Simplicity. Collaboration. Confidence. Accelerating time-to-market with automated, collaborative workflows

The big changes in the automotive sector have not just been about the shift to electric vehicles. From complex powertrains under the hood to extensive connectivity in the cabin, the modern vehicle is highly complex, software-defined, and data-led. It’s the third element— data—that’s key here because, in automotive manufacturing, there is so much that needs managing, derisking, and sharing.

The proliferation of suppliers, apps, and platforms means the days of manual data handling are long gone. With the strictures of new FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) standards and tightening regulatory compliance, command and control of every component across the entire automotive supply chain is essential.

This means connecting all the data used in all the processes by everyone across the product lifecycle—from ideation and design through to final production. A good PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) system will do this, of course. But the quickly evolving and complex landscape automotive organizations are now operating in means critical gaps in understanding and action may appear.

70% of automotive organizations are planning to increase investment in data management and analytics*

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No business likes blind spots. This applies to automotive manufacturing more than most. And that’s where PLM systems come in, to enhance understanding across the product lifecycle. But few can keep up with the latest data explosion that’s happened in and across the automotive sector.

Manufacturers and suppliers need a solution that works in tandem with your other PLM systems, helping plug gaps to create seamless data flow and process management. This helps accelerate prototyping and R&D projects without the need for a substantial overhaul in tools. Start quickly and scale easily with modular processes and configurable, out-of-the-box workflows that offer flexibility to implement what you need, when you need it. Multi-CAD integrations keep teams working in the tools they know and collaborating efficiently across your organization and with suppliers.

Crucially, this centralizes data and workflow automation to speed up each phase of product development—across design collaboration and review, change management, bill-of-materials management, new product introduction, supply chain, and quality management. And this empowers everyone with more time to spend on higher value tasks.

Whether you’re looking to replace old with new, or simply plug insight gaps that are emerging in your production cycle, PLM solutions should combine to simplify product development and production, with easy collaboration and confidence in system insight across your organization.

Bring clarity to complexity with complete data and process management

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The proliferation of extensive and disparate data sources many automotive manufacturers now face means centralizing data workflows is vital. When you get this right, it provides consistency of insight, underpinned by intelligent workflow automation, so your teams can adapt products more rapidly to changing market requirements. This means you can increase product development agility, in several ways:

Make faster, data-driven decisions earlier in the development process to ensure consistent, high-quality products.

Reduce inefficiencies and costs across the production cycle while improving quality with real-time, system-wide insight sharing.

Stay connected to your global supply chain with anytime, anywhere access to supplier information.

Maintain regulatory compliance, adapting to changing conditions and requirements quickly.

Reduce complexity to increase agility, and get to market faster

Likewise, the central source of product data established by Autodesk PLM solutions—either as a standalone PLM or in tandem with other systems—is secure, easily accessible, and always up-to-date. This ensures your teams can be more agile, resilient, and proactive with product development to help improve your time to market:

Deliver products to market faster by connecting people, processes, and data.

Enable teams, departments, and people to collaborate efficiently from a central source of organized data.

Increase clarity and simplicity across your organization, with suppliers, and clients, regardless of file type.

Progress from concept to production with greater innovation, fewer iteration cycles, and lower costs.

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44% of business leaders in automotive and transportation organizations agree their industry is prepared to handle global change*

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The growing skills gap caused by the shortage in new labor and the knowledge loss through retirement of legacy workers has placed added pressure on the need for automotive organizations to be more connected. This is a significant challenge, of course, with intricate, data-heavy products moving through increasingly complex development cycles. Engineering teams need to be included in feedback loops and the latest version of every design must be available to everybody at the tap of a screen or button.

To fill this skills gap, it’s vital to empower your teams and people with intelligent tools to enhance collaboration across your organization:

• Enable multi-CAD integrations to ensure your workforce has the tools they’re comfortable and confident with at their fingertips.

• Enhance effective, efficient supply-chain communication for greater responsiveness.

• Ensure every person, team, department, and stakeholder works from the same datasets to remove version control issues.

• Provide secure access to product data for external parties so you can deliver complete project visibility while maintaining full control.

Collaborate seamlessly across your production cycle

The need to extend this connected, collaborative approach throughout the supply chain should not be underestimated. Incomplete information will have a direct impact on everything from resource allocation to the availability of materials and how much is wasted.

Autodesk PLM solutions give you 24/7 connection with your global supply chain. This means you can quickly identify other suppliers, components, and materials, helping boost supply-chain agility in a number of ways:

Gather reliable data for quoting, procurement, and supplier management to become more responsive to change.

Automate status reporting and provide secure access to third-party stakeholders for increased project clarity and proactivity.

Improve supply chain collaboration with real-time markup and feedback loops for clear and consistent connections across every team and department.

82% of automotive organizations face difficulties finding new employees with the right technical skills*

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61% of automotive leaders are more likely to say their supply chain is fragile (compared to 55% in other manufacturing sectors)*

To remain competitive in the fast-paced automotive, transportation, and mobility sector, you need a single source of product data that is secure, accessible, and always up-to-date. In this way, product quality issues can quickly be shared with engineering teams. Automated workflows can also enable closed-loop quality control to prevent flaws from being repeated.

Real-time, complete data and process management solutions helps your business to reduce defects and non-conformities:

Identify the right documents, designs, and data that your people need, as soon as they need it—without having to manually collect or manipulate data from different sources.

Empower teams to track and record changes, as well as analyze quality metrics to prevent critical issues.

Assess failure trends, identify supplier problems, and make corrections with increased agility and accuracy.

Track quality assurance across your entire supply chain to lower mitigation response time for recalls or parts issues.

Inspire confidence with a single source of truth

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As an always-on, scalable system, with open and extensible APIs for easy integration with other systems, Autodesk PLM solutions provide data and process management to help optimize every step of your production cycle from ideation to delivery, whether as a standalone PLM or incorporated with your existing systems.

We’re perfectly placed to help you simplify your operational routes to market, enhance collaboration across every level of the business, and inspire greater confidence in all aspects of product design, development, and manufacture.

Connect your people, processes, and data for faster product launch

Speak to us today about how we can help provide data and process management that comes with the innate flexibility to start quickly and scale easily.

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* Autodesk’s 2023 State of Design and Make Report: Spotlight on Automotive

https://www.autodesk.com/design-make/e-books/spotlight-on-automotive