Automotive Exports September 2020

Emerging from
the crisis,
companies
should focus on
three key issues:
Work remotely,
work quickly
and work safely
Over 200 industry leaders from
transportation & mobility joined
us online for a live interactive
event – Driving Resilience in Automotive &
Transportation. Dassault Systèmes experts
and customers joined online, sharing
insights, tools and approaches to get back
on track in 2020 and continuing beyond in a
more resilient position. The transportation
and mobility industry transformed to the
new era of mobility-on-demand with new
solutions that are more environmentallyfriendly,
more citizen-friendly and more
affordable. However, the COVID-19 crisis
posed dramatic challenges in an instant
– global lock down, dramatic drop in car
sales, drop in production, all igniting a deep
change in people’s relationship with cars.
Car makers and suppliers demonstrated
their agility by adapting to new consumer
purchasing behaviors, scaling remote
working across all parts of the business and
investing in processes to ensure they have
the right data in real time to make the right
decisions. Companies also demonstrated
their responsibility – adapting production
quickly to produce masks, respirators,
medical equipment needed to overcome
shortages to combat the crisis.
Emerging from the crisis, companies
should focus on three key issues: WORK
REMOTELY, WORK QUICKLY and WORK
SAFELY.
WORK REMOTELY: Enable remote-office
collaborative engineering efficiently for
everyone
Lightyear is a new player in the OEM
landscape, designing next-generation clean
mobility for everyone, everywhere using
solar energy. Their mission: make a positive
impact and take responsibility for energy
transition. By 2035, they plan to deliver
Lightyear One, the world’s first long-range
solar car. Arjo Van Der Ham, Co-Founder
and Chief Technology Officer, described
how Lightyear teams easily transitioned
to working from home thanks to the
3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud.
During the lockdown, they actually
improved meeting efficiency, collaboration,
productivity, lead-time and agility, although
challenges remain for physical prototyping
and testing. Staying connected through
a virtual 3DEXPERIENCE twin, shared
intelligence with data from everywhere and
powerful project planning, work stayed on
track.
Lightyear is continuing remote working
and exploring new ways of attracting
talents and hiring people from all over
the world. Going forward, they see the
entire ecosystem of stakeholders, future
customers and suppliers could benefit this
new kind of relationship, powered by the
platform and cloud.
WORK QUICKLY: Accelerate simulation and
testing with no physical equipment
Frédéric Merceron, Solution Director for
the Transportation & Mobility industry
at Dassault Systèmes, looked at how
simulation helps promote and accelerate
agility. Making a difference in the market
today is about improving comfort and
well-being for drivers and passengers.
COVID-19 revealed just how important
that is. We can optimize comfort, health
and well-being inside vehicles in a number
of ways. For example, we can simulate
visibility, taking into account windshield
fogging and look at how to improve air
quality and overall airflow circulation.
Cabin comfort is important, and becoming
very complex. Cabin infotainment
systems and electronic controls are part
of the experience. With so many vehicle
domains and performance interconnected,
simulations are demanding. Cabin comfort
also demands energy, so it is important
to optimize best comfort with minimum
energy consumption.
Dassault Systèmes’ wants to make
simulation available for everyone with a
range of simulation. We want to create
an environment where engineers and
designers can interact for the best results,
as well as offer more access to high-end
applications and specialists when needed.
Finally, deployment needs transparency
and simplicity, with easy-to-implement
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