How Rescale Helps a Global Auto Parts Maker Become More Agile and Competitive

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

• Automotive

• Product Research & Development

• Manufacturing System Automation
• Predictive Maintenance

• Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
• System Integration

In the automotive business, major automakers send out requests for bids to equipment manufacturers when they need a new part. These requests typically have very short timelines, requiring a response in just a few weeks. The potential business from these contracts—often for millions of parts—is central to the success of auto parts manufacturers. It is essential that they can quickly engineer new equipment designs that perform to specifications, are reliable, and can be sold at a profitable margin. One of Rescale’s customers faced this exact challenge. The R&D teams for this auto equipment manufacturer are at the center of its efforts to develop new designs to win contracts with the major automakers. So it is imperative the company does anything it can to better power its engineering and design process. Without the necessary compute power, the automotive manufacturer was limited in its abilities to fully research and test its new designs before making a bid.

The customer in this case study is a global auto parts manufacturer. The company's R&D teams are central to its efforts to develop new designs to win contracts with major automakers. In the automotive business, major automakers send out requests for bids to equipment manufacturers when they need a new part. These requests typically have very short timelines, requiring a response in just a few weeks. The potential business from these contracts—often for millions of parts—is central to the success of auto parts manufacturers. It is essential that they can quickly engineer new equipment designs that perform to specifications, are reliable, and can be sold at a profitable margin.

By using the Rescale platform, the auto parts manufacturer was able to achieve unprecedented engineering speed and create a major competitive advantage in its efforts to earn new business. The range of costs and capabilities is enormous among the major and niche cloud providers across the globe. But with Rescale's unparalleled knowledge of the computational R&D market, the customer found the ideal cloud partner that could offer both the necessary GPU compute capacity and reliability, as well as meet pricing limits. Rescale also used its unique expertise to help troubleshoot and tune the performance of the GPU clusters with the customer’s specialized simulation software. Because GPUs are relatively new, software is still evolving for this compute infrastructure. To address any initial performance issues, Rescale led a close collaboration with the customer, the cloud provider, and the software vendor. After a pilot program and refinements, the team met all the performance requirements for supporting the manufacturer’s ambitious computational goals.

• Sourced massive GPU burst capacity
• Optimized specialized software performance
• Radically accelerated R&D and product design processes

• Completed tens of thousands of analyses for its DoE within just one week