Using Vistagy's FiberSIM® software, Renault F1 Team Ltd has made significant productivity and timesaving gains in the development of the R25 racecar.

"Speed and control are as important for our engineering team as they are for the car and driver," says Bob Bell, technical director for Renault F1 Team. "When Vistagy began their relationship with the team, they promised impressive reductions in product development times for our composite parts, and they delivered on their promises."

The sophisticated composite chassis and front wing of the R25 racecar provide high strength at a minimum weight, but their complex surfaces make manufacturing difficult. The Renault F1 Team engineers entered the existing composite ply information in FiberSIM and ran producibility simulations. The software also allowed them to export data to laser projection machines that guide manual ply lay-up. The documented results were a 30% reduction in the time required to create flat pattern templates and a 62% increase in the rate of ply lay-up. FiberSIM software also promoted more-reliable part quality.

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