Seat Sport and PTC expand racing partnership
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Seat Sport, the motor sport division of the Spanish car manufacturer, has renewed its partnership with product development software developer PTC for the next three years.
The company says it has also expanded its use of PTC’s Product Development System (PDS) suite, which manages development, simulation and optimisation of its Leon-based touring cars, and the growing volume of design and lifecycle related data.
The company’s R&D site near Barcelona now has Pro/Engineeer, with Advanced Structural and Thermal Simulation, Fatigue Advisor and the Expert Framework Extension. With the new contract, Seat expands that to inclue Windchill ProjectLink and Windchill PDMLink for content and process management.
“Our prime challenge is the optimisation of our cars between one race and another,” says Jaime Puig, general director of Seat Sport. “The PTC system helps us to reduce our change cycles dramatically. The implementation of Windchill enabled us to easily access and share all the information collected over the course of the entire development process – in design, production, testing and even during the race, to make the necessary changes faster and more consistently.”
“The deployment of PTC solutions has contributed to our success story,” says race engineer chief Xavi Serra. “Since August 2005 we have been competing with the new Leon WTCC. Thanks to PTC’s system we were able to take this car to the circuit a lot faster than we had planned for. It took us only five months to adapt the commercial car to the WTCC requirements.”
Seat Sport and PTC have partnered since 2000 and strengthened their relationship in 2003, when Seat Sport first entered the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC).
