Siemens PLM Software NX for automotive Driving fast and efficient design 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 designs 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- engineering. “…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. • Chassis design • Component and assembly design Integrated simulation and • Routed systems design 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 mockup 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; designers 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 visualization, 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 automotive industry. 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 aesthetics, 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