CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
11 April 2012
Events News
Graz Symposium Virtual Vehicle 2012: Joint presentation by CONTACT and Hyundai
CONTACT Software and the Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center will jointly present at the Graz Symposium Virtual Vehicle from 17-18 April, 2012. The presentation will focus on the path from close-to-reality styling to an all-out vehicle concept with support of product lifecycle management (PLM). The symposium also focuses on a holistic system view rather than the individual perspectives of the different disciplines. Top subjects of the event are virtual interdisciplinary functional verification and validation and information management in vehicle development.
Close-to-reality styling concepts usually do not consider the feasibility of implementing the design in later stages. In the development process to series production this leads inevitably to changes, since aspects of function, production and especially cost now have to be taken into account. At a smaller level, this is also true for show cars. Here the Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center chose an innovative approach with the 4.4 m long i-oniq, an electric sports hatchback with a range-extending petrol engine. The concept study, which was recently presented at the Geneva Motor Show and which will be on display as a 1:4 design model in Graz, is the focus of the the joint presentation by CONTACT and Hyundai.
Hyundai's European design centre in Rüsselsheim/Germany, is well-known for its concept cars and plays a pioneering role within the automotive company testing new methods and tools. With i-oniq the Rüsselsheim team has deployed CONTACT’s Fast Concept Modeller (FCM). It enables fast generation of native CATIA 3D geometric models during concept design and direct hand over to CAE tools. All in all it helps to speed up verification of stylings and to validate alternatives. The presentation by CONTACT and Hyundai will also highlight the potentials of a PLM-based interdisciplinary collaboration between the styling, design, simulation and manufacturing processes.
As in the previous years the automotive conference will be organised by the Virtual Vehicle Competence Center (ViF), an international research association in the area of application-oriented vehicle development, and the Graz University of Technology.
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