Daimler Truck Collaborates with Siemens to Build an Integrated Digital Engineering Platform

Category:
Acquisition or Partnership

Siemens Digital Industries Software and Daimler Truck AG announced a new collaboration to implement a state-of-the-art integrated digital engineering platform built using the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of software and services. The new platform will enable Daimler Truck to explore a future of commercial vehicle innovation and the efficient product development and lifecycle management of trucks and buses and will be rolled out globally across Daimler Trucks’ engineering hubs, brands, and business segments.

Daimler Truck’s decision to expand its relationship with Siemens is driven by the ambition to create a globally integrated IT and engineering environment for the company. This will help them to leverage the most advanced technologies to build the future of transportation. A unified IT landscape will bring the engineering activities at Daimler Truck a huge step forward. With a transparent and efficient end-to-end engineering process enabled by the new development platform, the company will become more agile and can improve its time to market.

The new digital platform will expand Daimler Truck’s adoption of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio through the implementation of Teamcenter software for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), extended with Bill of Materials (BOM) management as its future standard PLM solution. This environment brings together and integrates the Daimler Truck teams’ workflows, systems and their associated mechanical design, electrical design and simulation data. This expands upon Daimler Truck’s use of solutions from across the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, including NX software for product engineering.

Since its establishment as an independent entity, Daimler Truck has begun a digitalization initiative to migrate away from Daimler AG legacy systems with the strategic intent to lead sustainable transportation with intelligent IT innovations. To develop trucks and buses of the future, Daimler Truck is pursuing a clear technology strategy where, in a carbon-neutral future, vehicles will be powered by both electric battery and hydrogen-based drives.

Digital Engineering Platform

These vehicles are also likely to become more intelligent through increased digitalization enabling next-level service offerings, such as autonomous trucking. Trucks are the backbone of global supply chains, and Siemens will help Daimler Truck to chart the future of carbon-neutral transportation. Daimler Truck is taking a global platform approach, which means that the guiding principle of developing key components and vehicle platforms once and then scaling them globally across brands and markets is fundamental.

Engage with ARC Advisory Group

Representative End User Clients
Representative Automation Clients
Representative Software Clients