TRANSPORTATION & MOBILITYTRUCK & BUS TAILORS

Modular by design, connected on the road

HOW CAN YOU STREAMLINE

DEVELOPMENT, WHILE REDUCING

TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP?

Commercial vehicle manufacturers face many challenges: they imagine innovative concepts for transporting goods and people, provide fleet owners with more choice with rapidly configurable vehicles, maintain development costs at a minimum, and streamline assembly and manufacturing efficiency, while improving vehicle performance and reliability.Truck & Bus Tailors industry solution experience, based on the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, delivers end-to-end digital continuity from initial customer requirements to vehicle delivery. Trucks and bus manufacturers have social media and business tools to monitor market trends and expectations, a common environment to boost multi-disciplinary design and manufacturing collaboration, and digital marketing, and configuration applications that enhance the customer buying experience at the point of sale.

Fast and Easy CustomizationFleet owners have different requirements: they do not all trans-port the same goods, and operate in different countries with varying road and climate conditions. For buses, cities have diverse public transport needs, resulting in different-sized buses, seating arrangements, and engine requirements. This creates a lot of complexity for OEMs. Manufacturers must be able to tailor vehicles to their customers’ specific needs with-out engaging in the costly and time-consuming process of re-engineering every mechanical or structural element each time. In the production stage, OEMs need to rapidly deliver assembly instructions to the shop floor to produce a tailored vehicle that responds to a customer’s specifications and without assembly errors.

Truck & Bus Tailors delivers a modular approach to product development that enables manufacturers to use predefined components to rapidly tailor vehicles to customer preferences and local requirements. This configured-to-order approach allows them to deliver a highly diverse line of trucks or buses without consuming their margins. They can propose different vehicle variants during the specification stage, helping custom-ers make the right choices early. With its digital configuration capabilities, customers can easily tailor vehicles at the point of sale. Before manufacture, companies can use virtual simulation to help validate a vehicle’s performance and reduce the need for physical prototypes, which are costly and time-consuming to produce. With Truck & Bus Tailors, OEMs can rapidly create clear assembly instructions based on the 3D digital mock-up, which accelerates vehicle build and delivery.

Ensure Reliability and Reduce Cost of Ownership Trucks and buses are expensive assets and fleet owners demand reliability and the ability to anticipate maintenance to keep their vehicles out of the garage and on the road. Through better transparency into their operations and the abil-ity to monitor vehicle performance, they can reduce their total cost of ownership through continued and quality service from their vendors.

Truck & Bus Tailors is based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which delivers a multi-disciplinary approach to vehicle develop-ment. Designers and engineers can collaborate on a virtual 3D referential, contributing their expertise in embedded software, electronics, and other mechatronic devices that improve vehicle dependability and performance. Through real-time monitoring, service centers can detect potential maintenance issues or fail-ures and accelerate repairs. OEMs can implement predictive maintenance plans to increase a vehicle’s time on the road, resulting in more business and revenue for the fleet owner.

Improve Global & Local ComplianceIncreased safety and environmental regulations, which differ from one country to the next, affect fleet owners who must ensure their fleets are compliant or else face penalties, or worse, equipment failure and accidents. They also require energy effi-ciency to reduce operating costs. Manufacturers must increase engine efficiencies to lower fuel consumption while improving structural strength for more safety.

With Truck & Bus Tailors, manufacturers have tools to track and monitor safety and environmental norms throughout development, helping to ensure vehicles are compliant when delivered. They have traceability of a vehicle’s configuration to facilitate future maintenance and repairs. Through traceability, they can also help find spare parts to extend vehicle life and usage.

For more information, please visit: www.3ds.com/industries/transportation-mobility

Our 3DEXPERIENCE® platform powers our brand applications, serving 12 industries, and provides a rich portfolio of industry solution experiences. Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE® Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported. Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world. The group brings value to over 190,000 customers of all sizes in all industries in more than 140 countries. For more information, visit www.3ds.com.

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KEY CAPABILITIES & BENEFITS• Leverage full digital continuity from specification to vehicle

maintenance

• Modular approach to vehicle configuration speeds delivery to market and lowers maintenance costs

• Reduce fleet owners’ total cost of ownership

• Improve compliance with safety and environmental regulations