Designing a Solar race car with software

Published on : 07 August 2021

Team Sonnenwagen Aachen utilises Siemens software portfolio solutions to design the Sonnenwagen 3 solar race car.

Plano, TX, August 2021 – Sonnenwagen is using Teamcenter, a tool within Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of integrated software and services, to speed up their design process and limit the additional need for planning and coordination.

Sonnenwagen is using Teamcenter, a tool within Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of integrated software and services, to speed up their design process and limit the additional need for planning and coordination.

Siemens Digital Industries Software is sponsoring Team Sonnenwagen Aachen – a German student initiative focused on developing new sustainable mobility concepts – in the design and development process of the Sonnenwagen 3 solar race car. Sonnenwagen leverages Siemens’ Teamcenter® software to address their challenge of coordinating and optimising the interdependent areas of aerodynamics, mechanical and electrical systems, and vehicle structure on a tight schedule. By streamlining the exchange between NX™ software and Simcenter™ software including Simcenter™ STAR-CCM+™ software and Simcenter™ Amesim™ software, Teamcenter allows Sonnenwagen to exchange design models across applications more easily and efficiently.

Sonnenwagen is using Teamcenter, a tool within Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of integrated software and services, to speed up their design process and limit the additional need for planning and coordination. Designing a solar car like the Sonnenwagen 3 requires a team to handle many different parts that need to be integrated into the main assembly. By using Teamcenter as a data management tool, Sonnenwagen has been able to accelerate iteration loops and design a better Sonnenwagen 3.

Source - Industrial Automation Magazine