Early Insights into Product Costs In the Automotive Industry Using Digital Twin Technology
Automotive manufacturers, OEMs, and suppliers have a huge opportunity to reduce costs across the product lifecycle by utilizing advancements in digital twin technology early during the vehicle design phase.
How Can Automakers Get Data-Driven Insights From Digital Twin Technology?
How can you leverage the digital twin to analyze parts for cost and manufacturability very early on upon vehicle design? Here’s how with aPriori’s aP Generate:
- Check your CAD into your PLM system
- Look at the parts and identify the issues on those parts (in real-time) from a design to cost and a design for manufacturability standpoint – so that you have insight into where you stand from a target cost and that those manufacturability issues that are driving costs are going to result in an engineering change order (ECO) can be identified early on
- Highlight those features in the cost drivers
- Provide in-depth guidance for how to fix them, so that the designer can go in, work on just the parts that need to be addressed, and make those changes in CAD and make the updates
- Get the right information to the right people in the product development process at the right time
Digital Twin Technology Provides Automation and Real-Time Data Workflows
Stakeholders in manufacturing, sourcing, cost engineering, and even the supply chain, have the right information to really help accelerate the manufacturing process, eliminate the bottlenecks related to communication, and provide the right information to make the right decisions to optimize the vehicle.
- aP Generate by aPriori enables quick and easy adoption across automotive manufacturer’s engineering teams. Our solution provides cost visibility to the vehicle designers in real-time:
- Check 3D CAD models into product lifecycle management tool (PLM)
- Cost and manufacturability analysis happens in the background
- Information is passed back to the main repository in PLM (cost information, manufacturing, manufacturer ability scores)
- Get that information to the design engineer so that they can go address the parts in question, work interactively with the CAD system, and focus on what’s important.
And with all of that said, with the challenges of electrification, lightweighting, the need to address the compressing schedule, it’s really all about embracing the digital thread and digital manufacturing to adapt to these changes.
The Benefits of Utilizing Automotive Digital Twin Technology
- Reduce decision making time and meet your aggressive schedules with a digitally transformed development process
- Achieve target costs
- Avoid manufacturability issues early
- Minimize the risks associated with unknowns
- Enable collaboration across the enterprise by leveraging the digital twin
Whether it’s electric vehicle development, new features to existing vehicles, or a redesign of an entire car, utilizing digital twin technology is the ultimate way to really change the way that vehicles are developed today. Take advantage of digitalization with aPriori to bring more insight early on in the process.
