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News Release from: Siemens PLM Software | Subject: NX and Teamcenter
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Team on 04 March 2005
BAR Honda aims for F1 success
UGS has been working with the BAR Honda Formula One team, to speed the design and development cycle of its latest car, the BAR Honda 007, for the new Formula One season.
UGS has been working with the BAR Honda Formula One team, to speed the design and development cycle of its latest car, the BAR Honda 007, for the new Formula One season BAR Honda used UGS NX digital product development solution and Teamcenter product knowledge management and collaboration solution throughout the development process for the car, from creating initial design concepts, through testing and manufacturing to live track-to-factory web collaboration
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Using NX software, BAR Honda's design teams were able to create a complete 3D model of the car, including more than 3500 in-house designed parts.
The software was heavily used in simulation and performance testing of individual parts and assemblies, including wind-tunnel simulations and animation sequences to ensure that various moving parts did not interfere with each other.
At the manufacturing stage, the NX digital models were used to drive computer controlled machine tools at BAR Honda's Team Operations Centre in Brackley.
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NX data were also exported to external suppliers for manufacturing specific parts.
Throughout the design and development process, Teamcenter enabled ongoing collaboration between teams of designers and engineers from BAR and Honda - which designs the engine - both in the UK and Japan.
Teamcenter's visualisation technology enabled all parties to view the latest up-to-date 3D designs of the car and its parts in standard JT format and share feedback as they where modified and refined.
At race and test events, UGS PLM solutions enable the race engineers to view an expanded 3D representation of the car and discuss up-to-the-minute refinements to suit specific conditions or race tracks.
"Each year we are in a race against time to design and develop the car for the next Formula One season", said Matt Harris, Technical Computing Manager at BAR Honda.
"The technical challenges in order to build a faster, better performing, safer car that keeps in line with any changes to the F1 authorities stringent regulations are immense".
"NX and Teamcenter together give us the design power, accuracy and collaboration ability, as well as huge savings in time in order to meet these challenges".
"I am delighted with the new BAR Honda 007", said Geoffrey Willis, BAR Honda Technical Director.
"It is a logical next step for the team, being both a refinement of last year's car concept as well as having a number of significant new developments".
"The underlying objective was to produce a car that can deliver BAR Honda its first race win".
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