Siemens Xcelerator to scale electric vehicle engineering in India

Simple Energy, an Indian electric two-wheeler manufacturer, has expanded its adoption of Siemens' cloud-based software solutions to support product engineering and digital transformation across its electric vehicle (EV) portfolio.

Enterprise BOM Management and Variant Configuration
Simple Energy expanded its deployment of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, incorporating Teamcenter X software for product lifecycle management (PLM) and Designcenter X software for advanced vehicle engineering. The integrated digital environment is deployed to support engineering collaboration, operational flexibility, and cost management.

Simple Energy initially implemented Teamcenter X to establish a centralized product data management backbone across engineering functions. As vehicle development matured, the company expanded the platform to manage enterprise bills of materials (BOMs) and complex vehicle variants using an advanced product configurator.

The configuration workflow employs a 150 percent BOM approach, creating a master configurable BOM that incorporates all potential components, options, and structural variants for a given product family. From this master structure, Teamcenter X derives specific 100 percent BOMs corresponding to individual customer order specifications, enabling management of multiple vehicle variants.

Kiran Poojary, Chief Technology Officer at Simple Energy, noted that scaling product complexity required strengthening underlying engineering systems, adding that Teamcenter X and Designcenter X enable the management of complex variants and large assemblies with speed and control.

Mechanical CAD Migration and Engineering Capabilities
To address design and assembly complexity, Simple Energy replaced its legacy 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software with Designcenter X, which integrates directly with Teamcenter X. The updated engineering environment supports advanced surface design, large assembly processing performance, and 3D electrical routing and harness design.

Software deployment is structured around Siemens' value-based licensing model, allowing software capacity to scale in line with business growth.

Additional Context
This section details technical specifications not included in the original news release.

In Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) architectures, managing modular product families with multiple optional features utilizes configurable Bills of Materials (BOMs). A 150 percent BOM functions as an superset data model containing every possible physical component, sub-assembly, software module, and color variation across an entire vehicle platform, governed by variant rules and logical constraints. When a specific vehicle variant or customer order is selected, the PLM rules engine evaluates the conditional logic—such as regional regulatory compliance, battery capacity, or motor output—to extract a fully resolved 100 percent BOM representing the exact physical parts list required for manufacturing and assembly.

Modern electric vehicle engineering integrates mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) with electrical system design to route high-voltage powertrains and low-voltage control wire harnesses through restricted spatial envelopes. Integrated 3D electrical routing platforms allow engineers to route physical wire bundles, calculate minimum bend radii, estimate bundle diameters, and assess electromagnetic interference (EMI) clearance directly within 3D digital twin models. Additionally, cloud-hosted SaaS PLM environments utilize token-based or value-based licensing models, where enterprise users draw from a shared pool of licensing units to access specialized engineering modules on demand without requiring fixed per-seat software purchases.

Edited by Romila DSilva, Induportals Editor, with AI assistance.