Integrated Use of PLM and Life Cycle Energy Analysis Software in Teaching Automobile Life Cycles

摘要

The high degree of competitiveness among companies in the automobile sector together with ever stricter regulations means that manufacturers have to produce designs that are more and more complex and demanding and need to take account of all the stages of a vehicle's life cycle and study them in depth. In this sense, due to increasing environmental awareness, it is becoming necessary to consider the energy cost of each stage of the vehicle's life cycle us part of the design process. This paper presents how both points are integrated when teaching young engineers on the Master's course in Automotive Engineering at Madrid Polytechnic University (UPM), using PLM SmarTeam software and the life cycle energy analysis program GaBi 4. This teaching is based on practical applications for a hybrid vehicle designed and constructed at the INSIA, taking energy and environmental cost as design criteria for the vehicle.