industry and regulatory standards, offer- drawings. The addition of this technol- ing step-by-step assistance and auto- ogy complements existing NX-based mated checking. Occupancy packaging processes, enabling the sharing of and safety compliance capabilities design detail, and drastically reducing include tools for pedestrian protection, the need for physical prototyping. seat placement and travel, seat belt anchorage, controls reach, as well as direct and mirror visibility certification.

NX can be integrated with the Seat Design Environment (SDE) portfolio to support the entire seat trim and interi- ors panel development process. This

9 Powertrain

With NX, your powertrain teams NX tools can help you achieve key power- Interpart associativity of geometry and can quickly create train design objectives for performance, expression and module-based organization to evaluate powertrains using economy, durability and responsiveness. of parts allows you to design the most digital of the vehicle Using the comprehensive component and complex cast components and compartment, subsystems and assembly modeling capabilities in NX subsystems. components. accelerates design and increases produc- tivity. As you would expect, NX provides With NX, your powertrain teams can parametric sketch-driven solid modeling quickly create design studies to evaluate features such as extrude and revolve, as powertrains using digital mockups of the well as shape-modifying tools such as form vehicle compartment, subsystems and drafting and blending. These tools are components. NX gives you all the model- integrated into the same design environ- ing and design tools required to maintain ment with high-end surface and solid and apply engine and transmission config- creation and manipulation features such urations in the vehicle. as sweep, trim/extend and patching. You can boost speed and efficiency signifi- cantly by using product templates that automate complex design processes with embedded best-practice knowledge.

10 Body design

Fast and efficient design can help you NX helps you accelerate and simplify When considering alternative materials, achieve critical body design objectives body-in-white (BIW) design with special- such as composites for chassis and body such as distinctive styling, lower weight ized tools that are based on indus- panel design, you can take advantage of and structural safety. Using a systems- try-best practices. These reduce design NX integration with the Fibersim™ port- driven approach, you can readily trace time and enable fast evaluation and folio of software for composites engi- and validate requirements, divide validation of alternatives by automating neering, which addresses the unique design tasks into manageable subsys- body panel design, side door openings, needs of collaborative composite prod- tems and communicate across domains hinge locations, glass drop and other uct development. These capabilities and throughout the value chain. body design tasks. in NX facilitate the authoring of composite enables multiple designers to concur- design data to create fully optimized 3D For styled body surfaces, your design rently develop details of body compo- product definitions and seamlessly team can use powerful curve, surface nents while Wave interpart modeling export documentation and manufactur- and freeform modeling tools and technology provides you with the power ing data to production systems. The reverse engineering techniques to more and control to create advanced BIW result is an efficient process for deliver- quickly develop and refine Class A sur- templates. You can optimize body ing optimized, high-volume composite faces. NX analysis and rendering tools designs for manufacturing with NX products. help ensure surface quality, continuity functions for weld definition and valida- and aesthetics. tion, dimensional engineering and simulation.

NX analysis and rendering tools help ensure surface quality, continuity and aesthetics.

11 Component and assembly design

NX delivers team-oriented tools NX includes a comprehensive modeling tive and efficient, and provides rich visual for assembly designs that can toolkit with the power and flexibility to feedback, real-time diagnostics and in-con- accommodate many parts, improve productivity in component and text validation that helps steer you to suc- people and locations. assembly design. Your designers can select cessful design solutions. the most appropriate tools and methods for every task, using any combination of NX delivers team-oriented tools for assem- 2D and 3D, solid modeling, curve and sur- bly designs that can accommodate many face design, parametric feature-based parts, people and locations. Optimized for modeling, template-based design, modu- the largest and most complex products, lar design, subdivision modeling and direct NX assembly modeling enables individual modeling functions. For even the most designers to work in the context of the full complex designs, NX has the tools to get assembly, with exceptional change control the job done. and full multi-CAD digital mockup.

All of the design functions in NX are avail- able through a user interface (UI) that is consistent across all applications and is adaptable to your designers’ roles, work- flows and skill sets. Using NX is fast, intui-

12 Routed systems design

With specialized tools for routed systems design, you can develop electrical and hydraulic systems more quickly and easily than with general-purpose CAD tools. NX offers both 2D and 3D tools for electrical cabling, wire harnesses, piping and tubing design. These unite logical design with 3D assembly modeling, path creation and rules checking to ensure that routed sys- tems are accurate in fit, form and function.

13 Drafting and documentation

With NX, you can enhance commu- Using NX helps improve communication With NX, you can enhance communication nication of design and manufactur- throughout the automotive design and of design and manufacturing intent with ing intent with 3D annotations development process by providing effi- 3D annotations directly on the 3D product directly on the 3D product models. cient drafting and documentation capabili- models. This product and manufacturing ties. Your team can use a comprehensive information (PMI) – including geometric suite of tools for engineering drawing dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), text creation, with power and productivity for annotations, surface finish and material large and complex designs. specifications – can be re-used in draw- ings, tolerance stackup validations, manu- Working from the master product defini- facturing, inspections of coordinate- tion, you can quickly create drawings of measuring machines (CMM) and other components and assemblies using draw- applications. ing templates. View creation, dimension- ing and detailing in NX to comply with industry and international drafting stan- dards so you can accelerate creation of compliant drawings. Innovative light- weight drawing views deliver superior performance for large assembly drawings.

14 Tool and fixture design

NX delivers expert guidance through all the stages of design with automated workflows based on industry-best practices.

You can help ensure an easy transition to For specialized tooling such as molds, manufacturing with NX tooling and fixture progressive dies and automotive stamping design. Using NX streamlines the entire dies, NX delivers expert guidance through tool development process, including part all the stages of design with automated design, tool assembly layout and detailed workflows based on industry-best prac- tooling design and validation. By using the tices. By automating tedious tool design productive technologies of NX, step-by- tasks and streamlining the most complex step guidance and associativity with part processes, NX helps you develop designs, you can work quickly and effi- high-quality tools and respond quickly ciently with even the most challenging to design revisions. tooling and fixture designs.

Because your tool designs are dynamically linked to part models, you can easily adapt to model changes and update tooling and fixture designs faster. Validation, analysis and documentation are available to tool designers to verify functional performance and prepare for manufacturing.

15 About Siemens PLM Software Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Digital Factory Division, is a world-leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software, systems and services with nine million licensed seats and 77,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software helps thousands of companies make great products by optimizing their lifecycle processes, from planning and development through manufacturing and support. Our HD-PLM vision is to give everyone involved in making a product the information they need, when they need it, to make the smartest decisions. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm.

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