Automotive Supplier

Engineering

With development cycles accelerating and mechatronic content increasing in complexity, automotive suppliers need effective tools for engineering complicated designs while collaborating closely with suppliers and automotive OEM customers.

The Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping provides the complete set of integrated design applications you need to optimize designs in cooperation with your partners and customers. It allows you to engineer automotive components and tooling equipment across multi-disciplinary teams, using a single digital model. You can visualize, simulate, analyze, and validate complex designs and share them with customers early in the design process. This provides for proper fit and function of complex mechatronic components. As a result, you reduce the need for costly and time-consuming prototype iterations.

Autodesk software helps you

  • Evaluate designs for complex electromechanical assemblies, using stress analysis and dynamic simulation to reveal functional problems before you build a physical prototype.
  • Support integrated 2D mechanical and 3D modeling and electrical design processes with a workflow that allows associative sharing of data among Autodesk® Inventor™, AutoCAD® Mechanical, and AutoCAD® Electrical software.
  • Reuse modular design elements and manage design changes and engineering workflow with Autodesk® Productstream® software and other Autodesk data management solutions.
  • Collaborate closely with global customers by securely sharing valuable design data, using Autodesk Streamline® and Autodesk® Design Review software.
  • Evaluate the impact of material choices and design configuration before developing a physical prototype using Autodesk Inventor.

With products in the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, you can support all key processes of the engineering phase, including assembly design, simulation and analysis, supply chain collaboration, electrical integration, and data management.

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