Accelerate heavy equipment design

Successfully delivering a product means that you are living up to the expectations of your customers, which are increasingly demanding and personalized. To improve your design and manufacturing process, you must address all the challenges that slow you down or generate costs, thereby considering the complexities that are typical for today’s innovative and customized products. You need to avoid endless iterations back and forth by driving design for all disciplines simultaneously in a common environment using shared models from the beginning of the design cycle. You need dedicated solutions to effectively design numerous configurations, thereby focusing on maximizing reuse across programs and on process automation. You need an environment where a complex set of requirements can be captured, shared, and understood by everyone, and where they can be linked to verification activities. Finally, you need to foster collaboration between all stakeholders including teams within product design, as well as design and manufacturing teams. This will allow you to achieve costs savings by spotting manufacturability issues and opportunities earlier in the lifecycle and successfully tackle next generation design for heavy equipment.

Several tools that we offer through Siemens Xcelerator, our comprehensive and integrated portfolio of software and services, specifically address the challenges that come with designing today’s innovative, customized heavy equipment products. By using the combination of Siemens Capital and Siemens NX, you can drive multidisciplinary design. Siemens NX is our powerful, integrated suite of computer-aided design (CAD) solutions. Siemens Capital is a set of solutions for electrical and electronics (E/E) systems development, including capabilities for E/E system and software architectures, network communications and embedded software development. You can connect these applications through Siemens Teamcenter, our product lifecycle management solution - the backbone where all product-related data is stored and kept up-to-date in a central, shared repository and where all decisions are being tracked. By doing so, you are enabling a comprehensive Digital Twin, one where changes in the context of any design activity are immediately propagated across all disciplines. Additionally, Siemens Teamcenter will help you meet your design objectives through applications that specifically address design process complexities like requirements management, configuration management, verification management, change management, and many more.

Seamless collaboration between all design stakeholders is becoming increasingly important as interactions between disciplines intensify due to the application of digital technologies and electrification, and as design activities are increasingly shared in a global organization with more partners and suppliers. Heavy equipment design software aligns everyone on the common goals, by cascading down top-level requirements to targets for individual stakeholders, while keeping both levels linked. Everyone can better understand what their role is in the wider picture. Design software also provides everyone with secure, role-based access to a single source of truth: a shared repository with up-to-date information, where all individual decisions are tracked. All design activities happen in full transparency, while their effect is immediately and automatically propagated to everyone who is impacted. This helps you eliminate mistakes due to misalignment and dramatically reduces the number of iterations it takes to get to the final product.

With heavy equipment design software, OEMs can avoid getting stuck in endless iterations while developing products that are inherently multidisciplinary. With today’s generation of products, this is no longer an option but instead a requirement. Heavy equipment design software can also determine if you can successfully accomplish the design at all. That is the case when you add the complexity of increasing demand for customization and personalization. OEMs who want to live up to the specific preferences and requirements of customers around the world while still remaining profitable need heavy equipment design software to explore where they can achieve efficiency gains across programs, focusing on commonality and reuse of components and on design process automation. Finally, as OEMs are confronted with increasing regulatory complexity, sustainability mandates and liability shifts, they need heavy equipment design software to provide them with a systematic approach, where the common goals can be clearly set and understood by everyone, design activities can be properly orchestrated and all decisions are tracked and documented.