YOKOHAMA: Nissan, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Siemens AG announced they have developed the industry’s first vehicle design infrastructure that provides Nissan’s global R&D centres with a continuous, high-speed connection to the latest vehicle development data. The solution’s engineering virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) gives Nissan more flexibility and manageability of global vehicle design. Nissan has started to use the infrastructure in North America and Europe.

Engineering VDI uses advanced graphics processing based on Citrix desktop virtualisation technology. It allows engineers to access a virtual 3D CAD workstation on servers and control them on a desktop environment.



With this technology, Nissan is able to store the latest data on its servers which teams around the world can access at any time. This would enhance productivity and usability, as well as improve cost efficiencies and disaster risk management.

This new platform is a fully scalable,  vehicle design solution that adopts engineering VDI globally, using servers with advanced graphics processing, high-performance storage, software and network acceleration technology. Nissan said it would initially use it at two development centres: NISSAN Technical Center North America and NISSAN Technical Center Europe. With this platform, Nissan expects to experience the same productivity of CAD operations at any global sites, and dramatically decrease costs associated with future system enhancements, version upgrades and operating costs by consolidating and improving infrastructure management.

Nissan plans to expand use of the platform in the future, since it has the flexibility to be adopted globally for automobile development.

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