Fiat grants Siemens PLM Supplier Award honour

Siemens PLM Software has been working with Fiat for more than seven years in its previous incarnation as UGS – specifically with Fiat using Teamcenter, NX and Tecnomatix to expand its efforts in virtual product development and digital validation. “PLM is a key factor to our product and process development across Fiat Group Automobiles and other group companies, and allows us to simultaneously work on shared vehicle programmes between the different worldwide engineering sites,” explains Gilberto Ceresa, ICT vice president at Fiat Group. “Through Siemens PLM software we have implemented an integrated product and process environment, enabling virtual validation with dramatic prototype reductions and an increase in the quality of our product. Today the development of new vehicles has to be undertaken almost entirely through virtual product development and analysis.”