Introduction
While developing a new range of vehicles for off-road use, a leading producer of commercial vehicles in southern Germany required the assistance of external services to guarantee high data quality in design drawings and approval documents and to therefore safeguard the rapid "time to market" the company wanted to achieve.

The customer entrusted this work to an IndustrieHansa team which impressively displayed its expertise in this field during the decision-making stage.

Solution: IndustrieHansa experts were responsible for managing the interface between the technical departments involved, provided design services to accompany the entire virtual product development process and monitored the quality of the DMU/PDM.

Puncture points

• Design and approval of components for the vehicle
• Creation and supervision of packaging/DMU
• Documentation of milestones
• Coordination and supervision of series production with the Sales/Marketing, Workshop, Calculation, Testing and Homologation departments
• Assurance of data quality and exchange
• Production of parts lists and updating the PDM system
• Drawing approvals in the development process

Benefits
By consistently employing modern DMU methods and PDM systems it was possible to dramatically cut response times in the development process. This had a very positive impact on overall development time. Involving IndustrieHansa at an early stage of vehicle development resulted in consistently high data quality and version transparency. The producer will also be able to use the consistently optimized processes of data provision and approval to greatly speed up the development of future vehicles right up to the stage where they are ready for series production.

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