SimOffice
Automotive supplier 1
This medium-sized automotive supplier has difficulties managing and sharing data with its widely distributed design and engineering teams and its global customers.
The Challenge
They want to improve their product development capabilities by increasing collaboration and getting their designers and engineers involved in the concept development with the customer. The additional challenge is that the designers don’t have much experience with simulation and CAE (Computer-aided engineering).
The Solution
The solution is to provide quick and easy management of data to teams worldwide to make collaboration more efficient, while securely controlling access to that data.
Integration with Windows Sharepoint makes it easier for the existing IT team to implement and support SimOffice, as well as manage and control access to the people that need it, including customers.
Now the customer is able to supply the original design requirements along with any existing geometry data they might have. Analysts are able to grab that data and build out the Excel design tool, which can then be provided to the Design engineers. The Design Engineers can perform design studies and add that information back to the project site for the customer to access and review. The customer may even download these files to perform additional analyses on.
The Value Added
The company has easily set up a means by which they can quickly and securely iterate design projects.