Elysium adds CAD speed to ING Renault F1 Team

The design office, based in Viry-Châtillon, near Paris, has an enviable record. From 1992 to 1997 it captured six consecutive manufacturer’s titles as a supplier of racing engines to the Williams and Benetton Formula 1. In 2001, Renault acquired the Benetton chassis unit in Enstone, and combined both organisations into a single racing team. The integrated Renault F1 Team went on to win the Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship titles in 2005 and 2006. Elysium’s CAD data translation tools now enable designers to migrate from one CAD system to another, regardless of the OEM parts formats, with part files translated and delivered automatically to the desktops of its engineers. And the biggest economic benefit comes from the savings of two to three days per part that are normally required for the delivery of CDs and documents. ING Renault F1 Team’s says this may make the difference between solving a reliability problem in time for the next race, or not. Any delay can cost championship points that, come season’s end, may be worth millions of euros. And it adds that additional labour savings of 30 minutes per part plus messenger services can reduce the cost of delivering information by eur20 to eur25 per part or eur3,000 to eur3,750 per month. Beyond that, automating the CAD-model delivery process gives project managers and purchasing agents a record of when engineering data was transmitted and which versions were sent. Elysium’s 3D data translation also works with Autodesk, CoCreate, Dassault Systèmes, IBM, PTC, SolidWorks, and UGS.