Transportation & Mobility

Explore how collaborative 3D virtual environment is transforming traditional and electric vehicle development cycles from ideation to in-service support

The Transportation and Mobility sector is known as a competitive market with cost pressures, excessive production capacity and short development cycles. Global automotive manufacturers are putting forth a considerable effort to control production costs, manage their supply chain, meet production deadlines, and develop efficient aftermarket strategies – all while trying to take advantage of the promises of digital transformation. These companies are seeking solutions to automate their design processes, capture best practices and make more productive use of limited engineering resources.

VIAS3D has simulation and software solutions to help you navigate the biggest challenges in this industry including:

Electric, Connected & Autonomous Vehicles: creating next-generation vehicles necessitates creative design, shared intelligence, systems engineering, and multi-domain collaboration.
New Customer Experience: Dream, explore, validate then seamlessly produce bold new mobility options for demanding global consumers.
Quality, Regulations, Cost: Accelerate profitable new opportunities, while ensuring quality, fulfilling global/local requirements, and minimizing expenses.
Mass Production to Mass Customization: Improve visibility, efficiency, and control manufacturing production and operations, within and across global/local plants.

VIAS3D provides integrated, innovative, and cost-effective engineering and software solutions to perform realistic simulations that address a multitude of automotive engineering challenges. Our team can perform simulations to study linear, nonlinear and transient dynamics load cases using the same analysis toolset for Transportation and Mobility applications.

Solutions and Applications

VIAS3D can offer a robust, integrated analysis toolset to ensure success in this industry including:

Brake Systems
Crashworthiness
Electronics
Elective Vehicles
Chassis
Batteries
Ground Vehicles
Interiors
Mechanisms
Powertrain
Tires

Transportation & Mobility Services Clients

FEA

Strength & durability analysis: Powertrain, chassis, transmission system, interiors, electric vehicle
Crash Analysis: Frontal crash, rear crash, roof crash, side crash, seat belt anchorage, FMVSS & ECR regulation
Noise & Vibration: Natural frequency, steady state dynamics, random response, Ride and comfort, acoustics
Automotive Components: Tire, brake, axel, suspension, steering, bumper, seat, differential, bushing, engine, piston, connecting rod, crank shaft
Battery: Crush, penetration, short circuit, thermal management, life

CFD

Powertrain Lubrication Performance: Gearbox lubrications, Engine Piston cooling, Electric drive cooling
Vehicle Wading & Hydroplaning: Vehicle wading in pool of water, Tire hydroplaning in both deformed and undeformed state of tire
Fuel System Engineering: Fuel tank sloshing, tank refueling
External Aerodynamics: Overtaking, Drive in Crosswind flows
Painting/E-Coating: Painting of BIW (Body-In-White), Drying of Paints
Water Management: Rain simulations in Climate wind tunnels, Windshield wiper analysis, Dirt management, Cowl Ingestion, Flooding
Underhood Thermal Management: Engine room, coolant flow, Radiator fan
Vehicle Heat Protection: Cabin-comfort, fire-wall protection
Exhaust System: After treatment analysis, Acoustic analysis of Mufflers, Porous media flows

EMAG

Communication Performance: Entertainment/communication systems, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, wireless charging, tire pressure monitoring…. Antenna, antenna-array, RF-desense
ADAS / AV Sensors Performance: Phased array antennas, installed performance, sensors, real world effects investigation (dirt, rain, snow), sensors position optimization
Electric Drive Design: Battery simulation, electric motor, power electronics (inverter), wireless charging
SI and PI Performance: Connectors, eye diagram, crosstalk, PDN noise and efficiency optimization, current flow at high frequencies
Wire Harness Design: Electromagnetic emissions, shielding, interference and crosstalk effects, ESD, integration of power supply lines and sensitive data lines
EMC / EMI Analysis: Compliance and safety requirements, EM interference immunity, SAR, interference mitigation, shielding/enclosure design

Transportation & Mobility Services Clients

Blogs

Read Our Recent Transportation Blog Articles

12 Feb

Vehicle Aerodynamics with CFD

Vehicle aerodynamics design is a critical task when it comes to the fuel efficiency of the car. Especially in whe...

24 Apr

Dynamics and Damping a VIAS3D Exploration

What is Damping? Damping is naturally present in mechanical systems the same way gravity is. It serves as a stabilizing force that ...

19 Mar

Transforming Brake systems Development with Simulation

Brake system engineering is very crucial as it ensures the overall safety of the vehicles. Brakes must perform ef...

Shawn Freeman

Sr. Technical Director, NAM, VIAS3D

Mr. Shawn Freeman has 30+ years of experience, starting his career as a Vehicle Safety and CAE engineer consulting for General Motors, Chrysler, Mercedes, Toyota, and as an employee of Ford Motor Company. Shawn then transitioned to CAE software development, holding management positions at Altair Engineering, MSC Software, and Dassault Systemes. In addition to vehicle safety, he has extensive experience in Simulation Data & Process Management, Engineering Services, Process Automation, and Custom Software Development. He is a Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society member and recently completed a 4-year term on the External Advisory Board for Ohio State University’s SimCenter. Shawn completed his M.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1996 and is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional.

Gretchen

Sr. Operations Director, NAM

Gretchen brings over thirty years of experience in sales, channel management, marketing, and HR to VIAS3D. For the last sixteen years Gretchen has been working in the Dassault ecosystem both in the partner channel and as an employee of Dassault. Gretchen has developed and managed direct and indirect sales channels, helped build a small start-up software company into an international player in quality inspection reporting, opened new markets and established sales in new product lines, and developed marketing and sales strategies that have consistently surpassed revenue targets. She has a lifetime focus on persuading, educating, and developing new relationships through her marketing, human resources, sales, and training background. Gretchen holds various training and coaching certifications and has received multiple sales and achievement awards. She also holds a BA degree from JFK University. Gretchen believes that creating efficient processes, providing teams with the right information and support, and developing strong connections and communication with people is the best way to support repeatable, sustainable growth and profitability.

Mark

VP, VIAS3D Academia, NAM

Mark brings to VIAS3D an impressive background in the engineering simulation domain where he has worked with customers across all industries and market segments. Most recently at Dassault Systèmes, Mark successfully built multiple SIMULIA high-achieving sales teams including indirect partner sales (CPE), High-Tech, Life Sciences, CPG, and Energy & Materials. Leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE for Education, the most advanced cloud solution for product and learning innovation, VIAS3D Academia aims to empower students to become the leading innovators of tomorrow using the latest simulation technologies. Mark is a champion of scientific computing and simulation.

Miguel

VP, Sales & Operations, Mexico CPE

Miguel Villalpando was a Sales Director who helped Dassault Systèmes built the business transformation channel, managing the relationships with key international customers in Mexico. Before starting with Dassault Systèmes, Miguel spent seven years with Siemens PLM on different roles, and previously 2 years with FEMSA. Miguel is a mechanical engineer, with a master degree on IT administration, graduated from the ITESM. Miguel enjoys practicing football, and spent quality time with his family.

Bhavesh

MD, India

Bhavesh comes with close to 20 years of experience in the simulation domain and has worked with customers across industries and segments. Previously at Dassault Systèmes, Bhavesh led a passionate team of experts to grow the SIMULIA Brand in India, especially focusing on the industry adoption of multidisciplinary Multiphysics solutions from SIMULIA. While at Dassault Systèmes, Bhavesh has managed several key responsibilities, from interacting with key customers across Asia on enterprise simulation solutions to working with strategic customers in India for the adoption of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Segah

Global Director, Finance & Accounting

Segah studied Economics in Bilkent University. She started her auditing career in PwC and after 4 years experience in PwC, she moved to EY where she worked during 8 years, lastly as a Senior Audit Manager. She has extensive experience in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP). She has Audited Certificate in Capital Markets in Turkey and CPA.

She served clients that are registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in accomplishment of SOX 404 requirements. She has been involved in the projects of financial restructuring of the large groups. She acted as accredited trainer on IFRS and USGAAP, arranged various trainings externally and internally.

Arindam

CTO, Engineering Services

Arindam Chakraborty, Ph.D., PE (CA, TX) has more than 18 years of combined academic and industry consulting experience in the domain of simulation and engineering analysis. He has degrees in Civil (Bachelors), Aerospace (MTech.) and Mechanical (PhD) with focus on computational solid and structural mechanics, non-linear FEA, fatigue and fracture, reliability and optimization, and composite structures. His industry experience spans Oil & Gas, Nuclear, Process & Petrochemical, Consumer Packaged Goods, Life Science, Hi-Tech. and Industrial Equipment. He has been involved with consulting project management and leadership, business development, development of new technology and future growth strategy with a strong focus on public safety regulations (BSEE, NRC, FDA) and Digital Transformation. He has experience in automating complex engineering problems using codes in FORTRAN/C/C#/VBA/Java/Python/FOX Toolkit, including Abaqus automation scripts. Dr. Chakraborty has more than twenty-five conference and journal publications and many invited talks and panel discussions. He is also actively involved with many code (ASME, API) and international conferences committees. He is also a Dassault Systèmes Certified Training Instructor and taught University courses as invited lecturer.

Chris

Vice President Sales USA and Canada, VIAS3D

Chris has over 27 years of Dassault Systemes channel experience. He began his career as an applications engineer then transitioned to sales and sales leadership roles. Over the last 20 years, he led the sales efforts for the largest and most successful Dassault Systemes channel partners in North America and brings his “Customer for Life” philosophy to VIAS3D.

He earned a BBA from Temple University’s Fox School of Business and has relevant coursework in mechanical engineering and computer science.

Beyond engineering and design, Chris’s sales leadership experience includes 3D printing and driving CAM software. He joined VIAS3D in January of 2023.

Vikram

Sr. Director, Scientific Simulations, NAM

Vikram Dhruva, MS, MBA is a Managing Member and Director of Scientific Simulation Sales at VIAS3D. Vikram Dhruva is a Structural Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in Applied Mechanics, Design, non-linear FEA (Implicit & Explicit), Fatigue, Durability, Reliability, and Fluid Structural Interaction simulations in Automotive, Aerospace, Industrial Equipment, Life Science, High-Tech, and Energy industry. Vikram Dhruva has worked on more than 250+ advanced engineering analysis projects and helped many companies across all industries to set up a design and simulation group. He also helped many companies to customize the simulation tools for the designer and analysis as a vertical solution using Python.

Prior joining to VIAS3D, Vikram Dhruva worked with Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA Corp for over 20 years and managed North American and Latin American simulation sales business initiatives in supporting customers from multi-geo multi-industries and developing the sales channel partner. He has recruited more than 50 partners in the Americas and enabled them to sell the simulation and to provide local support. He has also taught many advanced simulation classes and part of the advanced class development team within Dassault Systèmes during his initial time at SIMULIA.

Burak

Executive Chairman

Burak Ozturk is a mechanical engineer with over 15+ years of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry. He has a strong theoretical background in thermal-fluid sciences, structural design, and analysis, mechanical components and design, and FEA. He founded VIAS3D in September of 2015 to place the company at the cutting edge of the industry technology and innovation through identifying directions, collaboration and facilitating, and managing internal/external R&D projects. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Houston, and lectures on a Course in ‘Pipeline Design’ in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He also teaches in the College of Technology, where he is a member of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB). He holds some 25 conference and journal publications and is an expert in his field.

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Leverage the strengths of existing CAD tools such as SOLIDWORKS, CATIA V5, NX. Leverage the strengths of existing Simulation tools such as Abaqus/CAE, CST Studio Suite.

Gain access to the world-class and most-trusted SIMULIA Abaqus and CST Studio Suite, CATIA and CATIA Magic, ENOVIA PLM and DELMIA to stay one step ahead in the industry.

Sumanth

Global CEO

Sumanth has 25 years of Industry experience most of which has been with Dassault Systèmes. He started as an application engineer and took on many roles including onsite program manager at P&G, Sales Manager & Central region general manager in US. Sumanth then relocated to Singapore to manage Asia pacific business and strategic accounts. In 2013, he relocated back to US to take on SIMULIA’s VP of strategy, marketing and market development teams and was part of SIMULIA Exec team until 2019. In this role, Sumanth had the privilege of spearheading acquisition of 9 simulation companies and his organization started many strategic initiatives including Additive Manufacturing, Living Heart project etc. Sumanth joined VIAS3D as COO in early 2020 and helped develop and diversify VIAS3D as a multinational platinum partner of DS.

Gain access to the world-class and most-trusted SIMULIA Abaqus and CST Studio Suite, CATIA and CATIA Magic, ENOVIA PLM and DELMIA to stay one step ahead in the industry.

Transportation & Mobility

Solutions and Applications

Transportation & Mobility Services Clients

FEA

CFD

EMAG

Transportation & Mobility Services Clients

Read Our Recent Transportation Blog Articles

Resources

Resources

Services

Services

Shawn Freeman

Sr. Technical Director, NAM, VIAS3D

Salvador

VP, DMD

Gretchen

Sr. Operations Director, NAM

Mark

VP, VIAS3D Academia, NAM

Miguel

VP, Sales & Operations, Mexico CPE

Bhavesh

MD, India

Segah

Global Director, Finance & Accounting

Arindam

CTO, Engineering Services

Chris

Vice President Sales USA and Canada, VIAS3D

Vikram

Sr. Director, Scientific Simulations, NAM

Burak

Executive Chairman

Sumanth

Global CEO