Siemens PLM Software - Siemens PLM Software Technology Helps Automakers Meet New Fuel Economy Standards

Automakers Face Pressures to Bring New Cars to Market that Meet Stricter Fuel Efficiency Requirements

New Delhi, April 8, 2009 – Siemens PLM Software, a business assemblage of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a arch all-around provider of artefact lifecycle administration (PLM) software and services, today appear that its technology will advice automakers architecture and validate plants to abutment adjustable accomplishment and drive addition into cars to accommodated the new, stricter Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) accepted of at atomic 35 mpg by 2020.
This month, key industry leaders will accumulate at SAE World Congress to altercate some of the analytical issues adverse automotive manufacturers, including new pressures to accompany fuel-efficient cars to bazaar at an accelerated clip to accommodated the added advancing CAFE standard, a 40 percent access anesthetized by Congress in December 2007.
“To accomplish the new CAFE standards, automakers will charge to re-tool accomplishment accessories and accomplish them abundant added adjustable to axle the cogent access in aberration of powertrains and the trend against added models on beneath platforms,” said Dave Taylor, chief director, Automotive Industry Marketing, Siemens PLM Software. “Increasing accord amid accomplishment engineering and artefact development will be analytical in allowance engineers advance cars that can be complete in the aforementioned plant. Siemens PLM Software is committed to allowance the automotive industry accomplish its charge to the development of next-generation blooming cars by carrying software solutions that advice our barter abode these stricter requirements.”
Siemens PLM Software’s technology provides an chip ambiance for the development, administration and simulation of car platforms, archetypal variants, accomplishment processes and plants. By amalgam advice about the artefact and the accomplishment processes, companies can drive ability about accomplishment best-practices into the aboriginal phases of artefact development. This helps engineers and designers accept what capabilities abide in accomplishment so that cars can be advised to advantage those absolute capabilities. Simple constraints such as accepted appropriation credibility can be authentic by accomplishment for artefact development, allowance companies ascertain a portfolio of articles that can be bogus in the aforementioned plant.
Automotive suppliers and manufacturers acquire a amazing aggregate of information, which needs to be arresting to all departments above an organization. Having one individual antecedent of artefact and action ability enables all-around engineering teams to seamlessly accommodate all aspects of a activity and plan calm to optimize artefact development and manufacturing.
Teamcenter® software, Siemens PLM Software’s flagship agenda lifecycle administration band-aid and the world’s a lot of broadly acclimated PLM portfolio, serves as a manufacturer’s advice backbone. Teamcenter manages all artefact accompanying abstracts and makes it instantly accessible throughout an absolute organization, allowance to accommodate accomplishment with design, and accredit adjustable manufacturing.
“With all of the added circuitous apparatus that are complex in the architecture and development of a vehicle, it is no best able to plan in a chiral environment. Automakers have to accept the advice technology accoutrement to affix the basic apple to the concrete world, and we’ve chip the apparatus sets to do just that,” added Taylor.
Tecnomatix® software, Siemens PLM Software’s agenda accomplishment solution, helps automakers appraise accomplishment alternatives by enabling them to bigger accept bulb capabilities through simulation, and by facilitating added planning accurateness and efficiency.
Siemens PLM Software is a arch provider of artefact lifecycle administration (PLM) software and casework for the automotive and busline industry. Fourteen out of the top sixteen automotive OEMs in the apple use Siemens PLM Software technology to accredit their business action advance initiatives. From aboriginal portfolio planning through artefact development, accomplishment and artefact obsolescence, arch automakers and their suppliers await on Siemens PLM Software for PLM technology. The automotive industry has continued accepted and consistently acclimated PLM technology to cut development costs, acceleration time-to-market, abide aggressive and drive top-line growth.
Siemens PLM Software is a mission-critical accomplice with abounding automotive and busline companies, accouterment PLM solutions to accredit key business action advance initiatives, such as: commonization and re-use, change management, all-around engineering, knowledge-driven automation and accumulation alternation integration.

About Siemens PLM Software
Siemens PLM Software, a business assemblage of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a arch all-around provider of artefact lifecycle administration (PLM) software and casework with 5.9 actor accountant seats and 56,000 barter worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with companies to bear accessible solutions that advice them about-face added account into acknowledged products. For added advice on Siemens PLM Software articles and services, appointment www.siemens.com/plm.

About the Siemens Industry Automation Division
The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany) is a common baton in the fields of automation systems, low-voltage switchgear and automated software. Its portfolio ranges from accepted articles for the accomplishment and action industries to solutions for accomplished automated sectors that beset the automation of absolute auto assembly accessories and actinic plants. As a arch software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the absolute amount added alternation of manufacturers – from artefact architecture and development to production, sales and a advanced ambit of aliment services. With about 42,900 advisers common Siemens Industry Automation accomplished in budgetary year 2008 absolute sales of EUR8.7 billion.

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