Business Requirements

Automotive and transportation manufacturers are facing tremendous competitive pressures. The Global Innovation Network model creates a collaborative environment for strategic partners, suppliers and customer around the world. To address industry challenges and become more competitive, manufacturers must leverage globalization, reduce time-to-market, optimize resources, ensure compliance and improve product innovation.

More Innovation

Accelerate top-line growth by increasing yield on product and process innovation. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• Does your vehicle have the innovative features needed to meet the expectations of the customer?
• Are you able to harvest the innovation across your extended enterprise and drive those innovations into your product and processes?

Faster to Market

Reduce your time-to-market through lean processes, a higher yield on designs and faster cycle times. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• Is your development process as fast as it can be?
• Are you meeting Program Timing Targets?

Compliance

Ensure compliance by incorporating customer and regulatory requirements into your product lifecycle. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• Is your End of Life Vehicle results meeting government requirements?
• Are you meeting PPAP targets?

Resource Optimization

Optimize your resources through digital product and process validation. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• Are trying to do more programs and projects with fewer resources?
• Is your manufacturing processes and facilities leveraged across multiple programs?

Globalization

Leverage globalization through real-time collaboration. Are you dealing with any of the following items?

• Are you able to globalize your business operations to leverage low cost country opportunity while meeting local requirements?
• Are you implementing engineering and manufacturing best practices and ensuring they are applied consistently and accurately?

Solutions

Consumers all over the world today have more vehicle choices than ever before. Providing these choices to consumers have put tremendous pressure on vehicle manufacturers to deliver innovative vehicles with high quality as efficiently as possible. Siemens PLM Software industry specific solutions for automotive and transportation helps organizations address these issues for their global initiatives, getting to market faster, meeting compliance requirements and optimizing for efficiency.

Global Engineering

Siemens’ Global Engineering solution provides an integrated environment for developing and managing vehicle and product platforms. Globally dispersed engineering teams can retain their specific domain focus and user preferences, while working in each other’s context to meet overall development goals. You can:

• Implement globalized product development processes
• Balance capability, growth and cost while expanding your product development footprint
• Seamlessly integrate global operations
• Be prepared to capitalize on emerging trends

Mechatronics

Siemens PLM Software solutions for mechatronics products provide an integrated PLM environment to manage and synchronize the mechanical, electrical, electronic, and embedded software domains. This framework delivers a single source of product and process knowledge throughout the product’s lifecycle, allowing global teams to stay current in their information and make effective decisions during the development process. Now you can create a highly efficient development environment for delivering products that satisfy your customers.

Supplier General Assembly Solution

Develop general assembly processes that give you the flexibility to produce any of your products anywhere in the world. With an efficient general assembly process you will also maximize your plants while meeting market demands.

Siemens General Assembly solution for automotive suppliers provides a complete collaborative environment for the development and management of the entire general assembly planning process in a single source of product, process, plant, and tooling knowledge.

Systems Engineering

Siemens PLM Software offers OEMs and suppliers a PLM-centric systems engineering solution that allow them to bring innovative products to market faster, at lower cost, and with improved quality and reliability. You can:

• Define and capture the complete set of requirements across the vehicle
• Provide a system design complete with cross-domain operating context and interfaces
• Leverage best-in-class modeling tools
• Effectively assess and manage the impact of requirements and product changes