Siemens Digital Industries Software is building a digital engineering platform for Daimler Truck using Siemens Xcelerator. The new platform will improve Daimler Truck’s product development and lifecycle management of trucks and buses. The new platform will replace a wide range of legacy systems as part of the company’s digitalisation programme.

The new platform will be rolled out across Daimler Trucks’ engineering hubs, brands and business segments worldwide.

Daimler Truck’s is adopting Siemens Teamcenter software for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), extended with Bill of Materials (BOM) management as its future standard PLM solution. This will integrate Daimler Truck workflows, systems and associated mechanical design, electrical design and simulation data. It expands upon Daimler Truck’s use of solutions from across the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, including NX software for product engineering.

Since its establishment as an independent entity, Daimler Truck has begun a digitalisation initiative to migrate away from Daimler AG legacy systems with the strategic intent to lead sustainable transportation with intelligent IT innovations. To develop trucks and buses of the future, Daimler Truck is pursuing a clear technology strategy where, in a carbon-neutral future, vehicles will be powered by both electric battery and hydrogen-based drives. These vehicles are also likely to become more intelligent through increased digitalisation enabling next-level service offerings, such as autonomous trucking.

“Our decision to expand our relationship with Siemens is driven by the ambition to create a globally integrated IT and engineering environment for Daimler Truck. This will help us to leverage the most advanced technologies to build the future of transportation and make the business of our customers more successful,” said Dr Andreas Gorbach, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck Holding AG, responsible for Truck Technology. “A unified IT landscape will bring our engineering activities at Daimler Truck a huge step forward. With a transparent and efficient end-to-end engineering process enabled by the new development platform, we are becoming more agile and can improve our time to market.”

“Trucks are the backbone of global supply chains and Siemens will help Daimler Truck to chart the future of carbon-neutral transportation,” said Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO Digital Industries. “Daimler Truck will build its carbon-neutral future using our leading technology platform, using our leading product engineering, lifecycle management and simulation tools.”