Siemens – FIA selects Siemens as official digital twin sponsor
- FIA expands adoption of Siemens Xcelerator to design and refine next generation race car concepts
- Aerodynamics of cars can be assessed digitally, using the digital twin, reducing the environmental impact of manufacturing prototypes and physical wind tunnel testing
- Siemens joins newly established FIA Global Partnership Programme
The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has selected Siemens as “Official Digital Twin Sponsor”, as the global governing body for motor sport and federation for mobility organizations worldwide expands its use of Siemens software. The FIA, which has welcomed Siemens into its new Global Partnership Programme, will extend its use of software from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to create and refine the aerodynamic concepts that shape the regulations for single-seater race cars, from Formula 1 through to Formula 4.
The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) welcomes Siemens into its new Global Partnership Programme and extends use the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to create and refine regulatory aerodynamic concepts – Image credit: Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA)
Using Siemens’ Designcenter NX software, the FIA can design complex vehicle models, visualise them in lifelike detail, and iterate digitally before running computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations on the model. This process enables the FIA to test and optimize car designs for performance and safety in a virtual environment, significantly reducing the environmental impact of manufacturing and physical wind tunnel testing. Since 2022, the FIA aerodynamics team has used Siemens’ Designcenter NX software to generate over 14,000 individual Computer Aided Design (CAD) parts, for testing in over 10,000 CFD runs. Assessing the aerodynamics of the cars digitally has reduced the environmental impact of manufacturing prototypes and physical wind tunnel testing.
“Motorsport is as a living lab for innovation, incubating technological advancements that often transform series production later”, said Cedrik Neike, CEO of Digital Industries and Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG. “But the race starts before the rubber meets the road. It begins in the factories, with advanced software and the minds of brilliant engineers. Through our immersive digital twin technology, we’re enabling FIA to further push the boundaries of performance, safety, and sustainability for mobility.”
“We’re proud to partner with global technology leaders like Siemens to shape the future of motor sport. This collaboration shows the strength of our wider partner network, where world-class brands are helping us deliver progress across performance, safety and sustainability,” said Craig Edmondson, chief commercial officer, FIA.
The FIA Global Partnership Programme aims to foster collaboration with leading organizations across the world who share the FIA’s vision for driving innovation, sustainability and safety across both motor sport and mobility. Through this collaboration, Siemens will become part of this community and support the shared ambition to pioneer technological advances across motorsport and the wider automotive sector.
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More information on Siemens Digital Industries (DI) by Siemens AG: See full profile on EMR Executive Services + https://new.siemens.com/global/en/company/about/businesses/digital-industries.html + Siemens Digital Industries (DI) empowers companies of all sizes within the process and discrete manufacturing industries to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformation across the entire value chain. Siemens’ cutting-edge automation and software portfolio revolutionizes the design, realization and optimization of products and production. And with Siemens Xcelerator – the open digital business platform – this process is made even easier, faster, and scalable. Together with our partners and ecosystem, Siemens Digital Industries enables customers to become a sustainable Digital Enterprise. Siemens Digital Industries has a workforce of around 68,000 people worldwide.
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More information on Xcelerator by Siemens: https://www.sw.siemens.com/en-US/digital-transformation/ + Xcelerator provides the engineering and manufacturing software, services and application development platform to blur the boundaries between industry domains. Companies can use this technology today to build the products of tomorrow. Turn complexity into your competitive advantage with Xcelerator.
Siemens Xcelerator consists of three pillars:
- Portfolio: A curated, modular portfolio of IOT-enabled hardware and software based on standard application programming interfaces, facilitating the integration of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT).
- Ecosystem: A growing ecosystem of partners.
- Marketplace: Interactions and transactions among customers, partners and developers.
More information on Designcenter NX software by Siemens: https://plm.sw.siemens.com/en-US/nx/cad-online/ + Remove barriers to innovation, boost product design efficiency and quality, and reduce development costs with a powerful, integrated suite of computer-aided design (CAD) solutions.
More information on Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA): https://www.fia.com/fia + The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) is the governing body for world motor sport and the federation for mobility organisations globally. It is a non-profit organisation committed to driving innovation and championing safety, sustainability and equality across motor sport and mobility.
Founded in 1904, with offices in Paris, London and Geneva, the FIA brings together 245 Member Organisations across five continents, representing millions of road users, motor sport professionals and volunteers. It develops and enforces regulations for motor sport, including seven FIA World Championships, to ensure worldwide competitions are safe and fair for all.
More information on Mohammed Ben Sulayem (President, FIA): https://www.fia.com/profile/mohammed-ben-sulayem
More information on Craig Edmondson (Chief Commercial Officer, FIA): https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-edmondson-3625865/
EMR Additional Notes:
- Digital Twin:
- Digital Twin is most commonly defined as a software representation of a physical asset, system or process designed to detect, prevent, predict, and optimize through real time analytics to deliver business value.
- A digital twin is a virtual representation of an object or system that spans its lifecycle, is updated from real-time data, and uses simulation, machine learning and reasoning to help decision-making.
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD):
- Science of using computers to predict liquid and gas flows based on the governing equations of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy.
- AutoCAD:
- Commercial computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application developed and marketed by Autodesk.
- Advanced, technically accurate software application that aids designers and engineers to represent or conceptualize their creations, designs, and product drawings.
- It can be used to create precise 2D and 3D drawings and models, as well as electrical diagrams, construction drawings, and more.
- 2 & 3D CAD:
- 2D CAD is a method of computer-aided design (CAD) that consists of drawing the projected views of a 3D object without requiring a 3D model of it. This is different from 3D CAD, where you create a 3D model of an object, then use that to generate the projected views.
- 3D CAD, or three-dimensional computer-aided design, is technology for design and technical documentation, which replaces manual drafting with an automated process.
- eCAD (electronic Computer-Aided Design):
- Software systems are used to design and develop electronic systems such as printed circuit boards (PCBs) and integrated circuits (ICs). ECAD software enables electrical engineers to create and modify diagrams and layouts including 2D and 3D models.
- While CAD is usually used for designing a specific part or an assembly, ECAD is used to design an entire system of many components connected to each other, usually by electric circuits — like the circuit board in your computer.