Seats & Interiors

Driving Seating Innovations in the Automotive Industry

Automotive seat engineering is an incredibly complex process. With constant pressure to shorten time-to-market, reduce physical prototyping costs and comply with regulations, engineers are under tremendous pressure to maintain a competitive edge. In response to customer demand for improved driving comfort and style, automotive manufacturers are developing many new seat styles and a variety of comfort and safety innovations that have significantly increased the complexity of seat systems. With all these innovations, engineers have to manage an ever-increasing amount of information and detail. This information must be accurately captured and easily shared among organizations and the supply chain to ensure seating systems meet styling and performance requirements and are cost-effectively manufactured.

To help engineers address these challenges, VISTAGY has developed powerful specialized engineering software solutions specifically intended for designing and manufacturing automotive seats and interior components. VISTAGY’s Seat Design Environment™ (SDE) is the first-ever seat design application that is fully integrated into leading commercial 3D CAD software systems. With the SDE, engineers can:

• Increase efficiency and speed of the seat engineering and prototyping process
• Efficiently capture all seat design data to create a complete digital product definition
• Support all facets of the seat engineering process from styling to production
• Provide early feedback on design and style changes
• Verify styling criteria are met
• Easily share seat data across the enterprise and with suppliers
• Reduce costs and time-to-market