The automotive sector has been dramatically impacted by the tough economic conditions. In addition, manufacturers and their suppliers in the sector are dealing with overcapacity, competition, cost pressures, and short development cycles. To reflect these market and industry challenges, business strategy and underlying product design strategies of automotive companies are undergoing rapid changes.

Companies are seeking new ways to streamline their design and production processes and get more out of their current engineering resources. Efforts in this direction include design automation, adoption of best practices and improving the productivity of the limited resources available. In this scenario, making the correct fundamental design decisions in the early stages of the short design cycle is critical.

The dezineforce solution helps to effectively address the challenges faced by automotive companies by offering efficient design processes, encapsulating best practices through workflows and improved productivity through design search and optimisation capability.

Typical automotive applications to benefit from dezineforce include aerodynamic improvements in vehicle exteriors, noise vibration measurement and reduction,  impact and crash analysis, weight reduction and engine-tuning and managing airflow within vehicle interiors such as demisting, air-conditioning and heat dispersion.