Ashok Leyland presses modular design accelerator

MUMBAI, INDIA: India’s second largest manufacturer of trucks and buses Ashok Leyland is upgrading modular design, validation, production and configuration management for its fleet of trucks and buses.

As part of its customer-centric activities, Ashok Leyland looked to enhance quality control and accelerate the delivery of its trucks and buses. In addition, the company wanted an efficient cost management solution that would address the complexity of its product portfolio as it tailors a diverse range of products to meet shifting market requirements.

This time however, the company decided to leverage on 3D technology to address its business challenges.

Ashok Leyland was already using Dassault Système 3DEXPERIENCE platform for data management and turned to its Modular, Glocal and Secure and Target Zero Defect industry solutions for collaborative capabilities, virtual analysis and simulation applications that facilitate innovative vehicle development.

“The solutions enable us to focus on improving vehicle performance and reducing weight, fuel consumption and emissions as well as prioritizing digital sculpting and surface optimization,” said Dr N Saravanan, Senior Vice President and Head, R&D, Ashok Leyland.

“The 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s configured-to-order approach, configuration management features and unique BOM include all variant characteristics and functional requirements. Our designers can make changes and rapidly build new variants,” he said.

With the solutions, Ashok Leyland can define and develop vehicle programs with IP protection, starting from a high-level architecture definition and supporting modularity concepts and configuration, to minimize cost, maximize re-use, and simplify complexity across programs, teams and locations.