Daimler Truck unifies development platform to Siemens software
Daimler Truck plans to uniformly rely on Siemens software for technology development, design and lifecycle management of its trucks and buses. The software platform replaces a number of existing systems and will be rolled out globally at all development centers and across all Daimler Truck brands and divisions.
At Daimler Truck, the new digital platform extends the use of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio by implementing the Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management (PLM). This in turn is extended to include bill of materials (BOM) management as a future standard solution for the PLM system. This environment combines and integrates the processes, systems and related data from mechanical and electrical design, as well as the simulation data for the Daimler Truck team. In this way, Daimler Truck is using other solutions from Siemens’Xcelerator portfolio, including the NX software for product development.
By switching to Siemens software, the truck maker is pursuing its goal of creating a globally integrated IT and development environment. “A uniform IT landscape will take our development work a big step forward,” explains Andreas Gorbach, who is responsible for Truck Technology on the Daimler Truck Board of Management. He expects this to result in a transparent, efficient, and holistic development process and, ultimately, a more agile approach and shorter time-to-market.
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With its IPO at the end of 2021, Daimler Truck has launched a digitization initiative as an independent company. This is breaking away from the systems of the former Daimler AG, with the aim of using intelligent IT innovations to live up to its claim to leadership on the road to sustainable transport. In the development of future trucks and buses, Daimler Truck is pursuing a technology strategy: in a climate-neutral future, vehicles will be powered by both electricity and hydrogen. The vehicles are to become more intelligent through growing digitalization, thus enabling new service offerings, such as autonomous driving.
The vehicle manufacturer is taking a global platform approach to development, the guiding principle of which is to develop key components and vehicle platforms once and then scale them globally across brands and markets. This requires both cloud-based global collaboration and a common digital engineering system platform. That’s why Daimler Truck chose Siemens as the provider of the technology and its implementation to realize this new generation of a digital development environment.
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