Ford Kicks Up Enterprise MDO Strategy

摘要

As multidisciplinary optimization spreads throughout all corners of its design process, Ford Motor Co. has adopted a new platform aimed at streamlining optimization collaboration across a global design team while making multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) processes an enterprise best practice. Building on its decades-long MDO work with ESTECO's modeFRON-TIER, the auto giant is now implementing SOMO, an enterprise collaboration and distributed execution framework born from the pair's partnership and now a commercial piece of software. SOMO delivers the enterprise foundation that extends Ford's MDO efforts from its roots as a desktop focused-task to a Web-enabled solution, according to Yan Fu, Ford's technical leader of business strategy and engineering optimization.