Automotive Design
These include increasingly compressed development cycles due to aggressive start of production (SOP) deadlines; increasing demands on packaging size and weight; product costs and efficiency; hitting emissions targets and significant competition for improved product quality and performance. The challenge is: these are complex
changes and the risks to the status quo can have massive cost implications. The current generation of transmission and driveline planning, design and development leaders are often not completely confident about how to plan and lead this shift in a step-by-step way that mitigates risk, but drives the significant change needed. However, there is an emerging group
Modelling and analysis of an automotive driveline.
innovation, eliminate re-work and include external suppliers. In addition, next-generation technology will support growing opportunities for industry to break down organisational walls to accommodate seamless, multi-directional collaboration and teaming.
Finding a solution A wind turbine gearbox.
Despite the operational imperative behind these changes, there are numerous reasons why change is not being driven through across the industry today. The drivers are in place.
of forward thinking organisations that are leading the way in adopting new process and approaches. Some of the more experienced solution vendors are developing and providing software and services that offer solutions to the industry’s challenges, to support this shift and enable this new way of working. The focus is on developing solutions
that support the process from planning to manufacture and maximise a ‘lossless’ development cycle, while supporting data and model movement from one system to another without the need for rebuilds. These solutions are also being
designed to enable next-generation streamlined, cross-organisational processes which increase innovation and eliminate unnecessary re-work; break down intra and extra organisation walls to accommodate seamless, multi-directional collaboration and teaming and enable these processes and organisations. Ultimately, these new tools are
enabling a rapid and integrated approach that will make a difference to the everyday working process, not only of designers and analysts across driveline and transmission design and development, but also to the whole automotive industry. l
Dr Jamie Pears is Product Manager, Romax Technology, Nottingham, UK.
www.romaxtech.com
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