Design the Difference – Simulation Driven Innovation in Car Body Design
The automotive industry is experiencing ever increasing requirements on new vehicles from all directions, e.g. legislation, consumers and the competitive situation on the market. Still, development cycles must be shortened and development costs reduced. Early concept development is a project stage where change costs are low and design freedom large. Thus, improvement of early concept development to mature designs faster and with better design balance must be a key goal of vehicle development.
NEVS is developing a new series of pure electric drive vehicles which should cover a wide range of sizes and customer profiles. The development will cover vehicles ranging from B-segment, through D-segment to E-segment vehicles including derivates. Still, the new vehicle program has to be developed in a lean fashion with a maximum of carry-over content and a minimum of local variant specific solutions. The pure electric drive strategy removes certain contains in traditional multi-driveline developments and opens new opportunities to improve the balance between weight, attribute performance and carry-over content. In order to utilize the design freedom optimally, to optimize the architectural commonalities between platform and to use carry-over content efficiently, NEVS is working with Altair and the so-called C123 concept development support process to support concept development.
The Altair C123 process has been developed to provide concept design with fast and continuous flow of trade-off and decision information using optimization to support the early design process. This presentation will introduce C123 in general, it will discuss the challenges and possibilities of multi-vehicle and multi-platform E-vehicle development and it will show examples how challenges are addressed within the vehicle development project at NEVS.
Co-Authors: Krister Önnermalm, Jerker Lundgren, NEVS AB
Speaker
Dr. Lars Fredriksson, Business VP – Simulation Driven Innovation, Altair on behalf of NEVS
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