Industry 
PLM has been helping to transform the automotive sector for the past 20 years. It has made it possible to reduce drastically the time required to launch new vehicles on the market, optimise their costs and improve their quality. It is currently facing new challenges: safety and environmental standards, integration of on-board electronics, changes in practices and user expectations, etc.
In addition, almost 70% of the cost of "automotive" products are currently created by manufacturers' subcontractors: engineering design consultancies, systems suppliers, tool manufacturers and module, component or critical part subcontractors. From now on, all collaborators and subcontractors will have to deal with these required changes.
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Major changes are required to transform business processes in the automotive industry:
- Focusing on product innovation and constantly and quickly putting new products on the market whilst maintaining an optimum level of quality
- Simulating the performance of products to be produced as required by the specifications
- Managing a single engineering document repository to make it possible to achieve new levels of standardisation, reuse digital data and control the dissemination of know-how and intellectual property
- Controlling the complexity of products and systems by integrating mechatronics and on-board software into the engineering document repository
- Ensuring global collaboration on all the sites and with the extended company to ensure the portability of engineering development work and production
- Improving project management through better contract monitoring by controlling key milestones, deliverables and indicators and using the digital mock-up as a project management tool
- Setting up integrated Design-to-Manufacturing business systems across all the technological systems at the very heart of the products designed by each of the partners.
Since its creation and also during its time within Dassault Systèmes, Keonys has developed a special relationship with many customers in the automotive sector.
A large majority of our ninety technical consultants have now participated in many projects involving the implementation of PLM tools to support various automotive business processes. KEONYS consultants are experts in various business practices and can help you via various types of consultancy or operational activities to:
- Define a PLM roadmap and an implementation strategy
- Implement or adapt your PLM information system and measure its impact on your working methods by maintaining an overall view and consistency to ensure the scalability and sustainability of the changes introduced
- Specify innovative business solutions by taking account of the most successful CAD practices such as "generative" part design methodologies (based on parametric 3D, the knowledge and incorporation of professional rules into your designs) and then implementing them on actual cases with your product development teams
- Develop special tools that allow you to automate certain design-to-manufacturing systems associated with composite systems, sheet metal, tubing, electrical wiring or assembly, for example.
Our teams also have the required experience to help you with your post-deployment support or change-management activities via pilot studies / demonstrations or training programmes appropriate to your PLM context.
Keonys is backed up by business partners to whom we can introduce you and who will greatly assist you with some of your projects.
(see our software and service partner section).
