The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) has announced its partnership with Siemens Digital Industries Software as the Official Digital Twin Sponsor. This collaboration aims to bolster the FIA's efforts in innovating, ensuring safety, and promoting sustainability across the global motorsport and mobility sector.
Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio will be instrumental in refining aerodynamic concepts that are core to single-seater racing car regulations, extending from Formula 1 to Formula 4. By leveraging Siemens’ Designcenter NX software, the FIA can design intricate vehicle models with precision, visualising them in astounding lifelike detail before embarking on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations.
This sophisticated digital process empowers the FIA to optimise car designs for performance and safety in a controlled virtual setting, significantly cutting down on the need for manufacturing physical prototypes and reliance on wind tunnel tests. This shift helps in minimising environmental impacts.
Since their collaboration commenced in 2022, the FIA aerodynamics team has engineered over 14,000 individual CAD components undergoing more than 10,000 CFD analyses. These advancements underline the environmental benefits and efficiencies gained by digitising the design process.
The FIA is also expanding its usage of Siemens’ Teamcenter® X software for product lifecycle management (PLM), serving as the central platform for handling product-related information and team collaboration. This encompasses a variety of simulation tools such as Simcenter® X, Simcenter™ Amesim™, Simcenter™ STAR-CCM+, and Simcenter™ HEEDS software, fostering enhanced design exploration and optimisation.
The Global Partnership Programme by the FIA is designed to promote collaboration with leading outfits that share the organisation's vision of innovation, sustainability, and safety. Through this partnership, Siemens joins a forward-thinking community committed to advancing technological progress in motorsports and the broader automotive sector.
The FIA remains a non-profit organisation rooted in a commitment to driving innovation and upholding safety, sustainability, and equality in the field of motorsport and mobility. Inteptidly managed across offices in Paris, London, and Geneva since its founding in 1904, the FIA connects 245 Member Organisations from five continents, representing millions globally.
