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Land Rover

Land Rover is using grid to speed the development of its award-winning sport utility vehicles.

The SUV pioneer needed assistance in shortening its design analysis process, also known as clash analysis, and as a result, the company is now utilizing IBM grid-enabled technologies to generate timely and accurate information on its designs during pre-production.

To land the business, IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS) helped Land Rover reengineer its process, bringing a significant improvement in the time taken for analyses and resolution and delivering a rapid increase in time-to-market for new vehicles.

Taking time, cost complexity out

“IBM helped us take time, cost and complexity out of our product development process,” said Dave Walker, manager, vehicle packaging, Land Rover.

Now grid workstations, with CATIA V5 computer aided design software, improve the process by generating timely and accurate results, which are monitored and managed using tools developed on IBM WebSphere Application Server.

IBM's grid project at Land Rover is built on a core component of the IBM Automotive Engineering Innovation Framework (AEIF), an initiative targeted at the automotive market to streamline engineering development processes.

The initiative provides a simplified way to integrate advanced technologies (e.g., grid), middleware and relevant applications to optimize complex analysis and design environments.

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