Enabling a world premiere: 100% of the development of a vehicle done in virtual reality

Making the right decision, quickly and 100% digitally
Usually, when a new vehicle is developed, time and physical prototypes are required both during the design and assembly preparation phases. In the case of the Nivus, launched in a live broadcast by Volkswagen do Brazil in June 2020 to around 60 countries,the whole conception of the vehicle was made 100% virtually. The state-of-the-art solution provided by ESI Group, based on its softwareIC.IDO是用于设计不同部门（产品开发，运营，质量等）的评论和工程决策的工具之一。这使大众汽车能够就汽车的构想做出明智的决定。它为这家汽车公司提供了节省时间的机会（在大约10个月内缩短了汽车的开发）和投资（例如，仅在虚拟原型实验室中，与以前的项目相比，成本降低了65％）。

Virtual reality also conserves tons of paper, in which specifications for each part of a car were previously detailed.

Long before Nivus physically existed, the vehicle was already available digitally in the engineering computers. Considering that building a physical prototype takes 19 weeks, in which only a single vehicle variant is possible. For this vehicle, nine virtual variants were produced, in much less time, which made it possible to anticipate more efficient assembly procedures, reducing the number of processes in the simulations and avoiding errors, since all parts were previously tested with digital tools.

我们通过数字流程设计了100％的Nivus，其中包括ESI的技术，而无需组装单个物理原型。此外，随着开发时间的急剧减少，该解决方案有助于我们在相同的决策过程中整合来自各个部门（设计，工程，营销，生产等）的所有不同团队。这是一个更有效但更协作的过程。

Francisvaldo Gomes Aires

Prototyping Development Manager at Volkswagen do Brazil

在COVID-19虚拟现实:一个巨大的利益
ESI demonstrated that even when the design phase is impacted, in this case by COVID-19, it is possible to continue with the project, since it is no longer a question of relying solely on physical reality. This opens up the possibility of experiencing the future with digitalization and technology for the project benefit.

It’s a shift in the industrial production. For the first time, all phases of a car release, before the effective production, has been fully made virtually making the production feasible during Covid-19 time. While allowing Volkswagen to take all its design and manufacturing decisions virtually, we helped them produce faster, cheaper and in a more sustainable way. This was possible due to a strong support of our local Brazilian team and a mutual collaboration between ESI Brazil and Volkswagen do Brazil. We all feel proud to be part of this world-premiere alongside with Volkswagen and its partners.

Andreas Renner

Volkswagen Global Account Manager at ESI Group