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 CATIA PLM solutions into this sector for over 20 years, and counts amongst its customer’s successful organisations such as Prodrive, McLaren and Renault F1.

Understanding the Technology

Total product modelling
Dassault's CATIA base 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.

Digital Manufacturing
CATIA and DELMIA digital manufacturing software 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
Dassault's ENOVIA SmarTeam Product Data Management (PDM) system enables the enormous volume of data produced throughout the lifetime of car to be stored, retrieved, communicated and disseminated securely and efficiently. 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 an accredited partner with Dassault Systemes and IBM, Desktop Engineering has considerable experience in understanding the needs of the motorsport industry - both in terms of speed and quality of response - and has implemented CATIA PLM solutions within this sector.

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.

Desktop Engineering’s unrivalled breadth of products, applications and services means we can put together solutions that truly meet your unique needs.