Japanese automotive parts manufacturer Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd. is developing the next generation of powertrains for electric vehicles. It needed to speed up product development time, harness simulation to handle new complexities and continue to deliver high quality products at low cost.
The company selected Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its Bid to Win industry solution as the backbone of its global R&D digital environment. The platform integrates all 3D modelling, design, simulation and test data for effective sharing and analysis, while ensuring effective traceability and change management.
Musashi can now capture and reuse its companywide knowledge and know-how to halve the time it takes to develop new products while ensuring high-quality, low cost manufacturing. Data is managed more efficiently and, using computer aided engineering and 3D simulation, it can cut down on prototyping and testing.
One of the main reasons Musashi chose the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is because of its ability to support the CAE tools its workers are already familiar with. Connected operations and tools are leading to improved project oversight across disciplines as well as enhanced analysis—critical for the company as it develops new cutting-edge products.
“In addition to using apps like project management to obtain an understanding of the work that other members are doing, I also use apps for analysis to carry out validation of the structural analysis of our products,” said Yuta Kosugi, member of the CAE Research Group at Musashi. “What I like the most about the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is that we can link things like CATIA designs with analysis data.”
Because all systems run from a single platform, data sharing and analysis has become seamless.
“Before, we exchanged data via a file server,” Kosugi said. “However, by using project management and other 3DEXPERIENCE platform apps, we exchange data on the platform efficiently. I think that’s the function I am pleased with the most.”
Using CATIA for design and engineering and SIMULIA for realistic simulation on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, designers and engineers make changes to a new product design at any stage of the process and use virtual testing and simulation to validate the part in detail—checking information Musashi is using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to capture this essential knowledge and share it more widely across its teams. This not only helps to improve internal expertise, but also to harness the power of collaboration.
Musashi’s designers and engineers in different departments and locations are now able to work together more effectively and collaborate efficiently throughout the product development cycle.
“In the past, it wasn’t possible to know exactly how much work others had already done if they weren’t in the same division as you,” Takahiro Sakuma said. “Now, we can see it under product management; we’ve built connections with others. We have also found the platform invaluable for managing requirements. By sharing how much is required, we can see what we need to do. In the past, project management wasn’t carried out on one system. So, we were not really sharing what was going to be done or how much progress had been made. By managing all our projects on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with ENOVIA, we share information and see the progress we’re making.”
“It is now possible for the whole R&D division to use accurate data,” added Yuta Kosugi, member of the CAE Research Group at Musashi. “I think this will promote even more collaboration between groups.”
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