Accelerated automotive development

You can reduce time-to-market in automotive product development by connecting your entire automotive development process from design to validation in one unified environment. Instead of working in silos, engineering teams share a single source of truth, making it easier to catch issues early, reuse proven designs and avoid costly late-stage changes. By using AI-powered generative engineering, simulation and virtual testing, you can evaluate concepts rapidly, validate decisions sooner and accelerate automotive design engineering with fewer delays.

Siemens supports this with Teamcenter, Polarion, NX CAD, Capitaland Simcenter.

Key strategies:

• Connect requirements with the development and validation processes
• Combine AI and real data for virtual simulations
• Enable real-time collaboration across engineering teams
• Facilitate data traceability and continuity for detailed engineering

Key benefits:

• More simulations in less time
• Reduced rework and fewer late-stage changes
• Lower development costs
• Higher confidence in product performance

Digital tools improve the automotive development process by allowing automotive design engineering teams to work in parallel instead of in sequence. Mechanical, electrical, software and simulation teams can collaborate in real time, share updates instantly and test ideas earlier. This accelerates automotive product engineering, reduces delays and improves coordination from concept through production.

Siemens supports this NX CAD and Capital.

Key strategies:

• Replace disconnected tools with an integrated platform
• Adopt simulation-driven design to validate performance before physical builds
• Enable parallel automotive design engineering planning and workflows
• Create a complete system model to leverage the power of the digital twin

Key benefits:

• The right information delivered to the right user at the right time
• Faster engineering maturity with traceable engineering authority
• A higher quality of engineering data achieved in less time
• Improved cost and performance outcomes

AI significantly improves automotive design engineering by empowering engineers to explore a wider array of design options in less time and identify optimal solutions more rapidly. Beyond this, AI plays a crucial role in verifying and validating designs continually throughout development. It can break down complex engineering tasks into more manageable steps, guiding users through process flows or even executing them autonomously one by one where applicable.

AI also evaluates performance against requirements and constraints, ensuring adherence to critical specifications. Furthermore, it can summarize extensive documentation, such as compliance requirements, enabling quicker implementation. AI can iterate through hundreds or thousands of simulations to refine designs until they are ready for review and can even generate new designs based on elaborate prompts, drastically accelerating the path from concept to validation.

Siemens delivers AI capabilities across the entire Siemens Xcelerator platform.

Key strategies:

• Leverage AI to clarify and validate requirements
• Employ AI-powered engineering and generative design
• Utilize AI-assisted prototyping and simulation
• Implement AI-piloted user experience and feature recommendations

Key benefits:

• Faster evaluation of design alternatives
• Reduced need for extensive physical testing
• Improved adherence to project requirements and constraints
• Enhanced efficiency in design refinement through rapid iterative simulations
• Optimized resource allocation that maximizes team productivity and reduces waste
• Data-driven development decisions that improve accuracy and accelerate time-to-market
• Competitive differentiation through faster innovation cycles and superior product quality

Automotive development project management software is available within Siemens' product lifecycle management solutions. These tools help manage the entire automotive development process from requirements to release while coordinating teams, suppliers and data in one centralized platform. With integrated planning, risk management and full traceability, these solutions ensure complete visibility and control across complex automotive product development programs.

Siemens provides these capabilities through Teamcenter and Polarion.

Key strategies:

• Centralize automotive product development planning and data in a unified platform
• Implement integrated project planning and execution with traceability of deliverables and data
• Align engineering teams and suppliers across distributed organizations • Manage changes with full traceability across the development lifecycle
• Establish risk management and issues tracking throughout the development lifecycle
• Adopt agile or hybrid methods for project management to enhance flexibility and responsiveness

Key benefits:

• Improved project visibility and control across complex development programs
• Stronger collaboration across teams and external partners
• More predictable automotive product development timelines
• Implicit compliance and audit support through comprehensive traceability
• Early warning of delays and budget overruns enabling proactive intervention
• Faster success with rapid iterations and quick course correction

Yes. Siemens offers cloud-enabled platforms that support automotive product engineering by connecting teams, tools and data in real time. These scalable platforms provide on-demand access to advanced technologies and computing power, allowing global teams to collaborate seamlessly, experiment rapidly with new innovations, and maintain a single source of truth throughout the automotive development process.

This is delivered through the Siemens Xcelerator platform.

Key strategies:

• Maintain a single, consistent data environment across all locations
• Leverage cloud platforms for real-time collaboration across distributed teams
• Integrate suppliers into the development process with seamless data sharing
• Enable on-demand scalability and elasticity to match project needs
• Access latest and advanced technologies and services without infrastructure investment
• Quickly experiment with and integrate advanced technologies into development workflows

Key benefits:

• Faster decision-making through instant access to current information
• Reduced communication gaps and improved alignment across global teams
• Scalable and flexible development environments that adapt to project needs
• Rapid response to peak demands for computing power without capacity constraints
• Enhanced processes and methods through continuous technology updates
• Faster focused innovation

Software for virtual vehicle prototyping is available through Siemens' comprehensive digital twin and AI-powered simulation solutions. These tools enable simulation-led, correct-by-construction design approaches that allow engineers to validate vehicle performance early and continuously throughout the automotive development process. By combining virtual testing with real-world operational data in a closed loop, engineers can reduce physical prototypes, accelerate innovation, and ensure safer, higher-quality vehicle designs.

Siemens provides these capabilities through Simcenter, Capital and NX CAD.

Key Strategies:

• Adopt simulation-led design to validate performance before physical builds
• Apply correct-by-construction design principles to minimize iterations
• Leverage digital twins for automotive product engineering validation throughout development
• Implement scenario-based testing beyond traditional requirements-based validation
• Combine simulation with real-world data for continuous improvement

Key Benefits:

• Time spent innovating rather than fixing designs through early validation
• Achievement of desired product behavior faster with front-loaded simulation
• Reduced reliance on physical prototypes lowering development costs
• Improved vehicle performance and quality through comprehensive virtual testing
• Insurance of safe and durable operation of product with virtual validation
• Improvements due to closed-loop feedback from operations to engineering

You can request automotive product development software demos directly from Siemens. Self-guided demos are useful for exploring software capabilities at your own pace, while 30-day trials provide hands-on access to test how Siemens software supports real automotive engineering workflows.

Demo options are available across these key automotive product development categories:

• Product design software: Explore tools that support vehicle design, mechanical engineering, CAD, product modeling, and collaborative design workflows.
• Performance engineering software: Evaluate solutions for simulation, CAE, virtual testing, multiphysics analysis, and performance validation earlier in the development process.
• Electronic systems development software: Explore software for electrical and electronic systems engineering, E/E architecture, embedded systems, and ECAD-MCAD collaboration.
• Requirements and verification management software: Evaluate tools that help teams manage product requirements, traceability, verification, validation, and compliance across complex automotive programs.