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Siemens PLM Software technology helps automakers to meet fuel economy standards

13/05/2009

May 13, 2009

Siemens plm Software, a division of Siemens Industry Automation Division, and global leading provider of software and services for the management of the life cycle of the product (PLM), has announced that its technology will help car manufacturers to design and validate plant support flexible manufacturing and encouraging innovation in vehicles to meet the new and more strict standard Corporate Average Fuel Economy (Cafe) of at least 35 mpg for the 2020.

This month, the leaders of the industry will gather at the SAE World Congress to discuss some of the critical issues facing automotive manufacturers, including the new pressures to launch vehicles to the market at an accelerated pace to meet the most aggressive CAFE standards(-40% approved by Congress in December 2007).

To get the new Cafe standards, car manufacturers will have to redesign facilities in their factories and make them much more flexible to accommodate the significant increase in variation in the motopropulsor and the trend to have more models on a smaller number of platforms"said Dave Taylor, Senior Director, Automotive Industry Marketing, Siemens PLM Software."The increased collaboration between engineering manufacturing and product development will be critical to help engineers develop vehicles that can be built on the same floor. "Siemens PLM Software help the automotive industry to fulfil its commitment to the development of the next generation of green vehicles, through the delivery of software solutions that help our customers to meet these stringent requirements".

The technology of Siemens PLM Software provides an integrated environment for the development, management and simulation of vehicle platforms, variants of model, manufacturing processes and plants. Through the integration of information, product and manufacturing processes companies can promote knowledge about best practices for manufacturing in the early stages of product development. This helps engineers and designers to understand what capabilities exist in manufacturing so that vehicles can be designed to take advantage of these existing capacities. Simple constraints such as common points of elevation can be defined through the manufacturing to product development, helping companies to define a range of products that can be manufactured on the same floor.