The Motorsport experts - Meeting the demand for speed and quality

“We couldn’t have got our first car to the grid without Desktop Engineering’s help" - Wayne Humphreys Super Aguri F1

The motorsport sector has probably the shortest time to market for any similarly complex product: 5 months for a new F1 car and then 2 weeks between races for new versions. Combining that with the fiercely competitive nature, where for every race there is on one winner, then these companies need suppliers who can deliver the best on time.

Desktop Engineering has been supplying PLM solution into this sector for over 20 years, and counts amongst its customer’s successful organisations such as Prodrive, and recently the newly formed Super Aguri F1 team.

Understanding the Technology

Total product modelling
Today’s integrated PLM solutions enable the whole engineering team to simultaneously create, analyse and optimise virtual models of a new car. Increasing the speed with which the highest quality design information can be created means it is possible to make huge savings throughout the engineering process.

Manufacturing
Computer Aided Manufacture software (CAM) carries the design information into the manufacturing process. As soon as the design data is available, it can be translated into tooling, production machinery and operation instructions, as well as allowing for immediate analysis and optimisation of the manufacturing process – further compressing the cycle and saving costs.

Product Data Management
Product Data Management (PDM) systems enable the enormous volume of data produced throughout the lifetime of car to be stored, retrieved, communicated and disseminated securely and efficiently. PDM systems have proved themselves as beneficial to aerospace companies as CAD, Analysis and Manufacturing Systems. The time engineers traditionally spend searching for correct information, which can be up to 40% of all available time, can be cut completely.

How Desktop Engineering helps you

As one of the largest UK VARs of engineering systems and software, Desktop Engineering has considerable experience in understanding the needs of the motorsport industry – both in terms of speed and quality of response.

Our highly experience professional engineering staff offer unparalleled expertise and assistance in ensuring the correct technology is properly applied. Our expertise has been gained through first hand engineering experience.

By becoming your ‘in house’ CAD/CAM expertise we guide you through the selection process, and then assist you in system implementation. As a result you gain the maximum benefit from your investment enabling you to compete more effectively.